Establishment and Validation of a Predictive Model for Radiation-Associated Aspiration Pneumonia in Patients with Radiation-Induced Dysphagia after Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma by Honghong Li, Yong He, Xiaohuang Zhuo, Zongwei Yue, Xiaoming Rong, Yike Li, Yi Li, Lei He, Jinping Cheng, Dong Pan, Ruiqi Xue, Jinhua Cai, Jingru Jiang, Yongteng Xu, Yamei Tang

“…The concordance index (C-index) and calibration curve were used to evaluate the accuracy and discriminative ability of this model. Moreover, decision curve analysis was performed to evaluate the net clinical benefit. …”
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Sex-Based Constraints in Accessing Agricultural Resources in Ebonyi State, Nigeria by Chukwudi Loveday Njoku, Miracle Chinedu Mgbeokwere, Chibuzo Uzoma Izuogu, Michael Olatunji Olaolu, Gillian Chidozie Azuamairo, Sikiru Olesin-Ibrahim, Gabriel Daniel Agou

“…The study concluded that gender-based discrimination exists in resource access and recommended interventions by government, NGOs, and community leaders to address social norms, tenures, and barriers, promoting equal access and control over agricultural resources for both genders. …”
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Analysis of MicroRNA Processing Machinery Gene DROSHA, DICER1, and XPO5 Variants Association with Atherosclerosis: A Case–control Study by Manar F. Atoum, Dalya Alowaisy, Ammar Ali Deeb

“…Genomic DNA was extracted and genotyped using real-time TaqMan allelic discrimination assays for DROSHA rs10719, DICER rs1057035, and XPO5 rs11077 SNPs. …”
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Comparison of risk-of-bias assessment approaches for selection of studies reporting prevalence for economic analyses by Jane E Harding, Richard Edlin, Matthew J Glasgow

“…However, the JBI tool is shorter and may be easier to interpret and apply to studies that do not involve a control group, while the modified ROBINS-I tool assesses more methodological detail in studies that include a control group.Conclusion Both tools performed well for systematically assessing studies that report on outcome prevalence and provided similar discrimination between studies for risk of bias. This convergent validity supports use of both tools for the purpose of assessing risk of bias and selecting studies that report prevalence for inclusion in economic analyses.…”
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Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy in Drug Discovery: Study of Alexa532-Endothelin 1 Binding to the Endothelin ETA Receptor to Describe the Pharmacological Profile of Natural Pr... by Catherina Caballero-George, Thomas Sorkalla, Daniel Jakobs, Jessica Bolaños, Huzefa Raja, Carol Shearer, Eldredge Bermingham, Hanns Häberlein

“…Two different lateral mobilities of the receptor-ligand complexes within the cell membrane were found allowing the discrimination of different states for this complex. BQ-123 showed a strong binding affinity to the “inactive” receptor state characterized by the slow diffusion time constant. …”
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Studying chemical signals in plant–soil mesofauna interactions by Bohm, Victoria, Michel, Thomas, Forey, Estelle, Agasse, Valérie, Cardinael, Pascal, Chauvat, Matthieu

“…Discrimination of compounds produced from plant roots is a challenging purpose, especially in presence of the soil matrix and the associated fauna. …”
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Exploring Career Barriers Faced by Female Doctors Due to Gender Bias: A Qualitative Analysis by Anam Zahra, Tayyaba Azhar, Hajra Talat

“…Keywords: gender equity, gender bias, gender discrimination, mentorship, phenomenological study. …”
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Proline‐Selective Electrochemiluminescence Detecting a Single Amino Acid Variation Between A1 and A2 β‐Casein Containing Milks by Eunkyoung Kim, Chen‐Yu Chen, Monica J. Chu, Mya F. Hamstra, William E. Bentley, Gregory F. Payne

“…The study shows that proline's strong luminescence allows the generic discrimination of: Pro from other amino acids; an A2‐oligopeptide from an A1‐oligopeptide; the A2‐β‐casein variant from the A1‐variant; and commercially‐available A2 milks from A1‐containing regular milks. …”
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Establishment of a Risk Prediction Model for Pulmonary Infection in Patients with Advanced Cancer by Liangliang Yang, Xiaolong Xu, Qingquan Liu

“…The area under curve demonstrated adequate discrimination in the validation dataset (0.77; 95% confidence interval, 0.74 to 0.79). …”
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A virtual-reality (VR) cognitive pupillometry analysis of auditory and visual phonemic awareness tasks involving ‘th’ sound variations by Mohsen Mahmoudi-Dehaki, Nasim Nasr-Esfahani

