Iron and folic acid supplementation compliance during pregnancy and its effect on post-pregnancy anaemia among reproductive-age women in East Africa by Melaku Tadege Engidaw, Patricia Lee, Faruk Ahmed

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Evaluation of intranasal TLR2/6 agonist INNA-051: safety, tolerability and proof of pharmacology by Francesca A. Mercuri, Scott White, Hayley A. McQuilten, Charlotte Lemech, Stephan Mynhardt, Rana Hari, Ping Zhang, Nicole Kruger, Grant McLachlan, Bruce E. Miller, Nicholas P. West, Ruth Tal-Singer, Christophe Demaison

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Near vision assessment for adults using the NIH Toolbox by John-Christopher A. Finley, Jerry Slotkin, Cindy J. Nowinski, Cindy J. Nowinski, Katy Bedjeti, Nicholas Volpe, Sandra Weintraub, Sandra Weintraub, Richard Gershon

“…Concurrence between the NIH Toolbox Near Visual Acuity Test and gold standard chart-based test was also good (r = 0.79, p < 0.001).DiscussionFindings provide support for the reliability and validity of the NIH Toolbox Near Visual Acuity Test as a near vision assessment for middle-aged to older adult populations. …”
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Automated post-run analysis of arrayed quantitative PCR amplification curves using machine learning [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review] by David Garrett Brown, Darwin J. Operario, Lan Wang, Shanrui Wu, Daniel T. Leung, Eric R. Houpt, James A. Platts-Mills, Jie Liu, Ben J. Brintz

“…Previous manual analyses of the amplification curves by experts in qPCR analysis were used as the gold standard. First, a classification model predicted whether amplification occurred or not, and if so, a second model predicted the cycle threshold (Ct) value. …”
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Assessment of Nutritional Status in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer Before Radiotherapy: A Single-center, Cross-sectional Study by Susetyowati SUSETYOWATI, Fuadiyah Nila KURNIASARI, Amalia Sarah SHOLIKHATI, Mardiah HARDIANTI, Ericko EKAPUTRA

“…Conclusions: The method for nutritional status assessment in HNC patients undergoing radiotherapy can be performed by measuring body weight, weight loss, upper arm circumference, visceral fat, hemoglobin, and RMR in addition to PG-SGA as the gold standard.…”
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Interventions to improve media coverage of medical research: a codesigned feasibility and acceptability study with Australian journalists by Brooke Nickel, Ray Moynihan, Alexandra Barratt, Kirsten J McCaffery, Loai Albarqouni, Tessa Copp, Thomas Dakin, Liam Mannix

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Offsite modular construction adoption in developing countries: Partial least square approach for sustainable future by Syed Saad, Kumeel Rasheed, Syed Ammad, Muhammad Hasnain, Habib Ullah, Abdul Hannan Qureshi, Aawag Mohsen Alawag, Muhammad Altaf, Touseef Sadiq

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Validation of Mortality Data Sources Compared to the National Death Index in the Healthcare Integrated Research Database by Jamal-Allial A, Sponholtz T, Vojjala SK, Paullin M, Papazian A, Eshete B, Mahmoudpour SH, Verpillat P, Beachler DC

“…Aziza Jamal-Allial,1 Todd Sponholtz,1 Shiva K Vojjala,2 Mark Paullin,2 Anahit Papazian,1 Biruk Eshete,2 Seyed Hamidreza Mahmoudpour,3 Patrice Verpillat,3 Daniel C Beachler2 1Safety & Epidemiology, Carelon Research, Newton, MA, USA; 2Safety & Epidemiology, Carelon Research, Wilmington, DE, USA; 3Merck Healthcare KGaA, Darmstadt, GermanyCorrespondence: Daniel C Beachler, Carelon Research, 123 Justison Street, Suite 200, Wilmington, DE, 19801, USA, Email Daniel.beachler@carelon.comBackground: The National Death Index (NDI) is the gold standard for mortality data in the United States (US) but has a time lag and can be operationally intensive. …”
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Comparative environmental impacts analysis of technologies for recovering critical metals from copper anode slime: Insights from LCA by Yu Li, Jenny Baker, Yaxi Fang, Haizhou Cao, Cameron Pleydell-Pearce, Trystan Watson, Sha Chen, Guangling Zhao

“…It contains metals such as gold, silver, copper, selenium, tellurium etc. Without proper treatment, CAS posed significant environmental hazard due to its toxic components. …”
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Impact of Peracetic Acid on the Dynamic Cyclic Fatigue of Heat-Treated Nickel-Titanium Rotary Endodontic Instrument by Suhad Jabbar Hamed Al-Nasrawi, Zuha Ayad Jaber, Nibrass Talib Al-Quraine, Abtesam Imhemed Aljdaimi, Sattar Jabbar Abdul-Zahra Al-Hmedat, Saleh Zidan, Julfikar Haider

