ENSURING HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE CONTEXT OF IMPLEMENTATION OF ELECTRONIC VOTING IN UKRAINE: PERSPECTIVES AND RISKS by Liudmyla Gudz

“…An e-voting system can ensure compliance with international electoral and human rights standards, such as privacy, accessibility, non-discrimination, information, and verification of votes. …”
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Lactate and Bilirubin Index: A New Indicator to Predict Critically Ill Cirrhotic Patients’ Prognosis by Xiao-Fu Chen, Yuan Zhao, Wei-Zhen Chen, Xin-Tian Shao, Zhi-Ming Huang

“…For predicting 3-year mortality, the model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score showed better discrimination ability with an area under the curve of 0.726 (95% confidence interval: 0.680–0.771). …”
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Multibeam Antennas Based on 3-D Discrete Lenses With Magnified Field-of-View by Lisa Berretti, Renaud Loison, Esteban Menargues, Lucas Polo-Lopez, Giovanni Toso, Maria Garcia-Vigueras

“…By employing both the GO technique and rigorous full-wave analysis, it is numerically verified that this type of lens system can produce beams pointing up to 70° from the boresight direction while maintaining good levels of cross-polar discrimination in all azimuthal planes. Additionally, numerical evidence shows that these magnified lenses can increase their FoV compared to lenses with equal back and front sizes, reaching approximately 50° of scanning. …”
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Establishment of a Nomogram for Predicting Early Death in Viral Myocarditis by Xuejun Sun, Naxin Xie, Mengling Guo, Xuelian Qiu, Hongwei Chen, Haibo Liu, Hongmu Li

“…The performance of the nomogram was assessed by calibration, discrimination, and clinical utility. Result. 9 factors were screened by LASSO regression analysis for predicting the early death of VMC. …”
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‘Coming out’/self-disclosure in LGBTQ+ adolescents and youth: International and Indian scenario - A narrative review of published studies in the last decade (2012-2022) by Swapnajeet Sahoo, Velprashanth Venkatesan, Rahul Chakravarty

“…The experience of ‘Coming Out’ (CO) can be positive, leading to acceptance and a feeling of liberation, or it can be harmful, leading to stigma, humiliation, and discrimination, subsequently leading to significant psychological distress. …”
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Scoping review of veterans’ disclosure of mental health concerns or medical conditions in the workplace and other settings: study protocol by Laura J Ferris, Emma B Knight, Richard O’Quinn, Tarli Young, Justin P Brienza

“…Disclosure of such conditions is important to provide social, emotional, medical and mental health support, but veterans may face challenges when deciding whether to disclose conditions, including fear of stigma or discrimination. Safe disclosure in the workplace is particularly important, as it allows employees to gain accommodations and enables employers to manage workplace health and safety effectively. …”
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Predicting the Botanical Origin of Honeys with Chemometric Analysis According to Their Antioxidant and Physicochemical Properties by Anna Maria Kaczmarek, Małgorzata Muzolf-Panek, Jolanta Tomaszewska-Gras, Piotr Konieczny

“…On the basis of the LDA analysis, the colour parameters possessed the highest discrimination power according to the botanical origin of honey samples. …”
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Unsupervised deep learning of electrocardiograms enables scalable human disease profiling by Sam F. Friedman, Shaan Khurshid, Rachael A. Venn, Xin Wang, Nate Diamant, Paolo Di Achille, Lu-Chen Weng, Seung Hoan Choi, Christopher Reeder, James P. Pirruccello, Pulkit Singh, Emily S. Lau, Anthony Philippakis, Christopher D. Anderson, Mahnaz Maddah, Puneet Batra, Patrick T. Ellinor, Jennifer E. Ho, Steven A. Lubitz

“…The ECG latent space model demonstrated more associations than models using standard ECG intervals, and offered favorable discrimination of prevalent disease compared to models comprising age, sex, and race. …”
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Exploring the experiences of children's palliative care for forced migrant families in the United Kingdom: an interpretative phenomenological study by Marie Clancy, Caroline Bradbury-Jones, Jenny Phillimore, Julie Taylor

“…Seven family members and seven health care professional participants were interviewed from hospital, hospice and community palliative care settings in the UK.ResultsFour overarching themes were identified related to experiences of loss and grief, communication, faith and coping strategies and alienation and discrimination. Compassionate, empathetic, family-centred care which valued family belief systems and coping strategies, optimised care. …”
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Clinical Outcome Predictive Value of Procalcitonin in Patients Suspected with Infection in the Emergency Department by Pierre Leroux, Sébastien De Ruffi, Laurent Ramont, Marion Gornet, Guillaume Giordano Orsini, Xavier Losset, Lukshe Kanagaratnam, Stéphane Gennai

