Using a Two-Steps Clustering and PCA Analysis for Stratified Chronic Non-Cancer Pain Care: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study by Peiró AM, Barrachina J, Escorial M, Aguado I, Margarit C, Grimby-Ekman A

“…A retrospective study was developed (n = 120) following the stratified analysis.Results: From a principal component analysis, cut-off points were defined to discriminate between the six clusters and three groups of different pain intervention requirements. …”
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Development of a Brief Assessment Tool to Evaluate Early Low Nutrition Risk in Community Elderly: Creation of the Tool and Examination of Its Reliability and Criterion-related Vali... by Shoji Shinkai, Miki Narita, Hiroshi Murayama, Akihiko Kitamura, Yoshinori Fujiwara

“…Item analysis was conducted on the 34 common items, and items were selected based on the following criteria: adequate pass rates and discriminative power, no gender and regional differences, and a certain level of commonality based on factor analysis. …”
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Validity, reliability, and feasibility of the Malay version of Obstetric Quality-of-Recovery tool (ObsQoR-10) by Pamela Chia, Chin Wen Tan, Jitsupa Nithiuthai, Rehena Sultana, Farida Ithnin, Pervez Sultan, Ban Leong Sng

“…Validity: The ObsQoR-10-Malay discriminated between good and poor recovery (EQ-5D-3L visual analog scale (VAS) < 70: 58.8 (standard deviation [SD] 16.4); VAS ≥ 70: 68.3 (SD 11.2), and correlated with EQ-5D-3L VAS score (r = 0.4114; P < 0.0001), HADS-anxiety (r = 0.6056, P < 0.0001), and PCS-magnification (r = 0.4994, P < 0.0001). …”
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Profiles of Sugar and Organic Acid of Fruit Juices: A Comparative Study and Implication for Authentication by Jiaxiu Li, Chunling Zhang, Hui Liu, Jiechao Liu, Zhonggao Jiao

“…With the aid of principal component analysis and linear discriminant analysis (LDA), the juice samples could be successfully classified according to fruit species by using the sugar and/or organic acid composition as analytical data. …”
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A Preseason Training Program With the Nordic Hamstring Exercise Increases Eccentric Knee Flexor Strength and Fascicle Length in Professional Female Soccer Players by Karoline Baptista Vianna, Lívia Gonçalves Rodrigues, Nathalia Trevisol Oliveira, João Breno Ribeiro-Alvares, Bruno Manfredini Baroni

“… # Methods Sixteen amateur female soccer players (without a NHE training routine) were evaluated 8-weeks apart to: (1) assess reliability of eccentric knee flexor strength and biceps femoris fascicle length measures; and (2) determine the typical error of measures that would be used to discriminate training responders and non-responders. …”
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Cochlear Implantation: Predicting Round Window Niche Visibility Using One Measurement in High-Resolution Temporal Bone Computed Tomography by Laila Telmesani, Mona Al-Ramah, Yassin Abdelsamad, Lena Telmesani

“…The receiver operating characteristic analysis revealed a significant discriminating ability in predicting RWN visibility (P <.001) at a threshold ABTC angle of 58.5°. …”
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A Lightweight CNN-Transformer Implemented via Structural Re-Parameterization and Hybrid Attention for Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution by Jie Wang, Hongwei Li, Yifan Li, Zilong Qin

“…While transformer methods are capable of learning long-distance dependencies, they often overlook local feature details, which can diminish the discriminability between the background and the foreground. …”
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The language use Inventory-Persian: report of the psychometric properties by Mahbubeh Nakhshab, Ali Asgary, Akram Ahmadi

“…In addition, the evidence of the discriminant validity was confirmed by a significant difference between TD and late-talking children (p < 0.001). …”
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Validation and assessment of the arabic psychological first aid scale among physicians, nurses, and counselors in Jordan by Basma Eid Alshareef, Othman A. Alfuqaha, Ibraheem B. Maali, Khaled Amer

“…This study aimed to validate the Arabic version of PFA scale through validity (face, content, convergent, discriminant validity, and confirmatory factor analysis) and reliability (Cronbach’s alpha). …”
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Non-targeted metabolomics reveals fatty acid and associated pathways driving resistance to whitefly and tomato leafminer in wild tomato accessions by Sunil Kumaraswamy, Kalenahalli Yogendra, Paola Sotelo-Cardona, Aparna Shivanna, Sanivarapu Hemalatha, Muthugounder Mohan, Ramasamy Srinivasan

“…Additionally, the differential accumulation of metabolites was evident through partial least squares-discriminant analysis (PLS-DA), highlighting differences in metabolite profiles between resistant and susceptible accessions at 6 and 12 hpi of B. tabaci and P. absoluta. …”
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Intra-abdominal pressure and residual renal function decline in peritoneal dialysis: a threshold-based investigation by Jingjing Zhang, Lei Song, Zhongwei Ma, Lina Sun, Xiaoqing Wang, Duanyan Liu, Feng Huang, Yulin Man

