Pulmonary Artery Catheter (PAC) Accuracy and Efficacy Compared with Flow Probe and Transcutaneous Doppler (USCOM): An Ovine Cardiac Output Validation by Robert A. Phillips, Sally G. Hood, Beverley M. Jacobson, Malcolm J. West, Li Wan, Clive N. May

“…We compared PAC and USCOM CO measurements against a gold standard, the aortic flow probe (FP), in sheep at varying outputs. …”
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Hybrid Graph Representation Learning for Carotid Artery Stenosis Detection Based on Multimodal Retinal OCTA Images by Wenting Lan, Jinkui Hao, Shengjun Zhou, Jingfeng Zhang, Shaodong Ma, Yitian Zhao

“…Neuroimaging techniques, as the gold standard for evaluating cerebral abnormalities in CAS, suffer from limitations including expensive and time-consuming, hindering their use in large-scale screening. …”
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Multimodal heterogeneous graph fusion for automated obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome diagnosis by Haoyu Wang, Xihe Qiu, Bin Li, Xiaoyu Tan, Jingjing Huang

“…Abstract Polysomnography is the diagnostic gold standard for obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS), requiring medical professionals to analyze apnea-hypopnea events from multidimensional data throughout the sleep cycle. …”
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Peri-Implant Soft Tissue in Contact with Zirconium/Titanium Abutments from Histological and Biological Perspectives: A Concise Review by Fatma A. N. Abouel Maaty, Mai A. Ragab, Yasmin M. El-Ghazawy, Fatma I. Elfaiedi, Marwa M. S. Abbass, Israa Ahmed Radwan, Dina Rady, Sara El Moshy, Nahed Sedky Korany, Geraldine M. Ahmed, Christof E. Dörfer, Karim M. Fawzy El-Sayed

“…While titanium has been the gold standard, zirconia has gained attention due to its biocompatibility and aesthetic appeal. …”
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Numerical Modeling of Rock Panels Subjected to Blast Loadings by Haijun Wang, Daiyu Xiong, Yun Duan, Weiqin Cao, Wenru Zhang, Peng Jiao, Bonan Wang, Xulin Zhao, Yonggang Miao, Le Zhou

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Arsenic Retention on Technosols Prepared with Nanoparticles and Ferric Soil from Mine Drainage Water by Darío R. Bolaños-Guerrón, Viviana P. Sánchez-Gómez, Johanna Paz, Andrés R. Izquierdo, Carina Stael, María Balseiro-Romero

“…Mining activities generate a large amount of solid waste and acid drains that contain heavy metals in high concentrations. In wastewater of gold mines from Southern Ecuador (Portovelo), arsenic concentrations between 4.8 and 27.5 μg/L have been detected. …”
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The external validity of machine learning-based prediction scores from hematological parameters of COVID-19: A study using hospital records from Brazil, Italy, and Western Europe. by Ali Safdari, Chanda Sai Keshav, Deepanshu Mody, Kshitij Verma, Utsav Kaushal, Vaadeendra Kumar Burra, Sibnath Ray, Debashree Bandyopadhyay

“…The unprecedented worldwide pandemic caused by COVID-19 has motivated several research groups to develop machine-learning based approaches that aim to automate the diagnosis or screening of COVID-19, in large-scale. The gold standard for COVID-19 detection, quantitative-Real-Time-Polymerase-Chain-Reaction (qRT-PCR), is expensive and time-consuming. …”
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Non-Invasive Point-of-Care Detection of Methamphetamine and Cocaine via Aptamer-Based Lateral Flow Test by Bilge Erkocyigit, Ezgi Man, Ece Efecan, Ozge Ozufuklar, Deniz Devecioglu, Basak Bagci, Ebru Aldemir, Hakan Coskunol, Serap Evran, Emine Guler Celik

“…In the design strategy of an LFA test, the use of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) with strong optical properties has been combined with the advantages of selecting aptamers under in vitro conditions, making it a highly specific and stable recognition probe for the detection of small molecules in saliva. …”
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Application of Gastric Tube Decompression for Rapid Tip Positioning in Bedside Blind Insertion of Nasoenteric Tubes by Yang LL, Li DN, Gao P, Zhang H, Wang J

“…The accuracy of this method was verified by comparing the results to the “gold standard” of abdominal X-ray imaging. Consistent results indicated successful positioning. …”
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Muscle Architecture of Leg Muscles: Functional and Clinical Significance by Gurpreet Kaur, Rekha Lalwani, Manal M. Khan, Sunita A Athavale

“…Cadaveric data for architectural properties is the gold standard and primary input for musculoskeletal modelling. …”
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Packed bed optofluidic microreactors with Au decorated TiO2 nanoflowers for visible light photocatalytic water purification by Yujiao Zhu, Pui Hong Yeung, Tsz Wing Lo, Yao Chai, Yat Lam Wong, Ying Chen, Huaming Yang, Weixing Yu, Anatoly V. Zayats, Fengjia Xie, Xuming Zhang