“…The highest discriminatory values were found for patients with age <65 years, but PCT lost its discrimination power for in-hospital mortality in patients with a bronchopulmonary infection site or a temperature ≥37.8°C and for ICU admission in patients with severe clinical presentations. …”
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Effect of HBeAg/anti-HBe coexistence on HBeAg seroconversion in treatment-naïve chronic hepatitis B patients with peginterferon-α by Kaimin Song, Huitong Wang, Dawu Zeng, Yunyun Qian, Zhixiang Guo, Huatang Zhang, Yijuan Zheng, Yongjun Zhou, Xueping Yu, Zhijun Su

“…The nomogram model constructed based on these four independent correlates demonstrated good discrimination (area under the curve = 0.866), calibration, and clinical adaptability. …”
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Polymorphisms of Tumor Necrosis Factor-α, Transforming Growth Factor-β, and Interleukin-10 in Asthma Associated with Olive Pollen Sensitization by Blanca Cárdaba, David Calzada, Selene Baos, Miriam Aguerri, Joaquín Quiralte, Carlos Lahoz

“…These polymorphisms were genotyped by allelic discrimination, in olive pollen-allergic patients (phenotyped for specific Ole e 2 and 10 sensitizations) and healthy controls. …”
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Centralized and local legal regulation of labor relations: problems of correlation and development by V. S. Venediktov, K. Yu. Melnyk

“…It has been proposed to supplement Art. 11 of the Law of Ukraine “On the Organization of Labor Relations in Martial Law” part 2 with the following content: “During the period of martial law, it is not allowed to suspend the provisions of the collective agreement regarding wages, labor protection, medical care, ensuring equal rights and opportunities for women and men , measures aimed at preventing, countering and stopping mobbing (harassment), prohibition of discrimination”.…”
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Nomogram Predicting 90-Day Readmission in Patients with Diabetes: A Prospective Study by Dong Z, Xie W, Yang L, Zhang Y, Li J

“…The AUC, calibration plot, and clinical decision curve were used to assess the discrimination, calibration, and clinical usefulness of the nomogram, respectively.Results: In this study, the 90-day readmission rate in our study population was 18.6%. …”
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Inclusion of hypocretin-1 improved performance of poor sleep quality prediction for elderly patients with acute ischemic stroke: a prospective cohort study by Ting Fu, Weiwei Zhang, Rongrong Guo, Shuang He, Saiying Yu, Huiying Wang, Yunfeng Zhang, Ying Wu

“…The models were internally validated and evaluated comprehensively via discrimination, calibration, and clinical utility.ResultsThe prevalence of poor sleep (PSQI &gt;7) was 64.5% among elderly individuals experiencing acute ischemic stroke. …”
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Nutrigenomics: A promising frontier in chronic disease prevention by Seyed Morteza Hosseiniara, Solmaz Sadat Hosseini Zijoud

“…These include the integration of diverse and complex datasets from various sources -such as genomics, metabolomics, and proteomics- the development of robust bioinformatics tools for data analysis and interpretation, and careful consideration of ethical implications, including privacy concerns and the potential for genetic discrimination.Moving forward, the integration of multi-omics approaches -encompassing a comprehensive analysis of an individual's genetic, epigenetic, metabolic, and proteomic profiles- will be crucial for advancing the field of nutrigenomics. …”
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Religion and politics of belonging in digital times: youth religiosity in focus by Astrid Mattes, Miriam Haselbacher, Katharina Limacher, Christoph Novak

“…Young believers, in particular, experience their religion as a powerful category of difference, often related to discrimination or rejection on grounds of their religiosity. …”
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MLHI-Net: multi-level hybrid lightweight water body segmentation network for urban shoreline detection by Jianhua Ye, Pan Li, Yunda Zhang, Ze Guo, Shoujin Zeng, Youji Zhan

“…The majority of extant methods are unable to adapt to the discrimination of high similarity features between the shore and reflections in complex and diverse environments. …”
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Using Days Alive and Out of Hospital to measure inequities and explore pathways through which inequities emerge after coronary artery bypass grafting in Aotearoa New Zealand: a sec... by Sarah-Jane Paine, Luke Boyle, Alan Forbes Merry, Elana Curtis, Thomas Lumley, Jade Tamatea

“…Importantly, our results illustrate the value of DAOH as a sophisticated outcome metric that can reflect the complex and accumulative impacts of disadvantage and discrimination faced by Indigenous peoples both here in New Zealand and worldwide. …”
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Development and validation of a recurrence risk prediction model for elderly schizophrenia patients by Biqi Zu, Chunying Pan, Ting Wang, Hongliang Huo, Wentao Li, Libin An, Juan Yin, Yulan Wu, Meiling Tang, Dandan Li, Xin Wu, Ziwei Xie

“…Spatial external validation was conducted using 172 cases ESCZP from the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Qiqihar Medical College during the same period. The model’s discrimination, accuracy, and clinical utility were assessed using Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves, Area Under the Curve (AUC), calibration curves, and Decision Curve Analysis (DCA). …”
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