Clinico-spirometrical correlation of newly detected COPD patients with known tobacco smoking exposure or biomass smoke exposure presenting to a teaching institution in Vadodara, Gu... by Bhavesh Patel, G Mothiganesh, Arti D. Shah, Chirag H. Chakravarti, Parshwa Naik, Princee Patel

“…Among 50 patients, 6% falls under mild, 28% under moderate, 42% under severe, and 24% under very severe according to GOLD grading and severity of airflow obstruction. …”
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Probing the potential of InDel polymorphisms on the molecular identification of cetaceans by Dafne Adriana Abreu dos Anjos, Rodrigo Goldenberg Barbosa, Anna Luiza dos Santos Donato, Elizeu Fagundes de Carvalho, Cesar Rogerio Leal do Amaral

“…The presented methodology allows the identification of species based on numeric profiles related to the chosen InDel regions, a forensic gold standard commonly used for degraded samples that cannot be sequenced easily. …”
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Evaluating and mapping the evidence that screening for diabetic foot disease meets the criteria for population-wide screening: a scoping review by Patricia M Kearney, Claire M Buckley, Sean F Dinneen, Caroline McIntosh, Paul Kavanagh, Lauren Connell, Jennifer A Pallin

“…Objective To evaluate and map the evidence around diabetes-related foot screening using the World Health Organisation screening principles, which set the gold standard for determining the appropriateness of introducing population-wide screening programmes internationally.Design A scoping review methodology in line with Arksey and O’Malley and the Joanna Briggs Institute.Data sources Medline (EBSCO), Scopus, ScienceDirect and EMBASE between 24 May 2022 and 12 July 2022. …”
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Clinical performance of real-time nanopore metagenomic sequencing for rapid identification of bacterial pathogens in cerebrospinal fluid: a pilot study by Yoon Hyun Sung, Yong Kuk Ju, Hak Jun Lee, Seung Min Park, Jin Woong Suh, Jeong Yeon Kim, Jang Wook Sohn, Young Kyung Yoon

“…Nanopore-based sequencing demonstrated a sensitivity of 50.0%, specificity of 55.6%, positive predictive value of 50.0%, negative predictive value of 55.6%, and overall accuracy of 47.1%, compared to the gold standard method for bacterial culture. In 44.4% (4/9) of culture-negative cases, nanopore-based sequencing detected potentially causative pathogens, whereas four (23.5%) patients were positive only in culture. …”
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Evaluation of 16s Long Read Metabarcoding for Characterizing the Microbiome and Salmonella Contamination of Retail Poultry Meat by Zachary Tobar, Katie Y. Lee, Megan E. Gaa, Bryshal P. Moore, Xunde Li, Maurice E. Pitesky

“…The traditional gold standard for detection of Salmonella in meat products is bacterial culture with enrichment. …”
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Reliability of the Cutting Alignment Scoring Tool (CAST) to Assess Trunk and Limb Alignment During a 45-Degree Side-Step Cut by Lauren S Butler, Eryn K Milian, Amie DeVerna, Kevin Latz, Henry B Ellis, Alexa R Martinez, Kristin Hayden, Christian Gerstenkorn, Sara C Carpenito, Charles W Wyatt, Dai Sugimoto

“…# Background Three-dimensional (3D) motion analysis is considered the gold standard for evaluating human movement. However, its clinical utility is limited due to cost, operating expertise, and lengthy data processing time. …”
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Highlighting of Urinary Sodium and Potassium among Indonesian Schoolchildren Aged 9–12 Years: The Contribution of School Food by Farapti Farapti, Muji Sulistyowati, Kurnia Dwi Artanti, Stefania Widya Setyaningtyas, Sri Sumarmi, Bibit Mulyana

“…Spot electrolyte urine was highly correlated and validated with gold standard to estimate electrolyte dietary intake. …”
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ezPreemie study protocol: a randomised controlled factorial trial testing web-based parent training and coaching with parents of children born very preterm by M E Schoeny, Sarah A Keim, Michelle M Greene, Julia Berteletti, Mary Lauren Neel, Kousiki Patra, Shea Smoske, Susan Breitenstein

“…While behavioural parent training (BPT), also referred to as behaviour therapy is a gold standard for prevention and treatment of childhood problem behaviours, there are limited accessible and effective BPT interventions for families with children born VPT. …”
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Tissue-friendly dentin treatments as a potential element in revascularization protocol (ex-vivo study) by Hala Fayek Khalil, Nadia Ezz El Din Metwalli, Sara Magdy, Mohamed Shamel

“…Sodium hypochlorite, the gold-standard irrigant, is effective but has significant cytotoxic effects, prompting the need for safer alternatives. …”
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Utility of a New Artificial Dermis as a Successful Tool in Face and Scalp Reconstruction for Skin Cancer: Analysis of the Efficacy, Safety, and Aesthetic Outcomes by Fedele Lembo, Liberato Roberto Cecchino, Domenico Parisi, Aurelio Portincasa

