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agitation; chemical species; data quality; desorption; ethylene glycol; films (materials); humans; methadone; methanol; microextraction; morphine; pH; polymers; solvents; stainless steel; t-test; tandem mass spectrometry; ultra-performance liquid chromatography; urine
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... An efficient analytical method is developed using a porous sorptive polymer for thin film microextraction (PSP-TFME) of 8 model drugs from human urine samples. The analysis is conducted with ultra high performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS). The composition of the porous extraction phase, prepared on a stainless steel substrate, has been optimized for basic drugs ...
Gabriel K. Innes; Anastasia S. Lambrou; Pornchai Thumrin; Yupawat Thukngamdee; Ratanaporn Tangwangvivat; Pawinee Doungngern; Kirana Noradechanon; Punnaporn Netrabukkana; Karen Meidenbauer; Thomas Mehoke; Christopher D. Heaney; Soawapak Hinjoy; Anissa N. Elayadi
One Health initiative; avian influenza; data quality; disease surveillance; federal government; humans; microbial detection; monitoring; pathogens; poultry; public health; stakeholders; waterfowl; Thailand
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... Infectious disease surveillance systems support early warning, promote preparedness, and inform public health response. Pathogens that have human, animal, and environmental reservoirs should be monitored through systems that incorporate a One Health approach. In 2016, Thailand's federal government piloted an avian influenza (AI) surveillance system that integrates stakeholders from human, animal, ...
Chiara Maria Vitale; Arjen Lommen; Carolin Huber; Kevin Wagner; Borja Garlito Molina; Rosalie Nijssen; Elliott James Price; Marco Blokland; Frederike van Tricht; Hans G. J. Mol; Martin Krauss; Laurent Debrauwer; Olga Pardo; Nuria Leon; Jana Klanova; Jean-Philippe Antignac
analytical chemistry; biomarkers; data quality; humans; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; pesticides; quality control; solvents; urine
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... A set of quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) criteria for nontargeted measurement of pesticide exposure markers in a large-scale study of human urine has been proposed and applied across five laboratories within the HBM4EU project. Quality control material, including reference standards and fortified pooled urine samples (QC urine) were prepared in a centralized way and distributed across pa ...
Internet; bibliometric analysis; catalysts; data analysis; data quality; empirical research; energy; food security; humans; permeability
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... The technologies of the fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR/Industry 4.0) have been a technological catalyst for all fields of human endeavor, permeating the water, energy, and food (WEF) nexus. However, there is no empirical evidence of the extent of applications and the permeability level in ensuring the three resources’ security. This study explored the relationship of the fourth industrial revol ...
... PURPOSE: Products made of plastic often appear to have lower environmental impacts than alternatives. However, present life cycle assessments (LCA) do not consider possible risks caused by the emission of plastics into the environment. Following the precautionary principle, we propose characterization factors (CFs) for plastic emissions allowing to calculate impacts of plastic pollution measured i ...
ambient temperature; biomarkers; blood serum; cannabinoids; centrifugation; chemical species; coagulation; data quality; humans; ice; isomerization; sclerosis; storage time
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... Endocannabinoids (ECs) are potent lipid mediators with high physiological relevance. They are involved in a wide variety of diseases like depression or multiple sclerosis and are closely connected to metabolic parameters in humans. Therefore, their suitability as a biomarker in different (patho-)physiological conditions is discussed intensively and predominantly investigated by analyzing systemic ...
