Differentiating placenta accreta spectrum from scar dehiscence with underlying, non‐adherent placenta: A systematic review of scoring systems and primary data analysis by Theophilus K. Adu‐Bredu, Rozi Aditya Aryananda, Joseph Arkorful, Sam Matthewlynn, Sally L. Collins

“…Abstract Introduction Accurate discrimination between placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) and scar dehiscence with underlying non‐adherent placenta is challenging both on prenatal ultrasound and intraoperatively. …”
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Impact of physical activity on quality of life in patients with epilepsy in a developing country: A cross-sectional, survey-based study by Daniel San-Juan, Miguel Benjamín Cervera-Sánchez, Miguel Angel Morales-Morales, Emilio Israel Wong-Valenzuela, Dara Lizeth Torres-Rodríguez, Daniela Carolina Pimentel-Saona

“…Rationale: Patients with epilepsy face different barriers based on ignorance and fear of themselves and others while exercising, this situation complicates attempts at exercise and promotes discrimination against patients. Physical activity has been associated with favorable results in the health of this population and can be used as a non-pharmacological treatment seeking to increase the health and improve living conditions of patients. …”
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Association of non-insulin-based insulin resistance indices with disease severity and adverse outcome in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension: a multi-center cohort study by Sicheng Zhang, Luyang Gao, Sicong Li, Manqing Luo, Lichuan Chen, Qunying Xi, Zhihui Zhao, Qing Zhao, Tao Yang, Qixian Zeng, Xin Li, Zhihua Huang, Anqi Duan, Yijia Wang, Qin Luo, Yansong Guo, Zhihong Liu

“…TyG-BMI and METS-IR can independently predict clinical worsening events, while METS-IR also provide incremental predictive performance beyond the ESC risk stratification.…”
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Reliable Laboratory Tests: A Prerequisite for the Design of High-Quality Slurry Surfacing Mixtures by Alexandra Destrée, Stefan Vansteenkiste, Tine Tanghe, Joëlle De Visscher

“…The project focussed on laboratory testing, gathering data and field experience, assessing the link between laboratory and field performance, and the mix design process. This paper is dedicated to the European test methods of the EN 12274 series (“Slurry surfacing–Test methods”), as well as some alternative test methods, which were evaluated (complexity, relevance for the mix design process, …) and improved in terms of test conditions, precision, and discriminating power. …”
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Frailty, quality of life and nutritional status for the prediction of morbidity and mortality in individuals with chronic heart failure in southern Brazil (FPROHEART): a cohort stu... by Lívia Adams Goldraich, Nadine Clausell, Daniela Meirelles do Nascimento, Pâmela Iná Wolffenbüttel, Beatriz Schaan

“…Introduction Heart failure (HF) is a debilitating condition associated with high morbidity, mortality and healthcare resource use. …”
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Associations between lifestyle habits, environmental factors and respiratory diseases: a cross-sectional study from southwest China by Hengyu Su, Huifang Xie

“…The nomogram developed in this study demonstrated good discrimination, calibration, and clinical efficacy. Multiplicative interaction analysis indicated that gender and age group exhibited varying degrees of interaction with factors such as smoking, passive smoking, alcohol abuse, regular exercise, household smoke, house disinfection, dust mites, history of respiratory allergies, use of velvet products, and family history of respiratory conditions. …”
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Retrieval of cloud fraction using machine learning algorithms based on FY-4A AGRI observations by J. Xia, L. Guan

“…However, both algorithms demonstrated weaker discrimination capabilities for partly cloudy conditions compared to clear-sky and overcast situations. …”
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Remote Sensing Survey of Chlorophyll-a Concentration in River-Type Reservoirs Based on GF-1 Image Data: Taking Feilaixia–Changhu Reservoir Area as an Example by ZOU Zhengxin, DENG Ruru, LIANG Yeheng, CHAI Zhuoqun, KUANG Zhiyuan, YANG Junying, ZHAO Zixi

“…The high-concentration pollution areas in the reservoir center of Feilaixia Reservoir and the main stream are temporary, because the hydrodynamic conditions are formed with the migration of river diffusion; while the pollutants located in the reservoir bay and river bay are gathered into stable pollution areas due to their poor flow conditions, indicating that the Deng model has also achieved good results under dynamic hydrological conditions. …”
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A method of synthetic speech spoofing detection using constant Q modulation envelope by Jia XU, Zhihua JIAN, Honghui JIN, Chao WU

