Glioblastoma Stem Cells Microenvironment: The Paracrine Roles of the Niche in Drug and Radioresistance by Alessia Fidoamore, Loredana Cristiano, Andrea Antonosante, Michele d’Angelo, Erica Di Giacomo, Carlo Astarita, Antonio Giordano, Rodolfo Ippoliti, Elisabetta Benedetti, Annamaria Cimini

“…It is, therefore, crucial to investigate the components/factors of the niche in order to formulate new adjuvant therapies rendering more efficiently the gold standard therapies for this neoplasm.…”
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Diagnosis of Sleep Apnea Hypopnea Syndrome Using Fusion of Micro-motion Signals from Millimeter-wave Radar and Pulse Wave Data by Xiang ZHAO, Wei WANG, Chenyang LI, Jian GUAN, Gang LI

“…Experimental results of a clinical trial dataset at Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine Affiliated Sixth People’s Hospital demonstrated that the AHI estimated by the proposed approach correlates with the gold standard PSG with a coefficient of 0.93, indicating good consistency. …”
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A Novel Method to Evaluate the Effect of Slope Blasting under Impact Loading by Wenhai Zhou, Zhenbao Li, Xin Wu, Shujiang Wang, Yaru Lv, Xiaoming Lou, Chaofei Du, Rui Liang

“…The evaluation method proposed in this paper is used to evaluate the postexplosion effect of Zijin Mountain gold-copper mine slope cast blasting. The results demonstrate that the fuzzy normal distribution membership function can correlate the state characteristic information and evaluation index effectively, and the working condition after explosion can be reflected accurately. …”
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Antisense oligonucleotides for the arterial hypertension mechanisms study and therapy by L. O. Klimov, A. A. Seryapina, V. F. Zarytova, A. S. Levina, A. L. Markel

“…Despite the fact that there is a large group of antihypertensive drugs on the market, mainly representing different combinations of inhibitors of the renin-angiotensin system, adrenoreceptor blockers in combination with diuretics, there is no generally accepted “gold standard” for drugs that would not have side effects. …”
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Unmasking the Imitators: Challenges in Identifying Intracranial Atherosclerosis‐Related Large Vessel Occlusion Mimics During Mechanical Thrombectomy by Aaron Rodriguez‐Calienes, Fazeel M. Siddiqui, Juan Vivanco‐Suarez, Sophie Shogren, Milagros Galecio‐Castillo, Mahmoud Dibas, Aditya S. Pandey, Marc Ribo, Santiago Ortega‐Gutierrez

“…Despite digital subtraction angiography being the gold standard, diagnosing ICAS‐LVO is complicated by similarities with other occlusive conditions, leading to misdiagnosis and inappropriate interventions. …”
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DNA origami-designed 3D phononic crystals by Park Sung Hun, Park Haedong, Nam Jwa-Min, Ke Yonggang, Liedl Tim, Tian Ye, Lee Seungwoo

“…To this end, 3D phononic crystals (PnCs) have been considered the gold standard because their complete phononic bandgap (PnBG) enables omnidirectional inhibition of phononic wave propagation. …”
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Microtrabeculectomy versus Conventional Trabeculectomy in Primary Open Angle Glaucoma: A Prospective Interventional Study by Rekha Ramesh Mudhol, Ameena Shirin

“…Trabeculectomy has been widely accepted as the gold-standard intervention for glaucoma for more than 30 years. …”
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Workflow-driven catalytic modulation from single-atom catalysts to Au–alloy clusters on graphene by Gabriel Reynald Da Silva, João Paulo Cerqueira Felix, Celso R. C. Rêgo, Alexandre C. Dias, Carlos Maciel de O. Bastos, Maurício J. Piotrowski, Diego Guedes-Sobrinho

“…Abstract Gold-based (Au) nanostructures are efficient catalysts for CO oxidation, hydrogen evolution (HER), and oxygen evolution (OER) reactions, but stabilizing them on graphene (Gr) is challenging due to weak affinity from delocalized $$p_{z}$$ carbon orbitals. …”
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Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Patients Investigated for Elevated Liver Enzymes by Krikor Kichian, Ross Mclean, Leah M Gramlich, Robert J Bailey, Vincent G Bain

“…The diagnosis of NAFLD is supported by blood work to exclude other liver diseases, and by ultrasound evidence of fat in the liver in patients without a significant history of alcohol intake. The gold standard, however, is a liver biopsy to show the typical histological features of NAFLD, which are almost identical to those of alcohol-induced liver damage and can range from mild steatosis to cirrhosis. …”
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Electrical Property of 3D Printed Continuous Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Composite Mesh Reflecting Surfaces by Kunyang Lin, Xiaofei Ma, Zhen Cui, Youwei Kang, Pengfei Huang, Huanxiao Li, Di Wu, Guanlong Su, Xiaoyong Tian

