A Phenomenological Study to Explore the Lived Experience of Patient Living with Mental Illness by S. Veera Jyothi, Rajeshree Lokhande, Chris Thomas

“…The experience of stigma and discrimination, dependence on prescribe medication and its related side effects, loss, and fear, all contributed to the hazy reality of living with mental illness.…”
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Recognition of Damage Degree of Tooth Root Crack based on PCA and Grey Relational by Jie Liu, Huanyu Li, Weiqiang Zhao

“…The relational degree of PCA and GRA combined algorithm is larger and the discrimination degree is more obvious than that of direct GRA calculation. …”
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Relationship Between Social Conflicts and Chronic Illnesses in Kabale Municipality. by Aharimpisya, Dreck

“…Historically, social conflicts have impacted various aspects of society, including health, and are often driven by factors like socioeconomic inequality, discrimination, and political instability (Blosnich et al., 2017). …”
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Machine-learning versus traditional methods for prediction of all-cause mortality after transcatheter aortic valve implantation: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Clara K Chow, Aravinda Thiagalingam, Rohan Jayasinghe, Sarah Zaman, Stephen Bacchi, Justin Chan, Aashray Gupta, Shaun Evans, Pramesh Kovoor, Brandon Stretton, Jayme Bennetts, Ammar Zaka, Naim Mridha, Joshua Kovoor, Gopal Sivagangabalan, Cecil Mustafiz, Daud Mutahar, Shreyans Sinhal, James Gorcilov, Benjamin Muston, Fabio Ramponi, Dale J Murdoch

“…Surgical risk models have demonstrated modest discriminative value for patients undergoing TAVI and are typically poorly calibrated, with incremental improvements seen in TAVI-specific models. …”
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Development and Validation of a Nomogram for Predicting Long-Term Net Adverse Clinical Events in High Bleeding Risk Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention by Junyan Zhang, Zhongxiu Chen, Ran Liu, Yuxiao Li, Hongsen Zhao, Yanning Li, Minggang Zhou, Hua Wang, Chen Li, Li Rao, Yong He

“…Validation was conducted exclusively using the internal validation cohort, assessing the discrimination, calibration, and clinical utility of the nomogram. …”
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The joint effects of inflammation and renal function status on in-hospital outcomes in patients with acute ischemic stroke treated with intravenous thrombolysis by Zhichao Huang, Xiaoyue Zhu, Xiuman Xu, Yi Wang, Yafang Zhu, Dongqin Chen, Yongjun Cao, Xia Zhang

“…The Net Reclassification Index (NRI) and the Integrated Discrimination Improvement (IDI) were calculated to analyze the combined predictive value. …”
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Identifying psychosocial predictors and developing a risk score for preterm birth among Kenyan pregnant women by Anna Larsen, Jillian Pintye, Felix Abuna, Julia C. Dettinger, Laurén Gomez, Mary M. Marwa, Nancy Ngumbau, Ben Odhiambo, Barbra A. Richardson, Salphine Watoyi, Joshua Stern, John Kinuthia, Grace John-Stewart

“…The risk score had modest discrimination between PTB and term deliveries (AUROC:0.56, 95% CI:0.54–0.58), and Brier Score was 0.4672. …”
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Online tools to predict individualised survival for primary oesophageal cancer patients with and without pathological complete response after neoadjuvant therapy followed by oesoph... by Jie Zhang, Xiang Chen, Dong Dong, Lijie Tan, Yajie Zhang, Hecheng Li, Yuqin Cao, Binhao Huang, Han Tang, Tianzheng Shen, Xijia Feng, Jiahao Zhang, Liqiang Shi, Chengqiang Li, Heng Jiao

“…The calibration plot, concordance index and decision curve analysis were employed to assess calibration, discrimination and clinical usefulness of the predictive models.Results In total, 13 and 15 variables were used to predict OS for pCR and non-pCR patients undergoing neoadjuvant therapy followed by oesophagectomy, respectively. …”
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Integrating the GRACE Score with the Ceramide Risk Score Enhances the Predictive Accuracy of Major Adverse Cardiac Events in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome Undergoing Percut... by Xiaofei Wang, Chengzhe Liu, Fu Yu, Zizhuo Zhang, Jiale Wang, Xiaoyu Shi, Tianyou Xu, Qiang Deng, Liping Zhou, Wanyue Sang, Hong Jiang, Lilei Yu

