Cadmium and lead ions interaction: A model for assessing combined heavy metal contamination in soils for food safety risk evaluation by Meng Kou, Zirui Wang, Mingxia Wang, Marc F. Benedetti, Marcelo J. Avena, Linchuan Fang, Wenfeng Tan

“…The effect of Pb(II) stress on wheat BCFCd was quantitatively analyzed by the maximum and minimum enrichment coefficients (Kmax and Kmin). …”
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A comparative study on trajectory tracking control methods for automated vehicles by Dequan Zeng, Shicong Pan, Yinquan Yu, Yiming Hu, Jinwen Yang, Peizhi Zhang, Lu Xiong, Giuseppe Carbone, Letian Gao

“…Furthermore, the efficacy of the three proposed controllers, along with their advantages, disadvantages, and applications, is assessed by designing three distinct road surface adhesion coefficients for the double lane change test, and the circular path test under medium-low adhesion conditions. …”
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Determination of Six Eugenol Residues in Aquatic Products by Gas Chromatography-Orbitrap Mass Spectrometry by Yunxia Huang, Qiang Li, Yali Zhang, Zhijuan Meng, Xiaoxuan Yuan, Sufang Fan, Yan Zhang

“…The results showed the linear relationships for six eugenols were good in the range of 0.001–0.1 μg/mL, and the correlation coefficients (R2) were above 0.9950. The limits of detection (LODs) were 2–10 μg/kg, and the limits of quantitation (LOQs) were 5–20 μg/kg. …”
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Identifying Strong Connectivity in Urban Road Networks Considering Traffic Constraints: An Analysis of Road Networks With Different Patterns by Ruru Xing, ZePeng Yang, Xinghua Zhang, Yiwen Liang, Tao Yang, Fei Wang

“…Firstly, the node steering coefficients are used to describe the no-traffic constraints of turning lanes, and the connectivity evaluation indexes are constructed based on the number of strongly connected effective paths and the shortest paths of strongly connected paths. …”
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Low climate-patterned temperature and cardiovascular disease: Worldwide trends and implications for public health policy by Wenpeng You, Jacob Sevastidis, Frank Donnelly

“…Background: Short-term cold spells and heat events are commonly considered risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). This study quantitatively examined the effects of country-specific ''climate-patterned temperature'' (TMP), measured as long-term mean temperature, on global CVD incidence. …”
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Sound-Based Unsupervised Fault Diagnosis of Industrial Equipment Considering Environmental Noise by Jeong-Geun Lee, Kwang Sik Kim, Jang Hyun Lee

“…To achieve this, statistical features of Mel frequency cepstral coefficients were extracted, generating features applicable regardless of signal length. …”
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Correlation between Microbial Diversity and Major Volatile Aroma Compounds during Spontaneous Fermentation of Pinot Noir Wine at Industrial Scale by ZHANG Mengqi, JIA Qiqian, LIANG Qishan, HAO Nan, MA Yuwen, WANG Jing

“…High-throughput sequencing was used to monitor the succession of the indigenous microbial community during the fermentation process, and volatile compounds were qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed by headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) coupled with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). …”
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Muographic Image Upsampling with Machine Learning for Built Infrastructure Applications by William O’Donnell, David Mahon, Guangliang Yang, Simon Gardner

“…A second cWGAN-GP model, trained for semantic segmentation, was developed to quantitatively assess the upsampling model’s impact on each of the features within the concrete samples. …”
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Comparison of Common Methods of Extraction and Rotation in Exploratory Factor Analysis to Validate the Addiction Potential Questionnaire of 12-18-Year-Old Iranian Children by Aboubakr Jafarnezhad, Haleh Ghaem Maralani, Ali Sahraian, Jafar Hassanzadeh

“…The face and content validity (both quantitatively and qualitatively) as well as reliability (using Cronbach's alpha) were assessed and confirmed. …”
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Predicting the Nonunion of the Acute Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fracture Following Low‐Energy Injuries by Quantifying Vertebral Marrow Fat Fraction on T2‐Weighted Dixon Seq... by Pengguo Gou, Rui Wang, Zhihui Zhao, Yunguo Wang, Yuan Xue

“…Interclass correlation coefficients (ICC) were analyzed to assess the repeatability of MFF measurement. …”
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Development and User Experience Evaluation of an Experience Sampling-Based Dietary Assessment Method by Joke Verbeke, Christophe Matthys

