Patterns of mature woody plant species encroachment on vegetation structure, density, and diversity of the understory layer across the Marikana Thornveld by Mziwanda Mangwane, Mziwanda Mangwane, Ignacio Casper Madakadze, Tlou Julius Tjelele, Abel Ramoelo

“…IntroductionBush encroachment has a negative impact on the vegetation structure, ecosystem functions, and services of savanna rangelands. …”
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Structurally Ordered NIPUs via Catalyst-Free Synthesis with Hard Segments Based on Erythritol and a Long-Chain Diamine by Edyta Hebda, Karolina Wróbel, Aleksandra Cieślik, Kinga Szołdrowska, Jan Ozimek, Paulina Zając, Konstantinos N. Raftopoulos, Krzysztof Pielichowski

“…A detailed chemical structure analysis of the synthesized NIPU was performed using a combination of FTIR and ¹H NMR. …”
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Hydraulic Performance Modeling of Inclined Double Cutoff Walls Beneath Hydraulic Structures Using Optimized Ensemble Machine Learning by Mohamed Kamel Elshaarawy, Martina Zeleňáková, Asaad M. Armanuos

“…Abstract This study investigates the effectiveness of inclined double cutoff walls installed beneath hydraulic structures by employing five machine learning models: Random Forest (RF), Adaptive Boosting (AdaBoost), eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), Light Gradient Boosting Machine (LightGBM), and Categorical Boosting (CatBoost). …”
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Small mammal diversity and community structure exhibit congruent hump-shaped patterns along a subtropical elevational gradient by Chao Duan, Zhixin Wen, Bingquan Zheng, Yang Chen, Wenling Wang, Jianghong Ran

“…Human footprint, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, precipitation seasonality and potential evapotranspiration are key drivers of small mammal diversity and community structure along elevational gradients. In summary, our study provides evidence that phylogenetic diversity is a robust surrogate for functional diversity, and challenges the recent large-scale studies that advocate a linear relationship between small mammal assembly process and elevation. …”
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Forced displacement, household composition, and mental health: how gendered family structures relate to adolescent girls’ well-being by Lindsay Stark, Arturo Harker Roa, Carolina Rodriguez, Elvia Tamaity Ariza Pena, Julianne Deitch, Ilana Seff

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Serum reactivity to citrullinated protein/peptide antigens and left ventricular structure and function in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). by Jan M Hughes-Austin, Ronit Katz, Darcy S Majka, Michael H Criqui, William H Robinson, Gary S Firestein, W Gregory Hundley, Joachim H Ix

“…<h4>Background</h4>Antibodies to citrullinated protein antigens have been linked to altered left ventricular (LV) structure and function in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). …”
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The central nervous system adjusts muscle synergy structure and tightly controls rollator-supported transitions between sitting and standing by Michael Herzog, Frieder C. Krafft, Janis Fiedler, Denise J. Berger, Lizeth H. Sloot, Andrea d’Avella, Thorsten Stein

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Cd(II)-Based Coordination Polymers and Supramolecular Complexes Containing Dianiline Chromophores: Synthesis, Crystal Structures, and Photoluminescence Properties by Nicoleta Craciun, Elena Melnic, Anatolii V. Siminel, Natalia V. Costriucova, Diana Chisca, Marina S. Fonari

“…Five new coordination compounds that included three coordination polymers and two supramolecular complexes were obtained by reactions of different cadmium salts (tetrafluoroborate, nitrate, and perchlorate) with dianiline chromophores, 4,4′-diaminodiphenylmethane (ddpm), and 4,4′-diaminodiphenylethane (ddpe). The crystal structures were studied by single-crystal X-ray analysis. …”
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Relation of Cognitive Reserve Indicator to Heart Disease and Cardiac Structure and Function: A Large Community‐Based Longitudinal Study by Xuerui Li, Wenzhe Yang, Yuyang Miao, Abigail Dove, Jiao Wang, Tingting Du, Zhongze Fang, Weili Xu, Qiang Zhang

“…During the follow‐up, a subsample (n=31 182) underwent cardiac magnetic resonance imaging to assess ventricular structure and function. Data were analyzed using Cox regression, Laplace regression, and linear regression. …”
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The Diurnal Cooling Effect of Green Space Structure on the Summer Urban Thermal Environment From a High-Resolution Perspective by Shihao Wang, Chaoyang Sun, Lin Huang, Huading Shi, Xinliang Xu, Dongrui Han, Qingbao Gu, Hanbing Liu

