Comparative Performance Evaluation of Routine Malaria Diagnosis at Ho Municipal Hospital by James Osei-Yeboah, Gameli Kwame Norgbe, Sylvester Yao Lokpo, Mohammed Khadijah Kinansua, Loverage Nettey, Emmanuel Alote Allotey

“…Though none of the test methods evaluated over the gold standard achieved the WHO recommended diagnostic sensitivity and specificity, the RDT achieved an acceptable agreement with the gold standard.…”
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Translation and Validation of the Sinhalese Version of the Brief Medication Questionnaire in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus by P. Ranasinghe, R. Jayawardena, P. Katulanda, G. R. Constantine, V. Ramanayake, P. Galappatthy

“…The questionnaire performance with regards to the gold standards for the overall BMQ AUC was 0.73 (95% CI 0.65–0.80), while the BMQ regimen screen AUC was 0.61 (95% CI 0.53–0.70). …”
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Evaluation of three novel antigens and costimulatory agents for improvement of M. Tuberculosis specific interferon gamma release assays by Sandra Schwarzlose-Schwarck, Mark Reinwald, Torsten Bauer, Florian Hentschel, Til Kiderlen, Dorinja Zapf, Victor Herbst, Stefan Lüth, David Krieger, Werner Dammermann

“…Three MT IGRAs were evaluated, i.e. our in-house IGRA, a prototypic EUROIMMUN Quan-T-Cell TB assay and the gold standard QuantiFERON Tb-Gold Plus assay. Methods In this single-center, prospective trial, whole blood from 71 patients with tuberculosis disease was stimulated using our in-house IGRA with ACR, Rv1733, Rv2626 compared to the current gold standard MT antigen formulation encompassing MT antigens ESAT-6, CFP-10 and TB10.4. …”
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Sulfosalts and Sulfates in the Epithermal Au-Ag-Te Emmy Deposit (Khabarovsk Territory, Far East of Russia): Implications for the Mineralization Process by Tamara Yu. Yakich, Panagiotis Voudouris, Darya V. Levochskaia, Alexey K. Mazurov, Mikhail V. Shaldybin, Yuriy M. Lopushnyak, Alexey S. Ruban, Evan Dasi, Prokopiy N. Maximov, Ekaterina A. Sinkina, Ksenia V. Bestemianova, Maxim A. Rudmin

“…The replacement of goldfieldite by mercury, nickel, lead, and copper tellurides indicate a new influx of native gold, native tellurium, and gold–silver tellurides into the open mineral-forming system. …”
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The risk of repeated self-harm and suicide after emergency department presentation with self-harm in mental health presenters: a retrospective cohort study with data linkage in Que... by Richard A.F. Pellatt, David R. Painter, Jesse T. Young, Kairi Kõlves, Gerben Keijzers, Stuart A. Kinner, Ed Heffernan, Julia Crilly, Marc Broadbent, Amy Johnston, Melinda Martin-Khan, Paul Scuffham, Marianne Wallis, Ping Zhang

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'Micro-Tina' and 'Micro-Gemma' Miniature Dwarf Tomatoes by John W. Scott, Brent K. Harbaugh, E. A. Baldwin

“… 'Micro-Tina' is a red-fruited, miniature dwarf tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) cultivar of a type similar to 'Micro-Tom' (Scott and Harbaugh, 1989) but with sweeter flavor. 'Micro-Gemma' is a gold-fruited, miniature dwarf with superior flavor to that of 'Micro-Gold' (Scott and Harbaugh, 1995). …”
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Spanish Abstract Meaning Representation: Annotation of a General Corpus by Shira Wein, Lucia Donatelli, Ethan Ricker, Calvin Engstrom, Alex Nelson, Leonie Harter, Nathan Schneider

“…We release a detailed set of annotation guidelines and a corpus of 486 gold-annotated sentences spanning multiple genres from an existing, cross-lingual AMR corpus. …”
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Surface Plasmon-Enhanced Nanoantenna for Localized Fluorescence by Isa Kocakarin, Korkut Yegin

“…Surface plasmon-enhanced gold nanoantenna structures on glass substrate are studied for increased localized electric field and fluorescence at the feed gap locations of the antennas. …”
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Un grin de jeunesse ? by Anna Dessertine

