Financial management practices and Profitability of Small and Medium Enterprises in Kabale Municipality. by Herbert, Kwarimanya Rugyendo

“…This study recommends the following issues to be considered by government policy-makers. Remove discrimination between SMEs and large companies and between state and non-state SMEs in granting loans, Develop the financial market including both capital and money markets and Provide training programs in financial management skills for the owners and managers of SMEs.…”
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CT-based intratumoral and peritumoral radiomics nomogram to predict spread through air spaces in lung adenocarcinoma with diameter ≤ 3 cm: A multicenter study by Yangfan Su, Junli Tao, Xiaosong Lan, Changyu Liang, Xuemei Huang, Jiuquan Zhang, Kai Li, Lihua Chen

“…The integrated discrimination improvement value revealed that the nomogram outperformed compared to the clinical model with the value of 12 %. …”
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Evidence-based incorporation of key parameters into MELD score for acute-on-chronic liver failure by Jing Liu, Tao Li, Yi Zhou, Yuanyuan Chen, Hai Li, Yan Huang, Jing Li, Yu Shi, Xin Zheng, Yanhang Gao, Xinxin Liu, Weituo Zhang, Shan Yin, Xia Yu, Jifang Sheng, Zhiwei Li, Feng Liu, Guohong Deng, Jinjun Chen, Zhongji Meng, Zhiping Qian, Xiaobo Lu, Wenyi Gu, Qun Cai, Xiaobo Wang, Qun Zhang, Xue Mei, Wenting Tan, Jia Shang, Xinyi Zhou, Chang Jiang, Ruoqi Zhou, Beiling Li, Huadong Yan, Yubao Zheng, Xiaomei Xiang, Yixin Hou, Shue Xiong, Ruochan Chen, Liyuan Long, Xiuhua Jiang, Sen Luo, Jinming Zhao, Liujuan Ji, Rongjiong Zheng

“…CATCH-LIFE-MELD score achieved a concordance index of 0.791/0.788 for 28-day/90-day outcomes, which is superior to other traditional scores. Other discrimination indices, including net reclassification improvement, integrated discrimination improvement and probability density function, and calibration including Nagelkerke’s R2 and Brier scores confirmed its superiority. …”
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Analysing interventions designed to reduce tuberculosis-related stigma: A scoping review. by Isabel Foster, Michelle Galloway, Wieda Human, Michaile Anthony, Hanlie Myburgh, Nosivuyile Vanqa, Dillon T Wademan, Goodman Makanda, Phumeza Tisile, Ingrid Schoeman, Graeme Hoddinott, Ruvandhi R Nathavitharana

“…This review maps the available literature on TB stigma reduction interventions, using the Health Stigma and Discrimination framework and an implementation analysis to identify research gaps and inform intervention design. …”
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Human development I: Twenty Fundamental Problems of Biology, Medicine, and Neuro-Psychology Related to Biological Information by Tyge Dahl Hermansen, Søren Ventegodt, Erik Rald, Birgitte Clausen, Maj Lyck Nielsen, Joav Merrick

“…Other subjects of special interest that we shall look deeper into are the immunological self-nonself discrimination, the structure and function of the human brain, the etiology and salutogenesis of mental and somatic diseases, and the structure of the consciousness of a human being. …”
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Interleukin-1 as a Common Denominator from Autoinflammatory to Autoimmune Disorders: Premises, Perils, and Perspectives by Giuseppe Lopalco, Luca Cantarini, Antonio Vitale, Florenzo Iannone, Maria Grazia Anelli, Laura Andreozzi, Giovanni Lapadula, Mauro Galeazzi, Donato Rigante

“…A complex web of dynamic relationships between innate and adaptive immunity is now evident for many autoinflammatory and autoimmune disorders, the first deriving from abnormal activation of innate immune system without any conventional danger triggers and the latter from self-/non-self-discrimination loss of tolerance, and systemic inflammation. …”
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Identification of Biomarkers for Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Using Feature Selection and Decision Tree Methods by Chun-Wei Tung, Ming-Tsang Wu, Yu-Kuei Chen, Chun-Chieh Wu, Wei-Chung Chen, Hsien-Pin Li, Shah-Hwa Chou, Deng-Chyang Wu, I-Chen Wu

“…To test the discrimination ability of the two biomarkers, 17 pairs of expression profiles of ESCC and normal tissues from Taiwanese male patients were measured by using microarray techniques. …”
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The role of cytokine genetic polymorphism in development of acute pancreatitis: analysis of intergenic and environmental interactions by T. A. Samgina, G. A. Zhivotova, P. M. Nazarenko, A. V. Polonikov

“…Genotyping of IL-1 gene (rs16944) polymorphisms, IL-6 gene (rs1800795), IL-10 gene (rs1800896) was carried out by polymerase chain reaction with allele discrimination by TaqMan-probes. Results. The genetic polymorphism combination 511СТ×174GC of IL-1 and IL-6 genes was associated to high risk of AP development (OR=2.25, 95%-CI 1.45-3.49; p=0.0018). …”
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Gut Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in Immunity by Valeria Messina, Carla Buccione, Giulia Marotta, Giovanna Ziccheddu, Michele Signore, Gianfranco Mattia, Rossella Puglisi, Benedetto Sacchetti, Livia Biancone, Mauro Valtieri