“…However, at a fine scale, the cooling capacity of UGs with different structures and the diurnal variation still require in-depth study. …”
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No sex differences in the association between regional brain structure abnormalities and cognitive functioning in a geriatric memory clinic population by A. Lamé, E.G. Thomas, S.A.J. van de Schraaf, C. Groot, C.H. Sudre, F. Barkhof, M. Muller, R. Ossenkoppele, H.F.M. Rhodius-Meester

“…We analyzed global and regional volumetric measures of WMH and GM of 475 patients visiting an academic geriatric memory clinic in the Netherlands with multiple linear regression analyses. For both global and regional WMH and GM, we found no sex differences in brain structure abnormalities. …”
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Improved Accuracy of the 3D Measurement Method Utilizing Differential Modulation Based on Multi-Color Channel Fusion by Lei Liu, Xusheng Zhu, Hexiang Zhou, Long Xu, Xinming Zhou, Wei Liu

“…The traditional structured light illumination measurement method usually utilizes peak detection and curve fitting to extract the target position of the modulation curve, while the modulation function is extremely insensitive to the variation of the peak position with height, which leads to the inability to further improve the measurement accuracy. …”
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Optimal estimators in biadditive models and their families by Manuela Oliveira, Eugénio Garção, Armando Alexandre, Joana Paulino, João Mexia

“…Biadditive regression models are linear models with an additive structure for their covariance matrix. …”
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Sensitivity of momentum-distribution asymmetry on ionization potential and atomic structure for ionization by few-cycle fields with two carrier frequencies by D. Habibović, D. B. Milošević

“…On the other hand, for the driving pulse with linearly polarized components, the dependence of the asymmetry parameter on the ionization potential is significant, while the dependence on the structure of the ground state is relatively small. …”
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Transverse Wave Propagation in Functionally Graded Structures Using Finite Elements with Perfectly Matched Layers and Infinite Element Coupling by Kulandhaivel Hemalatha, Anandakrishnan Akshaya, Ali Qabur, Santosh Kumar, Mohammed Tharwan, Ali Alnujaie, Ayman Alneamy

“…This study investigates the propagation of shear horizontal transverse waves in a functionally graded piezoelectric half-space (FGPHS), where the material properties vary linearly and quadratically. The analysis focuses on deriving and understanding the dispersion characteristics of such waves in in-homogeneous media. …”
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Investigation of the insulator to half-metal transition in Cr-doped ZnO at low temperature (19 K) wurtzite structure by SARAJIT BISWAS

“…The structural, electronic and magnetic properties of pure and Cr doped ZnO with a low temperature (19 K) wurtzite structure were calculated employing the density functional theory (DFT) as implemented in the tight-binding linearized-muffin-tin orbital (TB-LMTO) method. …”
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Comprehensive characterization of pore structure in coal seams with abnormal gas emission in deep close range coal seam clusters by Anying YUAN, Xiaolu YANG, Junling HOU, Guangsheng FU

“…It is of great significance to study the structural characteristics of pores and fissures for the prevention and control of gas disasters. …”
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Modeling and robust control of a parallel robotic mechanism driven by linear actuators based on shape memory alloys by Alejandro Guarneros-Sandoval, Mariana Ballesteros, Rita Q. Fuentes-Aguilar, Isaac Chairez

“…The structure control shows the possible use of the linear SMA actuator for more complex parallel mechanisms.…”
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Computation of Gram Matrix and Its Partial Derivative Using Precise Integration Method for Linear Time-Invariant Systems by Sulan Li, Yuanhao Ren, Hong Bao, Wei Zhang

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Research on the Seam Formation Mechanism of Elliptical Bipolar Linear Directional Blasting Based on the SPH-FEM Coupling Method by Bo Wu, Hualong Li, Guowang Meng, Shixiang Xu, Jinglong Zhang, Yaozhong Cui

“…This paper aims to reveal the dynamic failure process between adjacent boreholes under an elliptical bipolar linear charge structure using the SPH-FEM (smooth particle hydrodynamics and finite-element method) coupling algorithm numerical simulation method. …”
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