Pharmacokinetic modeling in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging has become a cornerstone in cancer research, offering insights into tumor development and progression. These models facilitate the quantification of radiotracer distribution and m...
Complex products continue to face low iterative-design efficiency and poor cross-generation data compatibility, while existing product-gene research is still constrained by the predominance of qualitative approaches, ambiguous representations of hier...
In order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is necessary to quantitatively examine the interactions in the EF2W nexus in more detail. The main objective of this work is to model and quantify the EF2W nexus. The approach and model...
This study outlines the methodology employed to model the relationship among a set of dichotomous variables, which represent attributes, on a nominal scale. The objective is to elucidate their influence on a quantitative dependent variable measured o...
PM2.5 is unanimously considered to be an important indicator of air quality. Sustained rainfall is a kind of typical but complex rainfall process in southern China with an uncertain duration and intervals. During sustained rainfall, the variation of...
The academician Xiaowen Li devoted much of his life to pursuing fundamental research in remote sensing. A pioneer in the geometric-optical modeling of vegetation canopies, his work is held in high regard by the international remote sensing community....
Due to the scarcity and uneven distribution of data, as well as the complexity of geological conditions, high-precision 3D hydrogeological structure modeling, especially at large scales, remains a significant challenge in the field. To address this i...
Since the 1990s, Petri nets have been used in systems biology for quantitative modeling. Despite the increasing number of models developed during this period, doubts remain about their biological relevance. Although biological systems predominantly e...
What happens when recognized and diverse conditioning factors of linguistic variation are omitted from analysis and/or are not analyzed under a single analytical procedure? This paper explores the consequences of such a choice on data interpretation...
To meet the requirements of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) precision applications in high dynamics, this paper describes a study on the carrier phase tracking technology of the GNSS/inertial navigation system (INS) deep integration system...
Numerical taxonomy reveals morphological structure, whereas classifier modeling tests identification against labeled reference hypotheses. We evaluated 70 Taiwanese Euterpnosia Matsumura, 1917 specimens representing five operational classes, using 71...
Social and behavioral research often needs to examine policy shocks, information interventions, platform-mediated attention, and governance feedback, but direct experiments on real populations are constrained by ethical risks, intervention costs, and...
In an ongoing research program for the development of new anti-tuberculosis drugs, we synthesized three series (A, B, and C) of 7-chloro-4-aminoquinolines, which were evaluated in vitro against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). Now, we report the ant...
Allometric scaling is closely related to the morphology, function and behavior of trees, which are of great significance to the study of ecology. However, most of the traditional allometric scaling studies used the scalar attributes of trees, without...
Biologics address a range of unmet clinical needs, but the occurrence of biologics-induced liver injury remains a major challenge. Development of cimaglermin alfa (GGF2) was terminated due to transient elevations in serum aminotransferases and total...
In rural areas in developing countries where livelihoods directly depend on agriculture, shortage of water can have severe socio-economic and humanitarian consequences and has been suggested to result in conflict and migration. Understanding such res...
The environmental weathering and the formation of efflorescences on the brick walls are studied at the “Casa di Diana” Mithraeum at Ostia Antica archaeological site. Previous studies on subsoil, bedrock, hydrological systems and environmental conditi...
In this paper, we analyze the robustness of the parameter inversion provided by general polarimetric model-based decomposition methods from the perspective of a quantitative application. The general model and algorithm we have studied is the method p...
Quantitative MRI biomarkers are sought to replace painful and invasive sequential bone-marrow biopsies routinely used for myelofibrosis (MF) cancer monitoring and treatment assessment. Repeatability of MRI-based quantitative imaging biomarker (QIB) m...
Ship collisions are one of the most common types of maritime accidents. Assessing the frequency and probability of ship collisions is of great importance as it provides a cost-effective and practical way to mitigate risk. In this paper, we present a...
To overcome the limitations imposed by the anisotropy and heterogeneity of natural loess, this study establishes a novel quantitative macro–micro correlation framework for investigating the deformation mechanisms of artificial structural loess...
Astaxanthin from different sources possesses different biological activities and optical isomers. The ingredients of astaxanthin mixtures from different sources on the market have often been mislabeled. Therefore, it is important to determine the sou...
The fracture-cavity combination structure between wells in fracture-cavity reservoirs is complex and changeable. Reliably identifying and quantitatively characterizing the fracture-cavity combination structure between wells has become an important pr...
Over the last decade, resilience has become an indispensable aspect to be considered when managing supply chains given to the recent challenges they were subjected to, and a constituting element of their sustainability. However, despite literature on...
Wear in microscale material removal is difficult to predict because material loss can proceed through several distinct pathways, including plastic deformation, adhesion, atom-by-atom attrition, tribochemical reactions, oxidation-assisted removal, and...