“…MSCs possess tissue-specific signatures that allow their discrimination according to their origin and location. …”
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Analysis and Experimental Demonstration of Reflectarray Antennas in Quasi-Regular Lattices by Borja Imaz-Lueje, Juan Corcoles, Marcos R. Pino, Manuel Arrebola

“…The reflectarrays comprised of quasi-regular lattices achieve similar performance in terms of beam shaping, SLL and crosspolar discrimination to those based on regular grids. However, they show an improvement in fractional bandwidth between 7.4% and 11.3%.…”
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Genotypic and Environmental Variations in Kernel Color Indices in the Main Almond (Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D.A. Webb) Cultivars Grown in North-Eastern Morocco by El Hassan Sakar, Mohamed El Yamani, Abdelali Boussakouran, Yahia Rharrabti

“…Despite environmental effects, we suggested a possible discrimination among the studied cultivars based on their kernel color indices. …”
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Enhancing misogyny detection in bilingual texts using explainable AI and multilingual fine-tuned transformers by Ehtesham Hashmi, Sule Yildirim Yayilgan, Muhammad Mudassar Yamin, Mohib Ullah

“…This growing concern underscores the need for effective measures to create safer online spaces, where respect and equality prevail, ensuring that women can participate fully and freely without the fear of harassment or discrimination. This study addresses the challenge of detecting misogynous content in bilingual (English and Italian) online communications. …”
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Clove oil as a neuromodulator in environmental cadmium cognitive impairment on the prefrontal cortex of Wistar rats by Obinna O. Uchewa, Chinedu B. Egwuagu, Ogugua A. EGWU, Augustine O. Ibegbu

“…Results: GSH and GST levels significantly decreased in the untreated but increased in the treated groups at P < 0.05. The discrimination index reduced in the untreated group (p < 0.05) while the reduction continued in groups C and E (0.14±0.09 and 0.27±0.02), and group D increased (0.81±0.02). …”
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A Nomogram Based on Apelin-12 for the Prediction of Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention among Patients with ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial... by Enfa Zhao, Hang Xie, Yushun Zhang

“…The performance of the nomogram was evaluated by the discrimination, calibration, and clinical usefulness. …”
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Constructing a machine learning model for systemic infection after kidney stone surgery based on CT values by Jiaxin Li, Yao Du, Gaoming Huang, Yawei Huang, Xiaoqing Xi, Zhenfeng Ye

“…All five machine learning models demonstrated strong discrimination on the validation set (AUC: 0.690–0.858). …”
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'We don't have the right to get sick': A qualitative study of gaps in public health insurance among Im/migrant women in British Columbia, Canada. by Shira M Goldenberg, Shaina Schafers, Maggie Hamel-Smith Grassby, Stefanie Machado, Ruth Lavergne, Mei-Ling Wiedmeyer, IRIS Study Team

“…Participants also described ineligibility for public health insurance as resulting in a high economic burden, and that exclusion from public health insurance perpetuated experiences of discrimination, invisibility, and exclusion from systems of care amongst im/migrant participants. …”
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Comparison of Attenuated Total Reflectance Mid-Infrared, Near Infrared, and 1H-Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopies for the Determination of Coffee’s Geographical Origin by Jessica Medina, Diana Caro Rodríguez, Victoria A. Arana, Andrés Bernal, Pierre Esseiva, Julien Wist

“…All techniques successfully discriminated samples by species, as expected. Regarding origin determination, ATR-mIR and 1H-NMR showed comparable capacity to discriminate Colombian coffee samples, while NIR fell short by comparison. …”
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Factors associated with pulmonary complications after hepatectomy and establishment of nomogram: A real-world retrospective study by Kunyu Han, Hui Liu, Ruiping Bai, Jiarui Li, Linjuan Zhang, Rui An, Di Peng, Jiamin Zhao, Mengwen Xue, Xin Shen

“…A nomogram prediction model was constructed, whose discrimination, accuracy, and clinical effectiveness were evaluated. …”
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A Deep Curriculum Learning Semi-Supervised Framework for Remote Sensing Scene Classification by Qing Zhang, Jialu Chen, Baohua Yuan

“…Subsequently, a feature fusion method is used on deep features of different modalities to obtain deep fusion features with a strong discrimination ability and low dimensionality. Finally, the multimodal deep features are fed into multimodal curriculum learning methods for classification. …”
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TRANSFORMING SOUTH AFRICA’S UNIVERSITIES OF TECHNOLOGY: A ROADMAP THROUGH 4IR LENSES by Muthoni Masinde, Peter A Roux

“…These findings, as wells as the existence of systemic exclusion, marginalisation, and discrimination (especially along racial lines) in RSA universities, defines our proposed roadmap. …”
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