“…In response to the low accuracy of synthetic speech spoofing detection based on traditional acoustic feature parameters, poor detection performance for unknown types of synthetic speech, and performance degradation in noisy environments, a method for detecting spoofing synthetic speech was proposed using constant Q modulation envelope (CQME) .The motivation of the method was from the fact that the temporal envelope of speech contained abundant information and there was a big difference in detail between the envelope of synthetic speech and genuine speech.The modulation envelope spectrum of speech was obtained by employing constant Q transform (CQT), and the root mean square of each frequency component was calculated to derive the CQME feature vector.And then the CQME feature vector was used to train the random forest classifier for discriminating genuine speech from spoofing synthetic speech.Experimental results demonstrate that the random forest trained with CQME features achieves high detection performance on the ASVspoof 2019 dataset and exhibites good detection efficacy for unknown types of synthetic speech.Furthermore, the proposed method shows high detection performance even under various noise conditions, having excellent noise robustness.…”
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Migrant Farmworkers' Acceptability of Health Services in Spain: Barriers and Facilitators Identified by Professionals by Lena vanSelm, Iratxe Pérez‐Urdiales, Miquel Úbeda‐Pavia, José Tomás‐Mateos, Maria del Mar Jiménez‐Lasserrotte, María del Mar Pastor‐Bravo, Ana Requena‐Méndez, Erica Briones‐Vozmediano

“…They are rooted in structural factors, which include their living and working conditions, social exclusion, and discrimination. Patient or Public Contribution As this study, which is part of a bigger project, aimed to focus on healthcare access mainly from the healthcare system perspective, patients and service users were not involved in this part. …”
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Study on Innovative Practices to Promote Girls’ Retention and Transition to Secondary and Higher Learning Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa. by Ayiga, Natal, Adyanga, Francis Akena, Akello, Jacqueline

“…Teenage mothers who return to school are often required to repeat classes and perform poorly at school due to childcare challenges and socioeconomic hardships. f. …”
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Educational potential of Russian senior citizens by Т. I. Kasyanova, L. I. Voronina, T. M. Rezer

“…At the same time, in Russia, adequate organisational, socio-psychological, pedagogical and other conditions for the education of citizens of this age category have not been created yet.Practical significance. …”
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Exploiting Microperimetry as a Functional End Point in Healthy Aging and Different Stages of Age-Related Macular Degeneration by Johannes Schrittwieser, MD, Klaudia Birner, MD, Leonard M. Coulibaly, MD, Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth, MD, Gregor S. Reiter, MD, PhD

“…Group comparison was performed using linear mixed-effects models and a discriminant analysis to find the parameters that best discriminated the respective AMD stage. …”
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Parkinson’s disease detection using inceptionV3: A Deep learning approach by Pallavi M. Shanthappa, Madhwesh Bayari, G.B. Abhilash, K.V. Gokul, P.J. Ashish

“…Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative condition that progressively affects motor function and causes tremors, rigidity, and bradykinesia. …”
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Optimization of Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) Texture Feature Parameters in Determining Rice Seed Quality by Aji Setiawan, Adam Arif Budiman

“…One of method for evaluating seed quality is texture analysis, which leverages the Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) to extract meaningful features from seed images, providing insights into their condition and potential performance. This research aims to determine the optimal performance of GLCM parameters in identifying the texture characteristics of rice seed quality. …”
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Load-based divergence in the dynamic allostery of two TCRs recognizing the same pMHC by Ana Cristina Chang-Gonzalez, Aoi Akitsu, Robert J Mallis, Matthew J Lang, Ellis L Reinherz, Wonmuk Hwang

“…Our recent all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations revealed that the inter-domain motion of the TCR is responsible for the load-induced catch bond behavior of the TCR-pMHC complex and peptide discrimination (Chang-Gonzalez et al., 2024). To further examine the generality of the mechanism, we perform all-atom MD simulations of the B7 TCR under different conditions for comparison with our previous simulations of the A6 TCR. …”
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Unleashing the Potential of Pre-Trained Diffusion Models for Generalizable Person Re-Identification by Jiachen Li, Xiaojin Gong

“…Our method integrates a discriminative and contrastive Re-ID model with a pre-trained diffusion model through a correlation-aware conditioning scheme. …”
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Overlapped partitioning for ensemble classifiers of P300-based brain-computer interfaces. by Akinari Onishi, Kiyohisa Natsume

“…One of three conditions for dimension reduction was applied: the stepwise method, principal component analysis (PCA), or none. …”
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Feedback valence affects auditory perceptual learning independently of feedback probability. by Sygal Amitay, David R Moore, Katharine Molloy, Lorna F Halliday

“…In all conditions the feedback was random in relation to the listeners' responses (because the task was to discriminate three identical tones), yet both the valence (negative vs. positive) and the probability of feedback (10% vs. 90%) affected learning. …”
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Identification of foxtail millet (Seteria italica (L.) P. Beauv.) genotypes for multi-season adaptability using GGE biplot analysis in Foothills of Nagaland by D. Purushotama Rao1 and H. P Chaturvedi2*

“…Two environments maintained under rainfed condition and the remaining two environments are maintained under irrigated condition with seven days interval. …”
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