Diffusion Tensor Imaging-Based Research on Human White Matter Anatomy by Ming-guo Qiu, Jing-na Zhang, Ye Zhang, Qi-yu Li, Bing Xie, Jian Wang

“…The probability maps of the corticospinal tract were generated as a quantitative measure of reproducibility for each voxel of the stereotaxic space. …”
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Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals an Altered Hcy Metabolism in the Stria Vascularis of the Pendred Syndrome Mouse Model by Wenyue Xue, Yuxin Tian, Yuanping Xiong, Feng Liu, Yanmei Feng, Zhengnong Chen, Dongzhen Yu, Shankai Yin

“…GO and KEGG pathway analysis were performed. Quantitative RT-PCR was applied to validate the expression of candidate genes affected by Slc26a4. …”
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Maillard reaction products in plant-based dairy alternatives and their release during simulated gastrointestinal digestion by Kira Bieck, Franziska Ebert, Tilman Grune, Jana Raupbach

“…The results showed that Maillard reaction products are quantitatively important process-induced compounds in plant-based food products which are available after digestion.…”
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Fast demagnetization method for power transformers combined with residual flux measurement by Yuzhan Ren, Chengcheng Liu, Youhua Wang

“…Therefore, this paper proposes a demagnetization method that considers the amount of Br, which achieves accurate measurement and quantitative elimination of Br in the transformer core. …”
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Fluorescence Spectrometric Determination of Drugs Containing 𝜶-Methylene Sulfone/Sulfonamide Functional Groups Using N1-Methylnicotinamide Chloride as a Fluorogenic Agent by Khaled M. Elokely, Mohamed A. Eldawy, Mohamed A. Elkersh, Tarek F. El-Moselhy

“…A simple spectrofluorometric method has been developed, adapted, and validated for the quantitative estimation of drugs containing 𝛼-methylene sulfone/sulfonamide functional groups using N1-methylnicotinamide chloride (NMNCl) as fluorogenic agent. …”
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Integrated Transcriptomic and Proteomic Analyses Reveal Molecular Mechanism of Response to Heat Shock in <i>Morchella sextelata</i> by Jiexiong Zhang, Yanxia Li, Yifan Mao, Yesheng Zhang, Botong Zhou, Wei Liu, Wen Wang, Chen Zhang

“…This study integrated transcriptomic and quantitative proteomic analyses of two <i>M. sextelata</i> strains with different thermotolerance (labeled as strains C and D) under normal (18 °C) and high temperature (28 °C) conditions. …”
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Unfolding cascading impacts of changing South Asia monsoon on a Hindu Kush Himalayas basin by Surendra Maharjan, Wenzhao Li, Shahryar Fazli, Arshad Ansari, Suraj Tiwari, Roma Thakurathi, Rejoice Thomas, Hesham El-Askary

“…The bias correction was done using Robust Empirical Quantiles for precipitation and linear parametric transformation functions for temperature. …”
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Effect of biannual azithromycin on respiratory pathogens among symptomatic children: results from the randomised Macrolides Oraux pour Réduire les Décès avec un Oeil sur la Résista... by Jie Liu, Thomas M Lietman, Jeremy D Keenan, Kieran S O'Brien, Elodie Lebas, Amza Abdou, Benjamin F Arnold, James A Platts-Mills, Eric R Houpt, Stephanie A Brennhofer, Elizabeth T Rogawski McQuade, Ramatou Maliki, Jixian Zhang, Suzanne Stroup, Suporn Pholwat, Ahmed M Arzika

“…Swabs were tested by quantitative PCR using a customised TaqMan Array Card that included assays for 19 respiratory pathogens.Results Nasopharyngeal detection of Haemophilus influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis and Streptococcus pneumoniae was common in both azithromycin and placebo communities. …”
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Critical Period of Weed Control in Aerobic Rice by M. P. Anwar, A. S. Juraimi, B. Samedani, A. Puteh, A. Man

“…To determine critical period of weed control of aerobic rice, field trials were conducted during 2010/2011 at Universiti Putra Malaysia. A quantitative series of treatments comprising two components, (a) increasing duration of weed interference and (b) increasing length of weed-free period, were imposed. …”
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Acute ischemic stroke lesion segmentation in non-contrast CT images using 3D convolutional neural networks by A.V. Dobshik, S.K. Verbitskiy, I.A. Pestunov, K.M. Sherman, Yu.N. Sinyavskiy, A.A. Tulupov, V.B. Berikov

“…Two radiology experts manually segmented images independently and then verified the labeling results for inconsistencies. The quantitative results of the proposed algorithm and obtained segmentation were measured by the Dice similarity coefficient, sensitivity, specificity and precision metrics. …”
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Impact of Domain Knowledge and Multi-Modality on Intelligent Molecular Property Prediction: A Systematic Survey by Taojie Kuang, Pengfei Liu, Zhixiang Ren

