RETRACTED ARTICLE: Thermal cooling efficacy of a solar water pump using Oldroyd-B (aluminum alloy-titanium alloy/engine oil) hybrid nanofluid by applying new version for the model... by Faisal Shahzad, Wasim Jamshed, Mohamed R. Eid, Rabia Safdar, Siti Suzilliana Putri Mohamed Isa, Sayed M. El Din, Nor Ain Azeany Mohd Nasir, Amjad Iqbal

“…The functions of regulating parameters are quantitatively observed by using the Keller-box approach in MATLAB coding. …”
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School teenager knowledge on contraceptive methods by Mariane Cristina Carlucci Molina, Patrica Grazieli Silverio Stoppiglia, Christine Baccarat de Godoy Martins, Lidiane Cristina da Silva Alencastro

“…The study aimed evaluation of the knowledge on contraceptive methods and their utilization among adolescents of the secondary grade of public schools in Cuiaba-MT. Quantitative transversal study, conducted in the months of November to December 2013, with 691 teenagers. …”
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Histological Research and Phytochemical Characterization of <i>Capsella bursa-pastoris</i> Medik. from Bihor County, Romania by Sorina-Georgiana Onea (Minz), Annamaria Pallag, Cristina Burlou-Nagy (Fati), Tünde Jurca, Laura Gratiela Vicaș, Marian Eleonora, Neli Kinga Olah, Rita Kiss, Bianca Pașca

“…This study investigated the quantitative chemical composition of this species using the HPLC method, revealing the total content in polyphenols, flavonoids, and anthocyanins, and investigated the antioxidant potential through fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP assay), cupric ion (Cu²⁺) reduction, (CUPRAC assay), and a free radical scavenging method (DPPH). …”
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Live and mediated user engagements: A comparative dataset from two Bengali audio-story based youtube channelsMendeley Data by Mohammad Harun Or Rashid, Md Tanbeer Jubaer, Barisha Chowdhury, Md Minhazul Islam

“…More than 250,000 comments and nearly 300,000 live chats from the videos are included in this dataset. It provides quantitative information of the contents such as number of views, comments and likes. …”
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Basic educational competences of stomatology professors: their improvement by Clotilde de la Caridad Mora Pérez, Maria Elena Cobas Rodriguez, Jorge Rodríguez López, Pedro Alvarez Rodríguez, Maricela Seijo Machado, Sahily Espino Otero

“…<strong>Method</strong>: Quantitative-qualitative development research in Stomatology career from 2006 to December 2007. …”
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Simultaneous determination of 74 pesticide residues in Panax notoginseng by QuEChERS coupled with gas chromatography tandem mass spectrometry by Huijun Li, Jieshan Wu, Chao Chen, Wenfeng Xin, Wensheng Zhang

“…The limits of detection ranged 0.28–2.00 μg/kg, while the limits of quantification were 0.94–6.65 μg/kg. Following the application of “top-down” approach, the expanded measurement uncertainty for all the analytes was <30%. …”
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Heritability Estimated Using 50K SNPs Indicates Missing Heritability Problem in Holstein Breeding by Donghyun Shin, Kyoung-Do Park, Sojoeng Ka, Heebal Kim, Kwang-hyeon Cho

“…Using genome-wide estimation and partitioning approaches, we analyzed three quantitative Holstein traits relevant to milk production in Korean Holstein data harvested from 462 individuals genotyped for 54,609 SNPs. …”
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Simple UV Spectrophotometric Method for the Determination of Fluvastatin Sodium in Bulk and Pharmaceutical Formulations by J. Saminathan, A. S. Sankar, K. Anandakumar, T. Vetrichelvan

“…The limit of detection and limit of quantification was found to be 0.0811 µg mL-1 & 0.2460 µg mL-1. …”
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Parental Child-Rearing Styles and Subjective Well-Being of Children Involved in Bullying by Ihsana Sabriani Borualogo, Ferran Casas

“…These groups were categorized based on the children’s self-reported bullying incidents. This study used quantitative approach with cross-sectional design. The participants were 781 4th to 6th-grader students (51.98% boys, 48.02% girls), consists of 329 bullying victims, 197 were both bullying perpetrators and victims, and 255 were uninvolved in bullying. …”
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Providing a pattern for managing complex mega-projects in the aircraft design and construction industry by Saeed Abdollahi Khoshmardan, Manochehr Manteghi, Abbas Khamseh

“…This research presents a model for managing complex megaprojects in this industry.Methodology: This research is a type of combined research (qualitative-quantitative), and for this purpose, while interviewing aviation experts, the features of aerial mega projects are identified and coded by MAXQDA2020 software, and then the indicators identified in a questionnaire from experts related to the project. …”
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Measurement of Coordinated and Coupled Development and Evaluation of Sustainable Development for Marine Economic-Ecological Complex System by Mingming Wen, Chang Liu, K. A. Mamonov, Jun Du

