On Behavioral Response of 3D Squeezing Flow of Nanofluids in a Rotating Channel by Mubashir Qayyum, Omar Khan, Thabet Abdeljawad, Naveed Imran, Muhammad Sohail, Wael Al-Kouz

“…The base fluid in the channel is considered to be water that contains different nanoparticles including silicon, copper, silver, gold, and platinum. The homotopy perturbation method (HPM) is employed for the solution of highly nonlinear coupled system. …”
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Improving 3D deep learning segmentation with biophysically motivated cell synthesis by Roman Bruch, Mario Vitacolonna, Elina Nürnberg, Simeon Sauer, Rüdiger Rudolf, Markus Reischl

“…Manual annotation, the gold standard for ground truth data, is too time-consuming and thus not feasible for the generation of large 3D training datasets. …”
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Clinical Validation of an Office-Based 14C-UBT (Heliprobe) for H. pylori Diagnosis in Iranian Dyspeptic Patients by Fariborz Mansour-Ghanaei, Omid Sanaei, Farahnaz Joukar

“…The 14C-UBT was performed on all subjects using Heliprobe kit, and results were analyzed against the following gold standard (GS): H. pylori infection considered positive when any two of three diagnostic methods (histopathology, RUT, serology) are positive. …”
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Evaluation of the impact of postural restrictions after Semont liberatory maneuver on immediate reactions and short-term outcome in the posterior semicircular canal canalolithiasis... by Andrea Albera, Marco Boldreghini, Sergio Lucisano, Roberto Albera, Claudia Cassandro, Alma Barci, Giuseppe Riva, Andrea Canale

“…The Liberatory maneuver is considered the gold-standard treatment, with a short-term resolution of the vertigo in over 70% of cases, and achieving a 90% success rate after four maneuvers. …”
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An Overview of Neovaginal Reconstruction Options in Male to Female Transsexuals by Marta Bizic, Vladimir Kojovic, Dragana Duisin, Dusan Stanojevic, Svetlana Vujovic, Aleksandar Milosevic, Gradimir Korac, Miroslav L. Djordjevic

“…In neovaginoplasty reconstruction of the vulvovaginal complex is performed in its entity. The gold standard in neovaginal reconstruction in male to female sex reassignment surgery is penile skin inversion technique with or without scrotal flaps, which enables adequate sensation of the neovagina, good neovaginal depth, good erotic sensitivity of the neclitoris, and esthetically acceptable labia minora and maiora.…”
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Development and Optimization of a Multiplex Real-Time RT-PCR to Detect SARS-CoV-2 in Human Samples by Camilo Castellar-Mendoza, María-Angélica Calderón-Peláez, Jaime E. Castellanos, Myriam L. Velandia-Romero, Carolina Coronel-Ruiz, Sigrid Camacho-Ortega, Lilia J. Bernal-Cepeda, Lady López-Ibarra, Jhann A. Arturo, Félix G. Delgado, Hernando Gutierrez-Barbosa, Sonia Bohorquez-Avila, Johanna Madroñero, Zayda L. Corredor-Rozo, Sandra J. Perdomo-Lara, Angela Fonseca-Benitez, Eliana Calvo

“…During the COVID-19 pandemic, qPCR became the gold standard technique for detecting the SARS-CoV-2 virus that allowed to confirm the infection event, and those asymptomatic ones, and thus save millions of lives. …”
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Clinical Diagnosis has a High Negative Predictive Value in Evaluation of Malignant Skin Lesions by Maral Seyed Ahadi, Alireza Firooz, Hoda Rahimi, Mehrdad Jafari, Zohreh Tehranchinia

“…We evaluated the accuracy of clinical diagnosis of malignant skin lesions by comparing the clinical diagnosis with histological diagnosis as the gold standard. Materials and Methods. In this retrospective study, we assessed all the pathology reports from specimens sent to a university hospital laboratory in 3 consecutive years from March 2008 to March 2010. …”
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Retrospective evaluation of a novel ultrasound-based imaging analysis software for predicting radiofrequency ablation areas. by Masaya Sato, Ryosuke Tateishi, Yogev Zohar, Jiro Sato, Takeyuki Watadani, Makoto Moriyama, Taijiro Wake, Ryo Nakagomi, Mizuki Nishibatake Kinoshita, Takuma Nakatsuka, Tatsuya Minami, Koji Uchino, Kenichiro Enooku, Hayato Nakagawa, Yoshinari Asaoka, Ryo Yamada, Nitzan Even, Inbal Amitai, Yossi Abu, Mitsuhiro Fujishiro, Kazuhiko Koike

“…Its predictive accuracy was assessed by comparing the ablation zones it predicted with those annotated by radiologists using contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CECT) 24 hours post-treatment, considered the gold standard. The study included 20 liver tumors.…”
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¿Son válidos los métodos manuales modificados para determinar la Velocidad de Eritrosedimentación Globular (VSG) en laboratorios clínicos? by Andrey Payán González, Diana Maritza Jurado Orejuela, Luz Myriam Garzón Lancheros

