Calving Out a Space to Exist: “Marked” Identities in Polar Science’s “Unmarked Spaces” by Anya Lawrence, Luis Escobedo

“…We argue that while they experience and perceive rejection, discrimination and exclusion, these practices are tangled up in the dominant and majority group’s internal identification processes rather than by the isolated and deliberate action of its members. …”
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The association of muscle weakness with functional disability in older patients with Diabetes mellitus: Measured by three different grip strength thresholds. by Sibel Çavdar, Fatma Ozge Kayhan Kocak, Sumru Savas

“…Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis, sensitivity and negative predictive values were conducted to identify the discrimination power of three different grip strength thresholds for functional disability in patients with DM. …”
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Critical discourse analysis on gender relations: women's images in Sasak song by Khirjan Nahdi, Usuludin Usuludin, Herman Wijaya, Muh. Taufiq

“…As a text, discursive reasoning, and social reality, the results of the study show the tendency to dominate women who give birth to forms of discrimination. The six images of women in Sasak song texts are contained in works of art for the purpose of disguising the tendencies behind artistic elements, so that they are accepted as truth and reasonableness in history inherited between generations.…”
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Climate Change and its Impacts on Social Structures in Marginalized Communities by Sabira Zitouni, Salima Abdeslam, Amar Boussakra

“…The study suggests that climate change exacerbates poverty and social discrimination, which negatively impacts the capacity of marginalized communities to adapt to environmental changes. …”
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A Simple Approach to Distinguish Classic and Formaldehyde-Free Tannin Based Rigid Foams by ATR FT-IR by Gianluca Tondi, Martin Link, Chuan Wei Oo, Alexander Petutschnigg

“…The attenuated total reflectance infrared spectroscopy (ATR FT-IR) investigation of the TBRFs presented in this paper allowed discrimination between the formaldehyde-containing (classic) and formaldehyde-free TBRFs. …”
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Religious and Spiritual Struggles Brief Inventory: Initial Validation and Psychometric Study by Juan González-Rivera, Yazmín Álvarez-Alatorre

“…The 14 items met good discrimination values. Conclusions: These results suggest that the instrument can measure four types of R/E struggles in Puerto Rican adults. …”
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Dual-Mode Circular Polarization Selective Surface Cell for Single-Layer Dual-Band Circularly Polarized Reflectarray by Zheng Liu, Xue Lei, Jun-Mo Wu, Zhi-Jian Xu

“…To achieve dual-mode CP discrimination performance, the improved three-dimensional geometry and the high-order resonances of the CPSS cell are utilized. …”
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Comparison of Methods for Determining Catchment Area Threshold for Water System Extraction by ZHENG Jiawei, CHEN Xingwei, LI Xiaocheng, RUAN Weifang

“…Most of the methods using digital elevation models (DEM) to extract water systems require the determination of catchment area thresholds.For a better understanding of the rationality and applicability of several commonly used determination methods of the catchment area threshold for water system extraction,the distance error between the real river source and the extracted one is used as a criterion to determine the rationality of the real water system extraction methods.Four main methods,namely,the drainage density method,the water-system fractal dimension method,the method of the minimum error at the river source,and the channel branching ratio method,are selected,and the Jinjiang River Basin on the southeast coast is taken as an example.The distance errors between the extracted river sources by different methods and the real river sources are compared.The results show that the visual discrimination of the catchment area threshold used by the drainage density method,water-system fractal dimension method,and channel branching ratio method has a large uncertainty,and the distance errors are large.In the method of the minimum error at the river source,the catchment area threshold is determined according to the minimum distance error between the extracted river source and the real one,which is unique.Hence,it is a more reasonable method among the four DEM-based real water system extraction methods.…”
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University STEM Students’ Perceived Challenges During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Yi Ding, Qian Wang, Yingying Yao, Yuwei Liu, Jiayi Wang, Qiong Yu, Emily Marrinan

“…Secondary analyses of 2 waves of interviews among 12 participants yielded 12 themes across 4 categories that captured the essence of the STEM university student’s experiences: academic and practice, emotional influences, discrimination, and finance. Implications, limitations, and future directions are discussed.…”
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Fault Prediction of Centrifugal Pump Based on Improved KNN by YunFei Chen, Jianping Yuan, Yin Luo, Wenqi Zhang

