Gender Variations in the Oral Microbiomes of Elderly Patients with Initial Periodontitis by Jie Zhao, Ying-Hui Zhou, Ya-Qiong Zhao, Yao Feng, Fei Yan, Zheng-Rong Gao, Qin Ye, Yun Chen, Qiong Liu, Li Tan, Shao-Hui Zhang, Jing Hu, Marie Aimee Dusenge, Yun-Zhi Feng, Yue Guo

“…Analysis of β-diversity indicated that the samples were reasonably divided by the gender. The linear discriminant analysis effect size showed that the most representative biomarkers were the genus Haemophilus in males, whereas the dominant bacteria in females were Campylobacter. …”
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M2Caps: learning multi-modal capsules of optical and SAR images for land cover classification by Haodi Zhang, Anzhu Yu, Kuiliang Gao, Xuanbei Lu, Xuefeng Cao, Wenyue Guo, Weiqi Lian

“…The multi-modal capsules learning module models high-level semantic information and abstract relationships across diverse remote sensing images (RSIs) modalities as vectors, thereby facilitating the induction of joint multi-modal features with high discriminability and robustness. Subsequently, the cascaded features fusion module integrates various feature scales, concurrently processing deep multi modal features, shallow OPT features, and shallow SAR features at each layer. …”
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Sparse Codebook Model of Local Structures for Retrieval of Focal Liver Lesions Using Multiphase Medical Images by Jian Wang, Xian-Hua Han, Yingying Xu, Lanfen Lin, Hongjie Hu, Chongwu Jin, Yen-Wei Chen

“…CBMIR mainly includes discriminated feature extraction and similarity calculation procedures. …”
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Volatile profile and multivariant analysis of Sanhuang chicken breast in combination with Chinese 5-spice blend and garam masala by Rani Andaleeb, Danni Zhang, Shui Jiang, Yin Zhang, Yuan Liu

“…Principal component analysis (PCA) efficiently discriminated the aroma profiles of three chicken formulations. …”
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Basic Anthropometric Measures in Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients and Individually Sex- and Age-Matched Controls from the General Population by Göran Nilsson, Pär Hedberg, Jerzy Leppert, Andreas Rosenblad, John Ohrvik

“…The combination of hip and weight was particularly efficient in discriminating men ≥66 years with MI from their controls (area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) curve = 0.82). …”
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A Semi-Supervised Attention Model for Identifying Authentic Sneakers by Yang Yang, Nengjun Zhu, Yifeng Wu, Jian Cao, Dechuan Zhan, Hui Xiong

“…A unique feature of the SSA model is its ability to take advantage of unlabeled data, which can help to further minimize the intra-class variation for more discriminative feature embedding. To validate the model, we collect a large number of labeled and unlabeled sneaker images and perform extensive experimental studies. …”
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Prob-sparse self-attention extraction of time-aligned dynamic functional connectivity for ASD diagnosis by Hongwu Chen, Fan Feng, Pengwei Lou, Ying Li, MingLi Zhang, Feng Zhao

“…However, extracting highly discriminative information from the complex DFC matrix remains a challenging task. …”
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Effect of Advanced Glycation End Products on Human Thyroglobulin’s Antigenicity as Identified by the Use of Sera from Patients with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis and Gestational Diabetes... by A. Hatzioannou, I. Kanistras, E. Mantzou, E. Anastasiou, M. Peppa, V. Sarantopoulou, P. Lymberi, M. Alevizaki

“…Similarly, the GDM patients’ sera did not discriminate among the two forms of Tg, native or artificially glycated, suggesting that the modification of Tg by AGEs might not alter its immunogenicity. …”
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NIRS as an alternative method for table grapes Seedlessness sorting by Chaorai Kanchanomai, Parichat Theanjumpol, Phonkrit Maniwara, Sila Kittiwachana, Sujitra Funsueb, Shintaroh Ohashi, Daruni Naphrom

“…In addition, supervised self-organizing map (SSOM) and quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA) were applied to classify the seedlessness. • The PCA results represented a negative tendency to classify the seedlessness. …”
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Structural and vascular assessment of the optic nerve head and macula in chronic Chagas disease by Cristiana L. M. Agra, Camila V. Ventura, Letícia D. da Fonte, Marcela R. V. Oliveira, Marília Leal, Maria Elisa L. S. M. Assunção, Maria da Glória A. M. Cavalcanti, Silvia M. M. Alves, Ana Karine Soares, Liana O. Ventura, Tiago S. Prata

