The Dilemmas of Solidarity of Civic Activists: Supporting Displaced Ukrainians in a Non‐Solidarian Regime by Violetta Zentai, Margit Feischmidt

“…We offer insights into how solidarity actors discernibly departed from pure humanitarianism and deployed concepts of horizontal interdependence, anti‐discrimination, and layered human rights, applying their own vocabularies.…”
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Noise-attention-based forgery face detection method by Bolin ZHANG, Chuntao ZHU, Qilin YIN, Jingqiao FU, Lingyi LIU, Jiarui LIU, Hongmei LIU, Wei LU

“…With the advancement of artificial intelligence and deep neural networks, the ease of image generation and editing has increased significantly.Consequently, the occurrence of malicious tampering and forgery using image generation tools is on the rise, posing a significant threat to multimedia security and social stability.Therefore, it is crucial to research detection methods for forged faces.Face tampering and forgery can occur through various means and tools, leaving different levels of forgery traces during the tampering process.These traces can be partly reflected in the image noise.From the perspective of image noise, the noise components reflecting tampering traces of forged faces were extracted through a noise removal module.Furthermore, noise attention was generated to guide the backbone network in the detection of forged faces.The training of the noise removal module was supervised using SRM filters.In order to strengthen the guidance of the noise removal module, the noise obtained by the noise removal module was added back to the real face image, forming a pair of supervised training samples in a self-supervised manner.The experimental results illustrate that the noise features obtained by the noise removal module have a good degree of discrimination.Experiments were also conducted on several public datasets, and the proposed method achieves an accuracy of 98.32% on the Celeb-DF dataset, 92.61% on the DFDC dataset, and more than 94% on the FaceForensics++ dataset, thus proving the effectiveness of the proposed method.…”
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Masked and Unmasked Face Recognition Model Using Deep Learning Techniques. A case of Black Race. by Mabirizi, Vicent, Ampaire, Ray Brooks, Muhoza, Gloria B.

“…However, the state -of -the art of these models are not generalizable across populations and probably will not work in the Ugandan context because they have not been implemented with capabilities to eliminate racial discrimination in face recognition. This study therefore developed a deep learning model for masked and unmasked face recognition based on local context. …”
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Impact of Religious Institutions on The Development of Southern Division Kabale Municipality. by Aryatuha, Cosmas

“…Other factors that affect development include; discrimination, population, culture, poor management, corruption, and political instability. …”
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Masked and unmasked Face Recognition Model Using Deep Learning Techniques. A case of Black Race. by Mabiriz,I, Vicent, Ampaire, Ray Brooks, Muhoza, B. Gloria

“…However, the state-of-the-art models are not generalizable across populations and probably will not work in the Ugandan context because they have not been implemented with capabilities to eliminate racial discrimination in face recognition. This study therefore developed a deep learning model for masked and unmasked face recognition based on local context. …”
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Motivation and Employee Performance: A case Study of Kabale Municipal Council, Kabale District. by Juliet, Nalusiba

“…The study found out that there was a relationship between motivation and employee performance, limited funds, dependency on the central government, inadequate fringe benefits; discrimination in appraising and promoting public employees, incompetence in leadership hampered motivation efforts for effective performance and among strategies required for effective performance and adequate rewarding; increasing salaries, recognition of employees’ achievement, adequate fringe benefits, career development, participative management. …”
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Ultrashort wave satellite channel classification and recognition algorithm based on mirror filled spectrum and LA-ResNet50 by Shang WU, Lei SHEN, Lijun WANG, Ruxu ZHANG, Xin HU

“…In response to the classification and identification problems of 5 kHz channels, 25 kHz channels, broadband interference channels, narrowband interference channels, and single tone interference channels in the ultrashort wave frequency band, a classification and identification method for ultrashort wave channels based on mirror filled spectrum and LA-ResNet50 (LBP attention ResNet50) was proposed.The problem of difficulty in distinguishing between satellite channels and background noise under low signal-to-noise ratio, as well as the identification of signal channels and interference channels with similar characteristics, has been effectively solved.Firstly, the proposed method performs mirror symmetry on the ultrashort wave spectrum and fills it in, while blackening the edges of the spectrum to construct a mirror-filled spectrum, which improves the discrimination of different types of channel spectra.Then, channel attention was introduced into ResNet50 to focus the attention of the network model on the channel.Finally, a loss function based on cross entropy and local binary pattern (LBP) was proposed to improve the extraction effect of subtle texture features on signal channels and interference channels images.The proposed method based on mirror-filled spectrum and LA-ResNet50 has shown an improvement of 19.8%, 8.2%, 1.8%, and 0.8% in classification accuracy for ultrashort wave channels compared to the traditional method utilizing fast Fourier transform (FFT) spectrum thresholding, the YOLOv5s target detection and classification method based on mirror-filled spectrum, the Attention-ResNet50 method with attention mechanism based on mirror-filled spectrum, and the Transformer network method under a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 10 dB.…”
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Natural Language Processing (NLP): Identifying Linguistic Gender Bias in Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) by Site Xu MPH, Mu Sun MD

“…With the rise of feminism, women report experiencing doubt or discrimination in medical settings. This study aims to explore the linguistic mechanisms by which physicians express disbelief toward patients and to investigate gender differences in the use of negative medical descriptions. …”
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Barriers and facilitators of bystander intervention in response to racism in Colombia by Minna Lyons, Gayle Brewer, Maria Ines Gandolfo Conceição, Ana Lucía Jaramillo-Sierra, Maria Fernanda Reyes-Rodriguez

