Development of a lung perfusion automated quantitative model based on dual-energy CT pulmonary angiography in patients with chronic pulmonary thromboembolism by Linfeng Xi, Jianping Wang, Anqi Liu, Yifei Ni, Jie Du, Qiang Huang, Yishan Li, Jing Wen, Hongyi Wang, Shuai Zhang, Yunxia Zhang, Zhu Zhang, Dingyi Wang, Wanmu Xie, Qian Gao, Yong Cheng, Zhenguo Zhai, Min Liu

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Relative Validity and Reproducibility of a Quantitative Food Frequency Questionnaire for Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes: Validity of a Food Frequency Questionnaire by Rosana de Moraes Borges Marques, Amanda Cristine de Oliveira, Sheylle Almeida da Silva Teles, Maria Luiza Ferreira Stringuini, Nélida Shimid Fornés, Giulliano Gardenghi

“…Statistical analysis included performing t-tests, obtaining Pearson correlation coefficients when necessary, correcting measurements for randomness by the weighted kappa method, calculating intraclass correlation coefficients, and generating Bland-Altman plots (P<0,05). …”
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3D-Printed Organ-Realistic Phantoms to Verify Quantitative SPECT/CT Accuracy for 177Lu-PSMA-617 Treatment Planning by Lydia J. Wilson, Sara Belko, Eric Gingold, Shuying Wan, Rachel Monane, Robert Pugliese, Firas Mourtada

“…MIM SurePlan MRT SPECTRA Quant software (v7.1.2) reconstructed the acquired SPECT projections into a quantitative SPECT image and we evaluated the accuracy by region-based comparison to the known injected radioactivities and determined recovery coefficients for each organ phantom. …”
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A Practical Method for Determination of Nine Nucleosides in Tricholoma matsutake by UPLC/MS and Quantitative Analysis of Multicomponents Using Single Marker Method by Li Yong, An-Qin Leng, Zhi-Xiang Yang, Ying Xue

“…This method was validated to be sensitive, precise, and accurate with the LODs of 0.31–1.9 ng, the overall intraday and interday variations less than 4.08%, and the overall recovery over 89.0%. The correlation coefficients (r2) of the calibration curves were higher than 0.9918. …”
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Application of Portable Near-Infrared Spectroscopy for Quantitative Prediction of Protein Content in <i>Torreya grandis</i> Kernels Under Different States by Yuqi Gu, Haosheng Zhong, Jianhua Wu, Kaixuan Li, Yu Huang, Huimin Fang, Muhammad Hassan, Lijian Yao, Chao Zhao

“…This study explores the feasibility of using portable near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) for the quantitative prediction of protein content in <i>Torreya grandis</i> (<i>T. grandis</i>) kernels by comparing different sample states (with shell, without shell, and granules). …”
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Fine mapping of qRC10-2, a quantitative trait locus for cold tolerance of rice roots at seedling and mature stages. by Ning Xiao, Wei-Nan Huang, Xiao-Xiang Zhang, Yong Gao, Ai-Hong Li, Yi Dai, Ling Yu, Guang-Qing Liu, Cun-Hong Pan, Yu-Hong Li, Zheng-Yuan Dai, Jian-Min Chen

“…In this study, root conductivity (RC) was used as an indicator to map quantitative trait loci (QTLs) of cold tolerance in Oryza rufipogon Griff., Dongxiang wild rice (DX), at its two-leaf stage. …”
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Firm Size, Profitability, and Leverage On Earnings Response Coefficient (ERC) (An Empirical Study of Manufacturing Companies Listed on the In... by Noer Sasongko, Ragil Kuning Puspawati, Kusuma Wijayanto

“…This study aims to examine the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR), firm size, profitability, and leverage on the earnings response coefficient (ERC). The type of this research was quantitative. …”
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Evaluation of carotid artery elasticity and its influencing factors in non-obese PCOS patients using a technique for quantitative vascular elasticity measurement by Yanli Hu, Yanli Hu, Yanli Hu, Bo Chen, Yingzheng Pan, Yingzheng Pan, Kewei Xing, Kewei Xing, Zhibo Xiao, Bo Sheng, Jia Li, Hongmei Dong, Hongmei Dong, Furong Lv

“…The carotid elastic stiffness coefficient was positively correlated with WHR, TT, SHBG, FAI, FINS, HOMA-IR and Hcy to varying extents and negatively correlated with SHBG.ConclusionIn non-obese PCOS patients with no metabolic or cardiovascular disease, the carotid stiffness coefficient was increased and correlated with indicators of hyperandrogenism, insulin resistance, and hyperhomocysteinemia.…”
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Variability and correlations of economically valuable traits in cowpea from the VIR collection in the environments of Astrakhan provincer by M. V. Gurkina

“…The widest ranges of variability were demonstrated in the quantitative yield characters of cowpea accessions: number of pods per plant (CV = 33‑49%), number of flower stalks (CV = 38‑51%), and seed weight per plant (CV = 38‑44%), which means that cowpea yield is quite susceptible to weather conditions. …”
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Transition to Green Building Through Retrofitting: Quantitative Analysis of Appropriate Sizing of Lighting, Cooling and Water Consumption Using Parametric Variations in Residential... by Fawad Azeem, Zulfiqar Memon, Abdullah Ammar

