Radiomic features are being increasingly studied for clinical applications. We aimed to assess the agreement among radiomic features when computed by several groups by using different software packages under very tightly controlled conditions, which...
Quantitative and robust serology assays are critical measurements underpinning global COVID-19 response to diagnostic, surveillance, and vaccine development. Here, we report a proof-of-concept approach for the development of quantitative, multiplexed...
To quantitatively characterize the pyramidal texture of monocrystalline silicon cells and to optimize the parameters of the texturing process, the relative standard deviation Sh was proposed to quantitatively characterize the uniformity of the pyrami...
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...
The unsaturated long-chain fatty acid amide derivatives in Sichuan pepper are the components responsible for its characteristic numbing sensation. Due to the susceptibility to oxidation of these compounds, it is difficult to maintain a consistent num...
Cacipacoré virus (CPCV) is an understudied orthoflavivirus with significant gaps in research that hinders our understanding of its ecology, host range, and potential public health impact. A notable barrier to filling this gap is the absence of...
Introduction: This study standardized a semi-quantitative dot blotting assay (DB) and a quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) to detect specific antibodies for Paracoccidioides brasiliensis and its DNA in PCM patients. Methodology:...
Platelets play a crucial role in the immunological response and are involved in the pathological settings of vascular diseases, and their adhesion to the extracellular matrix is important to bring leukocytes close to the endothelial cells and to form...
This paper aims to introduce a standardized test methodology for drone detection, tracking, and identification systems. It is the aim that this standardized test methodology for assessing the performance of counter-drone systems will lead to a much b...
Mycelium-bound composites (MBCs) have emerged as a promising class of biofabricated materials that integrate fungal hyphal networks with lignocellulosic substrates to form lightweight, biodegradable structures without synthetic adhesives. Despite rap...
Standardised molecular methods are available for the detection of norovirus from water and specific food items. Detection of norovirus from stool samples also relies on molecular methods, but differences exist between nucleic acid extraction, reverse...
An inherent issue in high-throughput sequencing applications is that they provide compositional data for relative abundance. This often obscures the true biomass and potential functions of fungi in the community. Therefore, we presented a high-throug...
Background/Objectives: Quantitative bone single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) enables standardized uptake value (SUV)-based assessment of skeletal tracer uptake; however, SUV does not directly indicate the degree...
ERETIC2 (Electronic Reference To access In vivo Concentrations 2) based on PULCON (Pulse Length–based Concentration determination) methodology is a quantitative NMR (qNMR) using an external standard. The performance of the PULCON method was assessed...
Quantitative sensory testing (QST) is a standard procedure in medicine to describe sensory patterns in various pathologies. The aim of this prospective clinical study was to define reference values of the trigeminal nerve (V3), including taste qualit...
The metabolomics and proteomics analysis of saliva, an excellent biofluid that is a rich source of biological compounds, allows for the safe and frequent screening of drugs, their metabolites, and molecular biomarkers of various diseases. One of the...
Background/Objectives: There is increasing interest in moving selected radiopharmaceutical therapy (RPT) applications toward treatment informed by patient-specific quantitative data. Patient-specific dosimetry supports this transition, but routine im...
Quantitative preclinical imaging enables non-invasive characterization of physiological, molecular, and functional processes providing measurable biomarkers for longitudinal and translational studies. This review systematically analyzes 60 studies pu...
The fluorescence quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) instrument has been widely used in molecular biology applications, where the reliability of the qPCR performance directly affects the accuracy of its detection results. In this paper, an...
Background: Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency testing is not routinely performed before primaquine treatment in most Plasmodium vivax endemic areas, despite the risk of primaquine-associated hemolysis. This is due to the operational...
In order to comprehensively describe and evaluate Chinese olive seeds, this study examined 33 varieties (strains) of Chinese olive seeds to address the limitations of previous research on quantitative trait variation and grading among Chinese olive s...
The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a molecular biology tool with diverse applications in the aquatic sciences. Classical PCR is a nonquantitative method that can be used to detect target DNA sequences that are characteristic of particular microbi...
Objective: We sought to assess the diagnostic performance of quantitative bone SPECT/CT standardized uptake values (SUVs) in diabetic foot osteomyelitis (DFO) and their associations with inflammatory biomarkers. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 1...
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To analyze Taiwanese ecotourism with international standards, this research employed the social learning theory (SLT) to identify the determinants of Taiwanese community ecotourism with the international standards. This basic theory of social psychol...
Several institutions have developed image feature extraction software to compute quantitative descriptors of medical images for radiomics analyses. With radiomics increasingly proposed for use in research and clinical contexts, new techniques are nec...
A challenge in multicenter trials that use quantitative positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is the often unknown variability in PET image values, typically measured as standardized uptake values, introduced by intersite differences in global a...
