Facilitating comprehensive child health monitoring within REDCap - an open-source code for real-time Z-score assessments by Priyanka Mendon, Michael Witsch, Marianne Becker, Aurélie Adamski, Michel Vaillant

“…Moreover, our solution uses the World Health Organization (WHO) growth standards and National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) references. …”
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Diagnosis value of targeted and metagenomic sequencing in respiratory tract infection by Yukun Kuang, Yukun Kuang, Weiping Tan, Weiping Tan, Chaohui Hu, Zehan Dai, Lihong Bai, Lihong Bai, Jiyu Wang, Jiyu Wang, Huai Liao, Huai Liao, Haihong Chen, Haihong Chen, Rongling He, Rongling He, Pengyuan Zhu, Jun Liu, Canmao Xie, Canmao Xie, Zunfu Ke, Zunfu Ke, Zunfu Ke, Ke-Jing Tang, Ke-Jing Tang, Ke-Jing Tang

“…Due to limitations of panel coverage, tNGS identified 28 fewer species than mNGS, among which only 3 were considered clinically relevant. In reference to composite reference standard, accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity combining both tNGS and mNGS reached 95.61%, 96.71%, and 95.68%, respectively, while positive prediction value (PPV) was low at 48.13%, which was caused by low agreement regarding opportunistic pathogens. tNGS and mNGS improved the etiology identification in 30.6% (55/180) and 33.9% (61/180) cases, respectively.ConclusionCollectively, tNGS presented a similar overall performance in pathogen identification compared to mNGS, but outperformed in some pathogens. …”
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Quantitative Determination of Major Active Components in Polymyxin B Medicinal Products by NMR Spectroscopy by N. E. Kuz’mina, S. V. Moiseev, I. Yu. Yakupov, S. I. Kuleshova

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Solid-Phase Extraction and GC/MS Confirmation of Heroin Abuse in Urine by Mahmoud A. Alabdalla

“…The mass spectrum of the derivatized metabolites was searched manually against reference libraries for positive identification and the retention time checked against that of the standard. …”
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Molecular and serological survey of Brucella spp. among rodents in western Iran by Majid Hemati, Mohammad Khalili, Saber Esmaeili, Ahmad Mahmoudi, Hossein Ahangari Cohan, Ehsan Mostafavi

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Evaluation of Four Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Test Kits Used at the Enyiresi Government Hospital in the Eastern Region of Ghana by Seth A. Domfeh, Boateng Y. Darkwa, Raymond K. Gablah, Evans Adu-Asamoah, Christian Obirikorang

“…Microscopic identification of Plasmodium spp. is the gold standard for malaria diagnosis. …”
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Improvement of ultrasonic inspection of wheelset axles of railway rolling stock by A. N. Kireev, V. A. Vitrenko

“…The main disadvantage of the use of standard samples of the enterprise is the possible non-conformity of standard reflectors with technical requirements, such as the lack of parallelism of tangent plane of the flat bottom of the reflector to the entry point of the ultrasonic wave; lack of flatness of the bottom of the reference reflector; increased roughness of the flat bottom of the reference reflector, and others. …”
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DC MOTOR DISCRETE CONTROL TECHNIQUE by Andrey Razmikovich Aydinyan, Olga Leonidovna Tsvetkova, Alexander Alexeyevich Molchanov

“…The proposed method can simplify the procedure of selecting the desired properties of the synthesized control system, and reduce the control identification to a standard problem on the linear equation system solution with regard to the inequality constraints at each sample spacing. …”
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Pollen allergen products: current standardisation issues by E. I. Sakanyan, M. A. Yasnaya, V. F. Vul, R. A. Bubenchikov, N. V. Vinokurova, E. S. Yurtaeva

“…The identification of in-house reference standards for the potency of pollen allergens involved Western blotting (for allergenic components). …”
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Protocol for the evaluation and validation of Qi Blood Yin Yang deficiency pattern questionnaire: prospective observational study by Jihye Kim, Keun Ho Kim

“…Background: The aim of this study is to validate the pattern identification standard of qi, blood, yin, and yang deficiency patterns diagnosis. …”
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Evaluation of the cytotoxic effects of the colchicine compound isolated from the leaves of Calotropis procera (Ait) against MCF-7 and SK-GT-4 cancer cell lines. by Muna A.Y. Al-Mussawii, Emad Y. A. AL-Sultan, Maytham A. AL-Hamdani

