No effect of additional education on long-term brain structure, a preregistered natural experiment in thousands of individuals by Nicholas Judd, Rogier Kievit

“…However, whether education causes long-term structural changes in the brain remains unclear. A pressing challenge is that individuals self-select into continued education, thereby introducing a wide variety of environmental and genetic confounders. …”
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Investigating microbial population structure and function in the chicken caeca and large intestine over time using metagenomics by Banaz Star-Shirko, Gladys Maria Pangga, Aaron McKenna, Nicolae Corcionivoschi, Anne Richmond, Umer Zeeshan Ijaz, Ozan Gundogdu

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Research on Deep Integration of the “Belt and Road” Aviation Network Based on Community Structure from the Perspective of China by Hongguang Yao, Huihui Xiao

“…Air transport has broad development potential along the “ Belt and Road” by owing to its fast, direct, and comfortable advantages, and the community structure is an important factor determining the efficiency and service functions of the aviation network. …”
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Translating Al-Hikam Aphorisms: Evaluating Unmarked Topical Themes through Theme-Rheme Structure Analysis by Muhammad Yunus Anis, Arifuddin Arifuddin, Khabibi Muhammad Luthfi, Reza Sukma Nugraha, Afnan Arummi, Eva Farhah, Tri Yanti Nurul Hidayati

“…They have an information structure divided into theme (known information) and rheme (new information), with the "unmarked topical theme" playing a crucial role. …”
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Study on the Spatial Association Network Structure of Urban Digital Economy and Its Driving Factors in Chinese Cities by Wei Yang, Mengjie Yan, Xiaohe Wang, Jinfeng Shi

“…In contrast, cities in the northwest, northeast, and southwest regions are situated on the periphery of this spatial association network. (4) The economic development level, informatization level, technological innovation, urbanization level, industrial structure, and human capital contribute to the formation of the spatial association network of the digital economy. …”
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Farm Household Pluriactivity, Factor Inputs, and Crop Structure Adjustment: Evidence from Sichuan Province, China by Jianqiang Li, Qing Feng, Ziyi Ye, Hongming Liu, Yandong Guo, Kun Zhou

“…Based on survey data from 473 farm households in Sichuan Province, this study employs ordinary least squares (OLS), two-stage least squares (2SLS), and mediation analyses to systematically assess the impact of pluriactivity on crop structure through factor input mechanisms. …”
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The USDA barley core collection: genetic diversity, population structure, and potential for genome-wide association studies. by María Muñoz-Amatriaín, Alfonso Cuesta-Marcos, Jeffrey B Endelman, Jordi Comadran, John M Bonman, Harold E Bockelman, Shiaoman Chao, Joanne Russell, Robbie Waugh, Patrick M Hayes, Gary J Muehlbauer

“…Most of the accessions in this core collection are categorized as landraces or cultivars/breeding lines and were obtained from more than 100 countries. Both STRUCTURE and principal component analysis identified five major subpopulations within the core collection, mainly differentiated by geographical origin and spike row number (an inflorescence architecture trait). …”
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The influence of digital village construction on agricultural green development-based on the mediate role of industrial structure upgrading by Zhaoguang Li, Kai Hu, Qinying Shi

“…The role and mechanism of China's digital rural construction in promoting the green development of the whole process of agricultural production needs further analysis.MethodsBased on the panel data of prefecture-level cities in Henan Province from 2013 to 2022, we used the entropy topsis model, the fixed effect model, the Tobit regression model, the intermediate effect model, and the threshold effect model, aiming to explore the effects of digital village construction on agricultural green development and their regional differences, impacts paths and non-linear effects.ResultsThe study found the following: (1) The level of agricultural green development and the digital village construction have increased in Henan province, with the latter exhibiting a spatial clustering phenomena. (2) Digital village construction has a significant positive effect on green agricultural development, but this effect does not exist in mountainous areas. (3) The digital village construction can impact green agricultural development through the updating of agricultural structures. (4) The positive influence of digital village construction on green agricultural development is non-linear, with a single-threshold and increasing marginal effects.DiscussionThese findings provide references for other countries to use digital elements to promote green and sustainable development of agriculture. …”
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Changing body structure components and motor skills in military high school students within one year by Glavač Boris, Dopsaj Milivoj, Đorđević-Nikić Marina, Maksimović Miloš, Marinković Marjan, Nedeljković Jasmina

“…The two measurements performed at the intervals of one year were used to determine: the body structure by means of 10 variables and motor skills by 4 variables, while life habits were determined by 25 variables. …”
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Genetic Diversity, Population Structure, and Historical Gene Flow Patterns of Nine Indigenous Greek Sheep Breeds by Sofia Michailidou, Maria Kyritsi, Eleftherios Pavlou, Antiopi Tsoureki, Anagnostis Argiriou

