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  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,816 Views
20 Pages

A State Validation System for Augmented Reality Based Maintenance Procedures

  • Federico Manuri,
  • Alessandro Pizzigalli and
  • Andrea Sanna

24 May 2019

Maintenance has been one of the most important domains for augmented reality (AR) since its inception. AR applications enable technicians to receive visual and audio computer-generated aids while performing different activities, such as assembling, r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,704 Views
16 Pages

3 May 2022

The research on traditional and innovative seismic isolation techniques has grown significantly in recent years, thanks to both experimental and numerical campaigns. As a consequence, practitioners have also started to apply such techniques in real a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,092 Views
13 Pages

Aortic Root Replacement Procedures: A Validation Study of the Western Denmark Heart Registry from 1999 to 2022

  • Emil Johannes Ravn,
  • Viktor Poulsen,
  • Poul Erik Mortensen,
  • Jordi Sanchez Dahl,
  • Kristian Øvrehus,
  • Oke Gerke,
  • Ivy Susanne Modrau,
  • Katrine Müllertz,
  • Lars Peter Schødt Riber and
  • Lytfi Krasniqi

Background/Objectives: We reviewed data from the Western Danish Heart Registry (WDHR), which collects mandatory information on heart surgeries in Western Denmark, to validate cases with aortic root replacement (ARR) and assess the validity of registe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,853 Views
18 Pages

8 July 2021

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) yields powerful opportunities for studying human papillomavirus (HPV) genomics for applications in epidemiology, public health, and clinical diagnostics. HPV genotypes, variants, and point mutations can be investigate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
934 Views
14 Pages

Application and Validation of a transRADial Access Score (RAD-Access) in Patient Selection for Safe Radial Access in Liver Cancer Intra-Arterial Procedures

  • Roberto Iezzi,
  • Alessandro Posa,
  • Andrea Contegiacomo,
  • Alessandro Maresca,
  • Elena Rodolfino,
  • Biagio Merlino,
  • Tiago Bilhim and
  • Marcelo Guimaraes

22 April 2025

Objectives: To develop and internally validate a pre-treatment score for the safe selection of the best candidates for the transradial approach when performing liver cancer intra-arterial procedures. Methods: One hundred and twenty-two patients under...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,032 Views
28 Pages

The Impact of Intellectual Capital on Dynamic Innovation Performance: An Overview of Research Methodology

  • Mostafa A. Ali,
  • Nazimah Hussin,
  • Hossam Haddad,
  • Nidal Mahmoud Al-Ramahi,
  • Tareq Hammad Almubaydeen and
  • Ibtihal A. Abed

Research technique is a critical component of every study, and, therefore, determining the method of research is a crucial step in that process. This paper serves as an introduction to the design of an investigation method for the impacts of intellec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,175 Views
11 Pages

Efficacy of Three Commercial Disinfectants in Reducing Microbial Surfaces’ Contaminations of Pharmaceuticals Hospital Facilities

  • Giuseppina Di Martino,
  • Salvatore Pasqua,
  • Bruno Douradinha,
  • Francesco Monaco,
  • Chiara Di Bartolo,
  • Pier Giulio Conaldi and
  • Danilo D’Apolito

To evaluate and validate the efficacy of disinfectants used in our cleaning procedure, in order to reduce pharmaceutical hospital surfaces’ contaminations, we tested the action of three commercial disinfectants on small representative samples o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
8,071 Views
20 Pages

13 August 2019

Failure to apply lockout procedures for the control of hazardous energies is one of the main causes of machinery-related fatal and serious injuries in North America. The absence of audits of lockout or the lack of proper tools for auditing lockout is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
8,094 Views
29 Pages

21 April 2016

In this paper details about the results of a code-to-code validation procedure of an in-house developed building simulation model, called DETECt, are reported. The tool was developed for research purposes in order to carry out dynamic building energy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,323 Views
23 Pages

A key principle of developing a new medicine is that quality should be built in, with a thorough understanding of the product and the manufacturing process supported by appropriate process controls. Quality by design principles that have been establi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,113 Views
21 Pages

Aircraft noise causes a variety of negative health consequences, and annoyance is a central factor mediating stress-related health risks. Non-acoustic factors play an important role in the experience of annoyance where the aspect of fairness is assum...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,404 Views
20 Pages

