This study reviews the published quantitative literature in agritourism from the supply, demand, and both supply- and demand-side perspectives to determine the implications for agritourism in developing countries. A total of 85 quantitative papers we...
This paper presents a density functional theory (DFT)/time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) study on the lowest lying singlet and triplet excited states of 20 selected polybrominateddiphenyl ether (PBDE) congeners, with the solvation effect included in the cal...
Research self-efficacy (RSE) is significantly associated with research interest, scholarly productivity, and professional development. It is particularly critical in counselor education, a field centered on improving human well-being and advancing ev...
Illegal immigration throughout the Mediterranean Sea is an intense and epoch-making phenomenon. This quantitative and qualitative study, based on the framework of the JD-R Model of burnout, described and assessed the risk of burnout among practitione...
This paper uses event study analysis to estimate the impact of the United States Federal Reserve Bank’s (Fed) quantitative easing (QE) announcements on the mortgage market during the zero lower bound (ZLB) period. A total of 35 QE announcements...
Background/Objectives: Posterior endoscopic cervical foraminotomy is an established motion-preserving procedure for selected patients with unilateral cervical radiculopathy. However, isolated foraminal decompression may be insufficient in cases with...
The chemical stability and content of organic functional groups significantly affect the application of materials in the field of adsorption. In this study, we quantitatively studied the effect of in-situ co-condensation and post grafting on the phys...
With the development of new generation technology and the low-carbon economy, the smart low-carbon city has become one of the academic hotspots. Many studies on it have begun; however, the dynamic mechanism is rarely involved. Therefore, this paper u...
In China’s rural renewal, the regional characteristics of rural traditional houses are often ignored. Local governments and real estate developers have distorted the perception of traditional buildings, damaging their sustainability. This paper...
In this paper, we present a pilot study aimed at investigating the impact of subsistence strategies and environmental pressure on the distribution of ethnographically documented strategies to cope with drought and its effects across 35 current societ...
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...
Researchers have proposed many multidimensional frameworks to identify significant and potential factors, e.g., educational background, positive feelings and career aspirations, that impact English learning attitude in second language acquisition. Ye...
Objective: Ultrasound Resolution Microscopy (URM) is an emerging technique that provides superior delineation of tumor microvasculature. This prospective study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic value of URM in differentiating benign from malignant bre...
Sweet corn is widely cultivated and valued for its palatability and nutritional quality, with kernels accumulating substantial carotenoids, which serve as essential antioxidants and vitamin A precursors. This study elucidated the genetic basis of car...
Background: Intelligent powered wheelchairs remain a popular research topic that can improve users’ quality of life. Although our multidisciplinary research team has put a lot of effort into adding features based on end-users needs and impairme...
Deep sowing is an efficient strategy for maize to ensure the seedling emergence rate under adverse conditions such as drought or low temperatures. However, the genetic basis of deep-sowing tolerance-related traits in maize remains largely unknown. In...
Background: Febrile seizures are a common form of convulsions in childhood, with poorly known cellular mechanisms. The objective of this pioneering study was to provide qualitative and quantitative ultrastructural research on the large neuronal perik...
Patient accrual is essential for the success of oncology clinical trials. Recruitment for trials involving the development of quantitative imaging biomarkers may face different challenges than treatment trials. This study surveyed investigators and s...
Reducing radiation exposure in CT imaging is critical, particularly in routine and repeat examinations. Deep learning image reconstruction (DLIR) has emerged as a key approach for maintaining diagnostic quality at low-dose acquisition settings. This...
Full-length anchorage rockbolts are widely used in roadway reinforcement and rock controlling in underground mining. This article proposes using an elastic–debonding (ED) model to analyse the axial performance of rockbolts. The advantage of thi...
In our previous study, we elaborated a method of determination of concentrations of the basic sites O2− and OH− in a quantitative IR study of CO2 adsorption. Previous adsorption studies or TPD experiments only provided the total basicity...
Members of the saposin-fold protein family and related proteins sharing a similar fold (saposin-like proteins; SAPLIP) are peripheral-membrane binding proteins that perform essential cellular functions. Saposins and SAPLIPs are abundant in both plant...
Dechlorination is a crucial strategy for archeological bronze stabilization to resist corrosion induced by cuprous chloride (CuCl). Conventional samples, either archeological or simulated ones, have deficiencies in revealing dechlorination mechanisms...
TRPV1 channel agonists and antagonists, which have powerful analgesic effects without the addictive qualities associated with traditional analgesics, have become a focus area for the development of novel analgesics. In this study, quantitative struct...
There is considerable interest in data analytics because of its value in informing decisions in healthcare. Data variables can be derived from routinely collected records or from primary studies. The level of detail for individual variables in quanti...
Reference genes are essential for studying mRNA expression with quantitative PCR (qPCR). We investigated 11 potential neutrophil reference genes (RPL19, GAPDH, ACTB, B2M, HPRT, G6PD, TFRC, PGK1, YWHAZ, SDHA and GYPC) for sheep under disease condition...
