Optimal Dose and Concentration of Hypertonic Saline in Traumatic Brain Injury: A Systematic Review by Martin SUSANTO, Ika RIANTRI

“…Mannitol has been the 'gold standard' osmotic agent for almost a century. …”
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Rehabilitation Following ACL Repair with Internal Brace Ligament Augmentation in Female Gymnast: A Resident’s Case Report by Colten Haack, Giorgio Zeppieri, Micheal W Moser

“…# Introduction Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injuries continue to be a major source of morbidity in gymnastics. The gold standard is to perform an ACL Reconstruction (ACLR). …”
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On Zero-Inflated Hierarchical Poisson Models with Application to Maternal Mortality Data by Kassim Tawiah, Samuel Iddi, Anani Lotsi

“…Furthermore, a well-structured awareness campaign is needed with importance given to avoiding adolescent pregnancy and improving antenatal care attendance to, at least, four, the gold standard, before delivery. Also, we recommend quality assessment form an essential part of all services that are directed towards improving maternal health and that more emphasis is needed to be given on research with multiple allied partners.…”
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Myocardial Bridging, Unusual Cause of Myocardial Infarction; Case Report and Review of Literature by Merga Daba, Dawit Bineyam, Ibraist Yohannes, Beniam Yohannes, Rabirra Waktola, Eshetu Bedada

“…High resolution CT angiography is the gold standard for diagnostic evaluation, with the length and depth of the bridge, and response to conservative therapies guiding clinical decision making on surgical correction. …”
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Carotid endarterectomy outcomes according to anesthesia method: General anesthesia or regional anesthesia? by Fehim Can Sevil, Serkan Gume, Mehmet Tort, Necip Becit

“…Aim: Surgical strategies in carotid endarterectomy (CEA) vary according to the method of anesthesia, neurological monitoring, shunt use, and closure methods, and the gold standard method has not yet been determined. …”
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SERS-based quantitative vertical flow assay using dual Au-Ag SERS nanoprobes by Jinhyeok Jeon, Ji-In Park, Chulhyun Lee

“…For the preparation of SERS nanoprobes, we made use of the gold-silver/core–shell metal nanostructures for the local electromagnetic-field enhancement effect, and the Raman signal could be improved. …”
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A Comparison of Computational Approaches for Intron Retention Detection by Jiantao Zheng, Cuixiang Lin, Zhenpeng Wu, Hong-Dong Li

“…Considering the unavailability of a gold standard dataset of intron retention, we compare the IR detection performance on simulation datasets. …”
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Fracture Resistance of Endodontically Treated Premolars Reconstructed by Traditional Casting and CAD-CAM Milling Post and Cores by Davood Nodehi, Azizollah Moraditalab, Shahrzad Shafiee, Salehe Sekandari, Farzaneh Ahrari

“…The teeth in group 1 restored with amalgam, whereas others reconstructed with post and cores made by cobalt-chromium (Co-Cr) casting (group 2), nonprecious gold (NPG) casting (group 3), or computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) milling (group 4). …”
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Evaluation of a modified venous excess ultrasound (VExUS) protocol for estimation of venous congestion: a cohort study by Katharine C. Martin, Edward A. Gill, Ivor J. Douglas, August A. Longino

“…Abstract Background Understanding venous congestion is critical to the management of many illnesses, but assessing volume status can be challenging. The current gold standard for volume status assessment of right heart catheterization (RHC) is invasive, costly, and often unavailable. …”
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Synovial Fluid Alpha-defensin Lateral Flow Assay is Specific but Not Sensitive for Periprosthetic Joint Infection in Revision Arthroplasty: A Propensity Score-matched Analysis by Sze Hon Yu, Chiu Kwong Yuen, Constance Wong, Cheung Amy, Cheung Man Hong, Chan Vincent Wai Kwan, Luk Michelle Hilda, Chan Ping Keung, Henry Fu

“…The 2018 Musculoskeletal Infection Society criteria were the gold standard for PJI and the Delphi-based consensus criteria for persistent infection. …”
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Spectrum of Cytopathological Causes of Cervical Lymphadenopathy- An Experience at Sahiwal Teaching Hospital by Raees Abbas Lail, Areeba Farooq, Qurrat-ul-Ain Tahir, Sadaf Shafique, Syeda Tooba Fatmi, Abdul Ghaffar

