Impact of organizational trust on organizational commitment: the moderating effect of national identity by Abdullah M. Alomran, Tarek Sayed Abdelazim Ahmed, Ayman Mounir Kassem

“…Their responses were examined using linear regression, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling. …”
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Quality factors affecting the continued use of mobile health apps in ethnic minority regions of Southwest China using PLS-SEM and ANN by Deng Honglin, Zhang Jianghua, Chen Hui

“…The study uses the structural equation model-artificial neural network (SEM-ANN) approach to interpret the compensatory and non-linear relationships between predictors and continuance intention. …”
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INFLUENCE OF COMPOSITE REINFORCEMENT ON THE DELOCALIZATION OF PLASTIC HINGES by M. MIMOUNI, L. KHARROUBI

“…Classic linear elastic methods do not accurately represent the actual behavior of the structure, which makes it necessary to use calculation methods that take into account the post-elastic domain of the structure. …”
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New Absolute Stability Conditions of Lur’e Systems with Time-Varying Delay by Wei Wang, Hong-Bing Zeng

“…By considering the relationship between the time-varying delay and its varying interval, improved delay-dependent absolute stability conditions in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) are obtained. Moreover, the derived conditions are extended to systems with time-varying structured uncertainties. …”
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An Unusual Case of an Incidentally Detected Angioplasty Wire in the Aorta by Abhinav Karan, Micheal Omar, Gladys Velarde, Srinivasan Sattiraju

“…In the present instance, a 74-year-old woman was found on routine transthoracic echocardiography to have a linear echogenic structure that was initially concerning for a dissection flap. …”
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RNA PolyA Tailing Assay to Qualitatively Analyze Circular RNA Manufacturing by Zih-Shiuan Chuang, Chan-I Su, Hsin-I Wang, Chia-Yi Yu

“…A covalently closed loop structure provides circular RNA (circRNA) with more stability than conventional RNAs in linear form, making circRNA an emerging tool in RNA therapeutics. …”
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Quantum complexity of time evolution with chaotic Hamiltonians by Vijay Balasubramanian, Matthew DeCross, Arjun Kar, Onkar Parrikar

“…Our analysis relates complexity to familiar properties of physical theories like their spectra and the structure of energy eigenstates and has implications for the hypothesized computational complexity class separations PSPACE BQP/poly and PSPACE BQSUBEXP/subexp, and the “fast-forwarding” of quantum Hamiltonians.…”
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Development of Miniature Stewart Platform Using TiNiCu Shape-Memory-Alloy Actuators by Alaa AbuZaiter, Ee Leen Ng, Suhail Kazi, Mohamed Sultan Mohamed Ali

“…The proposed Stewart platform possesses various advantages, such as large actuation force and high robustness with a simple mechanical structure. This Stewart platform uses four SMA actuators and four bias springs and performs a linear z-axis movement and tilting motions. …”
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H∞ Filter Design for Networked Control Systems: A Markovian Jump System Approach by WanRu Wang, LianKun Sun, HongRu Gu

“…It is shown that, by introducing a special structure of the relaxation matrix, a linear representation of the filter meeting an H∞ performance index level for NCSs with time delay and packet loss can be obtained, which uses linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). …”
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L’épée de Damoclès by Giulia Colavolpe Severi

“…This article presents the first results of qualitative research conducted in France from February to June 2012, through sixteen semi-structured interviews with women exposed in utero to diethylstilbestrol (DES), a teratogenic molecule that influences the development of the reproductive apparatus by provoking anomalies liable to cause infertility. …”
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of Spanish Sheep Cheese: A Study on the Relationships between Ripening Times, Geographical Origins, Textural Parameters, and MRI Parameters by José Segura, María Encarnación Fernández-Valle, Karen Paola Cruz-Díaz, María Dolores Romero-de-Ávila, David Castejón, Víctor Remiro, María Isabel Cambero

