Teaming up with termites—Appraising termites’ contributions to earth technologies in West Africa by Jan Jansen, James R. Fairhead

“…It proposes an integrated understanding of a wide range of hitherto symbolically or metaphorically understood practices related to the mining of iron and gold, iron production, agriculture, health, wood carving and pottery, as well as to creation myths and the Sunjata epic.…”
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Developing automated strategy of life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) with building information modeling (BIM) integration for building projects by Muhammad Altaf, Rabeea Jaffari, Wesam Salah Alalaoul, Muhammad Ali Musarat, Syed Ammad

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TOPD Phenotype versus COPD: Pulmonary Function Spectrum Beyond the Limits of Spirometry by Bishal Debbarma, Anand Srivastava, Sapna Dixit, Rajiv Garg, S.K Verma, RAS Kushwaha, Santosh Kumar, Ajay Kumar Verma, Darshan Kumar Bajaj, Ankit Kumar, Jyoti Bajpai, Surya Kant

“…The majority of TOPD patients were in GOLD II stage, while COPD patients were in GOLD I stage. …”
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Modeling the effects of macroeconomic variables on the stock market: An Application of Non-linear Distributed Auto-regression Model by Parinaz Dadashzadehrishekani, Hassan Heidari

“…Meanwhile, the negative shock of the mentioned variables will lead to a 0.12 percent decrease in the stock price index and in the short and long term on The positive shock of the gold price on the stock price index is insignificant.In terms of our results, economic growth has positive relationship with the stock price index. …”
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Tonometry in keratoconus by V.V. Averich, A.V. Volzhanin

“…These methods include tonometry based on new principles and dynamic contour tonometry. One of the "gold standards" for IOP measurement is Goldmann tonometry. …”
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TEMPO-Functionalized Nanoporous Au Nanocomposite for the Electrochemical Detection of H2O2 by Dongxiao Wen, Qianrui Liu, Ying Cui, Huaixia Yang, Jinming Kong

“…A novel nanocomposite of nanoporous gold nanoparticles (np-AuNPs) functionalized with 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-piperidinyloxy radical (TEMPO) was prepared; assembled carboxyl groups on gold nanoporous nanoparticles surface were combined with TEMPO by the “bridge” of carboxylate-zirconium-carboxylate chemistry. …”
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Validation of a Portable Wireless Force Platform System To Measure Ground Reaction Forces During Various Tasks by Vasileios Mylonas, Christos Chalitsios, Thomas Nikodelis

“… # Purpose To validate the kinetic data obtained from a pair of portable K-Deltas force platforms compared to gold standard platforms fixed in the lab and to examine the measurement reliability between this pair of portable force platforms…”
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Coupling Strategies for the Synthesis of Peptide-Oligonucleotide Conjugates for Patterned Synthetic Biomineralization by Joshua D. Carter, Thomas H. LaBean

“…All recoverable conjugates demonstrated gold nanoparticle templating capability.…”
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Geological Structural Surface Evaluation Model Based on Unascertained Measure by Kang Zhao, Qing Wang, Yajing Yan, Junqiang Wang, Kui Zhao, Shuai Cao, Yongjun Zhang

“…On the basis of the unascertained measurement theory and scanline method, the surrounding rock stability of the underground geological structure plane in Lingbao Luoshan Gold Mine is evaluated. First, according to the structural plane five grading standards, the 9 single-index measure functions are constructed. …”
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A Rare Otological Presentation of Squamous Papilloma by Tanuj Madan, Sunil Goyal, Sachin Thongam

“…Contrast Enhanced Computed Tomography remained the gold standard and imaging study of choice for evaluation. …”
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Étude et analyses des dégradations du manuscrit de Nizet by Cecilia Duminuco