... Quantifying green visual exposure is necessary to assess aesthetic, social and health benefits from urban greenery. Viewshed analysis has been successfully used to model and map green visual exposure from human perspective in continuous representation and in places where street view imagery for widely-used photography-based methods is not available. However, current viewshed-based methods for mode ...
analytical chemistry; data quality; humans; leukemia; liquid chromatography; metabolites; metabolome; metabolomics; quality control; statistical analysis; tandem mass spectrometry; urine
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... Existing data acquisition modes such as full-scan, data-dependent (DDA), and data-independent acquisition (DIA) often present limited capabilities in capturing metabolic information in liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS)-based metabolomics. In this work, we proposed a novel metabolomic data acquisition workflow that combines DDA and DIA analyses to achieve better metabolomic data quali ...
autocorrelation; bulk density; data quality; environmental management; geostatistics; health effects assessments; heavy metals; human health; humans; ingestion; pH; pollution; risk; texture; topsoil; Poland
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... Urban soils' health is important to the community because of the soils' potential use for recreational activities. A data quality-oriented approach to sampling design is proposed for performing soil representative surveys that gives support to defensible and statistically-based decisions. Krowoderski park in Cracow (Poland) was selected as a study case to investigate heavy metals (HMs) accumulatio ...
... In Noori et al. [1], we hypothesized that there is a shared gene expression signature underlying neurodegenerative proteinopathies including Alzheimer's disease (AD), Lewy body diseases (LBD), and the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia (ALS-FTD) spectrum. To test this hypothesis, we performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of 60 human central nervous system transcript ...
automation; chemical analysis; computer simulation; computer software; data quality; environmental science; high performance liquid chromatography; humans; mass spectrometry; prioritization; toxicity
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... Effect-directed analysis (EDA) aims at the detection of bioactive chemicals of emerging concern (CECs) by combining toxicity testing and high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS). However, consolidation of toxicological and chemical analysis techniques to identify bioactive CECs remains challenging and laborious. In this study, we incorporate state-of-the-art identification approaches in EDA and pr ...
Rosilene Cristina Rossetto Burgos; Adriana Nori de Macedo; Pedro Luis Rocha da Cruz; Hélio Tedesco-Silva Júnior; Karina Helena Morais Cardozo; Valdemir Melechco Carvalho; Marina Franco Maggi Tavares
data quality; humans; kidney transplant; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; metabolites; metabolomics; urine
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... Signal variation is a common drawback in untargeted metabolomics using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS), mainly due to the complexity of biological matrices and reduced sample preparation, which results in the accumulation of sample components in the column and the ion source. Here we propose a simple, easy to implement approach to improve data quality in untargeted metabolomics by ...
acidification; apples; bark; bark mulches; bioenergy; biomass; chemical elements; climate change; consequential life cycle assessment; data quality; ecotoxicology; electricity; emissions; energy; environmental impact; eutrophication; fossils; freshwater; greenhouse gases; heat; humans; land use; markets; models; natural gas; orchards; oxidation; ozonosphere; paper; papermaking; photochemistry; recycled paper; solar energy; toxicity; uncertainty; variability; wind; wood; British Columbia
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... Wood and bark chip mulch has been shown to reduce net orchard greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on an Okanagan Valley (British Columbia, Canada) apple orchard. However, this benefit was shown to be outweighed by the (attributional) life cycle impacts associated with mulch production. The current study expanded the scope of prior investigations to perform a consequential life cycle assessment of the i ...
air; air quality; data quality; environment; humans; microclimate; models; pollution; quality control; regression analysis; roads; traffic
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... Given the growing interest in community air quality monitoring using low-cost sensors, 30 PurpleAir II sensors (12 outdoor and 18 indoor) were deployed in partnership with community members living adjacent to a major interstate freeway from December 2017- June 2019. Established quality assurance/quality control techniques for data processing were used and sensor data quality was evaluated by calcu ...
agriculture; climate change; crop production; data quality; ecology; humans; irrigation; landscapes; mountains; quality control; sustainable development; temperature; temporal variation; China
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... Temperature is one of the most important meteorological variables for global climate change and human sustainable development. It plays an important role in agroclimatic regionalization and crop production. To date, temperature data have come from a wide range of sources. A detailed understanding of the reliability and applicability of these data will help us to better carry out research in crop m ...
chemical species; computer simulation; data quality; databases; electric potential difference; experimental design; humans; lipidomics; lipids; reversed-phase liquid chromatography; signal-to-noise ratio; spectrometers; standard deviation
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... Analytical methods to evaluate the lipidome of biological samples need to provide high data quality to ensure comprehensive profiling and reliable structural elucidation. In this perspective, liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS) is the state-of-the-art technique for lipidomic analysis of biological samples. There are thousands of lipids in most biological samples, and ...
