News Media Effects on Policy Priorities: A Second-Level Agenda-Setting Analysis of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Projects in Myanmar by Zeyar Oo, Yonghong Dai

“…This study employed a cross-sectional research design, utilizing both quantitative content analysis and survey methodologies. …”
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Engaging Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) for cardiovascular diseases risk screening in Nepal. by Lal B Rawal, Yuewen Sun, Padam K Dahal, Sushil C Baral, Sudeepa Khanal, Abriti Arjyal, Shraddha Manandhar, Abu S Abdullah

“…Kappa statistics and concordance coefficient were used to compare these two sets of risk screening results. …”
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Cost evaluation of cancer care and treatment outside Lesotho: Provider perspective by Maseabata M. Ramathebane, Mopa A. Sooro, Lineo J. Maja, Kabelo Mputsoe, Mulungoa Sello, Motselisi C. Mokhethi

“…The average cost of accommodation coefficient (1.216) showed a positive association, but it was not statistically significant (p = 0.625). …”
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Problematic Internet Usage by Adolescents with Disabilities by I. P. Volkova, N. N. Koroleva, I. M. Bogdanovskaya, G. Yu. Ikonnikova, A. V. Mashkova

“…The study was carried out using empirical methods (questionnaires, psycho-diagnostic methods, survey methods); methods of quantitative analysis of empirical data, including methods of mathematical statistics: comparison of samples by the Mann-Whitney test; correlation analysis using the linear Pearson correlation coefficient. …”
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A Novel Temperature Reconstruction Method for Acoustic Pyrometry Under Strong Temperature Gradients and Limited Measurement Points by Jingkao Tan, Lehang Chen, Na Li, Qulan Zhou, Zhongquan Gao, Jie Zhou

“…This paper first proposed the coefficient of heating effect (<i>C</i>_HE) to quantitatively assess the intrinsic characteristics of the reconstructed temperature field. …”
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The Level of IgG to Coronavirus Infection among the Medical Institution Employees by M. A. Yunusova, E. S. Lutsenko, N. N. Tsapkova, A. Yu. Brazhnikov, T. S. Saltykova, V. S. Yudina

“…Antibodies were examined by ELISA; immunological method for determining IgG (test system – "Vector Best", semi-quantitative analysis). Statistical processing of the study results was carried out using the SPSS-22 statistical software package and the OpenEpiver statistical calculator. 3.Results and discussion. …”
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Estimation of the Extent of Cervical Cancer Using Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Е. V. Tarachkova, E. V. Nikolaev, М. A. Shorikov, V. О. Panov, I. Е. Tyurin

“…The investigators used the following modalities: T2 weighted imaging (T2WI); T2WI with fat signal suppression; diffusion-weighted image (DWI) with apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) mapping; T1WI with dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI).Results. …”
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An Iterative Adaptive Polarization Calibration Method Independent of Corner Reflectors by Bowen Chi, Jixian Zhang, Guoman Huang, Lijun Lu, Shucheng Yang

“…Polarimetric calibration (PolCal) is essential for the quantitative processing of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar data. …”
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Diagnosis of Sleep Apnea Hypopnea Syndrome Using Fusion of Micro-motion Signals from Millimeter-wave Radar and Pulse Wave Data by Xiang ZHAO, Wei WANG, Chenyang LI, Jian GUAN, Gang LI

“…Experimental results of a clinical trial dataset at Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine Affiliated Sixth People’s Hospital demonstrated that the AHI estimated by the proposed approach correlates with the gold standard PSG with a coefficient of 0.93, indicating good consistency. This approach is a promiseing tool for home sleep-breathing monitoring and preliminary diagnosis of SAHS.…”
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Design and Optimization Application of Cut Blasting Parameters for One-Time Completion of Blind Shaft by Yifeng Zhang, Yongsheng Jia, Nan Jiang, Quanming Xie, Lin Yuan, Yongbo Wu, Zehui Xu

“…To optimize blasting parameters, the impact of explosion stress waves and gases on rock fragmentation is quantitatively analyzed using explosion stress wave theory. …”
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The Effect of Cementation on Microstructural Evolution and Particle Characteristics of Calcareous Sand Under Triaxial Loading by Wanying Wang, Jiepeng Huang, Degao Chen, Qingzi Luo, Bingxiang Yuan