“…., picture sorting and word discrimination). The second group faced auditory PATs only (i.e., rhyme recognition and sound isolation) structured around voiced and voiceless ‘th’ sounds. …”
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Association between the aromatase (CYP19A1) gene variant rs10046 and cardiovascular risk in postmenopausal women by Betânia Rodrigues dos Santos, Gislaine Casanova, Thais Rasia da Silva, Karen Oppermann, Poli Mara Spritzer

“…Genotyping of the rs10046 polymorphism of the CYP19A1 gene was carried out using real-time polymerase chain reaction with allelic discrimination assays. Results: The participants had a mean age of 56.07 ± 5.58 years and a mean body mass index (BMI) of 27.73 ± 5.41 kg/m². …”
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Pleiotropic effects of rabeprazole at acid-related diseases by A. V. Zaborovsky, I. V. Mayev, D. N. Andreyev, L. A. Tararina

“…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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T2*-weighted imaging for detection of intracranial silicone oil in MRI obtained with motion correction sequences by Ryuta Yasuda, Masayuki Maeda, Kenichi Takada, Katsuhiro Inoue, Masataka Sugao, Hidenori Suzuki

“…However, T2*WI still showed good discrimination of silicone oil even using MultiVane XD because of susceptibility artifacts. …”
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Evaluation of Prognostic Factors Following Flow-Cytometric DNA Analysis after Cytokeratin Labelling: II. Cervical and Endometrial Cancer by Pauline Wimberger, Peter Hillemanns, Thomas Kapsner, Hermann Hepp, Rainer Kimmig

“…This interesting observation, however, seems to have no therapeutic consequence due to the small discrimination capacity of CV. In endometrial carcinoma, gross DNA‐aneuploidy (DNA‐index > 1.3) and a high percentage of proliferating cells (>75th percentile) were univariate and multivariate highly significant prognostic factors for recurrence‐free survival. …”
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Setting and Reaching Targets with Computer-Assisted Cochlear Implant Fitting by Bart Vaerenberg, Geert De Ceulaer, Zoltán Szlávik, Patrizia Mancini, Andreas Buechner, Paul J. Govaerts

“…For each patient, 66 measurable psychoacoustical outcomes were recorded several times after cochlear implantation: free field audiometry (6 measures) and speech audiometry (4), spectral discrimination (20), and loudness growth (36), defined from the A§E test battery. …”
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Public awareness, attitudes, and motivation toward biobanks: a survey of China by Mingtao Huang, Lanyi Yu, Xiaonan Wang, Kun Li, Jichao Wang, Xinrui Cheng, Xiaomei Zhai

“…Notably, only 37.01% of the respondents were concerned about the risk of discrimination in biobanks, where this was lower compared with the results for populations in Western countries. …”
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The noninvasive ventilation outcomes score in patients requiring NIV for COPD exacerbation without prior evidence of airflow obstruction by Nicholas D. Lane, Tom M. Hartley, John Steer, Stephen C. Bourke

“…NIVO showed good discrimination in the clinical diagnosis cohort: area under the receiver operating curve 0.724, versus 0.79 in the NIVO validation cohort. …”
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Work-related grief and bereavement experiences of social and community service workers working with people experiencing social disadvantage: a rapid scoping review by Kara Whitlock, Zahra Premji, Ashley Mollison, Carolina Posada, Mauricio Arias-Rojas, Charlotte Futcher, Kelli I. Stajduhar

“…., homelessness and poverty, mental health and substance use concerns, racism and discrimination), social and community workers can become ‘defacto’ family and provide caregiving support at the end of life. …”
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LGBTQIA+ inclusion in the global health policy agenda: A critical discourse analysis of the Lancet Commission report archive. by William E Rosa, Sofia Weiss Goitiandia, Debbie Braybrook, Nicholas Metheny, Kailey E Roberts, Meghan McDarby, Mia Behrens, Cathy Berkman, Gary L Stein, Adebola Adedimeji, Donna Wakefield, Richard Harding, Dingle Spence, Katherine Bristowe

“…<h4>Context</h4>LGBTQIA+ people worldwide experience discrimination, violence, and stigma that lead to poor health outcomes. …”
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Ready, set, yellow! color preference of Indian free-ranging dogs by Anamitra Roy, Aesha Lahiri, Srijaya Nandi, Aayush Manchalwar, S. Siddharth, J. V. R. Abishek, Indira Bulhan, Shouvanik Sengupta, Sandeep Kumar, Tushnim Chakravarty, Anindita Bhadra

“…Abstract Most of the research on color vision related behaviors in dogs has involved training the dogs to perform visual discrimination tasks. We investigated the importance of color to untrained Indian free-ranging dogs (FRDs). …”
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