“…The genetic differentiation of breeds was assessed using the F_ST index, whereas their population structure was analyzed using admixture and principal components analysis (PCA). …”
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Experimental and Numerical Analysis of the Bolt Connections in a Low-Rise Precast Wall Panel Structure System by Wei Guo, Zhipeng Zhai, Zhiwu Yu, Feng Chen, Yongzhi Gong, Tao Tan

“…This paper develops a novel dry connection utilizing high-strength bolts and introduces the corresponding low-rise precast wall panel structure system. To investigate the seismic performance of the structure system with full bolt connections, monotonic loading tests of the connection joint and cyclic lateral loading tests of three full-scaled precast shear walls are both conducted. …”
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Hardware Design for Cascade-Structure, Dual-Stage, Current-Limiting, Solid-State DC Circuit Breaker by Can Ding, Yinbo Ji, Zhao Yuan

“…A hardware topology based on a cascaded structure with dual-stage, current-limiting, small-capacity, solid-state DC circuit breakers has been proposed. …”
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Development of Approaches to an Organizational and Functional Structure Creating of the Eurasian Economic Union Digital Transport Corridors Ecosystem by O. V. Miasnikova, T. G. Tabolich

“…In the work, general scientific methods were used to cognize economic phenomena and processes (analysis and synthesis, a systematic approach, the dialectical method, methods of composition and decomposition of data, etc.). The main study results were systemic approaches to the organizational and functional structure formation of the digital transport corridors ecosystem, the methodology of the digital platform functionality designing and the methodology of developing services of the electronic logistics digital platform based on a map of the speed of development, significance and level of investment. …”
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Research on the Optimization of the Electrode Structure and Signal Processing Method of the Field Mill Type Electric Field Sensor by Wei Zhao, Zhizhong Li, Haitao Zhang

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Fractal Dimension of the Condylar Bone Structure in Patients with Unilateral Condylar Hyperplasia: Cross-Sectional Retrospective Study by Adriana Assunta De Stefano, Ludovica Musone, Martina Horodynski, Roberto Antonio Vernucci, Gabriella Galluccio

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A fast prediction method of fatigue life for crane structure based on Stacking ensemble learning model by Jincheng Zhao, Qing Dong, Gening Xu, Hongjuan Li, Haiting Lu, Weishan Zhuang

“…Secondly, through weld definition, equivalent structural stress acquisition, and fatigue life calculation, the sample data set with lifting load and trolley running position as input and fatigue life cycle times as output is constructed. …”
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Haemoglobin revisited: delineating population structure with the world’s first molecular genetic marker used in fisheries research by Bjørghild Breistein, Geir Dahle, Torild Johansen, Per Erik Jorde, Kevin A. Glover

“…When haemoglobin genotyping was implemented in the early 1960s to investigate population genetic structure in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), it became one of the first molecular genetic markers deployed in fisheries research worldwide. …”
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The Effect of Stress Distribution on Tibial Implants with a Honeycomb Structure in Open-Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy by Zengbo Xu, Chunhui Mu, Yi Xia

“…In summary, the finite element model established using authentic tibial CT data can effectively guide the structural design of tibial implants, and optimized pore structure design can provide enhanced mechanical support effects for tibial implants.…”
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A road generalization method using graph convolutional network based on mesh-line structure unit by Tianyuan Xiao, Tinghua Ai, Dirk Burghardt, Pengcheng Liu, Min Yang, Aji Gao, Bo Kong, Huafei Yu

“…On the other hand, existing methods tend to consider individual structures separately in different algorithms, such as strokes, meshes and graph networks, lacking a solution that brings the advantages of these methods together. …”
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Crystal structure of a bacterial photoactivated adenylate cyclase determined by serial femtosecond and serial synchrotron crystallography by Sofia M. Kapetanaki, Nicolas Coquelle, David von Stetten, Martin Byrdin, Ronald Rios-Santacruz, Richard Bean, Johan Bielecki, Mohamed Boudjelida, Zsuzsana Fekete, Geoffrey W. Grime, Huijong Han, Caitlin Hatton, Sravya Kantamneni, Konstantin Kharitonov, Chan Kim, Marco Kloos, Faisal H. M. Koua, Iñaki de Diego Martinez, Diogo Melo, Lukas Rane, Adam Round, Ekaterina Round, Abhisakh Sarma, Robin Schubert, Joachim Schulz, Marcin Sikorski, Mohammad Vakili, Joana Valerio, Jovana Vitas, Raphael de Wijn, Agnieszka Wrona, Ninon Zala, Arwen Pearson, Katerina Dörner, Giorgio Schirò, Elspeth F. Garman, András Lukács, Martin Weik

“…These results reveal slight differences in the structure of the enzyme due to data collection at different temperatures and X-ray sources. …”
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