“…The reflecting surfaces of common mesh antennas are usually prepared by gold-plated molybdenum wire which is expensive and hard to produce. …”
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Comparing the Gene Expression Profile of Stromal Cells from Human Cord Blood and Bone Marrow: Lack of the Typical “Bone” Signature in Cord Blood Cells by Julia Bosch, Amelie Pia Houben, Tatiana Hennicke, René Deenen, Karl Köhrer, Stefanie Liedtke, Gesine Kögler

“…With regard to the bone-regenerative capacity, bone marrow stromal cells (BMSC) can still be termed the “gold standard.” Nevertheless, neonatal stromal cells from cord blood (CB) feature advantages concerning availability, immaturity, and proliferation potential. …”
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Pulmonary Artery Catheter (PAC) Accuracy and Efficacy Compared with Flow Probe and Transcutaneous Doppler (USCOM): An Ovine Cardiac Output Validation by Robert A. Phillips, Sally G. Hood, Beverley M. Jacobson, Malcolm J. West, Li Wan, Clive N. May

“…We compared PAC and USCOM CO measurements against a gold standard, the aortic flow probe (FP), in sheep at varying outputs. …”
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Ozone/Thiosulfate-Assisted Leaching of Cu and Au from Old Flotation Tailings by Stefan Trujić, Miroslav P. Popović, Vesna Conić, Miloš Janošević, Filip Alimpić, Dragoljub Bajić, Ana Milenković-Anđelković, Filip Abramović

“…In this study, the feasibility and efficiency of combining the use of thiosulfate and ozone for gold and silver extraction have been investigated as an eco-friendly alternative for recovery from flotation tailings. …”
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Hybrid Graph Representation Learning for Carotid Artery Stenosis Detection Based on Multimodal Retinal OCTA Images by Wenting Lan, Jinkui Hao, Shengjun Zhou, Jingfeng Zhang, Shaodong Ma, Yitian Zhao

“…Neuroimaging techniques, as the gold standard for evaluating cerebral abnormalities in CAS, suffer from limitations including expensive and time-consuming, hindering their use in large-scale screening. …”
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Multimodal heterogeneous graph fusion for automated obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome diagnosis by Haoyu Wang, Xihe Qiu, Bin Li, Xiaoyu Tan, Jingjing Huang

“…Abstract Polysomnography is the diagnostic gold standard for obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS), requiring medical professionals to analyze apnea-hypopnea events from multidimensional data throughout the sleep cycle. …”
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Peri-Implant Soft Tissue in Contact with Zirconium/Titanium Abutments from Histological and Biological Perspectives: A Concise Review by Fatma A. N. Abouel Maaty, Mai A. Ragab, Yasmin M. El-Ghazawy, Fatma I. Elfaiedi, Marwa M. S. Abbass, Israa Ahmed Radwan, Dina Rady, Sara El Moshy, Nahed Sedky Korany, Geraldine M. Ahmed, Christof E. Dörfer, Karim M. Fawzy El-Sayed

“…While titanium has been the gold standard, zirconia has gained attention due to its biocompatibility and aesthetic appeal. …”
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Numerical Modeling of Rock Panels Subjected to Blast Loadings by Haijun Wang, Daiyu Xiong, Yun Duan, Weiqin Cao, Wenru Zhang, Peng Jiao, Bonan Wang, Xulin Zhao, Yonggang Miao, Le Zhou

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Review of two decades of cholera diagnostics--how far have we really come? by Michal H Dick, Martine Guillerm, Francis Moussy, Claire-Lise Chaignat

“…Such interventions require the availability of rapid and accurate diagnostic techniques to trigger timely response and mitigate the scale of the outbreak. The current gold standard of bacterial culture is inadequate for rapid diagnosis, highlighting the overarching neglect of field diagnostic needs. …”
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Arsenic Retention on Technosols Prepared with Nanoparticles and Ferric Soil from Mine Drainage Water by Darío R. Bolaños-Guerrón, Viviana P. Sánchez-Gómez, Johanna Paz, Andrés R. Izquierdo, Carina Stael, María Balseiro-Romero

“…Mining activities generate a large amount of solid waste and acid drains that contain heavy metals in high concentrations. In wastewater of gold mines from Southern Ecuador (Portovelo), arsenic concentrations between 4.8 and 27.5 μg/L have been detected. …”
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The external validity of machine learning-based prediction scores from hematological parameters of COVID-19: A study using hospital records from Brazil, Italy, and Western Europe. by Ali Safdari, Chanda Sai Keshav, Deepanshu Mody, Kshitij Verma, Utsav Kaushal, Vaadeendra Kumar Burra, Sibnath Ray, Debashree Bandyopadhyay

“…The unprecedented worldwide pandemic caused by COVID-19 has motivated several research groups to develop machine-learning based approaches that aim to automate the diagnosis or screening of COVID-19, in large-scale. The gold standard for COVID-19 detection, quantitative-Real-Time-Polymerase-Chain-Reaction (qRT-PCR), is expensive and time-consuming. …”
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