Potential application areas and benefits of blockchain-enabled smart contracts adoption in infrastructure Public-private partnership (PPP) projects by Emmanuel Chidiebere Eze, Ernest Effah Ameyaw

“…While studies on the adoption of blockchain and smart contracts in PPP are still growing, a quantitative survey of global experts on the application areas and potential benefits of Blockchain-enabled smart contracts (BSC) in the context of PPP is lacking. …”
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Impact of Childhood Cancer on Family Functioning and Family Quality of Life in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia by Tagwa Yousif Omer

“…Methods. This study was a quantitative, randomized, cross-sectional study. 187 participants were randomly selected from the population of parents whose children have cancer and treated at Princess Noorah Oncology Center in King Abdulaziz Medical City, Jeddah. …”
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Vestibular stimulation and space-time interaction affect the perception of time during whole-body rotations. by Deborah Cecilia Navarro Morales, Alexis Laplanche, Olga Kuldavletova, Bithja Cantave, Adéla Kola, Thomas Fréret, Gaëlle Quarck, Gilles Clément, Pierre Denise

“…Unlike emotions, the intensity of vestibular stimulation can be easily and precisely modified, making it possible to study the quantitative relationship between stimulation and its effect on time perception. …”
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Development of Downscaled Climate Projections: A Case Study of the Red River Basin, South-Central U.S. by Darrian Bertrand, Renee A. McPherson

“…The dataset was created using two quantile mapping techniques to downscale the CCSM4, MPI-ESM-LR, and MIROC5 model outputs to a 0.1-degree spatial resolution. …”
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Fitting Tips and Visual Rehabilitation of Irregular Cornea with a New Design of Corneoscleral Contact Lens: Objective and Subjective Evaluation by Waleed Ali Abou Samra, Amani E. Badawi, Hanem Kishk, Ayman Abd El ghafar, Mohamed M. Elwan, Hossam Youssef Abouelkheir

“…Rose K2 XL lenses provide patients with irregular cornea with both quantitative and qualitative optimal visual function with high degree of patient comfort and satisfaction.…”
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A scoping review protocol on brain PaCO2 levels at altitude. by Hanna Tang, Laurel Charlesworth, Manoj Lalu, Brian Dewar, Risa Shorr, Dariush Dowlatshahi

“…Two independent investigators will perform duplicate title and abstract screening and full-text review, followed by duplicate data extraction. We will present quantitative data using descriptive statistics. Key textual information will be synthesized in a tabular format Simple statistics on the frequency of papers, data will be presented via histogram.…”
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Regulatory Role of the RUNX2 Transcription Factor in Lung Cancer Apoptosis by Camila Bernal, Andrea Otalora, Alejandra Cañas, Alfonso Barreto, Karol Prieto, Martin Montecino, Adriana Rojas

“…Loss-of-function assays using sh-RNA from lentiviral particles and coupled with Annexin/propidium iodide (PI) assays (flow cytometry), immunofluorescence, and quantitative PCR analysis of genes related to cell apoptosis (BAD, BAX, BCL2, BCL-XL, and MCL1) were performed. …”
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Detection, Risk Assessment, and Survey of Four Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Markers in Infant Formula Powder by Chenggang Cai, Pinggu Wu, Pingping Zhou, Dajin Yang, Zhengyan Hu

“…In a controlled spike test, the average recovery rates of PAH4 were 77.3% to 111.8% and the relative standard deviations were 4.8% to 14.2% (n = 6). The quantitative limit (LOQ) and detection limit (LOD) of the method were 0.5 and 0.1 μg·kg−1, respectively. …”
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The Patients whit neurotic disorders in time of Covid19. An experience of work psicogroup of WhatsApp by Juana B. Martínez Sosa, Anays González Guerra, Giselle Carreño Martínez, Marianela Fonseca Fernández, Bárbara Caridad Calderín Quiñones, Idalmis Luisa Martínez Serrano

“…<br /><strong>Methods:</strong> quantitative-qualitative, descriptive and cross-sectional study, carried out in the period April-August 2020. 28 people who gave consent to participate and had technological resources were included: 22 patients belonging to the Cienfuegos Psychiatric Hospital and 6 relatives. …”
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CRIP1 inhibits cutaneous melanoma progression through TFAM-mediated mitochondrial biogenesis by Jianqiang Wu, Lixia Chen, Peijun Wen

“…Bioinformatic prediction of CRIP1 expression in melanoma and its association with clinical parameters and prognosis of patients. Real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) and Western blots (WB) were used to detect stable overexpression and knockdown of CRIP1 in melanoma cells. …”
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Examination of the attitudes of prospective teachers toward the history of Turkish education course according to different variables by Dilsat Peker Ünal, Mehmet Sağlam, Berkay Kılıç