artificial intelligence; climate; climate change; data quality; dissolved inorganic nitrogen; environmental science; exports; fertilizers; humans; hydrometeorology; monsoon season; neural networks; nitrogen; riparian areas; runoff; synergism; watersheds; China; Europe; North America
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... Terrestrial export of nitrogen is a critical Earth system process, but its global dynamics remain difficult to predict at a high spatiotemporal resolution. Here, we use deep learning (DL) to model daily riverine nitrogen export in response to hydrometeorological and anthropogenic drivers. Long short-term memory (LSTM) models for the daily concentration and flux of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN ...
Soil and Water Assessment Tool model; climate change; coal; data quality; humans; rivers; runoff; soil water; water management; watersheds; China
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... Coal mining and soil-water conservation are the two major human interventions on the Loess Plateau in China. Analyzing their impacts on hydrological processes is of great significance for sustainable water resource management. Using hydrological simulation (Soil and Water Assessment Tool, SWAT) and a data-driven method (double mass curve, DMC), the contributions of these two human activities and c ...
data quality; food quality; gender; humans; sensory evaluation; texture
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... Sensory analysis has been, is, and will be one of the most important methods in judging food quality. As such, it is an evaluation tool involving human subjects with specific skills to conduct assigned series of tests. This review outlines main characteristics of 179 trained panels published in 16 selected scientific journals in the last 12 months, as well as training methods used for panelists, a ...
data quality; humans; issues and policy; risk; toxicology
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... Chemical data for thousands of substances are available for safety, risk, life cycle and substitution assessments, as submitted for example under the European Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) Regulation. However, to widely disseminate reported physicochemical properties as well as human and ecological exposure and toxicological data for use in various sc ...
Internet; USDA; agricultural management; air; cooperative research; data quality; environment; humans; markets; mobile telephones; research and development; telemetry
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... Advances in environmental and agricultural management are increasingly enabled by unattended data acquisition using internet‐of‐things (IOT) approaches. These approaches combine advanced sensors and wireless data transmission to automatically convey field data to the internet. Users, either human or machine, then can access and act upon the data from nearly anywhere in the world. Particularly in t ...
Internet; Rhinella marina; Vespula germanica; citizen science; data quality; fauna; humans; metadata; Australia
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... iEcology is used to supplement traditional ecological data by sourcing large quantities of media from the internet. Images and their metadata are widely available online and can provide information on species occurrence, behaviour and visible traits. However, this data is inherently noisy and data quality varies significantly between sources. Many iEcology studies utilise data from a single source ...
data quality; databases; environment; human settlements; humans; land cover; uncertainty; Massachusetts
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... To better understand the dynamics of human settlements, thorough knowledge of the uncertainty in geospatial built-up surface datasets is critical. While frameworks for localized accuracy assessments of categorical gridded data have been proposed to account for the spatial non-stationarity of classification accuracy, such approaches have not been applied to (binary) built-up land data. Such data di ...
Landsat; carbon sequestration; data quality; humans; land cover; normalized difference vegetation index; peat; remote sensing; support vector machines; Estonia
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... Wetlands are important for their peat reservoir, dynamic land cover and natural resources, ecological and hydrological regimes, fossil fuels reservoir, and crucial carbon storage. The global wetlands are decreasing since 1800 due to climatic phenomena and human activities. Wetland mapping with satellite data is not new but an ongoing challenge due to its precision relies on data quality and data c ...
... ‘Animals under wheels’ is a citizen science driven project that has collected almost 90,000 roadkill records from Flanders, Belgium, mainly between 2008 and 2020. However, until now, the platform and results have never been presented comprehensively to the scientific community and we highlight strengths and challenges of this system. Data collection occurred using the subsite www.dierenonderdewiel ...