Legionella pneumophila are pathogenic bacteria that repeatedly occur in high concentrations in the process water of evaporative cooling systems (ECS). When released into the environment, the resulting bioaerosols can cause outbreaks with fatal conseq...
Standardized interpretation of analytical responses in multi-herb formulations remains difficult: constituent measurements, composition ratios, and extraction conditions are rarely integrated quantitatively. Effect Factor (EF) provides a dimensionles...
This study quantitatively analyzes the economic impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis on Korea and other major nations using the standard Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model. Based on the GTAP9a database, we created three sc...
Offshore oilfields are characterized by loose sandstone reservoirs, strong heterogeneity and high injection and production intensity. Water channeling gradually develops after entering the high water cut stage, which weakens production performance. C...
Root fractal analysis is instrumental in comprehending the intricate structures of plant root systems, offering insights into root morphology, branching patterns, and resource acquisition efficiency. We conducted a field experiment on paddy–whe...
Radiation therapy quality assurance (RTQA) is critical to the success of RT and impacts trial outcomes. We aimed to evaluate the existence of standardized quantitative metrics to grade contours as part of RTQA and to identify barriers to standardizat...
Background/Objectives: Electrical threshold testing (ETT) offers a promising method for assessing somatosensory function. Despite its growing use, fundamental aspects such as the physiological recovery time required between repeated threshold measure...
Private governance by means of voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) has become ubiquitous, especially for the governance of sustainability issues along global value chains in agriculture. As VSS have multiplied and proliferated, their commonaliti...
Among natural disasters, droughts can affect a large area for a prolonged period of time. If a drought happens, an appropriate response requires a lot of time and manpower from beginning to end, and continuous management is necessary for further prev...
The application of internal standards in quantitative and qualitative bioanalysis is a commonly used procedure. They are usually isotopically labeled analogs of the analyte, used in quantitative LC-MS analysis. Usually, 2H, 13C, 15N and 18O isotopes...
As the potential applications of DNA diagnostics continue to expand, there is a need for improved methods and standards for DNA analysis. This report describes several methods that could be considered for the production of reference materials for the...
Existing testing methods for Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) systems mostly rely on standard-based qualitative analysis of specific scenarios, with a focus on whether collisions occur. To explore scenarios beyond the standard conduct, a comprehensi...
The Rietveld-internal standard method for Bragg-Brentano reflection geometry (θ/2θ) X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns is implemented to determine the amorphous phase content. The effect of some minor phases on quantitative accuracy is assessed. The nu...
Background and Objectives: The Quantum Menstrual Health Monitoring Study will measure four key reproductive hormones in the urine (follicle-stimulating hormone, FSH; estrone-3-glucuronide, E13G; luteinizing hormone, LH; and pregnanediol glucuronide,...
A single laboratory validation study of a rapid and sensitive quantitative method for the analysis of cereulide toxin produced by Bacillus cereus using ultra high performance liquid chromatography-electrospray-tandem mass spectrometry is presented. T...
We present a new image quality assessment method for determining whether reducing radiation dose impairs the image quality of computed tomography (CT) in qualitative and quantitative clinical analyses tasks. In this Institutional Review Board-exempt...
Risk is inevitable in business. For large companies, risk management is formalised and structured through compliance with industry standards. However, small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) rarely have adequate resources to develop their own standa...
A highly specific and sensitive proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H-NMR) method has been developed for the quantification of ephedrine alkaloid derivatives in Ephedra herbal commercial prescriptions. At the region of δ 4.0 to 5.0 ppm in the 1H NMR...
In the present work, a two-dimensional qNMR method for the determination of sennosides was established. Using band-selective HSQC and the cross correlations of the characteristic 10–10’ bonds, we quantified the total amount of the value-d...
In this study, we examined the relationship between social factors and language by focusing on color terms. We investigated patterns of color terms’ use and the diversity of the color terms lexicon (CTL) among males and females belonging to dif...
An analysis of almost 200 references has been carried out in order to obtain knowledge about the DEM (Digital Elevation Model) accuracy assessment methods applied in the last three decades. With regard to grid DEMs, 14 aspects related to the accuracy...
Despite the significant volume of empirical research found in student-authored academic theses—particularly in the social sciences—these works are often poorly documented and difficult to discover within institutional repositories. A key...
Due to the strong heterogeneity of the reservoir, early gas breakthrough and low CO2 displacement efficiency are common issues in the CO2 flooding process of domestic gravel reservoirs. This study focuses on a gravel reservoir in Xinjiang, proposing...
Respiratory-gated PET/CT generates phase-resolved biomedical imaging data, but respiratory motion can cause spatial mismatch and lesion-level quantitative instability, especially for small thoracoabdominal lesions. This study proposes SCAR-Net, a Sim...
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