“…The correlational method, which is a quantitative research method, was used in the study. …”
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Biofilm Formation and blaOXA Genes Detection Among Acinetobacter baumannii from Clinical Isolates in a Tertiary Care Kirtipur Hospital, Nepal by Upasana Ghimire, Rupesh Kandel, Mary Neupane, Sanjit Shrestha, Sudeep K C, Santosh Khanal, Dev Raj Joshi

“…The biofilm production was determined by a quantitative adherence assay. The antimicrobial susceptibility test was carried out by the Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion method, carbapenemase production detection was confirmed by Modified Hodge Test, and target resistant genes were detected by polymerase chain reaction. (3) Results: Out of 90 clinical specimens, 64.44% (58/90) showed bacterial growth, whereas 32.75% (19/58) isolates were identified as A. baumannii. …”
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Supply risk propagation in international trade networks of the tungsten industry chain by Xinxin Zheng, Huajiao Li, Xiaojie Liu, Xingxing Wang, Yuqi Zhang, Qianyong Tang, Bo Ren

“…The existing studies have focused on modeling supply risk in the upstream mineral trade and lack a quantitative analysis of supply risk propagation in tungsten product trade networks from an industry chain perspective. …”
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Morphological analysis of lacrimal punctum using anterior segment optical coherence tomography in different age groups by Hasan Naz, Shruthi Tara, Jagadeesh K Reddy, V Rajesh Prabu, Mithun Thulasidas

“…Age-related correlations were found in the punctal quantitative parameters.…”
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Assessment of Right Ventricle Function in Patients with Mitral Repair: Case Series by Yannis Amador, Jacobo Moreno Garijo, Azad Mashari, Giovanni Gadotti, Wilma M. Hopman, Tirone E David, Massimiliano Meineri

“…Participants: Thirty elective patients undergoing mitral valve repair. Interventions: Quantitative assessment of right ventricular function using transesophageal echocardiography images pre- and post-mitral valve repair, including right ventricular longitudinal strain, fractional area change, tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion, and systolic peak velocity (S’). …”
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Integrated TWAS, GWAS, and RNAseq results identify candidate genes associated with reproductive traits in cows by Sevda Hosseinzadeh, Seyed Abbas Rafat, Lingzhao Fang

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How much can we save by applying artificial intelligence in evidence synthesis? Results from a pragmatic review to quantify workload efficiencies and cost savings by Seye Abogunrin, Jeffrey M. Muir, Clarissa Zerbini, Grammati Sarri

“…This review explored and quantified the potential efficiency benefits of using automated tools as part of core evidence synthesis activities compared with human-led methods.MethodsWe searched the MEDLINE and Embase databases for English-language articles published between 2012 and 14 November 2023, and hand-searched the ISPOR presentations database (2020–2023) for articles presenting quantitative results on workload efficiency in systematic literature reviews (SLR) when AI automation tools were utilized. …”
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Building support for children and families affected by stroke (BUILD CARE): Study protocol. by Maja Kevdzija, Lisa Bartha-Doering, Ruth Heying, Ann Heylighen, Andrea Jelić, Pleuntje Jellema, Anna Franziska Kalhorn, Sophie Mandl, Gesine Marquardt, Birgit Moser, Magdalena Muszynska-Spielauer, Els Ortibus, Anna-Theresa Renner, Anne-Sophie Schoß, Piet Tutenel

“…A multi-method approach is adopted, including qualitative (in-depth interviews and participatory creative methods) and quantitative (online questionnaire and cognitive assessments) research methods. …”
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Preclinical Evaluation of a Bone-Marrow Autograft Culture Procedure for Generating Lymphokine-Activated Killer Cells in Vitro by Hans-Georg Klingemann, Heather Deal, Dianne Reid, Connie J Eaves

“…Primitive hematopoietic cells were quantitated by measuring the number of in vitro colony-forming progenitors produced after five weeks in secondary Dexter-type LTC. …”
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MODELING OF POWER SYSTEMS AND TESTING OF RELAY PROTECTION DEVICES IN REAL AND MODEL TIME by I. V. Novash

“…Examples are given of the use of RTDS systems by foreign energy companies to test relay protection systems and control, to test the equipment and devices of automatic control, analysis of cyber security and evaluation of the operation of energy systems under different scenarios of occurrence of emergency situations. Some quantitative data on the distribution of RTDS in different countries and Russia are presented. …”
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