Machine-Learning-Based Validation of Microsoft Azure Kinect in Measuring Gait Profiles

  • Claudia Ferraris,
  • Gianluca Amprimo,
  • Serena Cerfoglio,
  • Giulia Masi,
  • Luca Vismara and
  • Veronica Cimolin

29 November 2024

Gait is one of the most extensively studied motor tasks using motion capture systems, the gold standard for instrumental gait analysis. Various sensor-based solutions have been recently proposed to evaluate gait parameters, typically providing lower...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,436 Views
35 Pages

How to Assess the Measurement Performance of Mobile/Wearable Point-of-Care Testing Devices? A Systematic Review Addressing Sweat Analysis

  • Sarah Tonello,
  • Giulia Abate,
  • Michela Borghetti,
  • Nicola Francesco Lopomo,
  • Mauro Serpelloni and
  • Emilio Sardini

Recent advances in technologies for biosensor integration in mobile or wearable devices have highlighted the need for the definition of proper validation procedures and technical standards that enable testing, verification and validation of the overa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,750 Views
13 Pages

A Procedure for the Fatigue Life Prediction of Straight Fibers Pneumatic Muscles

  • Francesco Durante,
  • Michele Gabrio Antonelli,
  • Pierluigi Beomonte Zobel and
  • Terenziano Raparelli

11 November 2021

Different from the McKibben pneumatic muscle actuator, the straight fibers one is made of an elastomeric tube closed at the two ends by two heads that ensure a mechanical and pneumatic seal. High stiffness threads are placed longitudinally into the w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,567 Views
17 Pages

The Bee Cosmetic Surgery Scale—A Clinical Tool for Assessing the Psychopathological, Psychosocial, and Decision-Making Factors Involved in Accepting Cosmetic Procedures

  • Georgiana Albina Căiță,
  • Florica Voiță-Mekeres,
  • Florian Bodog,
  • Cosmin Mircea Vieriu,
  • Daniela Margareta Varga,
  • Mariana Racoviță,
  • Gheorghe Szilagyi and
  • Felicia Manole

4 October 2024

The Bee Cosmetic Surgery Scale (BCSS) is a novel clinical tool designed to assess the psychopathological, psychosocial, and decision-making factors involved in accepting cosmetic procedures. This prospective, multicenter study aimed to propose and va...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,115 Views
22 Pages

Improved Sample Selection and Preparation Methods for Sampling Plans Used to Facilitate Rapid and Reliable Estimation of Aflatoxin in Chicken Feed

  • James Kibugu,
  • Raymond Mdachi,
  • Leonard Munga,
  • David Mburu,
  • Thomas Whitaker,
  • Thu P. Huynh,
  • Delia Grace and
  • Johanna F. Lindahl

16 March 2021

Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), a toxic fungal metabolite associated with human and animal diseases, is a natural contaminant encountered in agricultural commodities, food and feed. Heterogeneity of AFB1 makes risk estimation a challenge. To overcome this, nove...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,715 Views
14 Pages

Competence and Attitude of Family Physicians towards Sexuality Regarding Their Sexual Orientation, Age, or Having a Partner—Survey Study and Validation

  • Javier Ramírez-Santos,
  • Gracia Castro-Luna,
  • Manuel Lucas-Matheu,
  • Tesifón Parrón-Carreño and
  • Bruno José Nievas-Soriano

Background: The main objective of this study was to assess different aspects of family physicians (sex, age, sexual orientation, or having a partner) regarding their competencies, attitudes, and procedures towards their patients’ sexuality. We also s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
12,910 Views
16 Pages

Analytical Chemistry in the 21st Century: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Perspectives of Complex Matrices Quantitative Analyses in Biological/Clinical Field

  • Giuseppe Maria Merone,
  • Angela Tartaglia,
  • Marcello Locatelli,
  • Cristian D’Ovidio,
  • Enrica Rosato,
  • Ugo de Grazia,
  • Francesco Santavenere,
  • Sandra Rossi and
  • Fabio Savini

30 October 2020

Nowadays, the challenges in analytical chemistry, and mostly in quantitative analysis, include the development and validation of new materials, strategies and procedures to meet the growing need for rapid, sensitive, selective and green methods. In t...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,421 Views
13 Pages

An Overview of Requirements, Procedures and Current Advances in the Calibration/Validation of Radar Altimeters