“…Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC) is a simple, fast, and affordable procedure for diagnosing enlarged lymph nodes with a great degree of precision. It is the gold standard biopsy technique used in the workup of palpable neck masses, having sensitivity and specificity as high as 97%. …”
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Impact of Static Electric Field on Dielectrophoretic Alignment of Silicon Nanowires by Lia Hong, Doheon Koo, Hosan Shin, Suyeon Choi, Hongyun So, Jae Byung Park, Woosung Park, Jeeyoung Shin

“…Here, the impact of a static electric field on dielectrophoretic nanowire assembly on gold electrodes is investigated. Specifically, a 4 peak‐to‐peak alternating voltage with 700 Hz is applied and modulate the offset voltage from 0 to 2V. …”
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Diagnosis of spondyloarthritis: Application of criteria in clinical practice by Sham Santhanam, Vinod Ravindran

“…Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the gold standard and is the only imaging modality capable of detecting both inflammatory and structural changes. …”
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The Economics of Immortality: The Demi-Immortal Oriental, Enlightenment Vitalism, and Political Economy in Dracula by J. Jeffrey Franklin

“…Two monstrous alternatives—demi-immortality and an archaic economy of gold and land—are wedded in/as Dracula. Finally, I will delineate a counter-argument, both to my own preceding argument and to that most common among criticisms of the novel, that Dracula, far from being the anti-capitalist anti-Christ, is at once both more spiritual and truer to laissez-faire economics than the vampire slayers who purportedly defend those very values.…”
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cLegal-QA: a Chinese legal question answering with natural language generation methods by Yizhen Wang, Xueying Shen, Zixian Huang, Lihui Niu, Shiyan Ou

“…This dataset spans various legal disputes and includes questions, disputes, scenarios, multiple lawyer responses, and gold-standard answers from human annotators. Additionally, we employed a generative QA model specifically designed for the cLegal-QA dataset. …”
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Choroid and Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbation by Özkan Kocamış, Duygu Zorlu

“…COPD patients were divided into two groups as those that were stable and those with an exacerbation based on the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) classification. Subfoveal choroid thickness (SFCT) of the patients and the control group was compared by measuring the choroid thickness at points 1000 µm nasal and temporal to the fovea and the mean retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness. …”
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Sanger validation of WGS variants by Arina Kopernik, Mariia Sayganova, Gaukhar Zobkova, Natalia Doroschuk, Anna Smirnova, Daria Molodtsova-Zolotukhina, Olesya Sagaydak, Oxana Ryzhkova, Sergey Kutsev, Olga Groznova, Lyusya Melikyan, Elizaveta Bondarchuk, Mary Woroncow, Eugene Albert, Viktor Bogdanov, Pavel Volchkov

“…Despite that, no works to date report the concordance between variants from whole genome sequencing and their gold-standard Sanger validation. In this study we analyzed the concordance for 1756 WGS variants in order to establish the appropriate thresholds for high-quality variants filtering. …”
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Who is Responsible for Instability in the Democratic Republic of Congo? by G. M. Sidorova

“…In exchange for so-calleddevelopment programmes, expensive strategic raw material (such as coltan, wolfram, casseterit, cooper, gold, niobium, and other) is being extracted and exported from the country, in addition, often on the inequivalent basis. …”
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Enhanced thermal dissipation for BCB-bonded 3D integrated membrane photonic circuits by Salim Abdi, Kevin Williams, Yuqing Jiao

“…Herein, we comprehensively analyzed the performance of distributed feedback lasers (DFBs) bonded on Si using a 2 µ m-thick benzocyclobutene (BCB) layer, and with and without a 5 µ m-thick gold thermal shunt to the substrate for efficient thermal dissipation. …”
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GaN Nanopowder synthesis via nitridation: Fabrication and characterization of GaN thin Films for UV detection applications by Mahdi Hajimazdarani, Peyman Yaghoubizadeh, Ali Jafari, Ali Kenarsari Moghadam, Mojtaba Hajimazdarani, Mohammad Javad Eshraghi

“…Additionally, ultraviolet diffuse reflectance spectroscopy measurements revealed a bandgap of 3.37 eV for the deposited thin film. Additionally, gold electrodes were deposited on the gallium nitride thin film, and the optical sensor's detection properties were evaluated, demonstrating a sensitivity of 133.6 along with rise and fall times of 18 ms and 15 ms, respectively. …”
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