Classification of Alzheimer's disease using unsupervised diffusion component analysis by Dominique Duncan, Thomas Strohmer

“…The goal of this study is automated discrimination between early stage Alzheimer$'$s disease (AD) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and healthy MRI data. …”
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Confirmatory Factorial Analysis of the Personal Spirituality Scale in Puerto Ricans Adults by Juan Aníbal González-Rivera, Adam Rosario-Rodríguez, Orlando M. Pagán-Torres

“…The twelve items complied with the criteria of discrimination. The reliability index obtained fluctuated between .81 to .95. …”
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Regional Disparity and Determinants of Body Mass Index Status among Tribal Women in Eastern India by Bichitra Shit, Jagannath Behera, Subhadip Mandal

“…Tribal women in India face neglect and discrimination in terms of livelihood, nutrition, education, wealth, and health-care access. …”
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Understanding gender inequities in antimicrobial resistance: role of biology, behaviour and gender norms by Esmita Charani, Srishti Goel, Deepshikha Batheja

“…Persistent gender discrimination exacerbates these issues, resulting in disparities in healthcare access and outcomes. …”
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Twelve Million Black Voices: Let Us Now Hear Black Voices by Laurence Cossu-Beaumont

“…This paper thus strives to articulate the recording of 1930s reality and the exposure of racial discrimination, the aesthetic vision of FSA photographers and the protest narrative unfolded by Wright by discussing the singular way Twelve Million Black Voices manages to signify the truth of the African American reality.…”
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Criminological and victimological determinants of prostitution: De lege ferenda proposals by Pavlović Zoran, Petković Nikola

“…By integrating sociopsychological and health care tendencies, minimizing stigmatization and discrimination, the stratified societal response model is presented, which ultimately does not abandon the protection of morality as a legal and social category and a vital societal component.…”
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Selected Aspects of Protectionism of EU Member States in the EU Agri-Food Market by Renata Grochowska, Adam Ambroziak

“…Tendencies in national actions against foreign products currently observed in the European Union indicate protectionism or at least discrimination. The aim of this article is describe economic mechanisms of applying selected import-related policy instruments of Member States and to identify some potential directions of their impact on the functioning of the EU agri-food internal market. …”
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Mortality risk prediction model in AIDS patients with pneumocystis pneumonia in China by Xi Wang, Letian Liu, Wen Wang, Yang Zhang, Hui Chen, Zhangli Wang, Jianwei Li, Yue Gao, Yanqun Huang, Lijun Sun, Tong Zhang, Aixin Li

“…The model had a perfect discrimination with AUC of 0.994 and 0.947 in training and validation cohorts. …”
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The Association Between Medication Adherence, Internalized Stigma and Social Support Among Outpatients with Major Depressive Disorder in a Malaysian Hospital: A Cross-Sectional Stu... by Halim R, Kaur M, Syed Mokhtar SS, Chemi N, Sajatovic M, Tan YK, Siau CS, Ng CG

“…The effect of internalized stigma subdomains (alienation, perceived discrimination, and social withdrawal) on medication adherence were partially mediated by family support.Conclusion: More than half of the participants demonstrated low to moderate medication adherence. …”
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Early prediction of in-hospital mortality in patients with congestive heart failure in intensive care unit: a retrospective observational cohort study by Tao Huang, Rui Yang, Jun Lyu, Didi Han, Fengshuo Xu, Shuai Zheng, Luming Zhang, Haiyan Yin

“…The C-index of the nomogram (0.767, 95% CI 0.759 to 0.779) was superior to that of the traditional Sequential Organ Failure Assessment, Acute Physiology Score III and Get With The Guidelines Heart Failure scores, indicating its discrimination power. Calibration plots demonstrated that the predicted results are in good agreement with the observed results. …”
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Multispectral Enhancement Method to Increase the Visual Differences of Tissue Structures in Stained Histopathology Images by Pinky A. Bautista, Yukako Yagi

“…In this paper we proposed a multispectral enhancement scheme in which the spectral colors of the stained tissue-structure of interest and its background can be independently modified by the user to further improve their visualization and color discrimination. The colors of the background objects are modified by transforming their N-band spectra through an NxN transformation matrix, which is derived by mapping the representative samples of their original spectra to the spectra of their target colors using least mean square method. …”
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The problem of social inequality in the USA by N. E. Petrovskaya

“…It also emphasizes how racial and gender discrimination affects social inequality, preventing individuals from realizing their full potential. …”
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Measuring and utilizing temporal network dissimilarity by Xiu-Xiu Zhan, Chuang Liu, Zhipeng Wang, Huijuan Wang, Petter Holme, Zi-Ke Zhang

“…Moreover, the proposed measure can discern the functional distinctions and is found effective applications in temporal network classification and spreadability discrimination.…”
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Design and validation of ultra-compact metamaterial-based biosensor for non-invasive cervical cancer diagnosis in terahertz regime. by Musa N Hamza, Mohammad Tariqul Islam, Sunil Lavadiya, Iftikhar Ud Din, Bruno Sanches, Slawomir Koziel, Md Shabiul Islam

“…It enables characterization of biological tissues and discrimination between healthy and malignant ones. This study presents a novel triple-band biosensor based on metamaterials (MTMs). …”
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POLYMORPHISM AND INTERSPECIFIC VARIABILITY OF CYTOCHROME OXYDASE SUBUNIT I (COI) GENE NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE IN SIBLING SPECIES of A AND B Anopheles messeae AND An. beklemishevi (DIPT... by O. V. Vaulin, Yu. M. Novikov

“…It was foundthat the COI variabilitydidnot allow discrimination ofthe crypticspecies A andB Anopheles messeae. …”
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Increased Signal Complexity Improves the Breadth of Generalization in Auditory Perceptual Learning by David J. Brown, Michael J. Proulx

“…Adapting an established auditory interval discrimination paradigm to utilise complex signals, we trained human adults on a standard interval for either 2, 4, or 10 days. …”
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Assessing the Compliance of Indonesian Marriage Laws with CEDAW Principles by Aditya Restu Hapriyanto, Desi Syamsiah

“… This study aims to assess the extent to which marriage law in Indonesia accommodates the principles of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). CEDAW, which Indonesia ratified in 1984, sets out various principles to ensure gender equality in all aspects of life, including marriage and family. …”
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A classroom study on the perception and production of Basque sibilant fricatives by native speakers of English by Ander Beristain

“…Ten students enrolled in a Beginners’ Basque course and two native speakers of Basque serving as control group undertook a read-aloud task (Experiment 1) followed by an ABX discrimination task (Experiment 2) during Week 5 of classes. …”
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Redressal of Sexual Harassment at the Workplace: A Study of Legal Educational Institutions in Ahmedabad, Gujarat by Vikash Kumar Upadhyay, Vikas Trivedi, Tarkesh Molia

“…The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act of 2013 is a significant piece of legislation aimed at preventing gender-based discrimination in the workplace. Following the enactment of this law, the University Grants Commission (UGC) issued the UGC (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal of Sexual Harassment of Women Employees and Students in Higher Educational Institutions) Regulations of 2015. …”
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LGBT RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS: SOCIAL WORK AND THE FIGHT AGAINST THE LGBTPHOBIC DISCOURSE OF “GAY CURE” by Leonardo Mozdzenski, Albert de Albuquerque

“…More particularly, this study turns its attention to the rhetorical appeals of ethos and pathos observed in those statements that were favorable to the proposition of therapies for sexual (re)orientation ("gay cure"), thus reproducing the hate speech, stigmatization and discrimination against the human rights of the members of the gender and sexuality diverse community. …”
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