Ixodidae; citizen science; citizen scientists; data quality; humans; medical entomology; public health; risk; species identification; ticks
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... Tick-borne diseases are increasing in North America. Knowledge of which tick species and associated human pathogens are present locally can inform the public and medical community about the acarological risk for tick bites and tick-borne infections. Citizen science (also called community-based monitoring, volunteer monitoring, or participatory science) is emerging as a potential approach to comple ...
data quality; exposure duration; humans; meta-analysis; mobile telephones; pollution; sperm motility; sperm quality; systematic review; viability; Europe; West Asia
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... Potential suppression of fertility due to mobile phone radiation remains a focus of researchers. We conducted meta-analyses on the effects of mobile phone radiation on sperm quality using recent evidence and propose some perspectives on this issue. Using the MEDLINE/PubMed, Embase, WOS, CENTRAL, and ClinicalTrials.gov databases, we retrieved and screened studies published before December 2020 on t ...
... Discovering the regulatory elements of genomes in livestock is essential for our understanding of livestock's basic biology and genomic improvement programs. Previous studies showed butyrate mediates epigenetic modifications of bovine cells. To explore the bovine functional genomic elements and the vital roles of butyrate on the epigenetic modifications of bovine genomic activities, we generated a ...
Bayesian theory; carbon dioxide; chlorophyll; data quality; environment; enzyme kinetics; gas exchange; humans; models; photosynthesis; ribulose-bisphosphate carboxylase; rice; uncertainty
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... The Farquhar‐von Caemmerer‐Berry (FvCB) model is extensively used to model photosynthesis from gas exchange measurements. Since its publication, many methods have been developed to measure, or more accurately estimate, parameters of this model. Here, we have created a tool that uses Bayesian statistics to fit photosynthetic parameters using concurrent gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence meas ...
Kirsten Ward; Kevin Mugenyi; Adam MacNeil; Henry Luzze; Carol Kyozira; Annet Kisakye; David Matseketse; Anthony T. Newall; Anita E. Heywood; Peter Bloland; Sarah W. Pallas
data quality; human behavior; humans; labor force; lodging; monitoring; operating costs; opportunity costs; planning; supervisors; vaccination; vaccines; Uganda
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... High-quality vaccination data are critical to planning, implementation and evaluation of immunization programs. However, sub-optimal administrative vaccination data quality in low- and middle-income countries persist for heterogeneous reasons, though most relate to organizational factors and human behavior. The nationwide Data Improvement Team (DIT) strategy in Uganda aimed to strengthen human res ...
climatology; continental climates; data quality; humans; hydrologic cycle; ice; land cover; rivers; runoff; snow; soil; time series analysis; topography; topology; vegetation; watersheds; Austria; Central European region; Slovakia
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... Very large and comprehensive datasets are increasingly used in the field of hydrology. Large-sample studies provide insights into the hydrological cycle that might not be available with small-scale studies. LamaH (Large-Sample Data for Hydrology) is a new dataset for large-sample studies and comparative hydrology in Central Europe. It covers the entire catchment of the upper Danube to the state bo ...
aerosols; air pollution; algorithms; data quality; environment; governmental programs and projects; humans; quality control; reflectance; spatial variation; uncertainty; uncertainty analysis; East Asia; Europe; North America
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... Recently, NASA has released the newest Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)/Terra Collection 6.1 (C6.1) aerosol product generated at a higher spatial resolution of 3 km (i.e., MOD04_3K) with main updates in the radiation calibration and the Dark Target (DT) aerosol algorithm. This product is of great importance for air pollution studies at small to medium scales but has not been f ...
data quality; databases; human nutrition; humans; information management; nutrition research
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... In human nutrition randomized controlled trials (RCTs), planning, and careful execution of clinical data collection and management are vital for producing valid and reliable results. In this article, we provide an overview of best practices for biospecimen collection and analyses, and for the fundamentals of clinical data management, including preparation and study startup; data collection, entry, ...