  • Graham D. Quartly,
  • Ge Chen,
  • Francesco Nencioli,
  • Rosemary Morrow and
  • Nicolas Picot

1 January 2021

Analysis of the radar echoes from a spaceborne altimeter gives information on sea surface height, wave height and wind speed, as well as other parameters over land and ice. The first spaceborne radar altimeter was pioneered on Skylab in 1974. Since t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,244 Views
18 Pages

A Validation Procedure for Ecological Corridor Locations

  • Etienne Lalechère and
  • Laurent Bergès

1 December 2021

Connectivity conservation analysis is based on a wide range of approaches designed to pinpoint key ecological corridors in order to maintain multispecies flows. However, the lack of validation procedures with accessible data prevents one from evaluat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,294 Views
22 Pages

11 April 2023

A fully validated inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES)–based method combined with a simplified sample preparation procedure for the determination of up to 15 elements (Al, Ba, Ca, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, K, Mg, Mn, Na, Ni,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,306 Views
16 Pages

10 March 2020

Commercially bottled birch saps (BSs) were analyzed for several nutrient (Ca, Cu, Fe, Mg, and Zn) and toxic (As, Cd, Ni, and Pb) elements using inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP OES). The method was validated under the con...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,453 Views
27 Pages

4 August 2021

The combination of different propulsion and energy storage systems for hybrid vehicles is changing the focus in the field of powertrain calibration. Shorter time-to-market as well as stricter legal requirements regarding the validation of Real Drivin...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
10,356 Views
16 Pages

A Framework for Developing Environmental Justice Indicators

  • Geoffrey R. Browne,
  • Lucy Dubrelle Gunn and
  • Melanie Davern

17 March 2022

Environmental justice (EJ) is a broad discipline that attempts to understand and redress unfair exposure to unhealthy environmental conditions. EJ is often made measurable with indicators, however the capabilities and the limitations of EJ indicators...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,583 Views
11 Pages

Aim: To develop and validate a procedure for self-management of medication by patients whilst in hospital. Background: Self-management of medication allows patients to self-manage their medication in a controlled and supportive hospital environment....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,130 Views
27 Pages

Analysis and Design of Anchored Sheet-Pile Walls: Theoretical Comparisons, Experimental Validation, and Practical Procedures

  • Eltayeb H. Onsa Elsadig,
  • Tareg Abdalla Abdalla,
  • Turki S. Alahmari,
  • Dafalla A. El Turabi and
  • Ahmed H. A. Yassin

1 October 2025

Anchored sheet-pile walls (ASPWs) are widely used as earth-retaining structures in engineering practice. The difficulty in analyzing sheet piles arises because the loading on the wall is a function of the deformation of the soil and the sheet-pile co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,473 Views
14 Pages

31 January 2025

Visual clarity is crucial for shoulder arthroscopy, directly influencing surgical precision and outcomes. Despite advances in imaging technology, intraoperative bleeding remains a significant obstacle to optimal visibility, with subjective evaluation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,092 Views
10 Pages

Preference Ranking Procedure: Method Validation with Dogs

  • Han Li,
  • Rachel Wyant,
  • Greg Aldrich and
  • Kadri Koppel

19 April 2020

The growth of the number of pet products and the pet food industry is continuous. This is partially driven by palatability and perceptions of preference. A preference ranking procedure for dogs has been proposed in order to suggest a more efficient m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,589 Views
15 Pages

16 November 2021

In the ISO 16283 series for field measurement of sound insulation, a low-frequency procedure is specified for determining indoor average sound pressure level, which is the so-called corner method. In the procedure, additional measurements are require...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
12,597 Views
11 Pages

Recommendations for Standardizing Validation Procedures Assessing Physical Activity of Older Persons by Monitoring Body Postures and Movements

  • Ulrich Lindemann,
  • Wiebren Zijlstra,
  • Kamiar Aminian,
  • Sebastien F.M. Chastin,
  • Eling D. De Bruin,
  • Jorunn L. Helbostad and
  • Johannes B.J. Bussmann

10 January 2014

Physical activity is an important determinant of health and well-being in older persons and contributes to their social participation and quality of life. Hence, assessment tools are needed to study this physical activity in free-living conditions. W...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,322 Views
9 Pages

A Procedure for Oxytocin Measurement in Hair of Pig: Analytical Validation and a Pilot Application

