CT Texture Analysis in Breast Cancer Patients Undergoing CT-Guided Bone Biopsy: Correlations With Histopathology by Silvio Wermelskirchen, Jakob Leonhardi, Anne-Kathrin Höhn, Georg Osterhoff, Nikolas Schopow, Susanne Briest, Timm Denecke, Hans-Jonas Meyer

“…For the Her 2 discrimination, only 3 parameters reached statistical significance, “S(4,-4)SumOfSqs” with a P -value of .01. …”
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A radiomics and deep learning nomogram developed and validated for predicting no-collapse survival in patients with osteonecrosis after multiple drilling by Fan Liu, De-bao Zhang, Shi-huan Cheng, Gui-shan Gu

“…The DLRC model exhibited superior discrimination ability with higher C-index of 0.78 (95%CI: 0.73–0.84) and AUC values (0.83 and 0.87) than other models. …”
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Analysis of Model Fit and Test Information on Otis-Lennon School Ability Test Using Item Response Theory by Rey-Mark Basagre

“…The index of difficulty ranges from -51.33198812 to 11.61952106, while the discrimination index ranges from -0.04759777 to 1.16897332 suggesting that some items have a very low discrimination index and some have a high difficulty index. …”
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Acute particulate matter exposure diminishes executive cognitive functioning after four hours regardless of inhalation pathway by Thomas Faherty, Jane E. Raymond, Gordon McFiggans, Francis D. Pope

“…Participants completed four cognitive tests before and four hours after exposure, assessing working memory, selective attention, emotion expression discrimination, and psychomotor vigilance. Results showed significant reductions in selective attention and emotion expression discrimination after enhanced PM versus clean air exposure. …”
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Empowering marginalized communities through the digital transformation course by Pelin Yüksel-Arslan, Claudia Plant, Fares Kayali

“…The key goals are to understand and mitigate the risks of algorithmic bias, inaccessibility, and digital discrimination in educational technologies affecting diverse and vulnerable populations, and to promote digital literacy, access, and motivational design to encourage forced migrants’ active and safe participation in technology-enabled education. …”
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Perceived Sexual Health Needs of Older Women: A Systematic Review by Farzaneh Saadatmand, Marjan Beigi, Zahra Heidari, Mitra Savabi-Esfahani

“…Results: The sexual health needs of older women were categorized into four groups: restoration of violated sexual rights, elimination of age discrimination (ageism), promotion of sexual health literacy, and providing sexual health services. …”
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Welcoming Historically Under-Represented Groups in Higher Education Through Awareness of Standard English Ideology by John Hellermann, Lynn Santelmann, Jennifer Mittelstaedt, Janet Cowal, Steven L. Thorne

“…We discuss the hegemonic aspect of the Standard Academic English used by default at most US institutions of higher education and its role in potential discrimination against users of languages other than English and dialects other than the Standard. …”
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Item Characteristics of National Examination Council’s Economics Multiple-Choice Items: An Item Response Theory Exploration by Yusuf Olayinka Shogbesan

“…The results showed that the discrimination index estimated using the 2 Parameter Logistic (PL) and 3PL models indicated that 28 items and 25 items respectively are poor items while 32 items and 35 items are considered good items respectively. …”
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Racism, homophobia, and the sexual health of young Black men who have sex with men in the United States: A systematic review. by Sarah E Janek, Lisvel A Matos, Sandy Hatoum, Marta I Mulawa, Leila Ledbetter, Michael V Relf

“…The purpose of this systematic review was to examine the discrimination experiences of YBMSM due to racism and homophobia in the United States and to evaluate the effect of these experiences on their sexual health. …”
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Transnational Coalition Building: The Role of The Yes I Do Alliance in Preventing Child Marriage Practices in Kediri Village, West Lombok by St. Amaliah Ramli

