Employing Kirkpatrick’s framework to evaluate nurse training: an integrative review by Fernanda Maria de Miranda, Bruna Vasconcelos dos Santos, Vicki Leigh Kristman, Vivian Aline Mininel

“…Different instruments were used to evaluate nursing training, mainly in quantitative approaches for reaction and learning levels and qualitative for behavior and results levels. …”
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Conservative Management of Cesarean Scar Ectopic Pregnancy with Fetal Heart Activity and a Very High β-hCG by Rodney McLaren, Sandra McCalla, Mohamad Irani

“…We report the case of a 29-year-old patient who presented for her first prenatal visit at 13-week gestation and was diagnosed with CSP with present fetal heart tones and a quantitative β-hCG of 144,337 IU/L. She was treated with bilateral uterine artery embolization and systemic methotrexate. …”
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Widefield Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography in Diabetic Retinopathy by Alessia Amato, Francesco Nadin, Federico Borghesan, Maria Vittoria Cicinelli, Irini Chatziralli, Saena Sadiq, Rukhsana Mirza, Francesco Bandello

“…WF-OCTA can be obtained with different approaches, offering advantages over traditional imaging in the study of nonperfusion areas (NPAs) and neovascularization (NV). Quantitative estimates and topographic distribution of NPA and NV are useful for treatment monitoring and artificial intelligence-based approaches. …”
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Characterization of Zebrafish von Willebrand Factor Reveals Conservation of Domain Structure, Multimerization, and Intracellular Storage by Arunima Ghosh, Andy Vo, Beverly K. Twiss, Colin A. Kretz, Mary A. Jozwiak, Robert R. Montgomery, Jordan A. Shavit

“…von Willebrand disease (VWD) is the most common inherited human bleeding disorder and is caused by quantitative or qualitative defects in von Willebrand factor (VWF). …”
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Enhancing PEM fuel cell efficiency with flying squirrel search optimization and Cuckoo Search MPPT techniques in dynamically operating environments by Assala Bouguerra, Abd Essalam Badoud, Saad Mekhilef, Badreddine Kanouni, Mohit Bajaj, Ievgen Zaitsev

“…The study contributes quantitative insights into advancing green energy solutions and suggests avenues for future exploration of hybrid optimization methods.…”
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Does Media Matter? by Rejoice Tobias-Mamina, Eugine Tafadzwa Maziriri, Norman Chiliya

“… This study determined the direct effect and mediating effect of the presidential candidate’s perceived image, attitude towards voting and perceived image of the political party on the relationship between digital media exposure and voting intention. A quantitative research approach was utilised. Of the 350 questionnaires distributed, 302 usable self-administered questionnaires were retrieved for the final data analysis, representing a response rate of 87 percent. …”
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The The Impact of Leadership, Stakeholder Roles, and Tourist Actor Competence on Tourism Destination in Indonesia by Mochamad D. S. Alam, Moses G. R. Pandin, Umi Muzayanah, Siti Muawanah, Khasbullah Huda

“… The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of leadership, stakeholders' roles, tourist actors' competence, and the implementation of the Tourism Development Master Plan (RIPPARDA) on the governance of tourist destinations in Mojokerto City. The quantitative research method was used, along with convenience sampling. …”
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On the Age Calibration of Open Clusters Using Red Clump Stars by Abigail R. Chriss, Guy Worthey

“…Current stellar evolutionary isochrones do not quantitatively reproduce the trend and furthermore predict an increased color gap with a decrease in metallicity that is not echoed in the data. …”
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Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Randomized Study Comparing 0.0003% Calcitriol with 0.1% Tacrolimus Ointments for the Treatment of Endemic Pityriasis Alba by Berenice Moreno-Cruz, Bertha Torres-Álvarez, Diana Hernández-Blanco, Juan Pablo Castanedo-Cazares

“…Improvement was evaluated at baseline and 8 weeks later clinically and by digital quantification of the affected area, colorimetry, and transepidermal water loss (TEWL). …”
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Parent-Adolescent Conflicts Viewed from Emotional Independence and Parenting Styles by Vision Vision, Jane Savitri, Jacqueline Tjandraningtyas

“…To achieve this objective, a quantitative study was conducted on 386 Junior and Senior High School students from X Foundation, Denpasar. …”
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An HPLC-based Assay to Study the Activity of Cyclic Diadenosine Monophosphate (C-di-AMP) Synthase DisA from Mycobacterium smegmatis by Avisek Mahapa, Sudhanshu Gautam, Arti Rathore, Dipankar Chatterji

