The physical, emotional, social, and functional dimensions of epidermolysis bullosa. An interview study on burdens and helpful aspects from a patients’ perspective by Gudrun Salamon, Sophie Strobl, Marie-Stephanie Matschnig, Anja Diem

“…Methods Semi-structured interviews with persons living with EB were conducted. …”
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Syntheses, Spectral Characterization, and Antimicrobial Studies on the Coordination Compounds of Metal Ions with Schiff Base Containing Both Aliphatic and Aromatic Hydrazide Moieti... by Dinesh Kumar, Silky Chadda, Jyoti Sharma, Parveen Surain

“…The coordination compounds 2 and 3 are paramagnetic, while rest of the compounds are diamagnetic. A square-planar structure to 3, a tetrahedral structure to 4, an octahedral structure to 2, 6, and 7, and a pentagonal bipyramidal structure to 5 are proposed.…”
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PCR Amplification and Transcription for Site-Specific Labeling of Large RNA Molecules by a Two-Unnatural-Base-Pair System by Michiko Kimoto, Rie Yamashige, Shigeyuki Yokoyama, Ichiro Hirao

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Study on Impact of Various Void Conditions on Shallow Rectangular Masonry-Concrete Power Tunnel and Surrounding Roads by Gang Tian, Chunfeng Jin, Haijun Zhang, Hai Shi, Yanqing Du, Yanli Qi, Mingzhou Bai

“…If the circular void and square void are at 135° and 115°, respectively, the maximum shear force of the tunnel structure occurs at the floor. If both circular and square voids are at 115°, the maximum axial force of tunnel structure occurs at the right side wall. …”
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The role of the pAbp gene encoding the cytoplasmic poly(A)-binding protein in spermatogenesis of Drosophila melanogaster by E. U. Bolobolova, E. M. Baricheva, N. V. Dorogova

“…We showed that cellular mitochondria were the primary structural target of the mutation. Abnormal mitochondria were less structured, swollen, had transparent matrix and depleted cristae. …”
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A small object detection model in aerial images based on CPDD-YOLOv8 by Jingyang Wang, Jiayao Gao, Bo Zhang

“…Firstly, we propose the C2fGAM structure, which integrates the Global Attention Mechanism (GAM) into the C2f structure of the backbone so that the model can better understand the overall semantics of the images. …”
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Lexical-Semantic Variables Affecting Picture and Word Naming in Chinese: A Mixed Logit Model Study in Aphasia by Davide Crepaldi, Wei-Chun Che, I.-Fan Su, Claudio Luzzatti

“…Moreover, it is not clear whether the results obtained in Indo-European languages also hold in languages with a completely different structure and script, such as Chinese. The objective of the present study is to investigate this specific issue by studying the effect of word frequency, imageability, age of acquisition, visual complexity of the stimuli to be named, grammatical class and morphological structure in word and picture naming in Chinese. …”
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Enchytraeids: Small but important ecosystem engineers by Cécile Serbource, Stéphane Sammartino, Sophie Cornu, Justine Papillon, Jérôme Adrien, Céline Pelosi

“…Enchytraeids (Annelida Oligochaeta), small burrowing organisms found worldwide, are known to influence soil structure, though their specific effects on pore space are not well quantified. …”
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Methane Adsorption in Anthracite Coal under Different Pressures and Temperatures—A Study Combining Isothermal Adsorption and Molecular Simulation by Tieya Jing, Jian Zhang, Mingyu Zhu, Wentao Zhao, Juan Zhou, Yulong Yin

“…The 2-dimension structure and 3-dimension molecular structure of coal sample was also reconstructed. …”
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Machine learning and genetic algorithm-guided directed evolution for the development of antimicrobial peptides by Heqian Zhang, Yihan Wang, Yanran Zhu, Pengtao Huang, Qiandi Gao, Xiaojie Li, Zhaoying Chen, Yu Liu, Jiakun Jiang, Yuan Gao, Jiaquan Huang, Zhiwei Qin

