Background: Internal quality control (IQC) data offers continuous insight into analytical performance under routine conditions. This study evaluated IQC practices and long-term analytical imprecision (CVa) across primary healthcare laboratories to de...
Background: The aim of this study was the determination of reference values for the common laboratory parameters in early pregnancy using a direct method and to assess their clinically significant difference, which was compared to the reference inter...
Hematological analyses are particularly useful in assessing a dolphin’s health status. However, the creation of appropriate reference intervals for this species is difficult due to the low number of reference individuals. The implementation of...
The diagnosis of diseases is a complex process involving the integration of multiple parameters obtained from various sources, including laboratory findings. The interpretation of laboratory data is inherently comparative, necessitating reliable refe...
Biological variation (BV) describes the physiological random fluctuation around a homeostatic set point, which is a characteristic of all blood measurands (analytes). That variation may impact the clinical relevance of the changes that are observed i...
Blood profiling data in athletic populations and their respective responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection are lacking. Thus, this exploratory pilot study aimed to analyze and compare clinical blood markers in previously infected trained athletes (ATH; 30 m...
Background/Objectives: Autoverification systems integrated with fully automated analyzers and expert middleware can reduce manual review workload and improve turnaround time (TAT). This study aimed to develop an autoverification system for thyroid fu...
By combining traditional electrochemical tests including Tafel extension method and Mott-Schottky fitting, spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE) and a micro-region analysis technique, which is an integrated system of a scanning reference electrode techniqu...
Background: Reference morphometric data for the olfactory sulcus (OS) and olfactory bulb (OB) in the pediatric population are scarce. This study aimed to evaluate the age-related morphometric characteristics of these structures using magnetic resonan...
The aim of this study is to determine the effect of climate change on reference evapotranspiration (ETo) and sunflower and wheat evapotranspiration (ETs and ETw, respectively) in the Trakya Region of Türkiye. ETo Calculator (version 3.2) and CRO...
The active power-phase angle droop control avoids the frequency deviation problem caused by taking the frequency as the droop variable. However, the active power output of distributed generations (DGs) can only be allocated by adjusting the droop coe...
This study evaluated watershed health (WH) change using reference values for environmental changes at various times. Land use in 1985 was defined as the reference value under the most natural conditions, and the WH for the years 1995 to 2019 was calc...
The role of the Manning roughness coefficient in modifying a tsunami time series of flow depth inundation was studied in Iquique, Chile, using a single synthetic earthquake scenario. A high-resolution digital surface model was used as a reference con...
Local authorities require information on shoreline change for land use decision making. Monitoring shoreline changes is useful for updating shoreline maps used in coastal planning and management. By analysing data over a period of time, where and how...
As one of the OMICS in systems biology, metabolomics defines the metabolome and simultaneously quantifies numerous metabolites that are final or intermediate products and effectors of upstream biological processes. Metabolomics provides accurate info...
Background and objective: Changing to a different spirometry reference equation can result in misinterpretation of spirometric findings. Currently, there is limited data about any discordance between the interpretations of airway obstruction (AO) usi...
Islanded microgrids commonly use droop control methods for autonomous power distribution; however, this approach causes system frequency deviation when common loads change. This deviation can be eliminated using secondary control methods, but the cor...
Background: Ultra-translucent multilayer zirconia is increasingly used for minimally invasive esthetic restorations, but the influence of hydrothermal aging on the translucency of veneers of different shades and thicknesses, and its possible clinical...
In the literature, all investigations dealing with regulator design in the AVR loop observe the AVR system as a single input single output (SISO) system, where the input is the generator reference voltage, while the output is the generator voltage. B...
In the case of DC power distribution-based variable speed engine synchronous generators, if the output reference voltage is kept constant regardless of the generator engine operating speed, it may cause damage to the internal device and windings of t...
The Number of Pixel Change Rate (NPCR) and the Unified Average Changed Intensity (UACI) are the two canonical statistics for measuring a cipher’s sensitivity to plaintext and key perturbations. Their hypothesis tests compare the measured scores...
An approach to remove clouds in Landsat-8 operational land imager (OLI) data was developed with independent component analysis (ICA). Within cloud-covered areas, histograms were derived to quantify changes of the reflectance values before and after t...
Wildfires significantly affect wood properties and usability, yet their impact on hardwood species remains insufficiently understood. This study presents an exploratory characterization of moderately fire-affected pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.) w...
The Drying Stream Assessment Tool and Water Flow Tracking (DrySAT-WFT) were modified to simulate the hydrological components of water loss databases (DBs) affecting stream drying phenomena. In this study, the phenomenon is defined based on a method u...
Hematological reference intervals must consider several parameters, including genotype, age, sex, management, and analytic process. Work is needed to evaluate hematological changes specifically in Hanwoo calves and according to calf sex. Therefore, i...