“…ESDAM is unique in assessing dietary intake quantitatively through ESM. Additional assessment of validity might shed light on the data accuracy of ESDAM.…”
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Changes to serum sample tube and processing methodology does not cause Intra-Individual [corrected] variation in automated whole serum N-glycan profiling in health and disease. by Nicholas T Ventham, Richard A Gardner, Nicholas A Kennedy, Archana Shubhakar, Rahul Kalla, Elaine R Nimmo, IBD-BIOM Consortium, Daryl L Fernandes, Jack Satsangi, Daniel I R Spencer

“…Data were analysed quantitatively by pairwise correlation and hierarchical clustering using the area under each chromatogram peak. …”
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Development and Validation of a High-Performance Liquid Chromatography-Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Method for the Simultaneous Determination of Arsenic and Mercury... by Chenyang Zheng, Jun Tang, Xiaodong Pan, Haitao Shen, Zhengyan Hu, Jingshun Zhang, Luxuan Wang, Pinggu Wu, Ying Tan

“…Calibration curves for four arsenic species and three mercury species exhibited strong linearity within the range of 1–20 μg L⁻¹, with correlation coefficients (r) above 0.999. The limits of detection (LOD) ranged from 0.030 to 0.086 μg L⁻¹, while the limits of quantitation (LOQ) were observed to range from 0.10 to 0.29 μg L⁻¹. …”
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Benchmarking Analysis of Railway Infrastructure Managers: A Hybrid Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Grey Best–Worst Method (G-BWM), and Assurance Region Data Envelopment Analysi... by Snežana Tadić, Aida Kalem, Mladen Krstić, Nermin Čabrić, Adisa Medić, Miloš Veljović

“…The results highlight key efficiency factors and offer guidance for targeted improvements, reinforcing benchmarking as a valuable tool for long-term railway infrastructure management and investment planning. By offering a quantitatively grounded efficiency assessment, this model contributes to the competitiveness and sustainability of railway networks across Europe.…”
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Development and validation of an LC-MS/MS method for the simultaneous estimation of tadalafil and macitentan in rat plasma: Greenness assessment and design of experiment approach by Sravanthi Gandu, Kumaraswamy Gandla, Lalitha Repudi

“…The method adhered to regulatory validation guidelines, linearity was observed over a concentration range of 20 to 400 ng/mL for tadalafil and 5 to 100 ng/ml for macitentan, yielding correlation coefficients of 0.9997 and 0.9998, respectively, with limits of quantitation (LOQs) of 19.10 ng/mL for tadalafil and 4.21 ng/mL for macitentan. …”
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Arrival time mapping with 15O-gas PET for cerebrovascular steno-occlusive diseases: a comparative study with CT perfusion by Masanobu Ibaraki, Yuki Shinohara, Aya Watanabe, Kaoru Sato, Tomomi Ohmura, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Toshibumi Kinoshita

“…Region-of-interest analyses showed good correlations between the two modalities: correlation coefficients of 0.834 for absolute values and 0.718 for ipsilateral-to-contralateral differences, respectively, indicating that 15O-gas PET can quantitatively measure the arrival time with reasonable accuracy. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Generative Artificial Intelligence Systems in Solving Clinical Pharmacy Problems: Mixed Methods Study by Lulu Li, Pengqiang Du, Xiaojing Huang, Hongwei Zhao, Ming Ni, Meng Yan, Aifeng Wang

“…Statistical analysis used one-way ANOVA with Tukey Honestly Significant Difference (HSD) post hoc testing and intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) for interrater reliability (2-way random model). …”
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Development of the scale on the effects of sleep disorder on stress: validity and reliability study by Arzu Karakaya, Guzel Nur Yıldız, Nuray Şimşek

“…The overall reliability coefficients of the scale were found to be α = 0.964 and ω = 0.961. …”
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High-Throughput Determination of Multiclass Chemical Hazards in Poultry Muscles and Eggs Using UPLC–MS/MS by Rong Chen, Lan Chen, Mingyue Du, Qiaozhen Guo, Ciping Zhong, Jing Zhang, Xiaoqin Yu

“…Internal standard calibration or matrix-matched calibration was used for the quantitation. The results showed that good linearity was achieved for each target compound with correlation coefficients (R²) ≥ 0.99. …”
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Simultaneous and Rapid Determination of Six Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in Patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Using HPLC-MS/MS by Yanping Liu, Hua Liu, Zhewei Xia, Zhipeng Wang, Yunlei Yun, Guanying Zhang, Lifeng Huang, Shouhong Gao, Wansheng Chen

“…To develop a new method for quantitatively analyzing six tyrosine kinase inhibitors (gefitinib, erlotinib, icotinib, afatinib, osimertinib, and crizotinib) used in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). …”
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