“…Results: The NMR solution structure showed that LBDB possesses a circular extended structure with a disulfide crosslink at the terminus and two 310-helices and exhibits a broad antimicrobial spectrum. …”
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Topological transformation of microbial proteins into iron single-atom sites for selective hydrogen peroxide electrosynthesis by Xiaofeng Xiao, Zechao Zhuang, Shuhu Yin, Jiexin Zhu, Tao Gan, Ruohan Yu, Jinsong Wu, Xiaochun Tian, Yanxia Jiang, Dingsheng Wang, Feng Zhao

“…Abstract The emergence of single-atom catalysts offers exciting prospects for the green production of hydrogen peroxide; however, their optimal local structure and the underlying structure–activity relationships remain unclear. …”
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White Matter-Gray Matter Correlation Analysis Based on White Matter Functional Gradient by Zhengjie Li, Jiajun Liu, Jianhui Zheng, Luying Li, Ying Fu, Zhipeng Yang

“…Additionally, we have thoroughly examined and analyzed the distribution of functional gradient values in the spatial structure of the corpus callosum (CC) independently, revealing that a simple one-to-one correspondence between structure and function is absent. …”
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Unlocking the potential of sepiolite: Designing high-performance energy storage materials by Yanhuai Ding, Yizhi Jiang, Dongzhao Jin, Yunhong Jiang, Ana C.S. Alcântara

“…Sepiolite, with its unique microporous structure, high specific surface area, excellent thermal stability, and chemical stability, has significant potential for application in the field of energy storage. …”
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Small-scale land use effects on plant communities in Mediterranean urban ecosystems by Vincenzo Baldi, Alessandro Bellino, Daniela Baldantoni

“…The present study focuses on evaluating the small scale variations of vegetation structural and functional biodiversity in Mediterranean urban ecosystems, in relation to land use and fragmentation. …”
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Facile construction of polyoxometalate-modified polyaryletherketone-based hybrid membranes with enhanced proton conductivity by Bo Hu, Qiuchen Du, Yang Yang, Dengdeng Li, Jiawang Fu, Bailing Liu, Hong-Ying Zang, Yangguang Li, Haiming Xie, Zhongmin Su

“…Polyoxometalates (POMs), a type of solid-state nanoclusters, possess high proton conductivity and good structural stability, making them suitable functional inorganic fillers to improve the performance of PEMs. …”
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Controlling the Crystallinity and Morphology of Bismuth Selenide via Electrochemical Exfoliation for Tailored Reverse Saturable Absorption and Optical Limiting by Hao Yan, Bingxue Li, Junjie Pan, Xuan Fang, Yongji Yu, Dengkui Wang, Dan Fang, Yanyan Zhan, Xiaohua Wang, Jinhua Li, Xiaohui Ma, Guangyong Jin

“…The results reveal that the particle structure of Bi₂Se₃ exhibits stronger reverse saturable absorption (RSA) than the sheet-like structure. …”
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Component regulation and high-entropy engineering for enhanced antioxidant and high-temperature mechanical properties of protective films by Shan Wang, Rui Zhang, Mengya Yuan, Xinlei Gu, Tao Zhou, Mao Wen, Kan Zhang

“…Transition metal nitrides (TMNs) have gained widespread application in protecting structural components due to their high strength and hardness. …”
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Improving fatigue life and toughness in electron beam welded Ti–6Al–4V achieved through beta heat treatment for microstructure uniformity by Seongji Seo, A Ra Jo, Hyun Wook Lee, Sun Kwang Hwang, Jeongho Han, Jiyong Park

“…MA transformed α′ into an α+β basketweave structure, but did not eliminate microstructural gradients. …”
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A division-dependent compartmental model for computing cell numbers in CFSE-based lymphocyte proliferation assays by H. Thomas Banks, W. Clayton Thompson, Cristina Peligero, Sandra Giest, Jordi Argilaguet, Andreas Meyerhans

“…Recently, partial differential equation structured population models, with measured CFSE fluorescence intensity as the structure variable, have been shown to accurately fit histogram data obtained from CFSE flow cytometry experiments [18,19,52,54]. …”
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Recent advancements in the diverse roles of polymerase-associated proteins in the replication and pathogenesis of Newcastle disease virus by Jinghang Zhou, Yuqi Duan, Menglan Liu, Jinyang Liu, Zenglei Hu, Zhiqiang Duan

“…The NDV RNA genome primarily encodes six structural proteins (N, P, M, F, HN, and L) and two non-structural proteins (V and W). …”
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