A Newly Developed Sublingual Tonometric Method for the Evaluation of Tissue Perfusion and Its Validation In Vitro and in Healthy Persons In Vivo and the Results of the Measurements... by Zoltán Rózsavölgyi, Domokos Boda, Andrea Hajnal, Krisztina Boda, Attila Somfay

“…In this study, we present a new method using a newly developed tool for the PslCO2 measurement in sublingual tonometry as well as the data for its validation in vitro and in vivo and the results of 25 volunteers and 54 COPD patients belonging to different GOLD groups at their hospitalization due to the acute exacerbation of the disease but already in a stable condition at the time of the examination. …”
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Comprehensive Evaluation and Decision for Goaf Based on Fuzzy Theory in Underground Metal Mine by Rongxing He, Huan Liu, Fengyu Ren, Guanghui Li, Jing Zhang, Yanjun Zhou

“…Two models were also applied to the Paishanlou gold mine and achieved a good handling result. The practical application showed that the two models were feasible.…”
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Abuse potential of fentanyl and fentanyl analogues by Anusha Thumma, Kwadwo Mfoafo, Niloofar Babanejad, Alborz Omidian, Yadollah Omidi, Hamid Omidian

“…All articles were screened using their abstracts to determine their relevance to the current review. Results: The gold standard for treating both acute and chronic pain is fentanyl, but abuse of the drug has exploded globally since the late 2000s. …”
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Essential Oils as Biocontrol Agents of Early and Late Blight Diseases of Tomato under Greenhouse Conditions by Lydia G. Mugao, Bernard M. Gichimu, Phyllis W. Muturi, Ezekiel K. Njoroge

“…A synthetic fungicide (Ridomil Gold®) was used as a positive control while distilled water acted as a negative control. …”
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Comprehensive Management of Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma by Georgios Koukourakis, Georgios Zacharias, Michael Koukourakis, Kiriaki Pistevou-Gobaki, Christos Papaloukas, Athanasios Kostakopoulos, Vassilios Kouloulias

“…Nephroureterectomy with excision of the ipsilateral ureteral orifice and bladder cuff en bloc remains the gold standard treatment of the upper urinary tract urothelial cancers, while endoscopic and laparoscopic approaches are rapidly evolving as reasonable alternatives of care depending on grade and stage of disease. …”
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A machine-learning-based hardware-Trojan detection approach for chips in the Internet of Things by Chen Dong, Jinghui Chen, Wenzhong Guo, Jian Zou

“…The pre-silicon detection methods do not require gold chips, are not affected by process noise, and are suitable for the safe detection of a very large-scale integration. …”
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PPCM: Combing Multiple Classifiers to Improve Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction by Jianzhuang Yao, Hong Guo, Xiaohan Yang

“…The performance of PPCM was tested by area under the curve (AUC) using an assembled Gold Standard database that contains both positive and negative PPI pairs. …”
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Synergy of the Combination of Titanate Nanotubes with Titania Nanoparticles for the Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation from Water-Methanol Mixture Using Simulated Sunlight by Marco Serra, Hermenegildo Garcia

“…This synergy between the two titanium semiconductors has an optimum for a certain proportion of the two components and is observed in both the absence and the presence of platinum or gold nanoparticles. The best efficiency under simulated sunlight irradiation was for a combination of 12 wt.% titanate nanotubes containing 0.32 wt.% platinum in 88 wt.% Millennium PC500, where a two-time increase in the hydrogen generation is observed versus the activity of Millennium PC500 containing platinum. …”
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Mammary Analogue Secretory Carcinoma of the Palate: Case Report and Review of the Literature by Christian Boliere, James Murphy, Mohammed Qaisi, Frances Manosca, Henry Fung

“…The histopathological diagnosis of MASC can be difficult, and the immunohistochemical profile of MASC is still being updated. The gold standard for MASC diagnosis is cytogenetics, with the majority having a translocation t(12;15)(p133;q25). …”
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Comparison of the asymmetric multifractal behavior of green and U.S. bonds against benchmark financial assets by Werner Kristjanpoller, Benjamin Miranda Tabak

“…., conventional bonds, high-yield bonds, Euro-Dollar exchange, Dow Jones Industrial Index, Bitcoin, and Gold). Specifically, we explore linear and nonlinear correlation patterns using cross-correlation tests and the dynamic conditional correlation model, focusing on bond interactions under various degrees of freedom. …”
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La elusiva seguridad humana del Tratado de Libre Comercio Colombia-Canadá. La minería en el municipio de Buriticá, Antioquia by Adrián Raúl Restrepo Parra