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Comparison of Ultrasonography and Cone-beam Computed Tomography for Quantitative Assessment of Midpalatal Suture Opening after Rapid Palatal Expansion: A Pilot Study by Madhanraj Selvaraj, Ritu Duggal, Smita Manchanda, Prabhat Kumar Chaudhari, Ashu Seith Bhalla

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Prospective study on quantitative evaluation of femoral neck bone mineral density using spectral localizer radiograph from photon-counting detector CT by ZHOU Shanshui, QIN Le, CHANG Rui, DU Lianjun, YAN Fuhua, LIU Fangtao

“…Objective To evaluate the performance of spectral localizer radiograph (SLR) acquired by photon-counting detector CT (PCD-CT) for the quantitative assessment of areal bone mineral density (aBMD) in the femoral neck. …”
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Shear Wave Elastography for Parotid Glands: Quantitative Analysis of Shear Elastic Modulus in Relation to Age, Gender, and Internal Architecture in Patients with Oral Cancer by Yuka Tanabe, Ai Shirai, Ichiro Ogura

“…SWE is useful for the quantitative evaluation of the parotid glands.…”
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Quantitatively measuring the cytotoxicity of viscous hydrogels with direct cell sampling in a micro scale format “MicroDrop” and its comparison to CCK8 by Anna Marie Margot, Andreas Engels, Michael Sittinger, Tilo Dehne, Shabnam Hemmati-Sadeghi

“…To address this, we optimized a live/dead staining method for quantitative evaluation and compared it with the conventional CCK8 assay. …”
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Development and Validation of an LC-MS/MS Assay for the Quantitation of MO-OH-Nap Tropolone in Mouse Plasma: Application to In Vitro and In Vivo Pharmacokinetic Studies by Wafaa N. Aldhafiri, Yashpal S. Chhonker, Nusrat Ahmed, Sandeep K. Singh, Staci L. Haney, James B. Ford, Sarah A. Holstein, Daryl J. Murry

“…A rapid, selective, and sensitive liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method was developed and validated for the quantitation of MO-OH-Nap tropolone (MO-OH-Nap) in mouse plasma. …”
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Hybrid imaging in dementia: A semi-quantitative (18F)-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging approach in clinical practice by Ana Franceschi, Kiyon Naser-Tavakolian, Michael Clifton, Osama Ahmed, Katarina Stoffers, Lev Bangiyev, Giuseppe Cruciata, Sean Clouston, Dinko Franceschi

“…NeuroQuant software provided semi-quantitative assessment of lobar-specific patterns of volume loss compared to age-matched controls. …”
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The quadruplex fluorescent quantitative PCR method for the simultaneous detection of respiratory diseases in quail: Pasteurella multocida, Avibacterium paragallinarum, Mycoplasma g... by Haojie Wang, Lihong Xue, Longxi Wang, Yixuan Liu, Jianxing Chen, Yue Sun, Tongqing An, Changwen Li, Hongyan Chen, Changqing Yu, Changyou Xia, He Zhang

“…The assay exhibited excellent reproducibility, with inter- and intra-assay coefficient of variation (CV) values ranging from 0.11 to 1.41%. …”
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Path Analysis and correlation between quantitative traits in cultivated sugar beet germplasms (Beta vulgaris L.), under rhizomania disease conditions in Miandoab by Mousa Arshad, Behzad Ghanbari taghi abad, Hamid Hatami Maleki, Keivan Fotuhi

“…In this study, the correlation coefficients of the infection percentage index had negative and significant relationships with root yield traits, gross sugar percentage, pure sugar percentage, gross sugar yield, pure sugar yield, and the extraction coefficient at the probability level of 1%. …”
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Rapid Identification of <i>Vicatia thibetica</i> de Boiss and Quantitative Analysis of the Content of Six Chemical Components Based on Near-Infrared Spectroscopy by Yunta Zhang, Jian Li, Jin Sun, Tian Xia, Yonglin Hai, Jian Li, Yongcheng Yang, Conglong Xia

“…Additionally, combining partial least squares (PLS) and NIR spectroscopy, the contents of chlorogenic acid, isochlorogenic acid A, isochlorogenic acid C, umbelliferone (7-hydroxycoumarin), senkyunolide I, and ligustilide measured by HPLC-UV were used as reference values to predict the contents of the six chemical components in <i>V. thibetica</i>, and spectral preprocessing methods optimized the model. The correlation coefficients of the final quantitative model for the contents of the six components in <i>V. thibetica</i> were between 0.7852 and 0.9538, the root mean square error of calibration (RMSEC) was between 0.0027 and 0.2530, and the root mean square error of prediction (RMSEP) was between 0.0031 and 0.4240. …”
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Synergistic Imaging: Combined Lung Ultrasound and Low-Dose Chest CT for Quantitative Assessment of COVID-19 Severity—A Prospective Observational Study by Andrzej Górecki, Piotr Piech, Karolina Kołodziejczyk, Ada Jankowska, Zuzanna Szostak, Anna Bronikowska, Bartosz Borowski, Grzegorz Staśkiewicz

“…<b>Background/Objectives:</b> To assess quantitatively the correlation between the lung ultrasound severity scores (LUSSs) and chest CT severity scores (CTSSs) derived from low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) for evaluating pulmonary inflammation in COVID-19 patients. …”
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