“…This protocol outlines the quantification of c-di-AMP by an HPLC-based assay to enumerate the activity of c-di-AMP synthase from Mycobacterium smegmatis. …”
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STRATEGIES OF MANIPULATIVE RHETORIC IN THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE BUSINESS MEDIA DISCOURSE by Elena N. Malyuga, Elena I. Madinyan

“…The aim of the study is to identify manipulative strategies implemented through the use of collocations, clichés, idioms, and set phrases in the English-language business media discourse. A quantitative analysis of samples collected from publications in “The Economist” was conducted. …”
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Achieving inter- and transdisciplinarity in Ecohealth: insights from a rodent-borne disease project in a polycrisis era by Isabelle Arpin, Clémence Massart, Vincent Bourret, Guillaume Castel, Valeria Carolina Colombo, Jana Eccard, Jasmin Firozpoor, Maciej Grzybek, Heikki A. Henttonen, Herwig Leirs, Andrew McManus, Ben Roche, Tarja Sironen, Vincent Sluydts, Peter Stuart, Annetta Zintl, Nathalie Charbonnel

“…Our Ecohealth-inspired project on rodent-borne diseases, initiated just before the COVID-19 pandemic, provided an opportunity to evaluate ITDR implementation.MethodsWe employed a recently developed semi-quantitative evaluation method to measure our project’s success in achieving ITDR and analyzed factors influencing this achievement.ResultsThe project showed strengths in system description, team task allocation, and data sharing, but had lower scores in engaging societal actors throughout the project cycle.DiscussionWe identified the underexplored influence of problem wickedness as a critical determinant of ITDR success. …”
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The University Perception in the Context of University-City Interaction and its Management by Mira BEKEBAYEVA, Dinmukhamed KELESBAYEV, Bibigul ORAZOVA, Aziza DEMESINOVA, Ainur Mukhamedkhanova

“…Despite the increase in the number of universities in Kazakhstan, the limited number of studies on university-city interaction necessitated field research that would provide quantitative and qualitative information on the subject.  …”
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Analyzing the Impact of Ambient Temperature Indicators on Transformer Life in Different Regions of Chinese Mainland by Cui-fen Bai, Wen-Sheng Gao, Tong Liu

“…Regression analysis is applied to quantitatively analyze the impact of different ambient temperature characteristics on the transformer life at different locations of Chinese mainland. 200 typical locations in Chinese mainland are selected for the study. …”
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Directed Evolution of Proteins through In Vitro Protein Synthesis in Liposomes by Takehiro Nishikawa, Takeshi Sunami, Tomoaki Matsuura, Tetsuya Yomo

“…Liposome-based IVC is characterized by in vitro protein synthesis from a single copy of a gene in a cell-sized unilamellar liposome and quantitative functional evaluation of the synthesized proteins. …”
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Analysis, Filtering, and Control for Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Models in Networked Systems by Sunjie Zhang, Zidong Wang, Jun Hu, Jinling Liang, Fuad E. Alsaadi

“…The network-induced phenomena under consideration mainly include communication delays, packet dropouts, signal quantization, and randomly occurring uncertainties (ROUs). …”
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Determination of Polar Compounds in Guava Leaves Infusions and Ultrasound Aqueous Extract by HPLC-ESI-MS by Elixabet Díaz-de-Cerio, Vito Verardo, Ana María Gómez-Caravaca, Alberto Fernández-Gutiérrez, Antonio Segura-Carretero

“…Four different classes of phenolic compounds (gallic and ellagic acid derivatives, flavonols, flavanones, and flavan-3-ols) and some benzophenones were determined. The quantification results reported that the order, in terms of concentration of the classes of polar compounds in all samples, was flavonols > flavan-3-ols > gallic and ellagic acid derivatives > benzophenones > flavanones. …”
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Logging Characteristics and Identification Methods of Low Resistivity Oil Layer: Upper Cretaceous of the Third Member of Qingshankou Formation, Daqingzijing Area, Songliao Basin, C... by Congjun Feng, Murray Gingras, Mengsi Sun, Bing Wang

“…Based on the current data, we characterized the logs of low resistivity thick-layer sandstone, quantitatively identified calcareous sandstone and low resistivity reservoir, predicted the reservoir thickness, and further explored the causes of low resistivity reservoir of the region. …”
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Stability-Indicating High-Performance Liquid Chromatographic Determination of Levamisole Hydrochloride in Bulk and Dosage Forms by Amal Abdalraheem, Shaza Shantier, Imad Abureid, Elrasheed A. Gadkariem

“…The limit of detection (LOD) and the limit of quantitation (LOQ) were 0.29 μg/ml and 0.89 μg/ml, respectively. …”
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