Behavioral and Psychological Factors Associated with 12-Month Weight Change in a Physical Activity Trial by Melissa A. Napolitano, Sharon Hayes

“…Weight status change from baseline to Month 12 was categorized: no change (N=154; 62.4%); increase (N=34; 13.8%); decrease (N=59; 23.9%). Discriminant function analyses indentified two statistically significant dimensions associated with weight change. …”
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Exploring deaf student teachers’ academic experiences at a teacher training college in Rwanda by James Maizere

“…From Eugenics to the institutionalisation period, Deaf students were discriminated against. Their education in African countries is minimal, especially in tertiary institutions, including Rwanda. …”
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Real-Time Depth-Based Hand Detection and Tracking by Sung-Il Joo, Sun-Hee Weon, Hyung-Il Choi

“…The features are selectively employed according to their discriminating power when constructing the classifier. …”
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Stratospheric X‐Rays Detected at Midlatitudes With a Miniaturized Balloon‐Borne Microscintillator‐PiN Diode System by K. L. Aplin, G. J. Marlton, V. Race

“…Our findings underline the value of balloon measurements in providing rapid response to space weather events. The energy‐discriminating and altitude‐sensitive capability of the microscintillator augments spacecraft observations from below.…”
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Heads up-Four Giraffa species have distinct cranial morphology. by Nikolaos Kargopoulos, Jesús Marugán-Lobón, Anusuya Chinsamy, Bernard R Agwanda, Michael Butler Brown, Stephanie Fennessy, Sara Ferguson, Rigardt Hoffman, Fredrick Lala, Arthur Muneza, Ogeto Mwebi, Moses Otiende, Alice Petzold, Sven Winter, Abdoul Razack Moussa Zabeirou, Julian Fennessy

“…The results show distinct sexual dimorphism and divergent ontogenetic trajectories of skull shape for the north clade (G. camelopardalis antiquorum, G. c. camelopardalis, G. c. peralta, and G. reticulata) and the south clade (G. giraffa angolensis, G. g. giraffa, G. tippelskirchi tippelskirchi, and G. t. thornicrofti) which was further supported statistically. Discriminant functions found statistically significant cranial shape differences between all four Giraffa species, and in some cases also between subspecies of the same species. …”
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Les enjeux et les déclinaisons de la notion de « santé sexuelle et reproductive » au Maroc. Réflexions à partir du cas des grossesses hors mariage by Irene Capelli

“…Many of these call for changes in family law to ensure that children born out of wedlock are not discriminated against and fight against the social marginalization of single mothers. …”
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L’organizzazione dello spazio sonoro della polifonia rinascimentale: un precoce caso di ‘presentismo’ nella storia della musicologia? by Daniele Sabaino

“…The most obvious is the reading that uses contemporary ethical/moral categories to evaluate and discriminate against past cultural positions, resulting in various forms of the so-called “cancel culture” that we have witnessed in recent years, including in many academic settings. …”
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Increased Haematopoietic Supportive Function of USSC from Umbilical Cord Blood Compared to CB MSC and Possible Role of DLK-1 by Simone Maria Kluth, Teja Falk Radke, Gesine Kögler

“…Since first being described by our group, delta like 1 homologue (DLK-1) was determined as a discriminating factor between the distinct cord blood-derived subpopulations: the unrestricted somatic stromal cells (USSC), which lack adipogenic differentiation capacity, and the BM MSC-like CB MSC. …”
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Are University Students Willing to Participate in Environmental Protection Activities (EPAs)? – Sub-dimensions of Ecological Intelligence as Predictors by Nalan Akkuzu-Guven, Melis Arzu Uyulgan

“…According to the results, the model to predict participation in EPAs indicated that a good discriminative ability with a prediction accuracy of 79.3%. …”
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Deep convolutional neural networks for double compressed AMR audio detection by Aykut Büker, Cemal Hanilçi

