Investigating the Effects of Nonsolvent Additive and Spinning Conditions on Morphology and Permeation of PAN Hollow Fiber Membranes by Mohammad Ali Ghadiri, Ahmad Beyranvand, Sheida Morsali

“…Still, different effects on the structure and morphology of the membranes were observed. …”
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Coral reef rehabilitation following Hurricane Irma using nano-engineered artificial reefs in Sint Maarten by Emily Higgins, Kyralai Duppel, Megan Connell, Guyon Brenna, Konstantin Sobolev

“…., metal, concrete, etc.) have had limited success in addressing conservation objectives on degraded coral reefs due to structure size and lack of standardized monitoring, and inability to enhance select ecological, and species variables. …”
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Psycholinguistic Features of Students’ Acquisition of Visual-Semantic Image of a Hieroglyph in Studying Japanese by Любов Долинська, Юлія Наумова, Наталія Шевченко

“…The visual-semantic image of a hieroglyphic sign has been defined as a complicated cognitive complex (mental image), which is an integral product of visual sensory-perceptual reception of all graphic elements of the hieroglyph formal structure, a coherent vision of it and conceptual representation, embodied in the meaning. …”
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Methanol crossover and selectivity of nafion/heteropolyacid/montmorillonite nanocomposite proton exchange membranes for DMFC applications by M. Azimi, S.J. Peighambardoust

“…The analyses such as X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) were conducted to characterize the filler dispersion and membrane structure in prepared nanocomposite membranes. XRD patterns of nafion-CsPW-MMT nanocomposites membranes showed the exfoliated structure of membranes by adding MMT and CsPW. …”
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Brazilian version of the Brief Screener for Substance and Behavioral Addiction by Cristiane Faiad, João Marôco, Hermano Tavares, David Hodgins, Lucas Heiki Matsunaga

“…Confirmatory factor analysis supported the original structure of the instrument, and no major linguistic or cultural adaptations were required. …”
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Biomonitoring 2.0 Refined: observing local change through metaphylogeography using a community-based eDNA metabarcoding monitoring network by Andrew C. Riley, Michael Wright, Teresita M. Porter, V. Carley Maitland, Donald J. Baird, Mehrdad Hajibabaei

“…Two of the regions showed significant spatial structuring (Mantel test, p value < 0.05) at the intraspecific level, while all regions showed significant structuring at the community level. …”
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Variation in Benthic Macroinvertebrates Along aLongitudinal Gradient of a Disturbed Nyakambu Stream Kabale District Southwestern Uganda. by Byaruhanga, Benson

“…Macroinvertebrate community structure and South African Scoring System (SASS) scores closely followed the induced changes in water quality due to human activities. …”
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An Assessment of Task-Oriented Leadership on Employee Performance in Uganda: A Case Study of Buhoma Mukono Community Development Association (BMCDA) in Kanungu District. by Elli, Orikyiriza

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Waring-Girard formulas for block-symmetric and block-supersymmetric polynomials by V. V. Kravtsiv, P. Y. Dolishniak, R. Y. Stakhiv

“…This paper investigates the structure and properties of block-symmetric and block-super\-symmetric polynomials in Banach spaces. …”
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Feeding the planet between food security and food safety by Emanuela Scarpellini

“…They are influenced by important factors such as the structure of food distribution, the effective access to food resources, the lack of confidence about the safety of the products, and the different consumption behaviours affected by social, economic and religious factors. …”
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The art of seeing the elephant in the room: 2D embeddings of single-cell data do make sense. by Jan Lause, Philipp Berens, Dmitry Kobak

“…A recent paper claimed that t-SNE and UMAP embeddings of single-cell datasets are "specious" and fail to capture true biological structure. The authors argued that such embeddings are as arbitrary and as misleading as forcing the data into an elephant shape. …”
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Yukawa textures from non-invertible symmetries by Tatsuo Kobayashi, Hajime Otsuka, Morimitsu Tanimoto

“…Abstract Phenomenological aspects of non-invertible symmetries, in particular the flavor structure of quarks and leptons, are studied. We start with a ℤ M discrete symmetry and gauge ℤ2 so as to obtain a non-invertible symmetry. …”
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CLINICAL STUDY REPORT: AN OVERVIEW OF REGULATORY DOCUMENTS AND THE ORGANIZATIONAL AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT by E. A. Radkova, I. N. Petrova, K. A. Leus, I. A. Dobromyslov

“…This article provides an overview of the current Russian and international regulatory documents and recommendations of professional organizations on the content and structure of the clinical study report, and describes an example of an algorithm for preparing the report from the earliest stages (data processing) to writing the final report with interpretation of study results.…”
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Do you have feet in your shoes? Innovation and resilience in a footwear industrial district in Brazil by Luiz Fernando Câmara Viana, Valmir Emil Hoffmann, Hugo Pinto, Isabel Diez Vial

“…Firms implemented novel marketing and sales processes, and some also had to change their information and communication systems or organisational structure to support e-commerce. As such, this study highlights the influence of adaptability on economic resistance. …”
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DESIGNING OF TOWN SKYLINE ON THE STAGE OF GENERAL LAYOUT by Yu. N. Kishik

“…It is proposed to consider an aggregation of such active elements of town structure as multistoreyed dominants to be used as a basis for designing skyline of a large town on the stage of its general layout. …”
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To a critique of space in architectural discourse by Петр Капустин

“…In the article, the structure of which imitates I. Kant’s Critiques, the author makes an attempt to critically comprehend these questions. …”
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Uniformizable Cauchy spaces by Eva Lowen-Colebunders

“…In particular, given a Cauchy structure C on X we investigate under what conditions the filter u(C)=⋂F∈CF×F is a uniformity and C is its collection of Cauchy filters. …”
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Dynamic Characteristics of Magneto-Fluid Supports by V. A. Chernobai, N. V. Zenko

“…The paper considers a vibro-protective magneto-fluid support that uses elastic properties of magnetic fluid with a free surface in magnetic field.The paper has experimentally revealed that the analyzed structure is characterized by better noise absorbing characteristics.The conducted experiments have made it possible to conclude that there is a possibility to use vibro-protective magneto-fluid supports within the frequency range from 0 to 300 Hz, amplitudes up to 2 mm and unit load up to 2,5 · 10 4 Н/м².…”
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sleep disorders due to neuroinfections: clinical symptoms, neurochemistry and neurophysiology V.B. Voitenkov1, N.V. Skripchenko1, Y.E. Zueva 2 by V. B. Voitenkov, N. V. Skripchenko, Y. E. Zueva

“…These signs include lethargy, narcolepsy, sleep apnoe, sleep structure disruptions and may appear in acute period and as a sequelae of the disease. …”
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Callistemon salignus, White Bottlebrush by Michael G. Andreu, Melissa H. Friedman, Robert J. Northrop

“…The unique flowering structure is eye-catching, and it can be pruned for use as a decorative hedge. …”
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