“…Racial discrimination is a pervasive global problem. Bystanders who observe racism can intervene to support the targets of racism, but they often fail to do so due to several context-specific barriers. …”
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Classification of Myopathy and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Electromyograms Using Bat Algorithm and Deep Neural Networks by A. Bakiya, A. Anitha, T. Sridevi, K. Kamalanand

“…Electromyograms (EMG) are a recorded galvanic action of nerves and muscles which assists in diagnosing the disorders associated with muscles and nerves. The efficient discrimination of abnormal EMG signals, myopathy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, engage crucial role in automatic diagnostic assistance tools, since EMG signals are nonstationary signals. …”
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Roma & Sinti Culture as Modern German Studies by Arushi Nair

“…I argue  that these perspectives are invaluable to the discipline of German Studies and that there is much more to this group than the discrimination and pain they have faced. Although the injustices of past and present have indeed been formative in the lives of so many Roma & Sinti, it limits the scope of what we know and can learn from them.  …”
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Distributed Fiberoptic Sensor for Simultaneous Temperature and Strain Monitoring Based on Brillouin Scattering Effect in Polyimide-Coated Fibers by Liwen Sheng, Ligong Li, Leijun Hu, Ming Yuan, Jinpeng Lang, Jianguo Wang, Peng Li, Zongyi Bi, Jisong Yan, Zhiming Liu

“…The Brillouin frequency shifts of the main two peaks are successfully measured to discriminate the strain and temperature with an accuracy 19.68 με and 1.02°C in 2.5 km sensing range. …”
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Comparative evaluation of TNM staging systems (eighth vs. ninth edition) for the non-surgical treatment of localized and locally advanced anal squamous cell carcinoma: Prognostic s... by Aihong Zheng, Hong'en Xu, Yiming Tao, Bingchen Chen, Jieni Ding, Tao Song, Yanwei Lu

“…This study aims to compare the survival discrimination of the Tumor-Node-Metastasis (TNM) eighth and ninth editions for patients with localized and locally advanced (LLA) anal squamous cell carcinoma (ASCC) treated non-surgically and to evaluate the prognostic impact of T classification and lymph node (LN) status with data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database. …”
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The 2024 local elections in the Republic of Serbia: Political dynamics and consequences by Matić Petar M., Mijatović Marko R.

“…Minority parties that take part in the election game under special conditions through forms of positive discrimination are dealt with. The fourth section is devoted to forming local authorities, while a separate part is related to groups of citizens as separate political actors in local areas. …”
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中国海南黎族人群15 个STR 位点的遗传多态性 by 邓文国, 何蕴韶, 江梅华, 王一鸣, 曾瑞萍

“…【结果】15个STR位点均符合Hardy-Weinberg平衡，共检出149个STR等位基因，其频率分布在0.0045～0.5045之间，杂合度(heterozygosity，H)为0.6716～0.8754，个体识别力(discrimination power，DP)为0.8770～0.9673，非父排除率(probabilities of paternity exclusion，EPP)为0.4383～0.7396，多态信息含量(polymorphic information content，PIC)为0.6265～0.8574。…”
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EEG Channel Selection Using Particle Swarm Optimization for the Classification of Auditory Event-Related Potentials by Alejandro Gonzalez, Isao Nambu, Haruhide Hokari, Yasuhiro Wada

“…In the present work, we propose a method for classifying P300 ERPs using a combination of Fisher Discriminant Analysis (FDA) and a multiobjective hybrid real-binary Particle Swarm Optimization (MHPSO) algorithm. …”
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Mineral Element Contents in Commercially Valuable Fish Species in Spain by Ana Rivas, Luis Peña-Rivas, Eduardo Ortega, Concepción López-Martínez, Fátima Olea-Serrano, Maria Luisa Lorenzo

“…This well-defined discrimination between fish species provided by mineral element allows us to distinguish them on the basis of their metal content. …”
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PROBLEM OF DEMOCRACY PROMOTION IN CONTEXT OF POSTCOLONIAL FEMINISM by V. A. Muzalevskiy

“…The author notes that the current strategy of democracy promotion, though being more complex, creates the effect of "double discrimination", when both the local people and local women (imposing image of "a free and independent Western woman") feel that they are "colonized". …”
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Les mots du Grand Débat national : les réseaux lexicaux des contributions déposées sur trois plateformes by Sabine Ploux, Michael Genay, Leu Ploux-Chillès

“…For EF, whose contributors are young (average age 29), one finds an over-representation of words related to discrimination, tolerance, and behaviours based on environmental concern. …”
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Service Quality Analysis of BPR XYZ by Ulfa Chusnia Wahyunita, Dwi Sukma Donoriyanto

“…The results show that 12 attributes exceed customer expectations, including strategic location, availability of queue numbers, appropriate operating hours, clear and easy-to-understand information, assistance from officers when customers face issues, trustworthiness, the bank’s ability to ensure customer data security, confidentiality of customer data, non-discrimination, and understanding of customer needs. However, there are still 9 attributes below customer expectations, including the comfort of the waiting room, sufficient parking area, ease of transactions, reliability in resolving customer issues, waiting time, service speed, responsiveness to customer complaints, politeness in service, and the overall impression given to customers by the service provided. …”
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