Work During Non-Work Time of Public Employees by Špela Mar, Danijela Sokolić, Jernej Buzeti

“…The collected literature is relevant as it encompasses both quantitative and qualitative analyses to gather insights on performing work during non-work time. …”
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Assessing the Return Periods and Hydroclimatic Parameters for Rainwater Drainage in the Coastal City of Cotonou in Benin under Climate Variability by Djigbo Félicien Badou, José Hounkanrin, Jean Hounkpè, Luc Ollivier Sintondji, Agnidé Emmanuel Lawin

“…The Talbot model produced the lowest mean square errors for each quantile series and coefficients of determination closest to one, indicating that the parameters obtained from this model are well suited for designing hydraulic structures in Cotonou. …”
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Spiritual intelligence: a scoping review on the gateway to mental health by Cristina Teixeira Pinto, Lúcia Guedes, Sara Pinto, Rui Nunes

“…To comprehensively map and analyze current knowledge on SI and understand its impact on mental health and human interactions, we conducted a scoping review following the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology, searching for ‘spiritual intelligence’ across PubMedCentral, Scopus, WebOfScience, and PsycInfo. Quantitative studies using validated SI instruments and reproducible methodologies, published up to 1 January 2022, were included. …”
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Corneal Epithelial Thickness Mapping: A Major Review by Mohammad-Ali Abtahi, Amir Hushang Beheshtnejad, Golshan Latifi, Marjan Akbari-Kamrani, Sadegh Ghafarian, Ahmad Masoomi, Seyed Ali Sonbolastan, Hamidreaza Jahanbani-Ardakani, Mehrnaz Atighechian, Laleh Banan, Hosein Nouri, Seyed-Hossein Abtahi

“…The corneal epithelium (CE) is the outermost layer of the cornea with constant turnover, relative stability, remarkable plasticity, and compensatory properties to mask alterations in the underlying stroma. The advent of quantitative imaging modalities capable of producing epithelial thickness mapping (ETM) has made it possible to characterize better the different patterns of epithelial remodeling. …”
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Investigating the Disproportionate Impacts of Air Pollution on Vulnerable Populations in South Africa: A Systematic Review by Claudia Frazenburg, Maasago Mercy Sepadi, Munyaradzi Chitakira

“…<b>Methods:</b> The review followed the PRISMA guidelines and analyzed quantitative studies conducted in South Africa, which were published between 2014 and 2024. …”
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Feasibility of Using High-Resolution Computed Tomography Features for Invasiveness Differentiation of Malignant Nodules Manifesting as Ground-Glass Nodules by Xinyue Chen, Benbo Yao, Juan Li, Chunxiao Liang, Rui Qi, Jianqun Yu

“…The combined model showed the best differentiation performance (area under the curve (AUC), training set = 0.89, and testing set = 0.92). The quantitative texture model showed better performance (AUC, training set = 0.87, and testing set = 0.91) than the semantic model (AUC, training set = 0.83, and testing set = 0.79). …”
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Ventricular Depolarization Abnormalities and Their Role in Cardiac Risk Stratification — A Narrative Review by Maarten Blondeel, Tomas Robyns, Rik Willems, Bert Vandenberk

“…This includes QRS alterations directly corresponding to cardiac conditions, such as bundle branch blocks, or the presence of a delta wave, and also metrics aiming to qualitatively or quantitatively assess myocardial scarring, such as QRS (micro)fragmentation and QRS-scoring, and techniques assessing abnormal late depolarizations, such as signal-averaged ECG. …”
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NDEExplorer: Visual Analytics for Exploring Damage Modes via Multimodal Data in the Non-Destructive Examination of Composite Materials by Dongliang Guo, Lisha Zhou, Xingfa Luo

“…To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method, we conduct a case study using two modal datasets from the same composite material damage scenario and carry out qualitative interviews with professionals and graduate students in the field. Finally, the quantitative feedback from a user study confirms the usefulness of our visual system for the multimodal analysis of material damage datasets.…”
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Dynamic interplay of autophagy and membrane repair during Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection. by Jacques Augenstreich, Anna T Phan, Charles N S Allen, Anushka Poddar, Hanzhang Chen, Lalitha Srinivasan, Volker Briken

“…We employed time-lapse confocal microscopy to investigate the recruitment of LC3B (LC3), a key autophagy marker, to MCVs at the single cell level with our newly developed workflow for single cell and single MCV tracking and fluorescence quantification. We show that approximately 70% of MCVs exhibited LC3 recruitment but that was lost in about 40% of those MCVs. …”
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THE ROLE OF TRADITIONAL POLITICAL LEADERS IN THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT OF ISANLU KINGDOM UNDER OBA IBRAHIM AGBANA AGIE, 1935 - 1971 by Ayorinde Emmanuel Moses

“…Agie in the political leadership of Isanlu • Analyse his roles in the village reorganisation of Isanlu Kingdom • Assess the relationship between the old villages and the new ones with the attendant problems • Interrogate the new layout villages of Isanlu kingdom and • Investigate the attendant problems associated with urban development in Isanlu kingdom The study adopted quantitative approach in analysing data gathered from Primary and Secondary sources of historical methods. …”
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Exploratory Factor Analysis on the Talent Development Environment Questionnaire (TDEQ-5) for Basketball in Indonesia by Kukuh Hardopo Putro, Suharjana Suharjana, Agus Susworo Dwi Marhaendro, Fauzi Fauzi, Danang Wicaksono, Subagyo Irianto, Trisnar Adi Prabowo