“…Three types of heat-treated NiTi rotary files were selected: One Curve (OC), ProTaper Gold (PTG), and Wave One Gold (WOG). Each type was divided into three subgroups (n = 6 for each file type): (1) untreated instruments; (2) files immersed in 0.002% PAA; and (3) files immersed in 0.35% PAA. …”
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Ventricular function assessment using an ultrafast spoiled gradient echo sequence with an intravascular blood pool contrast agent in pediatric patients. by Tayaba Miah, Rithvik Gunda, Gerald Greil, Mohammad Hussain, Qing Zou

“…<h4>Background</h4>Balanced steady-state free processing (bSSFP) MR sequence has long been considered the gold standard method for ventricular function assessment (VFA), and normal values are based on this acquisition. …”
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Bortezomib Use for a Critically Ill Patient with Angioimmunoblastic T-Cell Lymphoma by Motoharu Shibusawa

“…Angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (AITL) accounts for 18.5% of all peripheral T-cell lymphomas. There is still no gold standard chemotherapy for treating newly diagnosed AITL. …”
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Correlation between fecal biomarkers and the presence of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies with ulcerative colitis disease activity by Büşra Usta, Demet Gür Vural, Asuman Birinci, Müge Ustaoğlu Dede

“…Although colonoscopy remains the gold standard for Ulcerative colitis (UC) diagnosis due to its invasive and costly nature, non-invasive biomarkers are gaining importance in disease activity monitoring and diagnosis. …”
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Ewaluacje konstruktywistyczne. Implikacje dla wczesnej edukacji by Henryk Mizerek

“…The scope of in-depth analyzes is aimed to present the specificity of responsive dialogical evaluations compared to other constructivist models and their distinctiveness from neoliberal evaluations and those subordinated to the gold standard ideology. The content of the second part of the paper is devoted to analyze the problems of designing, planning and conducting programs implemented in early education. …”
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Occupational Exposures and Chronic Airflow Limitation by Helen Dimich-Ward, Susan M Kennedy, Moira Chan-Yeung

“…There is compelling evidence that exposure to inorganic dusts, such as from coal and hardrock mining or asbestos, are associated with the development of chronic airflow limitation, independently of pneumoconiosis. Nonsmoking gold miners are particularly at high risk of airflow obstruction and emphysema. …”
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Sorption of Noble Metals on Silica Gel Chemically Modified with -(5-Mercapto-1,3,4-Thiadiazol-2-yl)-'-Propylurea Groups by A.K. Trokhimchuk, I.M. Boychenko, V.N. Losev

“…It was shown that differences in the kinetics and temperature conditions for the sorption of platinum and gold can be used to separate micro-amounts of these metals in solution.…”
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THE NEED FOR REVITALIZING ZAKAH REGULATION TOWARD PRODUCTIVE ZAKAH by M. Zidny Nafi' Hasbi

“…The government also needs to re-regulate zakah from Muslim communities, such as zakah of professions, agriculture, plantations, gold, silver, and the like. Likewise, if the zakah provisions have been reached (nisab and haul), the government must take zakah out from savings or deposits owned by Muslim communities in banks.…”
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Le passage du fordisme au néolibéralisme au Canada by Jean-Guy Loranger, Gérard Boismenu

“…The main structural changes are the de-linkage of the US dollar from gold, the change of the exchange regime, the end of the cold war, the change of monetary policy, the change of the distribution rate in favour of capital (and financial capital via financial derivatives), the decreasing impact of productivity on real wage and aggregate demand, the increase of the impact of the state on productivity via its expenditures on education, health and other infrastructure expenditures.…”
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Analysis of Hospital Discharge Data to Characterize Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Its Management in Adult Patients Hospitalized in Canada: 2006 to 2007 by Kathy F Spurr, Debra L Morrison, Michael A Graven, Adam Webber, Robert W Gilbert

“…BACKGROUND: Diagnosed obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) affects 2% to 7% of middle-age persons worldwide and represents a substantial health care burden. The gold standard for treating OSA in adults is continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy. …”
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Case Report: Robotic PeTEP for Totally Extraperitoneal Repair of Incisional Hernia by Victor G. Radu

“…Recreating traditional procedures, which are considered the “gold standard” in ventral hernia surgery, through minimally invasive methods—such as the Rives-Stoppa repair—could represent the next frontier in abdominal wall surgery. …”
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