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GUIDE-IT trial

GUIDE-IT (NCT01685840) was a 2013–2016 randomized trial in 894 high-risk HFrEF patients at 45 US and Canadian sites testing NT-proBNP-guided therapy targeting <1,000 pg/mL versus usual care; it was stopped for futility with no outcome difference.

Guided antiplatelet therapy

Guided antiplatelet therapy is a cardiology treatment strategy that uses platelet function testing or CYP2C19 genotyping to select and dose P2Y12 inhibitors like clopidogrel for individual patients.

Guided by Voices

Guided by Voices: Dayton, Ohio indie rock band led by Robert Pollard, formed 1983. Known for lo-fi classics Bee Thousand (1994) and Alien Lanes (1995), a 2004 breakup, reunion, and prolific recent output.

Guided Democracy in Indonesia

Guided Democracy in Indonesia (Demokrasi Terpimpin), also called the Old Order, governed from 1959 to 1966, concentrating power in President Sukarno before the 1966 transfer to Suharto's New Order.

Guided filter

The guided filter is an edge-preserving image smoothing filter that transfers structure from a guidance image and runs in linear time, introduced by Kaiming He and colleagues in 2010.

Guided filtering

Guided filtering is an edge-preserving image filter, introduced by Kaiming He and colleagues in 2010, that transfers a guidance image's structures to a smoothed output in linear time.

Guided implant surgery

Guided implant surgery is a dental technique that transfers a virtual implant plan, built from CBCT scans, to the surgical field using static templates or dynamic navigation.

Guided inquiry model

Guided inquiry is an instructional model in which students investigate questions and construct their own understanding while teachers and school librarians provide structured scaffolding, based on Kuhlthau's Information Search Process.

Guided meditation

Guided meditation is meditation in which an instructor or recording verbally directs a participant's attention, breathing, and imagery, most often to produce relaxation and reduce stress, anxiety, depression, or pain.

Guided missiles of India

Guided missiles of India, also called Missiles of India, are indigenous ballistic, cruise, and surface-to-air systems built chiefly by DRDO, descending from the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme begun in 1983.

Guided policy search

Guided policy search is a family of reinforcement learning algorithms that uses trajectory optimization to guide policy training, introduced by Sergey Levine and Vladlen Koltun in 2013.

Guided tissue regeneration

Guided tissue regeneration (GTR) is a periodontal surgical technique in which a barrier membrane excludes fast-growing tissue so bone, cementum, and periodontal ligament regrow on a cleaned tooth root.

Guided wave testing

Guided wave testing (GWT), also called long range ultrasonic testing (LRUT), is a non-destructive testing method that sends low-frequency ultrasonic waves along pipe walls to detect corrosion and defects.

Guideline Adherence

Guideline adherence: conformity of health organizations and professionals to clinical guidelines, protocols, and standards (MeSH D019983, 1998). Distinct from patient compliance; measured via surveys, chart review, and rule-based alignment; rates range 1–100% across studies.

GuideWell Mutual Holding

GuideWell Mutual Holding Corporation is a not-for-profit, policyholder-owned mutual insurance holding company created in 2014 that owns 100 percent of Florida Blue, Florida's largest health insurer.

Guiding center

The guiding center is the center of the spiral trajectory of a charged particle gyrating in a magnetic field; guiding-center theory averages out the fast gyration.

Guiding Light

Guiding Light (The Guiding Light before 1977) was an American daytime soap opera created by Irna Phillips, debuting on NBC Radio January 25, 1937 and on CBS TV June 30, 1952; its 72-year Procter & Gamble-sponsored run ended September 18, 2009.

Guido (slang)

Guido is a North American slang term and ethnic slur for stereotypical working-class East Coast Italian-American men, derived from the Italian given name Guido; also a self-applied youth subculture label popularized by Jersey Shore.

Guido Ascoli

Guido Ascoli (1887–1957) was an Italian mathematician known for work on partial differential equations, functional analysis, and mathematics education, with chairs at Pisa, Milan, and Turin.

Guido Baccelli

Guido Baccelli was an Italian physician and statesman, professor of clinical medicine at the University of Rome and repeated Minister of Public Instruction, who promoted the Policlinico Umberto I.

Guido Balzarini

Guido Balzarini (1874-1935), Italian sabre fencer and lawyer; won team sabre gold at Paris 1924, fencing only the USA quarter-final (4 wins, all 4-3); oldest Italian Olympic gold medallist at nearly 50.

Guido Bentivoglio

Guido Bentivoglio (1577–1644) was an Italian cardinal, diplomat, and historian who served fourteen years as papal nuncio in Flanders and France before becoming a cardinal in 1621.

Guido Boni

Guido Boni names two Italian athletes from Vicchio di Mugello: a gymnast (1892-1956) who won 1912 Olympic team gold and 1913 world titles, and a cyclist (1933-2014) who won a 1958 Giro d'Italia stage.

Guido Buffarini Guidi

Guido Buffarini Guidi (1895-1945), Pisa-born Fascist politician, Mussolini's undersecretary and de facto head of the Interior Ministry 1933-1943, Interior Minister of the Salò republic 1943-1945; author of the 1935 anti-Pentecostal circular and the 1943 decree ordering internment of Italy's Jews; executed at Milan in July 1945.

Guido Calabresi

Guido Calabresi, born 1932 in Milan, Italy, is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, appointed by President Clinton in 1994.

Guido Castelnuovo

Guido Castelnuovo (1865–1952) was an Italian mathematician who, with Federigo Enriques, founded the Italian school's classification of algebraic surfaces, proved the rationality criterion for surfaces, and later led Italian science after fascism.

Guido Cavalcanti

Guido Cavalcanti was a Florentine poet and philosopher of the late 13th century, the leading figure of the dolce stil novo and Dante's closest poetic friend.

Guido Crosetto

Guido Crosetto (born 1963, Cuneo) is Italy's Minister of Defence since 22 October 2022 and co-founder of Fratelli d'Italia with Meloni and La Russa; former defence undersecretary (2008-2011) and AIAD president, he steers Italy's Ukraine aid, defence reform, and NATO spending policy.

Guido de Croon

Guido C. H. E. de Croon is a Dutch artificial-intelligence researcher and full professor at Delft University of Technology's Micro Air Vehicle Laboratory, working on insect-inspired autonomy for small drones.

Guido de Felip

Guido De Felip (also De Filip), 1904-1968, Italian rowing coxswain of Canottieri Bucintoro Venezia; won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold in coxed pairs with Olgeni and Scatturin at age 15, later Italian coxed fours champion.