“…The practice of child marriage is an impact of gender-based discrimination, which reduces the value of women. Such discrimination might violate children’s rights under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. …”
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W-Index: An Index for Evaluating Link Prediction considering Only the Role of Wins by Yun Yuan, Jingwei Wang, Yunlong Ma, Min Liu

“…However, in many cases, AUC does not show enough discrimination when evaluating link prediction methods, especially those based on local similarity. …”
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Multi-task hybrid dictionary learning for vehicle classification in sensor networks by Rui Wang, Miaomiao Shen, Tao Wang, Wenming Cao

“…The efficient hybrid dictionary consists of a synthesis dictionary and an analysis dictionary, where discriminative codes can be generated by the trained analysis dictionary and class-specific discriminative reconstruction can be achieved by the trained synthesis dictionary. …”
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Accessibility to, Acceptability of, and Adherence to HIV/AIDS Prevention Services by Men Who Have Sex with Men: Challenges Encountered at Facility Level by P. C. N. Otambo, A. Makokha, M. Karama, M. Mwangi

“…Conclusion. Discrimination and stigma adversely affected MSM seeking HIV/AIDS prevention services in health facilities. …”
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Stigma of People with HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Literature Review by Ngozi C. Mbonu, Bart van den Borne, Nanne K. De Vries

“…The material was analyzed using Gilmore and Somerville's (1994) four processes of stigmatizing responses: the definition of the problem HIV/AIDS, identification of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), linking HIV/AIDS to immorality and other negative characteristics, and finally behavioural consequences of stigma (distancing, isolation, discrimination in care). It was found that the cultural construction of HIV/AIDS, based on beliefs about contamination, sexuality, and religion, plays a crucial role and contributes to the strength of distancing reactions and discrimination in society. …”
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Classification of Exact Solutions for Generalized Form of Equation by Hasan Bulut

“…The classification of exact solutions, including solitons and elliptic solutions, to the generalized equation by the complete discrimination system for polynomial method has been obtained. …”
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Detection of Mild Moldy-Core Disease in Apples by Fusing Acoustic-Vibration Signals and Visible-Near-Infrared Transmission Spectroscopy by GU Jiahui, LAI Lisi, WANG Kai, ZHANG Hui

“…These findings demonstrate that the proposed method can effectively improve the discrimination accuracy of mild moldy-core disease in apples.…”
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Inhibition of Return in Fear of Spiders: Discrepant Eye Movement and Reaction Time Data by Elisa Berdica, Antje B. M. Gerdes, Andre Pittig, Georg W. Alpers

“…Eye movements were recorded and to assess discrimination among targets, participants indicated with button presses if targets were spiders or butterflies. …”
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Chemometric Analysis of Elemental Fingerprints for GE Authentication of Multiple Geographical Origins by Lu Xu, Qiong Shi, Si-Min Yan, Hai-Yan Fu, Shunping Xie, Daowang Lu

“…Using the autoscaled data of elemental fingerprints and partial least-squares discriminant analysis (PLSDA), two chemometrics strategies for multiclass classifications, One-Versus-Rest (OVR) and One-Versus-One (OVO), were studied and compared in discrimination of GE geographical origins. …”
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Glasgow Coma Scale and Its Components on Admission: Are They Valuable Prognostic Tools in Acute Mixed Drug Poisoning? by N. Eizadi Mood, A. M. Sabzghabaee, Gh. Yadegarfar, A. Yaraghi, M. Ramazani Chaleshtori

“…Outcomes were recorded as without complications and with complications. Discrimination was evaluated by calculating the area under the receiver operating characteristic curves (AUC). …”
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Rapid Analysis of Geographical Origins and Age of Torreya grandis Seeds by NIR Spectroscopy and Pattern Recognition Methods by Lu Xu, Si-Min Yan, Chen-Bo Cai, Wei Zhong, Xiao-Ping Yu

“…With second derivative spectra, the sensitivity and specificity were 0.939 and 0.871 for age discrimination, respectively. Perfect classification was obtained, and both sensitivity and specificity were 1 for discrimination of geographical origins.…”
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