Despite the numerous therapeutic options to treat bleeding or thrombosis, a comprehensive quantitative mechanistic understanding of the effects of these and potential novel therapies is lacking. Recently, the quality of quantitative systems pharmacol...
The right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) is an anatomically complex and spatially variable cardiac region that is difficult to characterise using isolated manual measurements. Although three-dimensional reconstruction techniques enable detailed vis...
Infrared spectroscopy (IR) quantitative analysis technology has shown excellent development potential in the field of oil and gas logging. However, due to the high overlap of the IR absorption peaks of alkane molecules and the offset of the absorptio...
In recent years, lubricant research has developed from empirical to theoretical, from descriptive to rational, from qualitative to quantitative, and from macroscopic to microscopic studies. This review presents the new concept of the quantitative str...
Very short-term (0~3 h) radar-based quantitative precipitation forecasting (QPF), also known as nowcasting, plays an essential role in flash flood warning, water resource management, and other hydrological applications. A novel nowcasting method comb...
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Prior cross-sectional research indicates that the negative effects of quantitative job insecurity (i.e., threat to job loss) on employees’ wellbeing are fully mediated by qualitative job insecurity (i.e., threat to job characteristics). In the curren...
Heat exchangers play essential roles in the oil and gas production process for convective heat transfer and heat conduction. The health management of heat exchangers stays in the direct monitoring of performance parameters. Aiming at the difficulty o...
Landslide susceptibility assessment constitutes a pivotal method of preventing and reducing losses caused by geological disasters. However, traditional models are often influenced by subjective grading factors, which can result in unscientific and in...
The current detection method of carbendazim suffers from the disadvantages of complicated preprocessing and long cycle time. In order to solve the problem of rapid quantitative screening of finite contaminants, this article proposed a qualitative met...
The influence of different pore sizes on the compressive strength and elastic modulus of recycled concrete is an important issue in the academic circle. Aiming at this problem, a quantitative characterization model of the compressive strength and ela...
To analyze the influence factors of hyperspectral remote sensing data processing, and quantitatively evaluate the application capability of hyperspectral data, a combined evaluation model based on the physical process of imaging and statistical analy...
As embedded systems become increasingly complex, traditional reliability analysis methods based on text alone are no longer adequate for meeting the requirements of rapid and accurate quantitative analysis of system reliability. This article proposes...
Existing mesoscopic numerical models still exhibit shortcomings in terms of the aggregate geometric fidelity, interface transition zone (ITZ) characterization, and modeling efficiency. To solve these problems, this paper establishes a two-dimensional...
Spatial heterogeneity is a hallmark of cancer. Tumor heterogeneity can vary with time and location. The tumor microenvironment (TME) encompasses various cell types and their interactions that impart response to therapies. Therefore, a quantitative ev...
Due to their beneficial effects on human health, antioxidant peptides have attracted much attention from researchers. However, the structure-activity relationships of antioxidant peptides have not been fully understood. In this paper, quantitative st...
Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) is used to obtain quantitative magnetic susceptibility maps of materials from magnitude and phase images acquired by three-dimensional gradient-echo using inverse problem-solving. Few preclinical studies have...
In the toxicological testing of new small-molecule compounds, it is desirable to establish in silico test methods to predict toxicity instead of relying on animal testing. Since quantitative structure–activity relationships (QSARs) can predict...
Pesticide residues in grain products are a major issue due to their comprehensive and long-term impact on human health, and quantitative modeling on the degradation of pesticide residues facilitate the prediction of pesticide residue level with time...
Spasticity, a common symptom in patients with upper motor neuron lesions, reduces the ability of a person to freely move their limbs by generating unwanted reflexes. Spasticity can interfere with rehabilitation programs and cause pain, muscle atrophy...
In order to improve the sustainability of modern cities, the safe operation of rail transportation is critical. Meanwhile, rail signaling safety is also fundamental for rail transportation, and quantitative analysis of railway signaling safety factor...
Quantitative risk assessment (QRA) of high-pressure CO2 pipelines depends on a chain of assumptions concerning failure frequencies, transient release modelling, near-field transformation, atmospheric dispersion, and human-harm criteria. This paper pr...
Edge computing has become a key framework for meeting the demands of low latency and high reliability across various applications. To ensure efficient task execution in edge computing, many offloading strategies have been proposed; however, most lack...
Modern corporate networks operate in increasingly complex and heterogeneous environments, which complicates the objective assessment of their current security state. This study proposes a dual-channel multi-level model for quantitative assessment of...
Exosomes, naturally occurring vesicles secreted by cells, are undergoing development as drug carriers. We used experimental and computational studies to investigate the kinetics of intracellular exosome processing and exosome-mediated drug efflux and...
The study of field spectra based on fractional-order differentials has rarely been reported, and traditional integer-order differentials only perform the derivative calculation for 1st-order or 2nd-order spectrum signals, ignoring the spectral transf...
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