Aivett Bilbao; Bryson C. Gibbons; Sarah M. Stow; Jennifer E. Kyle; Kent J. Bloodsworth; Samuel H. Payne; Richard D. Smith; Yehia M. Ibrahim; Erin S. Baker; John C. Fjeldsted
... The ability to improve the data quality of ion mobility–mass spectrometry (IM-MS) measurements is of great importance for enabling modular and efficient computational workflows and gaining better qualitative and quantitative insights from complex biological and environmental samples. We developed the PNNL PreProcessor, a standalone and user-friendly software housing various algorithmic implementat ...
RNA; data quality; density; exhibitions; extracts; guidelines; humans; journals; mixing; protein structure; proteins; sampling; testing; yields
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... We have previously reported on the measurement of exact NOEs (eNOEs), which yield a wealth of additional information in comparison to conventional NOEs. We have used these eNOEs in a variety of applications, including calculating high-resolution structures of proteins and RNA molecules. The collection of eNOEs is challenging, however, due to the need to measure a NOESY buildup series consisting of ...
COVID-19 infection; birds; data quality; habitats; humans; pandemic; politics; wetlands
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... The COVID-19 pandemic has likely affected natural systems around the world; the curtailment of human activity has also affected the collection of data needed to identify the indirect effects of this pandemic on natural systems. We describe how the outbreak of COVID-19 disease, and associated stay-at-home orders in four political regions, have affected the quantity and quality of data collected by ...
administrative management; cities; data analysis; data quality; e-mail; human behavior; humans; issues and policy; knowledge; literature; research; spatial data; China
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... Along with the increase of big data and the advancement of technologies, comprehensive data-driven knowledge of urban systems is becoming more attainable, yet the connection between big-data research and its application e.g., in smart city development, is not clearly articulated. Focusing on Human Mobility, one of the most frequently investigated applications of big data analytics, a framework for ...
data quality; ecosystems; humans; nanoplastics; toxicity; toxicity testing
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... Increasing scientific attention on the presence of micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) in the environments and their potential toxic effects on humans and the ecosystems is evident. Accordingly, the number of publications on this topic has increased substantially from only 5 in 2010 to more than 850 in 2019. Thus, this critical review aimed at providing state-of-the-art information on the existing meth ...
... The cloud-free monthly composite of global nighttime light (NTL) data of the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership with the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (NPP-VIIRS) day/night band (DNB) provides indispensable indications of human activities and settlements. However, the coarse spatial resolution (15 arc sec) of NTL imagery greatly restricts its application potential. This study pr ...
ammonia; benzene; data quality; electric energy consumption; emissions; energy industry; humans; life cycle assessment; ovens; purification methods; steam; sulfur
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... The accuracy of life cycle assessment (LCA) results largely depends on data quality. Coking production is a multi-functional system that generally consists of coke-making process and coke oven gas (COG) purification process. Previous LCA studies mainly investigated the overall impacts of coking production without identifying the specific contribution of sub-processes due to lack of enough data. Th ...
Georgios Kazanidis; Covadonga Orejas; Angel Borja; Ellen Kenchington; Lea-Anne Henry; Oisín Callery; Marina Carreiro-Silva; Hronn Egilsdottir; Eva Giacomello; Anthony Grehan; Lénaïck Menot; Telmo Morato; Stefán Áki Ragnarsson; José Luis Rueda; David Stirling; Tanja Stratmann; Dick van Oevelen; Andreas Palialexis; David Johnson; J Murray Roberts
European Union; body size; data quality; ecosystems; feasibility studies; fish; habitats; humans; shellfish
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... The deep sea is the largest biome on Earth but the least explored. Our knowledge of it comes from scattered sources spanning different spatial and temporal scales. Implementation of marine policies like the European Union’s Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and support for Blue Growth in the deep sea are therefore hindered by lack of data. Integrated assessments of environmental status re ...
