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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The Relationship of Attitudes toward Other Religious Groups with Perceived Islamophobia, Intergroup Contact, and Social Identity: A Study among Muslims Living in Western Countries by Kenan Sevinç, Metin Güven

“…In this regard, the literature addressed verbal taunting, obstructing religious practices, workplace discrimination, travel discrimination, armed attacks, threats, bullying, and vandalism as significant problem instances. …”
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Longitudinal photovoice examination of workplace experiences for Congolese refugee women in the United States by Shannon McMorrow, Jyotika Saksena

“…Participatory analysis with participant co-researchers and inductive manual analysis revealed four themes illustrating experiences with employment and the workplace: job (in)security, discrimination, injuries, and workplace potential. Evidence from this study demonstrates the need for more intentional, tailored public health and social service interventions centering on the workplace for Congolese refugee women resettled in the U.S. …”
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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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The Determined of Relationship Between Team Cohesion and Effective Communication Skill Levels in Volleyball Players by Kaan Karakuş, Burkay Cevahircioğlu, Ebru Şenel

“…There was significant difference according to year of sport in discrimination-negative conflict scores. As a result of the correlation analysis, there was a positive and moderate relationship between team cohesion with effective communication. …”
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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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Roughness integration across fingers within compared with across the hands by Roberta D. Roberts

“…The present experiments revisit the question of hand identity on multidigit roughness perception using two interval forced choice (2IFC) discrimination and single interval absolute magnitude estimation (AME). …”
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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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Combining Charlson comorbidity and VACS indices improves prognostic accuracy for all-cause mortality for patients with and without HIV in the Veterans Health Administration by Kathleen A. McGinnis, Amy C. Justice, Amy C. Justice, Vincent C. Marconi, Vincent C. Marconi, Maria C. Rodriguez-Barradas, Maria C. Rodriguez-Barradas, Ronald G. Hauser, Ronald G. Hauser, Krisann K. Oursler, Krisann K. Oursler, Sheldon T. Brown, Kendall J. Bryant, Janet P. Tate, Janet P. Tate, for the Veterans Aging Cohort Study

“…Discrimination was improved when CD4 and HIV RNA were added VACS-CCI (C-statistic = 0.79). …”
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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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