“…Este artículo aporta elementos de evaluación del Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) Colombia-Canadá a partir del estudio de la implementación de la minería en el municipio de Buriticá, departamento de Antioquia, donde la empresa Continental Gold dirige la explotación de una de las minas de oro más importantes del país. …”
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Correlation Between Number of Retrieved Oocytes and Pregnancy Rate After In Vitro Fertilization/IntraCytoplasmic Sperm Infection by Tanya Timeva, Tanya Milachich, Irena Antonova, Tanya Arabaji, Atanas Shterev, Hatim A. Omar

“…The major goal is to obtain 5—15 oocytes as a “gold standard”, connected to optimal pregnancy rate after assisted reproduction (ART).…”
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Modern modes of chronic hepatitis C treatment by V. T. Ivashkin, M. V. Mayevskaya, M. A. Morozova, Ye. O. Lyusina

“…Nowadays conventional «gold standard» treatment of chronic HCV-infection is antiviral therapy by pegilated interferon and ribavirin combination. …”
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Mechanical properties of new endodontic instruments: a comparative approach with different in vitro tests by Maya Feghali, Biraj Patel, Dina Adami, James Wealleans, Massimo Galli, Tugba Turk

“…The goal of the present study to tested and compared a new file system (“Diamond“, Edge Endo, Albuquerque, NM) with a well-known and investigated one (Protaper Gold, Dentsply Maillefer, Baillegues, Switzerland) using three of the most widely used testing methods for NiTi rotary instruments : stiffness, torsional and cyclic fatigue tests. …”
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Impact of Awareness to Control Malaria Disease: A Mathematical Modeling Approach by Malik Muhammad Ibrahim, Muhammad Ahmad Kamran, Malik Muhammad Naeem Mannan, Sangil Kim, Il Hyo Jung

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Mathematical Development and Evaluation of Forecasting Models for Accuracy of Inflation in Developing Countries: A Case of Vietnam by Nhu-Ty Nguyen, Thanh-Tuyen Tran

“…Both in-sample and out-of-sample forecast performance results show that the ARIMA model has highly accurate forecasting in Raw Materials Price (RMP) and Gold Price (GP), whereas, the calculated results of GM(1,1) and DGM(1,1) are suitable to forecast Consumer Price Index (CPI). …”
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Durability Improvement of Synthetic Dry Adhesives by Metal Coatings by Gyuhe Kim, Taechang Ahn, Hui Yun Hwang

“…Then, metals such as indium, zinc, and gold were coated on the SDAs. The adhesion tests show that the indium- and zinc-coated microstructures have a higher shear adhesion strength than the noncoated ones. …”
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Advancing poliovirus eradication: lessons learned from piloting direct molecular detection of polioviruses in high-risk and priority geographies by Paula L. Marcet, Brandon Short, Ashley Deas, Hong Sun, Chelsea Harrington, Shahzad Shaukat, Muhammad Masroor Alam, Marycelin Baba, Adedayo Faneye, Prossy Namuwulya, Lea Necitas Apostol, Tamer Elshaarawy, John Kofi Odoom, Peter Borus, Shelina Moonsamy, Yogolelo Riziki, Marie Claire Endegue Zanga, Mesfin Tefera, Anfumbom K. W. Kfutwah, Salmaan Sharif, Varja Grabovac, Cara C. Burns, Nancy Gerloff

“…Strategically selected laboratories were tasked to simultaneously process stool suspensions with the current gold-standard VI method and the new DD-ITD strategy. …”
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Clinical validation of an artificial intelligence algorithm for classifying tuberculosis and pulmonary findings in chest radiographs by Thiago Fellipe Ortiz de Camargo, Thiago Fellipe Ortiz de Camargo, Guilherme Alberto Sousa Ribeiro, Guilherme Alberto Sousa Ribeiro, Maria Carolina Bueno da Silva, Luan Oliveira da Silva, Pedro Paulo Teixeira e Silva Torres, Denise do Socorro Rodrigues da Silva, Mayler Olombrada Nunes de Santos, William Salibe Filho, Marcela Emer Egypto Rosa, Magdala de Araujo Novaes, Thiago Augusto Massarutto, Osvaldo Landi Junior, Elaine Yanata, Marcio Rodrigues da Cunha Reis, Gilberto Szarf, Pedro Vieira Santana Netto, Joselisa Peres Queiroz de Paiva

“…The results show the algorithm's performance is comparable to Group A physicians, using gold-standard analysis (Group B) as the reference. …”
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