  • Marina López-Arjona,
  • Fernando Tecles,
  • Sandra V. Mateo,
  • María Dolores Contreras-Aguilar,
  • Silvia Martínez-Miró,
  • José Joaquín Cerón and
  • Silvia Martínez-Subiela

13 June 2021

There is growing interest in oxytocin as a biomarker of stress and welfare. The objective of this study was to develop and validate a procedure based on a highly sensitive immunoassay to measure oxytocin in the hair of pigs. In addition, a pilot stud...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,717 Views
18 Pages

Current Trends in Simultaneous Determination of Co-Administered Drugs

  • Christian Celia,
  • Luisa Di Marzio,
  • Marcello Locatelli,
  • Piera Ramundo,
  • Francesca D’Ambrosio and
  • Angela Tartaglia

Recently, high demand of high-throughput analyses with high sensitivity and selectivity to molecules and drugs in different classes with different physical-chemical properties—and a reduction in analysis time—is a principal milestone for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
8,318 Views
31 Pages

Spatial Distribution of Cosmetic-Procedure Businesses in Two U.S. Cities: A Pilot Mapping and Validation Study

  • S. Bryn Austin,
  • Allegra R. Gordon,
  • Grace A. Kennedy,
  • Kendrin R. Sonneville,
  • Jeffrey Blossom and
  • Emily A. Blood

Cosmetic procedures have proliferated rapidly over the past few decades, with over $11 billion spent on cosmetic surgeries and other minimally invasive procedures and another $2.9 billion spent on U.V. indoor tanning in 2012 in the United States al...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,532 Views
14 Pages

27 July 2019

A mathematical procedure based on the analysis of tensile flow curves has been proposed to assess the microstructure quality of several ductile irons (DIs). The procedure consists of a first diagram for the assessment of the ideal microstructure of D...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,371 Views
23 Pages

A Personal, Distributed Exposimeter: Procedure for Design, Calibration, Validation, and Application

  • Arno Thielens,
  • Peter Vanveerdeghem,
  • Patrick Van Torre,
  • Stephanie Gängler,
  • Martin Röösli,
  • Hendrik Rogier,
  • Luc Martens and
  • Wout Joseph

1 February 2016

This paper describes, for the first time, the procedure for the full design, calibration, uncertainty analysis, and practical application of a personal, distributed exposimeter (PDE) for the detection of personal exposure in the Global System for Mob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,994 Views
20 Pages

2 November 2022

Recent advancements in hyperspectral remote sensing bring exciting opportunities for various domains. Precision agriculture is one of the most widely-researched examples here, as it can benefit from the non-invasiveness and enormous scalability of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,628 Views
12 Pages

2 July 2022

A high-performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry method is described for the simultaneous determination of mycotoxins, including Ergot alkaloids (EAs), in 3 types of grains. The extraction of 23 mycotoxins was evaluated and performed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,006 Views
14 Pages

Validation of the SCALE/Polaris−PARCS Code Procedure with the ENDF/B-VII.1 AMPX 56-Group Library: Pressurized Water Reactor

  • Kang Seog Kim,
  • Byoung-Kyu Jeon,
  • Andrew Ward,
  • Ugur Mertyurek,
  • Matthew Jessee and
  • William Wieselquist

23 July 2024

This study was conducted to validate the SCALE/Polaris v6.3.0–PARCS v3.4.2 code procedure with the Evaluated Nuclear Data File (ENDF)/B-VII.1 AMPX 56-group library for pressurized water reactor (PWR) analysis, by comparing simulated results with meas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,269 Views
18 Pages

15 June 2021

The use of instruments for the evaluation of a player’s procedural tactical knowledge (PTK) in sociomotor sports, such as football, is a line of research of growing interest since it allows a pertinent description of the player’s football competence....