“…Furthermore, identification, separation, and purification for purified colchicine compound were conducted by HPLC technique  that gave one main peak at RT reached 2.5min compared with the standard reference. …”
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Application of High-Throughput Sequencing Technology in Identifying the Pathogens in Endophthalmitis by Peini Cheng, Kui Dong, Zhiming Kang, Jing Li, Wenjuan Wang, Xiaodan Zhang, Guohong Zhou

“…The matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry technology is now the standard identification method of bacteria and fungi after their isolation in culture. …”
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A Field-Based Measurement and Analysis of Wind-Generated Vibration Responses in a Super-Tall Building During Typhoon “Rumbia” by Yan Ding, Li Lin, Guilin Xie, Xu Wang, Peng Zhao

“…During the impact of Typhoon “Rumbia”, the building’s performance complied with the requirements set by comfort standards. These analytical results not only provide valuable references for the wind-resistant design and vibration control of super-tall buildings but also offer critical support for condition assessment and damage identification within structural health monitoring systems.…”
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Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) method for fast detection of Campylobacter spp in meat food products and environmental objects of a processing plant’s by Yu. K. Yushina, E. V. Zajko, M. A. Grudistova, M. D. Reshchikov, N. A. Nasyrov, D. V. Nikitchenko

“…This article the authors evaluated a commercial loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) system with bioluminescence, called as the 3M™ Molecular Detection Analysis (MDA), which was used to find Campylobacter in food products with the help of a certain standard method, which is referred to as the reference method. …”
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Beyond extraction accuracy: addressing the quality of geographical named entity through advanced recognition and correction models using a modified BERT framework by Liuchang Xu, Jiajun Zhang, Chengkun Zhang, Xinyu Zheng, Zhenhong Du, Xingyu Xue

“…Through the identification and correction process, this study successfully obtained high-quality GNE data, providing a reference for expanding standard address libraries and subsequent research on geographic named entity.…”
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Determination of Relative Contents of Isoflavones in Radix Puerariae Extract by Mass Spectrometry Guided High Performance Liquid Chromatography Using Quantitative Analysis of Multi... by NONG Jinmei, HAN Mo, WU Siqing, LI Libing, DENG Houqin

“…Furthermore, using puerarin as a reference standard, the contents of the 18 isoflavone compounds were relatively quantified. …”
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Unveiling the Urobiome: Getting to know Actinotignum schaalii and its role as a potential uropathogen by Ms Jamisha Francis, Ms Mollie Gidney, Mr. Seth Reasoner, Mr. Johnathan Schmidtz, Ms. Maria Hadjifrangiskou

“…To identify and characterize the presence of Actinotignum in the urobiome we used a combination of Expanded Urine Culture (EUC), 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing, and targeted PCR that allows the propagation and identification of low abundance bacteria. Bacterial identification following EUC was performed using MALDI-TOF and standard laboratory techniques. …”
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A review of Apis mellifera caucasica (Hym., Apidae): History, taxonomy and distribution by Irakli Janashia, Layne Westover, George Japoshvili

“…Insufficient geographic sampling of honeybees across the Caucasus, a statistically inadequate number of studied samples, and incomplete research methodology are major drawbacks of previous studies. Morphometric reference data derived from an extremely limited number of samples still is in use as a standard for the identification of A. m. caucasica. …”
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Application of 19F NMR Spectroscopy for Content Determination of Fluorinated Pharmaceuticals by Alex O. Okaru, Tobias S. Brunner, Svenja M. Ackermann, Thomas Kuballa, Stephan G. Walch, Matthias Kohl-Himmelseher, Dirk W. Lachenmeier

“…Therefore, 19F NMR may serve as a suitable analytical tool for the identification and selective determination of fluorinated pharmaceuticals used as reference materials and bulk samples.…”
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Identifying and measuring the severity of somatic symptom disorder using the Self-reported Somatic Symptom Scale-China (SSS-CN): a research protocol for a diagnostic study by Meng Jiang, Weituo Zhang, Xuan Su, Chuang Gao, Bingxu Chen, Zehao Feng, Jialiang Mao, Jun Pu

“…Each patient will undergo a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5)-guided physician diagnosis, including disease identification and severity assessment, as the reference standard. …”
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