“…This adjustment provided a more precise risk reclassification and discrimination between patients likely and unlikely to experience MACE (NRI: 0.526, p = 0.004; IDI: 0.120, p < 0.001). …”
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Development and validation of a nomogram model for prolonged length of stay in spinal fusion patients: a retrospective analysis by Linghong Wu, Xiaozhong Peng, Yao Lu, Cuiping Fu, Liujun She, Guangwei Zhu, Xianglong Zhuo, Wei Hu, Xiangtao Xie

“…The diagnostic performance of the nomogram model was satisfactory, with AUC values of 0.784 and 0.795 for the internal and external validation sets, respectively. Model discrimination was favourable in both the internal (C-statistic, 0.811) and external (C-statistic, 0.814) validation sets. …”
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Nonlinear Methodologies for Identifying Seismic Event and Nuclear Explosion Using Random Forest, Support Vector Machine, and Naive Bayes Classification by Longjun Dong, Xibing Li, Gongnan Xie

“…The discrimination of seismic event and nuclear explosion is a complex and nonlinear system. …”
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Tacit Racism Toward Roma Students: The Case of a Turkish Public School by Ozan Uştuk

“…., denial, which reflects reluctance to acknowledge their role in perpetuating discrimination despite awareness of the structural inequalities faced by Roma students. …”
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Apk2Audio4AndMal: Audio Based Malware Family Detection Framework by Oguz Emre Kural, Erdal Kilic, Ceyda Aksac

“…By examining the subsets obtained, features with high discrimination in Android malware family detection were determined. …”
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Non-take-up as a social experience. Towards a typology of not claiming social benefits by Barbara Lucas

“…This approach enables us to grasp how social inequalities, stigmatisation and discrimination – as structural explanations for non-take-up theorised separately in the literature – together help to shape different meanings of non-take-up. …”
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Triangulação metodológica e abordagem multimétodo na pesquisa sociológica: vantagens e desafios by Fabiana Luci de Oliveira

“…I begin by specifying the characteristics of quantitative and qualitative methods, and of their combination (multi-method approach), pointing to the potentials and limitations in this combination, and I conclude describing two studies as examples: a classic research for excellence (Distinction: A social critique of the judgment of taste), in which Bourdieu (1977b) used a combination of methods to verify the determinants of cultural practices, and a more recent study (Corruption and inequality at the crossroad – a Multimethod Study of Bribery and Discrimination in Latin America), in which Fried et al. (2010) discuss the relationship between corruption and social inequality in Latin America, from an experiment followed by qualitative interviews as a way to better understand and explain the results of the experimental phase.…”
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The Role of the Arts in the Classroom: Does Integration of the Arts Promote Social Relationships in the Classroom? by Julia Lauss, Christoph Helm

“…Results indicated a significant increase in helpfulness and a reduction in discrimination among pupils who participated in several weeks of arts workshops. …”
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Enhancing classification efficiency in capsule networks through windowed routing: tackling gradient vanishing, dynamic routing, and computational complexity challenges by Gangqi Chen, Zhaoyong Mao, Junge Shen, Dongdong Hou

“…Abstract Capsule networks overcome the two drawbacks of convolutional neural networks: weak rotated object recognition and poor spatial discrimination. However, they still have encountered problems with complex images, including high computational cost and limited accuracy. …”
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Feminist Policy Analysis on Gender Mainstreaming Policy in Indonesian International Peacekeeping Forces by Zahra Ayu Kusuma Ricarvy, Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem

“…Gender mainstreaming policies are expected to ensure equal access, participation, control, and benefits for both women and men within the defense system, as well as minimize gender discrimination. The method used in this research involves policy analysis as regulated in Presidential Instruction No. 9/2000, with a focus on its application in Peacekeeping Missions (IPM). …”
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Integration of item response theory in the development of PhET-based graphing lines worksheets for optimizing student algebra competence by Giyanti, Indri Lestari, Rina Oktaviyanthi

“…The results indicate that the worksheet is effective in improving student algebra competence, with Items 1 and 11 demonstrating a good balance between difficulty and discrimination. Item 2 requires further review because of its high difficulty, whereas Item 12 is considered too easy. …”
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Experimental Study on the Modification Mechanisms of Dispersive Soil Treated with Hydroxyl Aluminum by Jie Liu, Pan Chen, Zheng Lu, Hailin Yao

“…The modification effect and interaction mechanism of hydroxyl aluminum on dispersive soil were studied through indoor dispersion discrimination, physical and mechanical, and micro mechanism tests (SEM and XRD). …”
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