“…As a feature extractor in turn, it is used to extract discriminative features and then these features are modelled using support vector machines (SVM) classifier. …”
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Classification of NSCLC subtypes using lung microbiome from resected tissue based on machine learning methods by Pragya Kashyap, Kalbhavi Vadhi Raj, Jyoti Sharma, Naveen Dutt, Pankaj Yadav

“…Differentially enriched taxa were identified using LEfSe, revealing ten potential microbial markers. Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) was subsequently applied to enhance inter-class separability. …”
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Modification of the Ladder Rung Walking Task—New Options for Analysis of Skilled Movements by Iwa Antonow-Schlorke, Julia Ehrhardt, Marcel Knieling

“…Horizontal walking was found to discriminate lesion-related motor deficits in forelimb, whereas downward walking demonstrates hind limb use most sensitively. …”
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Enterprises' effectiveness: A study on structure, focus, and enterprises' outcomes by Zlatković-Radaković Matea

“…All models of effectiveness have acceptable reliability and convergent validity, and discriminant validity of each model was established. …”
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The Value of CME Arrival Time Forecasts for Space Weather Mitigation by M. J. Owens, M. Lockwood, L. A. Barnard

“…Of course, any CME transit model used to predict CME arrival time must also produce an estimate of CME speed at Earth. This can help discriminate between geoeffective and nongeoeffective CMEs, reducing false alarms and expanding the range of operational scenarios under which a forecast provides value. …”
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Improving the Operational Methodology of Tropical Cyclone Seasonal Prediction in the Australian and the South Pacific Ocean Regions by J. S. Wijnands, K. Shelton, Y. Kuleshov

“…The support vector regression models outperform the current models based on linear discriminant analysis approach for both regions, improving the standard deviation of errors in cross-validation from 2.87 to 2.27 for AR and from 4.91 to 3.92 for SPO.…”
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Man’s Attitude Towards Nature and Animal Respect Questionnaire (AniRe-Que) by Ján Kaliský, Lada Kaliská

“…Various statistical procedures were used to verify its construct validity (exploratory factor analysis /EFA/) and its convergent/discriminating character, criterion validity, and reliability (test-retest, parallel-forms, internal consistency) to establish satisfactory psychometric properties for the AniRe-Que questionnaire. …”
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Provenancing ancient materials with lead isotopes: overlap uncovered by Sarah De Ceuster, Jurian Hoogewerff, Patrick Degryse

“…Furthermore, the study provides useful tools to verify for every pair of possible ore sources if it is theoretically possible to discriminate between them, and to what extent.…”
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An Innovative Methodological Approach for Monitoring and Chemical Characterization of Odors around Industrial Sites by A. Di Gilio, J. Palmisani, G. de Gennaro

“…The methodology’s strengths are as follows: (1) the tailored approach for each typology of industrial areas/sites; (2) integration of technologies able to provide real-time information about the emissive sources; (3) mapping of air pollutants on the territory aimed to identify and discriminate among different fugitive emissions responsible for odor annoyance; (4) collection of more representative air samples only during the nuisance events, thanks to the implementation of innovative sampling systems and citizens’ involvement; and (5) increased analytical sensitivity in odor-active VOCs detection. …”
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Haptic Perception with Self-Organizing ANNs and an Anthropomorphic Robot Hand by Magnus Johnsson, Christian Balkenius

“…Thus the systems could discriminate individual objects, and they clustered the activities into small cylinders, large cylinders, small blocks, and large blocks. …”
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S’approprier des savoirs issus des sciences sociales et transformer ses dispositions genrées by Laurence Bachmann, Anne Perriard

“…Nous nous arrêtons d’abord sur le moment de la rencontre avec certains de ces savoirs qui permet aux personnes concernées de nommer un malaise éprouvé lors de discriminations de genre. Nous analysons ensuite la façon dont ces connaissances donnent l’occasion à ces personnes de porter un regard réflexif sur elles-mêmes et de transformer leur manière de croire, de penser, de ressentir et d’agir. …”
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