“…The main outcome measures were the glaucoma discriminant factor, average peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer thickness, macular ganglion cell complex thickness, peripapillary vascular density (VD), foveal and parafoveal thickness, foveal avascular zone area, and total foveal and parafoveal VD from the superficial and deep capillary plexus that were compared between the two groups. …”
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Advanced R-GAN: Generating anomaly data for improved detection in imbalanced datasets using regularized generative adversarial networks by Junhak Lee, Dayeon Jung, Jihoon Moon, Seungmin Rho

“…Diverging from conventional resampling techniques and typical generative adversarial network (GAN) architectures, R-GAN incorporates spectral normalization for the STGAN (short for spectral normalization for GAN) generator framework, which enhances it with a similarity measure loss to improve the authenticity of the generated data. The discriminator is meticulously designed, leveraging the CELU (short for continuously differentiable exponential linear unit) activation for optimal feature extraction, ensuring diverse and representative sample generation. …”
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Toll-Like Receptor Signaling and Liver Fibrosis by Tomonori Aoyama, Yong-Han Paik, Ekihiro Seki

“…Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are pattern recognition receptors that sense pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs), which discriminate the products of microorganisms from the host. …”
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Effects of post-mortem aging process on characteristic water-soluble taste-active precursors in yellow-feathered broilers by Na Xu, Xianming Zeng, Lingyun Li, Xinyue Zhang, Peng Wang, Minyi Han, Xinglian Xu

“…Combined with cluster analysis and partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA), it was preliminarily inferred that the optimal time for chilled chicken during 0–4 °C post-mortem aging was 2 h, which could provide a theoretical basis for the further processing of fresh chicken.…”
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Context-Aware and Locality-Constrained Coding for Image Categorization by Wenhua Xiao, Bin Wang, Yu Liu, Weidong Bao, Maojun Zhang

“…In this paper, we introduce a context-aware and locality-constrained Coding (CALC) approach with context information for describing objects in a discriminative way. It is generally achieved by learning a word-to-word cooccurrence prior to imposing context information over locality-constrained coding. …”
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Genome-Wide and Gene-Specific Epigenomic Platforms for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Biomarker Development Trials by Christina Michailidi, Ethan Soudry, Mariana Brait, Leonel Maldonado, Andrew Jaffe, Carmen Ili-Gangas, Priscilla Brebi-Mieville, Jimena Perez, Myoung Sook Kim, Xiaoli Zhong, Quiang Yang, Blanca Valle, Stephen J. Meltzer, Michael Torbenson, Manel Esteller, David Sidransky, Rafael Guerrero-Preston

“…The aim of this study was to identify epigenomic technologies that need only a small number of samples to discriminate HCC from non-HCC tissue, a basic requirement for biomarker development trials. …”
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Autism Spectrum Disorder Classification with Interpretability in Children Based on Structural MRI Features Extracted Using Contrastive Variational Autoencoder by Ruimin Ma, Ruitao Xie, Yanlin Wang, Jintao Meng, Yanjie Wei, Yunpeng Cai, Wenhui Xi, Yi Pan

“…The ASD participants represented by ASD-specific features can be easily discriminated from Typical Control (TC) participants represented by the common-shared features. …”
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A comprehensive guide to selecting suitable wavelet decomposition level and functions in discrete wavelet transform for fault detection in distribution networks by Esraa M. Shalby, Almoataz Y. Abdelaziz, Eman S. Ahmed, Basem Abd-Elhamed Rashad

“…All fault types both symmetrical/unsymmetrical types, and various normal transient conditions such as load/capacitor/DG switching are detected/discriminated with nearly 100% accuracy at the midpoint of line 6–7 with various fault conditions, inception angles (0, 30, 45, 60, 90 and 120°) and a fault resistance of (5,10, 15, and 20 ohms). …”
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The Use of Principal Component Analysis for Reduction in Sleep Quality and Quantity Data in Female Professional Soccer by Eider Barba, David Casamichana, Pedro Figueiredo, Fábio Yuzo Nakamura, Julen Castellano

“…A second aim was to examine the extent to which objective sleep quantity and quality variables can discriminate between perceived sleep. Ten objective sleep variables from the multisensory sleep-tracker were analyzed. …”
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Changes to Intermediary Metabolites in Sporadic and LRRK2 Parkinson’s Disease Demonstrated by Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy by Jan O. Aasly, Oddbjørn Sæther, Krisztina K. Johansen, Tone F. Bathen, Guro F. Giskeødegård, Linda R. White

“…Partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) was applied to study group differences. …”
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