A new miniaturized sensor system with an internal optical reference for the detection of mold growth is presented. The sensor chip comprises a reaction chamber provided with a culture medium that promotes the growth of mold species from mold spores....
Virtually all modern imaging devices collect electromagnetic or acoustic waves and use the energy carried by these waves to determine pixel values to create what is basically an “energy” picture. However, waves also carry “information”, as quantified...
Epidemiological studies frequently rely on a single biomarker measurement to assess the relationship between antioxidant status and diseases. This bears an inherent risk for misclassification, if the respective biomarker has a high intra-individual v...
This paper examines the effectiveness of South Korea’s policy for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in office buildings and evaluates if national targets can be met. A sample of office buildings was categorized into two groups—conve...
Adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (Ad-MSCs) exhibit anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory activities. The neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), and systemic immune-inflammation index (SII) have been reported...
The ecology of the Three River Headwaters Region (TRHR) is related to the long-term sustainable development of Qinghai Province and the whole of China. The change in chlorophyll fluorescence is an important index to measure the ecological environment...
Land use change and demographic factors directly or indirectly affect ecosystem services value, and the analysis of ecosystem services contributes to optimization of land planning, which is essential for regional sustainable development. In this stud...
Several factors influence the performance of land change simulation models. One potentially important factor is land category aggregation, which reduces the number of categories while having the potential to reduce also the size of apparent land chan...
Based on the voltage threshold adaptive memristor (VTEAM) model, this paper proposes a circuit design of a memristor-based A/D converter, which can achieve high-resolution conversion by simple configuration. For this A/D converter, there are the inpu...
This study evaluated two approaches for estimating the total propulsive force on a skier’s center of mass (COM) with double-poling (DP) and V2-skating (V2) skiing techniques. We also assessed the accuracy and the stability of each approach by c...
A data set of very high-resolution visible/near infrared hyperspectral images of young Pinus contorta trees was recorded to study the effects of herbicides on this invasive species. The camera was fixed on a frame while the potted trees were moved un...
The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis in ruptured aneurysms can be greatly affected by subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), making the diagnosis of intracranial infection more difficult after surgery. This study aimed to identify the reference value range...
Most surgical procedures performed on account of degenerative disease of the cervical spine involve a discectomy and interbody fixation. Bone fusion at the implant placement site is evaluated post-operatively. It is agreed that computed tomography is...
The aim of the present study was to develop a reference database in a healthy population for a test measuring color discrimination thresholds and contrast sensitivity, with the purpose of establishing reference values that contribute to optimizing th...
Establishing reference conditions in rivers is important to understand environmental change and protect ecosystem integrity. Ranked third globally for fish biodiversity, the Mekong River has the world’s largest inland fishery providing livelihoods, f...
The weak ESD-immunity problem has been deeply persecuted in ultra high-voltage (UHV) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) and urgently needs to be solved. In this paper, a UHV 300 V circular n-channel (n) lateral diffused MOSF...
Gold is a sought-after good across the globe, particularly among Asian countries. The demand for gold is influenced by symbolic, utilitarian, and hedonic values. One of the critical values among these is symbolic value, which refers to the meanings a...
In light of the content contained in this article, in the context of demographic change and globalization, there can be no doubt that education responding to contemporary challenges is a guarantee of promoting knowledge and profiling mobile and adapt...
The authors are sorry to report that some data in the text (Section 2, Section 2.1.1. and Section 2.1.2) and Table 1 were incorrect in reference [1], doi: 10.3390/agriculture2030259, website: http://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/2/3/259. Our mistake was bas...
The present study deals with preparing a polymer-based material with incorporated ceramics and monitoring changes in properties after in vitro natural degradation. The developed material is a mixture of polymers of polylactic acid and polyhydroxybuty...
5 March 2022
The purpose of this study was to show how continuous exercise affects the basal values of biochemical and hematological parameters in elite athletes. A total of 14,010 samples (male = 8452 and female = 5558 (March 2011–March 2020)) from 3588 el...
Background/Objectives: Guided growth changes frontal-plane gait mechanics in idiopathic genu valgum, but the durability of these adaptations through skeletal maturity remains uncertain. This study examined their long-term course. Methods: Seventeen p...
As the pre-process of storage and processing, rice drying is a key link to ensuring grain quality. A scientific and reasonable drying process can maintain grain quality and realize grain loss reduction, energy savings, and emission reduction. By esta...
8 July 2020
Objectives. Training for sport is associated with the development of bone minerals, and the need for reference data based on athletes is often indicated. The purpose of this study was to develop a reference for bone mineral density (BMD) and content...
Based on the European energy directives, the building sector has to provide comfortable levels for occupants with minimum energy consumption as well as to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This paper aims to compare the impact of climate change on the...
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