“…The book is damaged and presents black stained areas in the paper which are transfers of gold-like and silver-like painted decorations. The purpose was to achieve a better understanding of the materials and degradations of the manuscript.…”
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Vaginal Tritrichomonas foetus infection in mice as an in vivo model for drug development against Trichomonas vaginalis. by Noelle M Nieskens, Yukiko Miyamoto, Brianna M Hurysz, Anthony J O'Donoghue, Lars Eckmann

“…Comparison of drug susceptibility profiles revealed that T. foetus and T. vaginalis were similarly susceptible to a range of 5-nitroheterocyclic and gold(I) compounds. By comparison, proteasome inhibitors were 10- to 15-fold less active against T. foetus than T. vaginalis, although one of the proteasome inhibitors, bortezomib, had low micromolar activity or better against multiple strains of both trichomonads. …”
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Fast and Selective Adsorption of Au (III) from the Waste Printed Circuit Boards Using a Low-Cost Adsorbent: Optimization by Central Composite Design Based on Response Surface Metho... by Farideh Zandi-Darehgharibi, Hedayat Haddadi, Arash Asfaram

“…These results confirm the use of low-cost and high-efficiency GA to fast and selectively recover gold from waste PCBs.…”
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Molecular epidemiological analysis of Influenza viruses in Influenza-like illness cases: a retrospective study in Chongqing Hi-Tech Zone, China (2021–2024) by Wei Cai, Yuhang Deng, Pan Xu, Jianjiang Xue

“…Results Among 39,986 ILI specimens tested using the immunocolloid gold method, 6,616 influenza viruses were detected, with a detection rate of 16.54%. …”
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Robust Automated Harmonization of Heterogeneous Data Through Ensemble Machine Learning: Algorithm Development and Validation Study by Doris Yang, Doudou Zhou, Steven Cai, Ziming Gan, Michael Pencina, Paul Avillach, Tianxi Cai, Chuan Hong

“…ResultsThe method was evaluated using manually curated gold standard labels from the 3 National Institutes of Health cohorts. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of Antimicrobial Activities of Different Types of Luting Cements by Sazan Sherdl Saleem

“…In MDCT, bacterial suspensions were exposed to the cements, and colony-forming unit (CFU) counts were recorded at various time points to assess microbial survival.Top of Form Results: In ADT, GC Gold Label glass ionomer exhibited the highest inhibition zones (17.75 mm) after one week, surpassing other intervals of the same cement and all other cements tested. …”
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4,5-Diamino-2-Thiouracil-Powered Dual-Mode Biosensor for Sensitive, Nonenzymatic Determination of Saliva Uric Acid Levels by Zipeng Wu, Lingyan Cheng, Shuhua Cai, Baochang Su, Yaowei Chen, Chunzong Cai, Weijin Guo, Dong Ma, Xin Cui

“…Furthermore, validation against gold standard testing indicates that this biosensor could serve as a highly sensitive assay for quantifying uric acid levels in point-of-care applications, particularly in resource-limited settings.…”
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Comparison of periapical parallel radiography with cbct with different field of views (FOV) for the detection of periapical lesions

“…There were no significant differences between CBCT with different FOVs and defect sizes (gold standard) while we found significant differences for periapical by defect sizes. …”
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Spastic Paraparesis in Young Men With Spinal Meningioma and Spinal Arteriovenous Malformation: A Case Report by Leonard Christianto Singjie, Ivan Jeremia, Esdras Ardi Pramudita

“…Laminectomy and tumor destruction were the gold standards of therapy, and the symptom was relieved. …”
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Rapid Colorimetric Detection of Hg (II) Based on Hg (II)-Induced Suppressed Enzyme-Like Reduction of 4-Nitrophenol by Au@ZnO/Fe3O4 in a Cosmetic Skin Product by Oratile Semong, Bareki Shima Batlokwa

“…Herein, we synthesized gold-coated ZnO/Fe3O4 nanocomposites. Initially, we prepared Fe3O4 magnetic nanoparticles based on the co-precipitation of Fe3+ and Fe2+ under aqueous ammonia as a precipitating agent. …”
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