“…Materials and methods. A quantitative approach was employed, using the Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) method and Cronbach’s Alpha test to determine the reliability of the instrument. …”
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Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts of Charcoal Production Activities of Rural Households in Mecha District, Ethiopia by Kassahun Tassie, Berihun Misganaw, Solomon Addisu, Ermias Tesfaye

“…The amount of greenhouse gas emissions from charcoal production was analyzed based on the Intergovernmental Panel on climate change quantification techniques, and the impact of charcoal production on households’ income was analyzed using propensity score matching. …”
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Partial Volume Reduction by Interpolation with Reverse Diffusion

“…Corrected images were remarkably closer both visually and quantitatively to the original images than those obtained from common interpolation methods: on simulated data standard deviation of the errors were <mml:math alttext="$3.8{\%}$"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mn>3.8</mml:mn><mml:mi>&#x0025;</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> </mml:math>, <mml:math alttext="$6.6{\%}$"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mn>6.6</mml:mn><mml:mi>&#x0025;</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> </mml:math>, and <mml:math alttext="$7.1{\%}$"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mn>7.1</mml:mn><mml:mi>&#x0025;</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> of the dynamic range for the proposed method, bicubic, and bilinear interpolation, respectively. …”
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Identification and Validation of a Potential Stemness-Associated Biomarker in Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Yangyang Zhang, Ruike Zhang, Lingxiu Zeng, Haizhou Wang, Ruyi Peng, Meng Zhang, Hailin Zhang, Zhenwei Yang, Liping Gao, Meng Wang, Jing Liu

“…Even more importantly, we used the three-dimensional (3D) fibrin gel to enrich the tumor-repopulating cells (TRCs) to validate the expression of the signature in CSCs by quantitative RT-PCR. Results. mRNAsi was significantly elevated in tumor and high-mRNAsi score was associated with poor overall survival in HCC. …”
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CHALLENGES OF LOCALIZATION OF THE POLICY FRAMEWORK AND NATIONAL ACTION PLAN FOR PREVENTING VIOLENT EXTREMISM IN PLATEAU STATE, NIGERIA by BEJI GOWAL BEKUMA, JOHN UKAWUILULU

“…Simple descriptive statistics presented in tables using frequency and percentages were used to analyse the quantitative data collected in the study. While, in-depth interview summaries were used to analyse the qualitative data. …”
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Cultural Science Meets Cultural Data Analytics by Ibrus Indrek, Schich Maximilian, Tamm Marek

“…To achieve this, it is vital to first transcend the artificial division of cultural inquiry into the qualitative analysis of idiographic phenomena and the quantification of nomothetic phenomena. It is furthermore important to surpass the dichotomy of specific versus general as research objects; for example replacing this with the notion of the semiosphere as a research object, defined as the ‘smallest’ functioning element of culture by Juri Lotman. …”
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Decoupled level and flow rate control of a two-tank system in beverage production: A comparative analysis of Fuzzy-PID and GA-PID for minimum time operation. by Tamiru Demelash Kassie, Mebratu Sintie Geremew, Kassahun Ashagrie Chanie

“…As the simulation result ensured, the GA-PID controller is the used for the specified system which is based on the transient and steady-state specifications. Quantitatively; the GA-PID controller has 39.167ms rise time, 8.50sec settling time, and -0.393% overshoot; whereas FLC-PID has 118.101ms rise time, 8.65sec settling time, and -0.033% overshoot. …”
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A GA-BP neural network algorithm for fault detection of transmission tower bolts by Ziqiang Lu, Pengjie He, Huiwei Liu, Jie Li, Ziying Lu

“…The feasibility of this algorithm was evaluated through the quantitative analysis of different damage degrees.ResultThe results are as follows: 1) except for the average accuracy rate of substructure 7, which is 89.74%, the identification accuracy of other substructures is more than 90%, indicating that the GA-BP neural network algorithm is effective in identifying the single-damage degree of the tower bolt loosening in the main material; 2) the identification accuracy of double-damage substructure is also more than 90%, indicating that the GA-BP algorithm is effective in identifying the double-damage degree of the tower bolt loosening in the main material.ConclusionIn summary, it can be concluded that both the single- and double-damage degree conditions exhibit a relatively considerable recognition accuracy. …”
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Identification and Characterization of Phytochemicals in Avocado (Persea americana Mill, var. Hass) Fruit at Different Maturation and Ripening Stages by Elhadi M. Yahia, Gustavo Adolfo González-Aguilar, José de Jesús Ornelas-Paz, Ivan Luzardo-Ocampo

“…This research was aimed to identify and quantify several phytochemicals in ‘Hass’ avocado fruit at different maturation and ripening stages considering their dry matter values (∼20% to over 38%), corresponding to 10.99% and 26.23% oil content, as objective and quantitative parameters of avocado maturation and ripening. …”
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Bidirectional Collaborative Optimization Scheduling of Adjustable Resources in Computing Node and Power Node by ZHOU Qianyufan, YANG Ping, WAN Siyang, CUI Jiayan, LI Fengneng, WEI Zhichu

“…This study constructs a bidirectional collaborative scheduling architecture for adjustable resources in computing and power nodes， and quantitatively models the diverse adjustable resources within them. …”
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