Disentangling the effects of eutrophication and natural variability on macrobenthic communities across French coastal lagoons by Jones, Auriane G., Schaal, Gauthier, Boyé, Aurélien, Creemers, Marie, Derolez, Valérie, Desroy, Nicolas, Fiandrino, Annie, Mouton, Théophile L., Simier, Monique, Smith, Niamh, Ouisse, Vincent

“…Here, we analyze a dataset composed of macrobenthic invertebrate abundances and environmental variables (hydro-morphology, water, sediment and macrophytes) gathered across 29 Mediterranean coastal lagoons located in France, to characterize the main drivers of community composition and structure. Using correlograms, linear models and variance partitioning, we found that lagoon hydro-morphology (connection to the sea and lagoon surface), which affects the level of environmental variability (salinity and temperature), as well as lagoon-scale benthic habitat diversity (using macrophyte morphotypes) seemed to regulate macrofauna distribution, while eutrophication and associated stressors like low dissolved oxygen, acted upon the existing communities, mainly by reducing species richness and diversity. …”
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Coal Price Forecasting and Structural Analysis in China by Xiaopeng Guo, Jiaxing Shi, Dongfang Ren

“…Coal plays an important role in China’s energy structure and its price has been continuously decreasing since the second half of 2012. …”
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Covariance Structures in Conventional and Organic Cropping Systems by Abdullah A. Jaradat

“…Cumulative yield, its temporal variance, and coefficient of variation were used in estimating and describing covariance structures in conventional and organic cropping systems of a long-term field experiment in a randomized complete block design. …”
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ANALYZING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRADE OPENNESS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NORTH MACEDONIA: A SVAR APPROACH by Katerina Shapkova Kocevska, Elena Makrevska Disoska, Jasna Tonovska

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A Profitability and Risk Decomposition Analysis of the Open Economy Insurance Sector by Zdeněk Zmeškal, Dana Dluhošová, Karolina Lisztwanová, Iveta Ratmanová

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Statistical Properties of SIS Processes with Heterogeneous Nodal Recovery Rates in Networks by Dongchao Guo, Libo Jiao, Wendi Feng

“…We propose approximate solutions to the metastable-state expectation and the variance in the number of infected nodes within the framework of the mean-field approximation method. …”
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Stochastic <i>H</i>_∞ Filtering of the Attitude Quaternion by Daniel Choukroun, Lotan Cooper, Nadav Berman

“…The measurements are corrupted by white noise with unknown variances. Our approach consists of estimating the quaternion while attenuating the transmission gain from the unknown variances and initial errors to the current estimation error. …”
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Evolutionary Polynomial Regression Algorithm with Uncertain Variables: Two Case-Studies in the Field of Civil Engineering by Alessandra Fiore, Sebastiano Marasco, Rita Greco

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Study of mechanical and physical properties of pineapple leaf fiber and coffee husk filler reinforced polymer composite using response surface method by Kinisa Wareso Abesho, Moera Gutu Jiru, Hirpa G. Lemu, Mohammed Abdulkedir Alfeki

“…In the search for structural materials that are strong, lightweight, and cheap, pineapple leaf, which is rich in cellulose and relatively inexpensive, seems to have good potential reinforcement in yarn production. …”
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Demand risks and term structure of volatility index futures by Xinglin Yang, Juan Huang

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Impact of a block structure on the Lotka-Volterra model by Clenet, Maxime, Massol, François, Najim, Jamal

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Relating the Structure of Dark Matter Halos to Their Assembly and Environment by Yangyao Chen, H. J. Mo, Cheng Li, Huiyuan Wang, Xiaohu Yang, Youcai Zhang, Kai Wang

“…The complexity of individual halo assembly histories can be well described by a small number of principal components (PCs), which, compared to formation times, provide a more complete description of halo assembly histories and have a stronger correlation with halo structural properties. Using decision trees built with the random ensemble method, we find that about 60%, 10%, and 20% of the variances in halo concentration, axis ratio, and spin, respectively, can be explained by combining four dominating predictors: the first PC of the assembly history, halo mass, and two environment parameters. …”
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Energy prices and the structure of inflation in European Union countries by Markowski Łukasz, Kotliński Kamil

“…This article adds value to current research by taking into account the level of variation in the inflation structure among EU countries.…”
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The Influence of Problem Specific Neighborhood Structures in Metaheuristics Performance by A. S. Santos, A. M. Madureira, M. L. R. Varela

“…For SA the improvement of the solutions appeared to be more uniform with an almost nonexistent variance in improvement.…”
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An Adaptive Non-Reference Approach for Characterizing and Assessing Image Quality in Multichannel GPR for Automatic Hyperbola Detection by Klaudia Pasternak, Anna Fryśkowska-Skibniewska, Łukasz Ortyl

“…The quality assessment was performed based on the entropy indicator, PIQE, and Laplacian variance. The selected quality indicators allowed the authors to assess the degree of blurring, noise, and the number of details representing the underground structures that are present in GPR images. …”
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Optimizing fully-efficient two-stage models for genomic selection using open-source software by Javier Fernández-González, Julio Isidro y Sánchez

“…Single-stage models predict GEBVs from phenotypic observations in one step, fully accounting for the entire variance-covariance structure among genotypes, but face computational challenges. …”
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New lifetime Shanker Weibull distribution: Structure and Properties by Maysaa Jalil Mohammed, Noor Ebadi Ashoor, Umar Yusuf Madaki

“…First, we present the mathematical structure of the new distribution, which depends on the survival function for each of the Shanker and Weibull distributions. …”
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Optimization of Crashworthiness Parameters of Thin-Walled Conoidal Structures by K. Vinayagar, P. Ganeshan, P. Nelson Raja, M. S. Zakir Hussain, P. Vengala Kumar, P. Ramshankar, V. Mohanavel, N. Mathankumar, K. Raja, Tesfaye Tefera Bezabih

“…Experimental results showed that the crushing behaviours of conical structures were fairly significant. Grey relational analysis (GRA) and analysis of variance are used toobtain the optimal levels of parameters. …”
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Improved Artificial Bee Colony Optimization Underwater Localization Algorithm by Logistic Chaos Mapping and Differential Evolution by Jiaxing CHEN, Yang LIU, Xiaoqian LIU, Zhihua LIU

“…Secondly, a fitness variance criterion was proposed to verify that the proposed algorithm was capable of avoiding the local optima problem during the iterative process. …”
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Genetic diversity and population structure of Aedes caspius in Iran by Azim Paksa, Alireza Sanei‑Dehkordi, Saeed Shahabi, Yaser Salim Abadi, Saideh Yousefi

“…Haplotype diversity (Hd) and haplotype diversity variance of the Ae. caspius mosquitoes based on the COI gene were found to be 0.954 and 0.00006, respectively. …”
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