Examining the effect of agency cost on capital structure-financial performance nexus: empirical evidence for emerging market by Shirwan Rafiq Sdiq, Hariem A. Abdullah

“…Testing for short-term and long-term parameters between groups, pooled mean group estimation method is used for data analysis. The results manifest evidence to support agency theory in explaining the relationship between capital structure and financial performance. …”
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STUDY OF VLADIMIR PROPP'S NARRATIVE STRUCTURE IN LE FANTÔME DE L'OPÉRA NOVEL BY GASTON LEROUX by Adelia Defa Khoirunnisa

“…The data are grouped in a data tabulation table and then analyzed using structural analysis techniques. …”
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Updated number forecast, russian car fleet structures by type of power plants and greenhouse gas emissions until 2050 by IU. V. Trofimenko, V. I. Komkov

“…The results of forecast estimation of the number, structure of the Russian motor vehicle fleet by type of power units and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions up to 2050 are presented, taking into account the update of the initial data used in the calculations and the assumption that it will be decided to stop production of passenger cars with internal combustion engines starting from 2045. …”
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Cryo-EM structures of a protein pore reveal a cluster of cholesterol molecules and diverse roles of membrane lipids by Gašper Šolinc, Marija Srnko, Franci Merzel, Ana Crnković, Mirijam Kozorog, Marjetka Podobnik, Gregor Anderluh

“…Atomistic simulations support the structural data and reveal additional effects of the pore on the lipid membrane. …”
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Impact of Smart Cities on Urban Resilience: The Roles of Land Green Utilization Efficiency and Industrial Structure Transformation by Chaobo Zhou, Xinting Li

“…After a series of empirical tests, this study obtains the following results: (1) SC have a significant impact on the improvement of UR, which objectively demonstrates the reciprocity between SC and the level of UR construction, providing data support for promoting the in-depth practice of SC. (2) From the mechanism test of the impact of SC on UR, urban land green utilization efficiency and industrial structure transformation are intermediate mechanisms through which SC affect the improvement of UR. …”
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Application of Mercury Intrusion Porosimetry in Coal Pore Structure Characterization: Conformance Effect and Compression Effect Correction by Shiqi Liu, Yu Liang, Shuxun Sang, He Wang, Wenkai Wang, Jianbo Sun, Fukang Li

“…Mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP) is commonly used to characterize coal pore structures, but conformance effect and compression effect can overestimate pore volume. …”
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Predicting rare drug-drug interaction events with dual-granular structure-adaptive and pair variational representation by Zhonghao Ren, Xiangxiang Zeng, Yizhen Lao, Zhuhong You, Yifan Shang, Quan Zou, Chen Lin

“…Here we introduce RareDDIE, a metric-based meta-learning model that employs a dual-granular structure-driven pair variational representation to enhance rare DDIE prediction. …”
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The thymidine kinase-1 as a potential tumor marker: structure, function, activity in normal and malignant tissues by N. S. Sergeeva, N. K. Parilova, N. V. Marshutina, I. S. Meysner

“…In the review the role of the thymidine kinase (TK) to ensure the replication of DNA de novo and spare (salvage the) way in health and activate alternate ways in carcinogenesis is described. The structure of cytoplasmic TK (TК-1), also called fetal, and the level of regulation of its activity in the cells and their change during the cell cycle is described. …”
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Integrating Large Language Models and Optimization in Semi- Structured Decision Making: Methodology and a Case Study by Gianpaolo Ghiani, Gianluca Solazzo, Gianluca Elia

“…Semi-structured decisions, which fall between highly structured and unstructured decision types, rely on human intuition and experience for the final choice, while using data and analytical models to generate tentative solutions. …”
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Surgical thyroid pathology in Crimea and Sevastopol: the way COVID-19 pandemic altered the frequency and structure of diseases by O. R. Khabarov, D. V. Zima, O. F. Bezrukov, E. Yu. Zyablitskaya, E. R. Asanova, P. E. Maksimova

“…To evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the structure of surgical thyroid pathology among the population of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol City in 2019–2024 through a retrospective data analysis.Patients and methods. …”
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The crustal structure of Onega-Kandalaksha paleorift identified by complex analysis of the anomalous magnetic field of the White Sea by A. S. Baluev, Yu. V. Brusilovsky, A. N. Ivanenko

“…Geological and geophysical studies recently conducted in the White Sea and the adjacent territory have provided new data on the deep structure of this region. Our study aims to conduct complex analysis of the anomalous magnetic field and the geological and geophysical data on the Onega-Kandalaksha paleorift located in the White Sea basin and the adjacent southeastern land area, and to develop a model showing its deep structure. …”
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Inversion of Lateral Impact Load Migration History and Trajectory Location Method for Deck Structures Based on the Time-Slicing Method by Hongtao Li, Qihu Sheng, Xianqiang Qu, Yaoguo Xie