“…Se evaluó estadísticamente la validez de cuatro métodos para determinar la Velocidad de Eritrosedimentación Globular (VSG) alternos al de Westergren, el que se tomó como “gold standard”. Los métodos evaluados fueron Wintrobe (WB), Wintrobe inclinado (WI) a 45° y dos micrométodos capilares, uno vertical (MM) y otro inclinado a 45° (MMI). …”
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Comparative Study of MRI and Ultrasound in Diagnosing Musculoskeletal Soft Tissue Tumours by Nisha Rai, Rajeev K. Ranjan, Anima R. Xalxo, Suresh K. Toppo

“…The imaging findings were compared with histopathological results, which served as the gold standard. Diagnostic parameters including sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV) were calculated for both MRI and Ultrasound. …”
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Statin Induced Changes in Rat Pancreatic Tissue: A Histological and Biochemical Perspective by Abdullah Qamar, Hammad Gul Khan, Muhammad Marghoob Khan, Muhammad Rizwan Bashir Kiani, Hina Kundi, Fareeha Mushtaq

“…At the end of the experiment, the rats were euthanized, and their pancreas was collected for analysis and examined using gold-standard histological parameters including inflammation and fatty infiltration. …”
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Assessing Exercise Limitation Using Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing by Michael K. Stickland, Scott J. Butcher, Darcy D. Marciniuk, Mohit Bhutani

“…Maximal oxygen consumption (V˙O2max) is the gold-standard measure of aerobic fitness and is determined by the variables that define oxygen delivery in the Fick equation (V˙O2 = cardiac output × arterial-venous O2 content difference). …”
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Diagnosis of Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia and Invasive Cervical Carcinoma by Cervical Biopsy under Colposcopy and Analysis of Factors Influencing by Ying Wang, Jing Wang, Hua Mei

“…The influencing factors of CIN and ICC detected by colposcopy biopsy were analyzed by the pathological results of loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP) as the gold standard. Results. After LEEP, the number of the no intraepithelial or malignant lesions (NILM) or ICC were higher than that of colposcopy biopsy, and CIN-III was lower than that of colposcopy biopsy, the differences were all statistically significant (P<0.05). …”
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Direct detection and identification of viruses in saliva using a SpecID ionization modified mass spectrometer. by Pierre Alusta, Angel Paredes, Marli Azevedo, Lisa Mullis, Dan Buzatu

“…Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) remains the gold standard for sensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection in biological samples. …”
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Inhibition of Staphylococcus aureus α-Hemolysin Production Using Nanocurcumin Capped Au@ZnO Nanocomposite by Majid S. Jabir, Taha M. Rashid, Uday M. Nayef, Salim Albukhaty, Faizah A. AlMalki, Jawaher Albaqami, Amal A. AlYamani, Zainab J. Taqi, Ghassan M. Sulaiman

“…Nanoparticles of gold with zinc oxide (Au@ZnO NPs) were prepared by laser ablation and then capped with curcumin nanoparticles (Cur-Au@ZnO NPs). …”
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Design and Simulation of an Environment-Friendly ZrS2/CuInS2 Thin Film Solar Cell Using SCAPS 1D Software by Sunirmal Kumar Biswas, Monira Khanom Mim, Md. Mostak Ahmed

“…This simulation employed the absorber layer CuInS2 and the buffer layer ZrS2 with aluminum as the front contact and gold as the back contact. The impact of the absorber layer thickness, band gap, buffer layer thickness, acceptor density, defect density, series and shunt resistances, C-V, Mott–Schottky, and the operating temperature has been studied for the proposed solar cell structure. …”
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Metals valorization from pyrolyzed waste PCBS by Kilibarda Nikola B., Kamberović Željko J., Đokić Jovana M., Kovačević Tihomir M., Jovanović Nikola M.

“…The pyrolyzed residue showed high concentrations of silver (494 g/t) and gold (56 g/t), enabling their further valorization. …”
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An Ultrasound Prototype for Remote Hand Movement Sensing: The Finger Tapping Case by Stefano Franceschini, Maria Maddalena Autorino, Michele Ambrosanio, Vito Pascazio, Fabio Baselice

“…In the context of neurodegenerative diseases, finger tapping is a gold-standard test used by clinicians to evaluate the severity of the condition. …”
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Application of 24 h Dynamic Electrocardiography in the Diagnosis of Asymptomatic Myocardial Ischemia with Arrhythmia in Elderly Patients with Coronary Heart Disease by Zongwei Chen, Hong Tan, Xuemei Liu, Minghua Tang

“…Coronary angiography was used as the gold standard to observe the performance of the two examination methods in the diagnosis of asymptomatic myocardial ischemia with arrhythmia in elderly patients with CHD. …”
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RESEARCH ON STRESS AND PRECISION CONTROL TECHNOLOGY OF WELDED STEEL PARTS by WEI DongHai, LI KeRui, KUANG Yi, CHENG Peng

“…The welding structure can be used for high precision CNC gold cutting machine tools and gear boxes.…”
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