“…Furthermore, an IAP ≥15.65 cmH2O was a robust discriminator for the prediction of the rate of RRF decline.Conclusion Patients in the high IAP group experienced a more rapid decline in RRF. …”
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Effect of Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio on Post-TAVR Mortality and Periprocedural Pulmonary Hypertension by Xin Gao, Xiaoxiao Jiang, Zonglei Wu, Na Chen, Minghui Gong, Xu Zhao, Yan Liu, Ran Guo

“…ROC analysis was performed to discriminate the ability of the nomogram, and the AUC was 0.926 (95% CI: 0.850–1.000, P<0.001). …”
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Measuring Digital Health Literacy in Older Adults: Development and Validation Study by SungMin Kim, Choonghee Park, Sunghyeon Park, Dai-Jin Kim, Ye-Seul Bae, Jae-Heon Kang, Ji-Won Chun

“…High convergent validity (average variance extracted>0.5) and reliability (composite reliability>0.7) were observed within each factor. Discriminant validity was also confirmed as the square root of the average variance extracted was greater than the correlation coefficients between the factors. …”
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Enhanced Detection of Residual Breast Cancer Post-Excisional Biopsy: Comparative Analysis of Contrast-Enhanced MRI with and Without Diffusion-Weighted Imaging by Han Song Mun, Bong Joo Kang, Sung Hun Kim, Ga Eun Park

“…Conclusions: CE-MRI with DWI and CE-MRI alone were comparable and demonstrated excellent performance in discriminating between women with and without residual disease. …”
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Nomogram for prognosis prediction in metastatic pancreatic cancer patients undergoing intra-arterial infusion chemotherapy: incorporating immune-inflammation scores and coagulation... by Yifan Yang, Shaoqi Zong, Yongqiang Hua

“…The model demonstrated good discriminative ability, with a C-index of 0.722, and the AUC values at 6- and 12-month OS predictions were 0.828 and 0.851 in the training cohort, while in the validation cohort, the corresponding AUC values were 0.754 and 0.791, respectively. …”
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Comprehensive Analysis of Metabolic Changes in Mice Exposed to Corilagin Based on GC-MS Analysis by Xu B, Wang C, Zhu X, Zhu L, Han G, Cui C

“…We identified the differential metabolites by multivariate analyses, which include principal component analysis (PCA) and orthogonal partial least squares discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA). Using MetaboAnalyst 5.0 and the KEGG database was used to depict the 12 key metabolic pathways.Results: Compared with the control group, the Corilagin induced 20, 9, 11, 7, 16, 19, 14, 15, and 16 differential metabolites in the intestine, lung, kidney, stomach, heart, liver, hippocampus, cerebral cortex, and serum, respectively. …”
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Novel Organic Mineral Complex Prevents High-Fat Diet-Induced Changes in the Gut and Liver of Male Sprague-Dawley Rats by M. S. Crawford, A. E. Mohr, K. L. Sweazea

“…Low-dose OMC was associated with higher expression of occludin in the small intestine of rats fed either diet (two-way ANOVA, p<0.042). Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) effect size (LEfSe) indicated significant differences in fecal microbial composition of untreated HFD-fed rats in comparison to untreated Chow rats at 10 weeks (LDA score > 2.0 : 18). …”
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Performance of an Electronic Health Record–Based Automated Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index Score Calculator: Cohort Study in the Emergency Department by Elizabeth Joyce, James McMullen, Xiaowen Kong, Connor O'Hare, Valerie Gavrila, Anthony Cuttitta, Geoffrey D Barnes, Colin F Greineder

“…The accuracy of the ePESI was higher for low-risk scores (OR 2.96, PP ConclusionsIn this single-center study, the ePESI was highly accurate in discriminating between low- and high-risk scores. The clinical decision support should facilitate real-time identification of patients who may be candidates for outpatient PE management.…”
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Potential biomarkers in Behçet’s disease: monocyte, neutrophil, platelet, and C-reactive protein to albumin ratios by Mestan Sahin, Cansu Celin Karakose, Meltem Alkan Melikoglu

“…This finding suggests that these parameters possess discriminative ability and could potentially serve as biomarkers to aid in the clinical evaluation of BD.…”
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Prediction of Immune Infiltration Diagnostic Gene Biomarkers in Kawasaki Disease by Hongjun Ba, Yao Wang, Lili Zhang, Huishen Wang, Zhan-Peng Huang, Youzhen Qin

“…Candidate biological markers were determined utilizing the support vector machine recursive feature elimination and the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator regression model analysis. To assess discriminating capacity, the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) was computed. …”
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