“…Radical ablative surgery is the gold standard treatment of head skin cancer. The authors expose their experience with a new artificial dermis (Pelnac®), analyzing retrospectively the overall morbidity and aesthetic outcomes. 16 consecutive patients underwent two surgical procedures under local anesthesia. …”
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Comparative Effectiveness of Bone Grafting Using Xenograft Freeze-Dried Cortical Bovine, Allograft Freeze-Dried Cortical New Zealand White Rabbit, Xenograft Hydroxyapatite Bovine,... by Ferdiansyah Mahyudin, Dwikora Novembri Utomo, Heri Suroto, Tri Wahyu Martanto, Mouli Edward, Imelda Lumban Gaol

“…Autogenous bone graft is gold standard in treating bone defects, but it might have difficulty in corporation and rejection reaction. …”
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Active Compounds of Red Ginger as Antioxidant Activity in the Supplementation and Treatment of Depression by Ira Aini Dania, Rusdiana Rusdiana, Aldy S. Rambe, Urip Harahap, Elmeida Effendy, Nanda Novziransyah

“…Depression prevalence in Indonesia from the national population survey 6.9% had severe depression symptoms, 21.8% moderate to severe. Red ginger provided gold potential and demonstrated prominent natural phenomena and coexistence, abundant benefits. …”
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Multi-layered electrospun grafts for surgical repair: Biomimicking physiological ascending aortic compliance by Julia Krammer, Maximilian Pichlmaier, Jan Stana, Christian Hagl, Sven Peterss, Maximilian Grab, Linda Grefen

“…Therefore, by combining electrospinning with a durable inlay, both elasticity and recoverability are obtained, resulting in a promising alternative to the gold-standard in open-surgical treatment of thoracic aortic pathologies.…”
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Ultrasonic characteristics of inserted central catheter related fibroblastic sleeve by Zhifei Ben, Jue Wang, Jinyong Zhan, Kaiying Xu

“…With the pathological results as the gold standard, the optimal cut-off value for the diagnosis of fibroblastic sleeve with thrombosis was 2.58 mm, and the sensitivity and specificity of the diagnosis were 95.45% and 96.08%. …”
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Validity and Reliability of Upper Limb Functional Assessment Using the Microsoft Kinect V2 Sensor by Laisi Cai, Ye Ma, Shuping Xiong, Yanxin Zhang

“…Ten healthy males performed a series of upper limb movements, which were measured concurrently with Kinect V2 and the Vicon motion capture system (gold standard). Each participant attended two testing sessions, seven days apart. …”
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Retrospective review of dosing trends in botulinum toxin injections for the treatment of adductor spasmodic dysphonia in a long-term cohort by Gabrielle French, J. Douglas Bosch, Derrick R. Randall

“…Abstract Background Botulinum toxin A (BT) is the gold standard treatment for adductor spasmodic dysphonia (AdSD) with established use for greater than thirty years. …”
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Resetting the Hsc70-mediated lysosomal degradation of PD-L1 via a supramolecular meso peptide for the restoration of acquired anti-tumor T cell immunity by Yujia Zhao, Dan Liu, Wenguang Yang, Wangxiao He, Jin Yan, Leiqing Yao

“…In order to enable internalization into tumor cells, supramolecular engineering techniques were employed through terminal modification involving sulfydryl and monovalent gold ion (Au(I)), both facilitating self-assembly of modified PEPPDL1 into supramolecular nanospheres termed CTAC-PDL1 driven by aurophilic interaction. …”
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Bismuth-Remaining Cupellation Fire Assay Preconcentration Combined with Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry for the Simultaneous Determination of Ultratrace Au, Pt, Pd, Ru... by Wenshan Ni, Xiangju Mao, Mingxing Yao, Qiliang Sun, Xiaorui Guo, Hongli Zhang, Lu Liu

“…In this work, a novel method of bismuth fire assay (Bi-FA) combined with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) simultaneous determination of ultratrace gold (Au), platinum (Pt), palladium (Pd), ruthenium (Ru), rhodium (Rh), and iridium (Ir) in geologic samples was established. …”
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New Platform Technology for Comprehensive Serological Diagnostics of Autoimmune Diseases by Annika Willitzki, Rico Hiemann, Vanessa Peters, Ulrich Sack, Peter Schierack, Stefan Rödiger, Ursula Anderer, Karsten Conrad, Dimitrios P. Bogdanos, Dirk Reinhold, Dirk Roggenbuck

“…However, detection of antinuclear antibodies by IIF is still recommended to be the gold standard method for antibody screening in sera from patients with suspected SARD. …”
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DeepRetention: A Deep Learning Approach for Intron Retention Detection by Zhenpeng Wu, Jiantao Zheng, Jiashu Liu, Cuixiang Lin, Hong-Dong Li

“…Here we present DeepRetention, a novel approach for IR detection by modeling the pattern of sequencing depth of introns. Due to the lack of a gold standard dataset of IR, we first compare DeepRetention with two state-of-the-art methods, i.e. iREAD and IRFinder, on simulated RNA-seq datasets with retained introns. …”
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