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,593 Views
14 Pages

9 November 2016

In this work, a cross-validation procedure is used to identify an appropriate Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average model and an appropriate state space model for a time series. A minimum size for the training set is specified. The procedure is ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,782 Views
17 Pages

28 October 2022

An experimental procedure for characterizing the size-of-source effect (SSE) is proposed. Such an effect is the cause of one of the main influence variables generating uncertainty in the measurement, both in calibration and use, of direct reading rad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,126 Views
14 Pages

1 August 2024

The SCALE/Polaris–PARCS code procedure has been used in the confirmatory analysis for boiling water reactors by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In this study, the SCALE/Polaris v6.3.0–PARCS v3.4.2 code procedure with the Evaluated N...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
73 Citations
12,885 Views
16 Pages

Mental Load and Fatigue Assessment Instruments: A Systematic Review

  • Jesús Díaz-García,
  • Inmaculada González-Ponce,
  • José Carlos Ponce-Bordón,
  • Miguel Ángel López-Gajardo,
  • Iván Ramírez-Bravo,
  • Ana Rubio-Morales and
  • Tomás García-Calvo

Mental load and fatigue are important causes of performance decreases and accidents in different activities. However, a robust systematic review, detailing the instruments used to quantify them, is currently lacking. The purpose of this study was to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,985 Views
20 Pages

18 January 2023

Medical device usability testing offers many benefits, including finding medical device usage errors and providing safety to users. As usability testing becomes mandatory for medical devices, manufacturers are increasing the cost burden. In order to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,552 Views
14 Pages

An Array SPRi Biosensor for Simultaneous VEGF-A and FGF-2 Determination in Biological Samples

  • Lukasz Oldak,
  • Anna Leśniewska,
  • Beata Zelazowska-Rutkowska,
  • Eryk Latoch,
  • Zenon Lukaszewski,
  • Maryna Krawczuk-Rybak and
  • Ewa Gorodkiewicz

11 December 2022

A new method was developed for the simultaneous determination of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF-A) and fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2) in blood serum, using biosensors with array Surface Plasmon Resonance imaging (SPRi) detection. It can...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,086 Views
14 Pages

Estimating the Extraction Time of an Upper Third Molar: Proposal and Validation of Results

  • Belén Lima-Sánchez,
  • Paula Hermida-Cabrera,
  • Vanessa Montoya-Salazar,
  • Luis-Guillermo Oliveros-López,
  • Pedro Alomar-Velasco,
  • Maria-Angeles Serrera-Figallo,
  • Daniel Torres-Lagares and
  • María Baus-Domínguez

19 September 2024

Background: Numerous studies in the literature have aimed to evaluate the difficulty level of removing third molars. However, most of these studies have focused on the lower third molars, which can lead to complications. There is a lack of a method t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,875 Views
20 Pages

Organizational Climate Scale for Public Service: Development and Validation

  • Taiane Keila Matheis,
  • Simone Alves Pacheco de Campos,
  • Kelmara Mendes Vieira,
  • Eliete dos Reis Lehnhart and
  • Vania de Fátima Barros Estivalete

28 April 2024

This research presents four studies that developed and validated the Organizational Climate Perception Scale for Public Service (OCPS-PS). The first qualitative study consulted the literature and conducted a focus group to develop the initial version...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,133 Views
13 Pages

Proposal and Validation of a New Index to Assess the Difficulty of Lower Third Molar Extraction

  • Paula Hermida-Cabrera,
  • Belén Lima-Sánchez,
  • Vanessa Montoya-Salazar,
  • Luis-Guillermo Oliveros-López,
  • Pedro Alomar-Velasco,
  • José-Luis Gutiérrez-Pérez,
  • Daniel Torres-Lagares and
  • María Baus-Domínguez

9 May 2024

There is no current consensus on the parameters that determine the difficulty of mandibular third molar extraction in terms of the time required, which is essential to prevent complications and optimize the time of the intervention. This study aims t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
2,890 Views
13 Pages

External Validation of Surrogate Indices of Fatty Liver in the General Population: The Bagnacavallo Study

  • Francesco Giuseppe Foschi,
  • Fabio Conti,
  • Marco Domenicali,
  • Pierluigi Giacomoni,
  • Alberto Borghi,
  • Vittoria Bevilacqua,
  • Lucia Napoli,
  • Dante Berardinelli,
  • Mattia Altini and
  • Bagnacavallo Study Group
  • + 7 authors

1 February 2021

We externally validated the fatty liver index (FLI), the lipid accumulation product (LAP), the hepatic steatosis index (HSI), and the Zhejiang University index (ZJU) for the diagnosis of fatty liver (FL) and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,002 Views
16 Pages

15 April 2017

An acceptable quality of electrical energy is seen today as an important component of ecology. Several instruments for estimating the quality of electrical power have been elaborated. Each supplier assures that the instrument meets the applicable sta...

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