“…This is a crucial structural dynamics inverse problem. The traditional dynamics inverse problem is generally to divide and calibrate the known region through Green’s function, locate the region through the minimum norm of the load data obtained from the measurement response inversion, and obtain the time history. …”
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Geological structure and gold prospectivity of the Shamansky ore cluster of the Altai-Sayan folded region (Republic of Khakassia) by Alexander I. Chernykh, Alexey V. Okulov, Sergey G. Kryazhev, Irina V. Arsentieva

“…It is shown that the cluster has a complex fold-block structure. The rocks are characterized by intense folded and discontinuous dislocations. …”
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Biomarkers associated with cell-in-cell structure in kidney renal clear cell carcinoma based on transcriptome sequencing by Zehua Wang, Zhongxiao Zhang

“…Background Kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC), the main histological subtype of renal cell carcinoma, has a high incidence globally. Cell-in-cell structures (CICs), as a cellular biological phenomenon, play pivotal roles in cell competition, immune evasion and tumor progression in the context of KIRC. …”
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FATIGUE LIFE PREDICTION OF NOTCHED STRUCTURE USING COMBINED CRITICAL PLANE-CRITICAL DISTANCE APPROACH (MT) by LIAO Ding, ZHU ShunPeng, GAO JieWei, NIU XiaoPeng, HE JinChao

“…In this paper, by combining the popular Fatemi-Socie critical plane model with the critical distance theory, a fatigue lifing model for notched structures under multiaxial loads was established, and its effectiveness was verified with the fatigue test data of TC4 stepped shaft specimens. …”
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EFFECT OF BOARD STRUCTURE ON CORPORATE SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE OF LISTED NIGERIAN OIL AND GAS FIRMS by Motunrayo Elizabeth OMOLEHIN, Folashade Olufunke OBAJE

“…This study, therefore, explored grey areas in the literature regarding board structure and sustainability performance. The panel data generalized least squares (random effect) method was used to analyse data sourced from annual reports, sustainability reports of selected oil and gas firms listed on the floor of the Nigeria Exchange from 2012 to 2022 and CSRHub database. …”
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INTERNATİONAL MİGRATİON AND AGRİCULTURAL SUSTAİNABİLİTY İN THE ÇUKUROVA REGİON: DETAİLED ANALYSİS OF SOCİO-ECONOMİC STRUCTURE AND MİGRATİON INTERACTİONS by Şinasi AKDEMIR, Ufuk GÜLTEKIN, Kasım Eren TUNA, Issaka Saidou ISMAILLA

“…The first phase of the research was to investigate the general structure of international migration movements to the Çukurova Region and their socio-economic effects. …”
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The songbird connectome (OSCINE-NET.ORG): structure–function organization beyond the canonical vocal control network by Andrew Savoy, Katherine L. Anderson, Joseph V. Gogola

“…Results We present the Oscine Structural Connectome for Investigating NEural NETwork ORGanization (OSCINE-NET.ORG), the first interactive mesoscale connectome for any vocal learner. …”
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A structure-based tool to interpret the significance of kinase mutations in clinical next generation sequencing in cancer by Amith Rangarajan, Ilona Sviezhentseva, Emma Gunderson, Yana Pikman, Yana Pikman, Matthew P. Jacobson, Beth Apsel Winger, Beth Apsel Winger

“…With the explosion of clinical NGS data and the concurrent availability of protein structures through the Protein Data Bank and protein models through programs such as AlphaFold, there exists an unprecedented opportunity to use structural information to help standardize NGS analysis with the overall goal of advancing personalized cancer therapy.MethodsUsing the Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer (COSMIC), the largest curated database of clinical cancer mutations, we mapped thousands of missense mutations in the kinase and juxtamembrane (JM) domains of 48 receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) onto structurally aligned kinase structures, then clustered known activating mutations along with VUSs based on proximity in three-dimensional structure. …”
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Landscape structure, climate variability, and soil quality shape crop biomass patterns in agricultural ecosystems of Bavaria by Maninder Singh Dhillon, Thomas Koellner, Sarah Asam, Jakob Bogenreuther, Stefan Dech, Stefan Dech, Ursula Gessner, Daniel Gruschwitz, Sylvia Helena Annuth, Tanja Kraus, Thomas Rummler, Christian Schaefer, Sarah Schönbrodt-Stitt, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Martina Wilde, Martina Wilde, Tobias Ullmann

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