“…Here, we present a novel planar packed-bed optofluidic microreactor (PPOM) using titanium dioxide nanoflowers (TNFs) decorated with gold nanoparticles (Au/TNFs) and conduct a pilot study on efficient visible light-driven water purification. …”
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Large‐Area Bright Emission of Plasmon‐Coupled Dark Excitons at Room Temperature by Hyun Jeong, Hyeong Chan Suh, Ga Hyun Cho, Huitae Joo, Yeonjeong Koo, Hayoung Ko, Ki Kang Kim, Youngbum Kim, Jeongyong Kim, Kyoung‐Duck Park, Mun Seok Jeong

“…When a WSe2 ML is placed on gold micropillars (Au MPs), dark excitons are efficiently coupled to strongly localized surface plasmons at the edges of the Au MPs, along with a strong photoluminescence (PL) emission. …”
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How is depth of anaesthesia assessed in experimental pigs? A scoping review. by Alessandro Mirra, Ekaterina Gamez Maidanskaia, Luís Pedro Carmo, Olivier Levionnois, Claudia Spadavecchia

“…<h4>Background</h4>Despite the large number of pigs involved in translational studies, no gold standard depth of anaesthesia indicators are available. …”
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Lamellar Body Count With Cell Dyn Emerald And Cell Dyn Ruby Methods On Preterm Birth by Erlinda Widyastuti, Ario Imandiri

“…Lamellar body count is useful for prediction of fetal lung maturity and neonatal respiratory distress syndrome. The current gold standard for determination of fetal lung maturity is the evaluation of phospholipids in amniotic fluid samples by thin-layer chromatography, but it is time-consuming and not continuously available at most institutions. …”
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Woody Species Diversity and Structure of Protected Woodlands Adjacent to Free Grazing Land Woodland at Dugda Woreda, Oromia, Ethiopia by Tsegu Ereso Denbel

“…However, there is a good initiation for the conservation of the park; still, the vegetation of the park was threatened by human-induced fire following intensive farming, gold mining, and overgrazing.…”
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Small Airway Dysfunction in Chronic Bronchitis with Preserved Pulmonary Function by Qi Ding, Bai-Bing Mi, Xia Wei, Jie Li, Jiu-Yun Mi, Jing-Ting Ren, Rui-Li Li

“…Because small airway function was the main focus, in the COPD group, only patients in accordance with the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) grades 1 and 2 were included. Evaluation of pulmonary function (including impulse oscillometry) was performed and compared among these groups. …”
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Dataset for comparative analysis of precision metagenomics and traditional methods in urinary tract infection diagnosticsNCBI by Rob E. Carpenter, Sadia Almas, Vaibhav K. Tamrakar, Rahul Sharma

“…While microbial culture remains the gold standard for UTI diagnosis, it has limitations in sensitivity, particularly for fastidious or non-culturable microorganisms. …”
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The effect of forages treated with different methods on fattening performance and slaughter and carcass characteristics of awassi lambs by Orhan ÖZBEY, Abdulkadir AKÇAN, Fuat GÜRDOĞAN

“…The avarage body weights of the sheep at the beginning were approximately 30 kg but at the end of the feeding period of 70 days, the body weights of the sheep in Group I, Group II and Group 111 were determined as 43.50. 48 98, and 47 92 kg respectively Daily body weight gains and feed efficiency rates were de-tiîımmed as 235 77g and 5 99. 256,02 g and 5,50, 252 94 g and 5,57 (P<0.05) respectively. Gold dresing percentages were 50.23. 50.64 and 51 23 % thorax deepnesses 24.75. 26.24 and 26.98 cm (P<0.05), thorax circumferences 17.65, 18.93 and 17.73 cm 05), leg circumferences 16 97, 18,67 and 18.86 cm (P<0.05). thorax region 71 54, 73,62 and 72.73 cm (P<0.05) respectively, Because of the positive effect ol treating barley slraw with molasses on palatabılıty of the sheep, the leed intake and body weight gains were determined to be high. …”
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The Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Validity to Detect Omicron Variants by Lia Gardenia Partakusuma, Luhung Budiailmiawan, null Budiman, Ida Parwati, null Aryati, Basti Andriyoko, Louisa Markus, Corine Niswara, Cut Nur Cinthia Alamanda

“…This study aims to determine the validity of the SNP method with PCR to detect omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2 compared with the gold standard, WGS. Methods. This is a diagnostic analysis of 140 confirmed COVID-19 nasopharyngeal samples taken from the Kemayoran COVID Emergency Hospital Laboratory and the West Java Provincial Health Laboratory from April to October 2022. …”
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Assessment of Pathological Response of Breast Carcinoma in Modified Radical Mastectomy Specimens after Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy by Dhanya Vasudevan, P. S. Jayalakshmy, Suresh Kumar, Siji Mathew

“…From our study we conclude that histopathological examination of the tumor bed is the gold standard for assessing the chemotherapeutic tumor response. …”
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