“…The evolution of structural changes and the textural features during the ripening process of four varieties of Spanish sheep cheese were studied using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). …”
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CONVEXITY OF REACHABLE SETS OF QUASILINEAR SYSTEMS by Ivan Osipov

“…The proof methodology follows a Polyak's scheme. The paper's structure encompasses problem formulation, exploration of parameter linear mapping and image transformation, application to quasilinear control systems, and concludes with illustrative examples.…”
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Stepwise Segmented Skewed Pole Modulation Vibration Reduction Design for Integer-Slot Motors by Huawei Wu, Shaokang Lu, Xiaoyuan Zhu, Weiye Li, Jianping Peng

“…Then, in response to the axial spacing in the linear skewed pole structure when canceling the 48th-order radial force, a stepwise skewed pole structure was proposed. …”
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Submersed Aquatic Vegetation Enhances Density and Diversity of Epifaunal Invertebrates Compared to Filamentous Mats in the Central Baltic Sea by Chiara D'Agata, Thomas A. B. Staveley, Johan S. Eklöf, Jonathan S. Lefcheck, Gunilla Rosenqvist, Lina Mtwana Nordlund

“…The aim of this study was to assess the effects of SAV and filamentous mats on epifaunal communities in shallow soft‐bottom habitats around Gotland, Sweden, in the central Baltic Sea. We used generalised linear models (GLMs) to evaluate the influence of SAV vertical structure, biomass and macrophyte species richness (including macroalgae) and filamentous mat biomass on epifaunal community properties as well as on those of key grazer species. …”
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Design, analysis and experiment of a novel repeatable buffer landing mechanism by Daoguang Han, Dongsheng Zhang, Jinhua Zhou, He Jia, Jishou Fang, Yongbin Wang

“…Therefore, this study employs a PZT-driven reusable buffering mechanism for rapid response. The mechanical structure converts linear impact motion into rotational motion via a large lead screw nut, enabling bidirectional movement with a compact, lightweight design. …”
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Causal models and prediction in cell line perturbation experiments by James P. Long, Yumeng Yang, Shohei Shimizu, Thong Pham, Kim-Anh Do

“…From this model, we derive two estimators for predicting responses: a Linear Regression (LR) estimator and a causal structure learning estimator that we term Causal Structure Regression (CSR). …”
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Synthesis, Antibacterial Evaluation, and QSAR of Caffeic Acid Derivatives by Marianna O. Araújo, Hilzeth L. Freire Pessoa, Andressa B. Lira, Yunierkis P. Castillo, Damião P. de Sousa

“…Preliminary quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) analyses confirmed that certain structural characteristics, such as a median linear carbon chain and the presence of electron withdrawal substituents at the para position of the aromatic ring, help potentiate antibacterial activity.…”
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Improvement of Calculation Technique for Flexible Orthotropic Plates on Elastic Base. Part 2. Calculation Results by O. V. Kozunova

“…The change in its stiffness at the time of cracking and further active opening of cracks has been taken into account in the calculation of the structure under study. The nonlinear calculation of the studied structure takes into account the change in its rigidity at the time of cracking and further active crack opening. …”
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Intransitive Temporal Multi-agent Logic with Agents’ Multi-valuations. Decidability by K. V. Grekovich, V.V. Rybakov, V.V. Rimatskiy

“…In previous wide accepted research the time and knowledge primarily were modeled by Kripke models with structure looking as simply a single time cluster with multi-relations for agents’ accessibility relations. …”
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Stabilizer ground states for simulating quantum many-body physics: theory, algorithms, and applications by Jiace Sun, Lixue Cheng, Shi-Xin Zhang

“…Stabilizer states, which are also known as the Clifford states, have been commonly utilized in quantum information, quantum error correction, and quantum circuit simulation due to their simple mathematical structure. In this work, we apply stabilizer states to tackle quantum many-body ground state problems and introduce the concept of stabilizer ground states. …”
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