“…Secondly, this article will examine the relations occasioned by these gatherings: on the one hand, with those who do not take part in them, given that these meetings take place in view of everyone in the central courtyards of residences, and on the other hand, in a context of intensification of local mobilities in the region’s artisanal gold mines.…”
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Performance evaluation of the smartphone-based AI cough monitoring app - Hyfe Cough Tracker against solicited respiratory sounds [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved wit... by Isabel Blavia, Juliane Chaccour, Eric M. Keen, Virginia Orrillo, Mindaugas Galvosas, Matthew Rudd, Juan C. Gabaldón-Figueira, Simon Grandjean Lapierre, Carlos Chaccour, Peter M. Small, Gerard Giménez

“…Moreover, establishing gold standards to measure this accuracy is challenging. …”
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Validity of Accelerometers for the Evaluation of Energy Expenditure in Obese and Overweight Individuals: A Systematic Review by Silvia Pisanu, Andrea Deledda, Andrea Loviselli, Inge Huybrechts, Fernanda Velluzzi

“…This review aims to summarize the level of agreement between accelerometers and the gold standards (indirect calorimetry and doubly labelled water) for the measurement of energy expenditure (EE) in obese or overweight individuals. …”
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Landscape Transformations (1987–2022): Analyzing Spatial Changes Driven by Mining Activities in Ayapel, Colombia by Juan David Pérez-Aristizábal, Oscar Puerta-Avilés, Juan Jiménez-Caldera, Andrés Caballero-Calvo

“…Gold mining is an activity that has developed in Colombia due to the great availability of mineral resources geographically distributed throughout the territory. …”
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Accuracy of Teledentistry for Diagnosis and Treatment Planning of Pediatric Patients during COVID-19 Pandemic by Ozra Golsanamloo, Sanaz Iranizadeh, Amir Reza Jamei Khosroshahi, Leila Erfanparast, Ali Vafaei, Yalda Ahmadinia, Solmaz Maleki Dizaj

“…The basic design of the study was based on the comparison treatment plans by the students and the gold standard (clinical treatment plan of an expert pedodontist with 10 years of clinical experience). …”
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1,25-Vitamin D-mediated hypercalcaemia in the setting of immune therapy-related sarcoid-like reaction by R K Dharmaputra, N Sheriff, S Ravichandran

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Autism in Preschoolers: Does Individual Clinician’s First Visit Diagnosis Agree with Final Comprehensive Diagnosis? by Gunilla Westman Andersson, Carmela Miniscalco, Christopher Gillberg

“…Comprehensive clinical diagnosis based on all available information is considered the “gold standard” in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). …”
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Peirce's i and Cohen's κ for 2×2 Measures of Rater Reliability by Beau Abar, Eric Loken

“…This study examined a historical mixture model approach to the evaluation of ratings made in “gold standard” and two-rater 2×2 contingency tables. …”
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On Productions of Net-Baryons in Central Au-Au Collisions at RHIC Energies by Ya-Hui Chen, Guo-Xing Zhang, Fu-Hu Liu

“…The transverse momentum and rapidity distributions of net-baryons (baryons minus antibaryons) produced in central gold-gold (Au-Au) collisions at 62.4 and 200 GeV are analyzed in the framework of a multisource thermal model. …”
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Mistaken Worlds: When “Abundance” and “Scarcity” Collide in the Colombian Amazon by Gerard Verschoor, Camilo Torres

“…The introduction of gold mining has introduced exogenous elements into these communities that fundamentally change social life. …”
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Study of Proton, Deuteron, and Triton at 54.4 GeV by M. Waqas, G. X. Peng

“…Transverse momentum spectra of proton, deuteron, and triton in gold-gold (Au-Au) collisions at 54.4 GeV are analyzed in different centrality bins by the blast wave model with Tsallis statistics. …”
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Challenges in adjusting scoring matrices when comparing functional motifs with non-standard compositions by Patryk Jarnot

“…In this study, we described why the gold standard method for scoring matrix adjustment is unable to emphasise frequent amino acids. …”
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