“…To effectively predict the faults of centrifugal pumps, the idea of machine learning k-nearest neighbor algorithm (KNN) was introduced into the traditional Mahalanobis distance fault discrimination, and an improved centrifugal pump fault prediction model of KNN based on the Mahalanobis distance is proposed. …”
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Fusion-Learning-Based Optimization: A Modified Metaheuristic Method for Lightweight High-Performance Concrete Design by Ghodrat Rahchamani, Seyed Mojtaba Movahedifar, Amin Honarbakhsh

“…Therefore, the novelty of our research is that, in solving the uncertainty of predicted outputs based on integrated models, we use fusion-learning-based optimization to improve regression discrimination. We also collected a standard dataset to analyze the proposed algorithm, and subsequently, the dataset was designed from concrete laboratory tests on 244 samples, seven features, and three outputs. …”
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FAULT DIAGNOSIS BASED ON SEMI-SUPERVISED LLTSA FOR DIMENSION REDUCTION by LI Lei, PANG Hai, ZHANG QianTu

“…The improved method realized the combination of data intrinsic manifold structure and class label information,and more discriminative low-dimension features can been obtained. …”
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Barriers and facilitators to implementing comprehensive sex education in Texas public schools: A qualitative study. by Lauren Holt, Sarah Janek, Gavin Yamey

“…<h4>Results</h4>Three barriers- ideological opposition to CSE, discrimination against LGBTQ+ people, myths and misconceptions about CSE- and two facilitators- champions, collaboration with community stakeholders- to implementing CSE policy were identified.…”
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Politiques de développement durable à l’épreuve de la justice environnementale : Les plantations de teck à Ban Lak Sip, Nord Laos by Laure Le Guillevic, Evelyne Micollier

“…Through the perspective of environmental justice, we will highlight the injustices suffered by villagers already victims of ethnic discrimination. These injustices are environmental, as the inequalities observed are accentuated by the soil erosion. …”
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A Framework to Assess the Impact of Employee Perceived Equality on Contextual Performance and Mediating Role of Affective Commitment to Enhance and Sustain Positive Work Behavior by Ritika Dongrey, Varsha Rokade

“…When employees perceive discrimination, it adversely affects them psychologically and negatively affects their behavior, while perceiving equality reinforces a positive mindset towards other members and management, resulting in healthy work culture. …”
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Psychosocial distress in people with overweight and obesity: the role of weight stigma and social support by Vladimira Timkova, Pavol Mikula, Iveta Nagyova

“…Participants experienced weight-related teasing (40.4%), unfair treatment (18.0%), and discrimination (14.1%). We found an association between lower age, female sex and psychological distress. …”
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Morphological evidence supports splitting of species in the North Atlantic Sebastes spp. complex. by Ingrid Marie Bruvold, Agneta Hansen, Arve Lynghammar, Hannes Höffle, Tanja Hanebrekke, Caroline Aas Tranang, Kjell Nedreaas, Einar Nilssen, Atal Saha, Torild Johansen

“…Combined with non-parametric meristic analysis, the results show that features such as beak length and eye diameter provide sufficient discrimination between the proposed cryptic species as well as separating them from the sympatric species S. mentella and S. viviparus. …”
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MEASUREMENT OF VAGUE PREDICATES by Ludmila A. Katz

“…The proposed construal of degrees, interpreting verities on the basis of a measure over admissible precisifications, allows discrimination among borderline cases that would otherwise (on the standard supervaluationist account) all inhabit the same truth-value gap. …”
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Home, Physical Disability and Sense of Belonging in Nina Raine’s Tribes by Nurten Çelik

“…Home transforms into a site of oppression and discrimination as the denial of impairment in the sphere of the home leads to psychological and emotional disturbance and the distortion of a sense of belonging. …”
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Queer Voices by Nadine Gibson, Ann Rotchford, Addie Sayers

“…By virtue of professors taking the time to revise their email signatures, revise their syllabi to include language regarding anti-discrimination and scholarship by a diverse set of scholars, and make a welcoming statement aimed at establishing a safe space for queer-spectrum and trans-spectrum students, signaled to students that they were an ally.  …”
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