“…To explore these matters, we comprehensively review and quantitatively analyze recent deep learning methods based on various benchmarks. …”
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Synaptic enrichment and dynamic regulation of the two opposing dopamine receptors within the same neurons by Shun Hiramatsu, Kokoro Saito, Shu Kondo, Hidetaka Katow, Nobuhiro Yamagata, Chun-Fang Wu, Hiromu Tanimoto

“…We detected dopamine receptors at both presynaptic and postsynaptic sites in multiple cell types. Quantitative analysis revealed enrichment of both receptors at the presynaptic sites, with Dop2R showing a greater degree of localization than Dop1R1. …”
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Rapid iPSC-derived neuromuscular junction model uncovers motor neuron dominance in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cytopathy by Hsiao-Chien Ting, Yun-Ting Guo, Hong-Lin Su, Yu-Shuan Chen, Shinn-Zong Lin, Horng-Jyh Harn, Chia-Yu Chang

“…Using this model, we investigated amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and replicated ALS-specific NMJ cytopathies with SOD1 mutant and corrected isogenic iPSC lines. Quantitative analysis of 3D confocal microscopy images revealed a critical role of MNs in initiating ALS-related NMJ cytopathies, characterized by alterations in the volume, number, intensity, and distribution of acetylcholine receptors, ultimately leading to impaired muscle contractions. …”
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Defects of CTLA-4 Are Associated with Regulatory T Cells in Myasthenia Gravis Implicated by Intravenous Immunoglobulin Therapy by Wenhua Xu, Mingshan Ren, Swagata Ghosh, Kai Qian, Zhaofeng Luo, Aimei Zhang, Cuiping Zhang, Jiajun Cui

“…The dynamic profiling during the IVIg therapy course further revealed an inverse relationship between the frequency of CTLA-4+ Treg and the quantitative MG (QMG) score that represents disease severity. …”
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Optimal Molecular Methods in Detecting p190BCR-ABL Fusion Variants in Hematologic Malignancies: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Rebecca J. Sonu, Brian A. Jonas, Denis M. Dwyre, Jeffrey P. Gregg, Hooman H. Rashidi

“…We report a case of a 76-year-old male with a new diagnosis of B-ALL who was initially found to be BCR-ABL1 negative by quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR). A concurrent qualitative PCR was performed which detected a positive BCR-ABL1 result that was confirmed by a next generation sequencing (NGS) based assay and identified as the rare fusion variant e1a3 of p190BCR-ABL. …”
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Identifying the Banking Challenges of Qard-Al-Hasan and Providing Solutions (Case Study of Qard-Al-Hasan Resalat Bank) by Mohammad Tohidi, Hossein Mofidikia, Milad Ansari

“…This research, using a mixed explanatory approach, believes that in the first stage, with a quantitative method, it will extract the case study strategy and the trend analysis of various data of the financial statements of Qard-Al-Hasan Resalat Bank in a period of 8 years. …”
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Morphological diversity variation of seed traits among 587 germplasm resources of Medicago Genus and 32 germplasm resources of Trigonella Genus by Bingcheng Han, Xueming Dong, Mingyu Li, Zhaoming Wang, Congcong Shi, Qiang Zhou, Zhipeng Liu, Longfeng Yan

“…A statistical analysis was conducted on twelve traits, including seven quantitative traits-straight length (SL), straight width (SW), width-to-length ratio (WL), perimeter (PE), radicle length (RL), hilum length (HL), and 100-seed weight (SY)-and five qualitative traits, including seed coat condition, radicle characteristics, seed size, shape, and color. …”
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Evaluation of the Effects of STZ-Induced Diabetes on In Vitro Fertilization and Early Embryogenesis Processes by Hüseyin Aktuğ, Vildan Bozok Çetintaş, Ayşegül Uysal, Fatih Oltulu, Altuğ Yavaşoğlu, Saadet Özen Akarca, Buket Kosova

“…After reaching the early blastocyst stage, the expressions of genes encoding gap junction proteins and cell adhesion molecules were analyzed by quantitative RT-PCR. Histomorphologically and immunohistochemically analyses were also performed. …”
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On the Stability of Graphene-Based Aqueous Dispersions and Their Performance in Cement Mortar by Teresa Gerace, Sebastiano Candamano, Simone Bartucci, Carlo Poselle Bonaventura, Alfonso Policicchio, Raffaele Giuseppe Agostino, Milena Marroccoli, Antonio Telesca, Mariano Davoli, Andrea Scarcello, Lorenzo S. Caputi, Daniela Pacilè

“…Their exfoliation was analyzed using Raman spectroscopy, and the stability of the dispersions was quantitatively investigated by means of the static multiple light scattering (SMLS) technique. …”
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Brittleness evaluation of main coal seams in Permian Taiyuan-Shanxi formations, Baode block, Ordos Basin: based on a convolutional neural network method by Qingfeng ZHANG, Ziling LI, Jikun ZHANG, Shuai HAO, Xiaoguang SUN, Yanjie SHANG, Yun ZUO

“…Based on this method, rock mechanical profiles were further established, enabling quantitative evaluation of brittleness. The results indicated that CNN-based predictions of rock mechanical parameters had good applicability for coal-bearing layers. …”
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