In this study, we develop a methodology to quantitatively integrate well resistivity logs and audio-magnetotelluric (AMT) sounding in the context of groundwater investigations. The experiments were conducted in a complex Quaternary depositional envir...
Background: The anatomy laboratory can provide the ideal setting for the preclinical phase of neurosurgical research. Our purpose is to comprehensively and critically review the preclinical anatomical quantification methods used in cranial neurosurge...
Purpose: XNAT is an informatics software platform to support imaging research, particularly in the context of large, multicentre studies of the type that are essential to validate quantitative imaging biomarkers. XNAT provides import, archiving, proc...
Introduction: Skeletal abnormalities and malocclusions have varied features that impact populations globally, impairing aesthetics and lowering life quality. The prevalence of the Skeletal Class III disease is the lowest among all angle malocclusions...
Grain yield is the most critical and complex quantitative trait in maize. Kernel length (KL), kernel width (KW), kernel thickness (KT) and hundred-kernel weight (HKW) associated with kernel size are essential components of yield-related traits in mai...
Background: Healthcare professionals are exposed to high emotional demands, including repeated contact with suffering, death, moral distress, and organizational pressure. These factors are associated with psychological distress, burnout, and secondar...
Milling quality directly affects production efficiency in rice, which is closely related to the brown rice recovery (BRR), the milled rice recovery (MRR) and the head milled rice recovery (HMRR). The present study investigated these three traits in 1...
Single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer (smFRET) enables direct measurement of nanoscale conformational dynamics and heterogeneity in biomolecules, but quantitative interpretation of smFRET data critically depends on well-controlled ex...
Tuberculosis, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), remains one of the top ten causes of death worldwide and the main cause of mortality from a single infectious agent. The upsurge of multi- and extensively-drug resistant tuberculosis cases cal...
The current study on the traditional use of medicinal plants was carried out from February 2018 to March 2020, in Gokand Valley, District Buner, Pakistan. The goal was to collect, interpret, and evaluate data on the application of medicinal plants. A...
Cefazolin is a first-generation cephalosporin used to treat severe infections of the respiratory tract, urinary tract, skin, and soft tissues. This study presents the optimal conditions for the determination of cefazolin by thin-layer chromatography...
Postoperative handover of patients has been described as a complex work process challenged by interruptions, time pressure and a lack of supporting framework. The purpose of this study was to investigate involved personnel’s experiences with the qual...
Phenolic acids are potent antioxidants, yet the quantitative structure-activity relationships of phenolic acids remain unclear. The purpose of this study was to establish 3D-QSAR models able to predict phenolic acids with high DPPH• scavenging activi...
Since the seminal 2012 Special Issue of the Journal of Peace Research about climate change and conflict, at least 35 review papers on the topic have been published. To our knowledge, none of these reviews focused on water and conflict specifically. I...
Nitroaromatic compounds (NACs) are ubiquitous in the environment due to their extensive industrial applications. The recalcitrance of NACs causes their arduous degradation, subsequently bringing about potential threats to human health and environment...
Genome-wide expression study is a powerful genomic technology to quantify expression dynamics of genes in a genome. In gene expression study, gene set analysis has become the first choice to gain insights into the underlying biology of diseases or st...
Vitamins D are a group of fat-soluble secosteroids which play a regulatory role in the functioning of most cells. Rational design of new vitamin D analogs, of increased therapeutic potency and lowered calcemic side effects, requires high-resolution i...
Since 2010, scholars have made major contributions to cross-cultural research, especially regarding similarities and differences across world regions and countries in people’s values, beliefs, and morality. This paper accumulates and analyzes e...
Quantifying gold occurrence in low-grade ores is challenging because gold minerals are sparse and fine-grained, limiting their detection in conventional polished sections. This study developed an integrated geometallurgical workflow using the Shaxi p...
The confined aquifer in the Aksu River Basin is the main aquifer for drinking water within the area. In this study, the unconfined aquifer and the confined aquifer in the Aksu River Basin were divided into different water circulation units through an...
The paper focuses on the development of electron coherent diffraction imaging in transmission electron microscopy, made in the, approximately, last ten years in our collaborative research group, to study the properties of materials at atomic resoluti...
Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) has been widely used in the quantitative analysis of drugs. The ubiquitous concomitant drug scenario in the clinic has spawned a large number of co-analyses based on this technique. However, s...
Quantitative trait loci (QTL) are genomic regions associated with phenotype variation of quantitative traits. To date, a total of 313 QTL for 31 quantitative traits have been reported in 14 studies on flax. Of these, 200 QTL from 12 studies were iden...
Molecular markers are one of the major factors affecting genomic prediction accuracy and the cost of genomic selection (GS). Previous studies have indicated that the use of quantitative trait loci (QTL) as markers in GS significantly increases predic...
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