“…Results demonstrate that cemented specimens exhibit higher strength–stiffness properties with strain-softening behavior compared to pure sand under 200 kPa confining pressures. A quantitative analysis revealed greater particle breakage in cemented sand, while pure sand showed more pronounced increases in particle sphericity and the aspect ratio during deformation, accompanied by reduced porosity variation along specimen height (coefficient of variation decreased from 15.2% to 12.8% for pure sand. …”
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The Performance qualification of automatic volumetric pipettes used in university hospitals in the DRC: Case of Kinshasa, Bukavu, and Kisangani by Joenna Bapite Musongiela, Jocelyn Mankulu Kakumba, Emile Tweni Baruti, Timothé Mavanga Mabaya, Jacquie Bolavie Bolande, Sara Munguakonkwa Byamungu, Jérémie Mbinze Kindenge

“…Precision was evaluated using the coefficient of variation, while accuracy was determined by comparing the delivered volume to the nominal volume. …”
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Classification of Heart Failure Using Machine Learning: A Comparative Study by Bryan Chulde-Fernández, Denisse Enríquez-Ortega, Cesar Guevara, Paulo Navas, Andrés Tirado-Espín, Paulina Vizcaíno-Imacaña, Fernando Villalba-Meneses, Carolina Cadena-Morejon, Diego Almeida-Galarraga, Patricia Acosta-Vargas

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Psychometric assessment of the persian version of the study anxiety questionnaire in medical sciences students by Seyedmohammad Mirhosseini, Fatemeh Ameri, Hedie Rahmani, Hamid Sharif-Nia, Ghazal Fazel, Mahboobeh Khajeh, Hossein Ebrahimi

“…To determine reliability, internal consistency was assessed using Cronbach’s alpha and Macdonald’s omega coefficients, while stability was measured using the intraclass correlation coefficient. …”
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The Influence of Advertising Creativity and Brand Attitudes and Their Impact on Purchasing Decisions (Shopee E-Commerce Product Purchase Case Study) by Lutfi Adi Prastya Lutfi, Indri Juwita Sari Indri, Jeni Pusfitasari Jeni, Gianine Lasalandra Inge

“…Shopee's presence in the Indonesian e-commerce market is the result of the rapid expansion of the market which attracts many new players. This research is quantitative, using multiple regression techniques, and the respondents were 117 Shopee users from Indonesia. …”
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PENDUGAAN FUNGSI KEUNTUNGAN DAN RISIKO USAHATANI SAWI PAHIT (Brasischa juncea) DI DESA SAMBIREJO KECAMATAN SELUPU REJANG KABUPATEN REJANG LEBONG by Satria Putra Utama, Redy Badrudin, Merry Rien

“…Profit function of UOP Cobb Douglas used to know influence of production factors to profit. Coefficient variation used to measure farm risk level. …”
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Global Health Education in UK Medical Schools (GHEMS) study protocol by Soham Bandyopadhyay, Thomas Shortland, Shavinthi W Wadanamby, Hannah S Thomas, Binay Gurung, Melika Akhbari, Isobel Trout, Rashida Patel, Karisma Sharma, J Edward Fitzgerald, Adrian D Smith

“…Krippendorff's alpha coefficient will also be utilised to measure the level of agreement between datasets collected independently by different collaborators at the same centre…”
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Exploring susceptibility of protected areas to natural hazards in Karakoram-Himalaya by Siddique Ullah Baig, Kamran Ali

“…Geographic Information System (GIS) based quantitative technique provided a robust procedure for attaining a deep insight into susceptibility of parks to natural hazards at different elevational ranges.…”
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Implementation of Automatic Segmentation Framework as Preprocessing Step for Radiomics Analysis of Lung Anatomical Districts by Alessandro Stefano, Fabiano Bini, Nicolò Lauciello, Giovanni Pasini, Franco Marinozzi, Giorgio Russo

“…<b>Background:</b> The advent of artificial intelligence has significantly impacted radiology, with radiomics emerging as a transformative approach that extracts quantitative data from medical images to improve diagnostic and therapeutic accuracy. …”
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Electroacupuncture attenuates intervertebral disc degeneration by upregulating aquaporins via the cAMP/PKA pathway by Min Wang, Jia-Bao Huang, Jing Zou, Guo-fu Huang

“…The pathology of the intervertebral discs was determined by staining. cAMP and PKA levels were examined using ELISA, and the expression of AQP genes as well as the cAMP/PKA pathway and its related molecules were examined using quantitative reverse transcription-PCR (qRT-PCR) and Western blot analysis. …”
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