analytical chemistry; case studies; data quality; drugs; exposome; genetic background; human health; humans; longevity; metabolites; metabolome; metabolomics; microorganisms; nutritional intervention; quality control; urine
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... The exposome, defined as the cumulative measure of external exposures and associated biological responses throughout the lifespan, has emerged in recent years as a cornerstone in biomedical sciences. Metabolomics stands out here as one of the most powerful tools for investigating the interplay between the genetic background, exogenous, and endogenous factors within human health. However, to addres ...
algorithms; biodiversity; cameras; computer software; data quality; digital images; experimental design; flight; habitat fragmentation; humans; image analysis; issues and policy; labor; land restoration; oils; unmanned aerial vehicles; vegetation cover
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... Biodiversity decline is widely considered a critical global environmental threat. In the western United States, land surface disturbance associated with oil and gas development is considered a top driver of habitat fragmentation and biodiversity decline. Land reclamation and ecosystem restoration activities help mitigate biodiversity loss, though monitoring practices to track these efforts are inc ...
data quality; decision making; environmental assessment; humans; risk assessment
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... Recent rapid technological advances are producing exposure data sets for which there are no available data quality assessment tools. At the same time, regulatory agencies are moving in the direction of data quality assessment for environmental risk assessment and decision-making. A transparent and systematic approach to evaluating exposure data will aid in those efforts. Any approach to assessing ...
analytical chemistry; biomarkers; blood serum; computer software; data quality; humans; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; metabolites; metabolomics
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... Data quality in global metabolomics is of great importance for biomarker discovery and system biology studies. However, comprehensive metrics and methods to evaluate and compare the data quality of global metabolomics data sets are lacking. In this work, we combine newly developed metrics, along with well-known measures, to comprehensively and quantitatively characterize the data quality across tw ...
... Due to the existence of environmental or human factors, and because of the instrument itself, there are many uncertainties in point clouds, which directly affect the data quality and the accuracy of subsequent processing, such as point cloud segmentation, 3D modeling, etc. In this paper, to address this problem, stochastic information of point cloud coordinates is taken into account, and on the ba ...
... The history of Earth observation from space is well reflected through the Landsat program. With data collection beginning with Landsat-1 in 1972, the program has evolved technical capabilities while maintaining continuity of land observations. In so doing, Landsat has provided a critical reference for assessing long-term changes to Earth's land environment due to both natural and human forcing. Po ...
accuracy; area; data quality; databases; environment; estimation; history; human settlements; humans; information; population; population density; population distribution; precision; remote sensing; spatial data; spatial distribution; urbanization; China; United Kingdom
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... Spatial data of regional populations are indispensable in studying the impact of human activities on resource utilization and the ecological environment. Because the differences between datasets and their spatial distribution are still unclear, this has become a puzzle in data selection and application. This study is based on four mainstream spatialized population datasets: the History Database of ...
Coleoptera; Hemiptera; Mollusca; anthropogenic stressors; aquifers; base flow; basins; climate change; data quality; ecological restoration; fish; geochemistry; geography; groundwater; habitats; highlands; human population; humans; information management; introduced species; inventories; invertebrates; issues and policy; livestock husbandry; pH; plateaus; pollution; population growth; rangelands; recreation; rivers; species richness; streams; urbanization; vegetation structure; water shortages; water temperature; watersheds; Arizona; Colorado River
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... The Colorado River basin (CRB), the primary water source for southwestern North America, is divided into the 283,384 km², water-exporting Upper CRB (UCRB) in the Colorado Plateau geologic province, and the 344,440 km², water-receiving Lower CRB (LCRB) in the Basin and Range geologic province. Long-regarded as a snowmelt-fed river system, approximately half of the river’s baseflow is derived from g ...
Monte Carlo method; algorithms; autocorrelation; climate; computers; data quality; global warming; humans; industrialization; meteorological data; politics; surface temperature; time series analysis; uncertainty
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... The increasing trend curve of global surface temperature against time since the 19th century is the icon for the considerable influence humans have on the climate since the industrialization. The discourse about the curve has spread from climate science to the public and political arenas in the 1990s and may be characterized by terms such as “hockey stick” or “global warming hiatus”. Despite its d ...