“…However, the relevant studies have several common defects: the incomplete data statistics system, the limited attention on development law or action mechanism, and the lack of long-term quantitative and empirical analysis. To overcome these defects, this paper tries to measure the coordinated and coupled development (CCD) and evaluate the sustainable development of MEECS. …”
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Financing Moroccan SMES: Analysis of the influencing factors and the crucial role of the government guarantee scheme by Oussouadi Kamal, Cherkaoui Kenza

“…This study uses a quantitative approach to examine the determinants of SME financing in Morocco. …”
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Differentiation of high risk prostate cancer with a facile urinary exosome detection workflow by Shuai Qiu, Yue Li, Zheng Zhang, Chunchang Li, Haoyu Wang, Ao Chen, Zhi Yan, Yang Liu, Zifei Li, Hua Huang, Yi Liu, Yiqi Seow, Ruibing Chen, Jinhong Guo, Simeng Wen, Jing Tian, Hongtuan Zhang, Ranlu Liu, Gang Han, Baolong Wang, Yong Wang, Yuanjie Niu, HaiFang Yin

“…We discovered that EEF1A1 levels, abundantly expressed on urinary exosomes, positively correlate to urinary exosome counts irrespective of source and collection time and demonstrated that EEF1A1 enables in-assay quantification of urinary exosomes. Importantly, a prostate cancer urinary EVLatch-based artificial intelligence diagnostics (PURE-AID) classification system utilizing PCA3, HOXC6, and DLX1 as targets with SPDEF for reference and EEF1A1 for quality checking, trained on 271 patients, achieved an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) of 0.76 in the test set of 351 patients. …”
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A Satellite Observation Data Transmission Scheduling Algorithm Oriented to Data Topics by Hao Chen, Baorong Zhai, Jiangjiang Wu, Chun Du, Jun Li

“…In order to further enhance the performance and speed up the convergence process of our algorithm, a domain-knowledge-based mutation operator is designed. Quantitative experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is more effective to solve the satellite observation data topic transmission scheduling problem than that of the state-of-the-art approaches.…”
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Evaluation of Geomembrane Effect Based on Mobilized Shear Stress due to Localized Sinking by Weihua Lu, Yongxing Zhang, Weizheng Liu, Cheng Liu, Haibo Wang

“…In derivation, a virtual inclined slip surface and interaction between the geosynthetic and soil were quantitatively evaluated by coupling the arching effect and the geomembrane effect. …”
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Treatment of Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome according to the Fascial Distortion Model: A Prospective Case Control Study by Christoph Schulze, Susanne Finze, Rainer Bader, Andreas Lison

“…Visual analogue scale (VAS) was used for the quantification of pain. Scores were also given to rate the maximum painless exercise tolerance of the patients. …”
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Forming innovative work behavior prospective police investigator through self-efficacy and job crafting in the post-COVID-19 by Girindra Wardana Akbar Ramadhani, Fendy Suhariadi, Bagong Suyanto, Ian Firstian Aldhi, Elisabeth Supriharyanti, Dwi Hardaningtyas, Ansar Abbas

“…The research, conducted at the National Police Education and Training Institute, utilized a quantitative approach, gathering data from 448 participants via a structured online questionnaire employing a five-point Likert scale. …”
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Pharmacokinetic Comparison of Isoalantolactone and Alantolactone in Rats after Administration Separately by Optimization of an UPLC-MS2 Method by Renjie Xu, Mengyue Wang, Ying Peng, Xiaobo Li

“…In this method, an electrospray ionization source was applied and operated in positive ion mode; multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) was selected for quantification using target fragment ions 233.2→187.1 for isoalantolactone (alantolactone) and 245.1→189.1 for internal standard (IS). …”
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Analysis of Refractive Index Sensing Properties of a Hybrid Hollow Cylindrical Tetramer Array by Meng Wang, Paerhatijiang Tuersun, Aibibula Abudula, Lan Jiang, Dibo Xu

“…In this paper, a hybrid hollow cylindrical tetramer array was designed, and the effects of the hole radius, external radius, height, period, incidence angle, and polarization angle of the hollow cylindrical tetramer array on the refractive index sensing properties were quantitatively analyzed using the finite difference time domain method. …”
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Placental Maspin Gene Expression Pattern May Be Used to Distinguish Between Preeclampsia and Intrauterine Growth Restriction by Gogsen Onalan, Yunus Kasim Terzi, Yusuf Aytac Tohma, Erkan Yurtcu, Esra Kuscu, Feride Iffet Sahin, Hulusi Bulent Zeyneloglu

“…Study Design: Maspin expression level was analyzed by semi-quantitative RT-PCR method. For this purpose, placental tissue samples were obtained from pregnancies 13 with intrauterine growth retardation, and 6 with preeclampsia, and also 12 tissues from women without preeclampsia or intrauterine growth retardation history were included as controls. …”
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