Usefulness of Background Coloration in Detection of Esophago-Pharyngeal Lesions Using NBI Magnification by Hitomi Minami, Haruhiro Inoue, Haruo Ikeda, Hitoshi Satodate, Shigeharu Hamatani, Kazuhiko Nakao, Shin-ei Kudo

“…BC could discriminate SCC/HGN from LGN/nonatypia accurately (P<0.0001). …”
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TRIPOD statement: a preliminary pre-post analysis of reporting and methods of prediction models by Gary S Collins, Karel G M Moons, Lotty Hooft, Ewout W Steyerberg, Pauline Heus, Merel van Diepen, Friedo W Dekker, Amir H Zamanipoor Najafabadi, Chava L Ramspek, Wilco C Peul

“…More models were externally validated in the same article (absolute difference 8%, post-TRIPOD: 39%), used measures of calibration (21%, post-TRIPOD: 87%) and discrimination (9%, post-TRIPOD: 100%), and used multiple imputation for handling missing data (12%, post-TRIPOD: 50%).Conclusions Since the publication of the TRIPOD statement, some reporting and methodological aspects have improved. …”
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Reconnaissance auditive intergroupe chez les mâles de singes hurleurs noirs (Alouatta pigra) sauvages by Margarita Briseño‑Jaramillo, Alejandro Medina Estrada, Alban Lemasson

“…Le paradigme utilisé, démontrant l’existence d’une carte mentale auditive du voisinage, va plus loin que les simples tests de discrimination classiquement utilisés, permettant de réellement parler de reconnaissance individuelle.…”
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Stigma associated with mental illness: perspectives of judges and attorneys in Lebanon — a cross-sectional study by Rayan Mroué, Michele Cherro, Ghida Kassir, Elias Ghossoub, Nadia Dandan

“…The survey included a section on socio-demographics and the following scales: Reported and Intended Behavior Scale (RIBS) which measures mental health stigma-related behavior and Perceived Devaluation and Discrimination Scale (PDDS) measuring the extent to which a person believes that most people will devalue or discriminate against someone with a mental illness. …”
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The Synthesis Followed by Spectral and Calorimetric Evaluation of Stability of Human Milk Fat Substitutes Obtained from Thistle Milk and Lard by Joanna Bryś, lnês Filipa Vaz Flores, Agata Górska, Ewa Ostrowska–Ligęza, Andrzej Bryś, Tomasz Niemiec, Piotr Koczoń

“…., without any reference data, occurred powerfully in discrimination of human fat milk substitutes obtained.…”
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Predicting loss of independence among geriatric patients following gastrointestinal surgery by Michaela R. Cunningham, Christopher L. Cramer, Ruyun Jin, Florence E. Turrentine, Victor M. Zaydfudim

“…The scoring system demonstrated satisfactory discrimination and calibration across the training and validation datasets, with Receiver Operating Characteristic Area Under the Curve 0.78 in both and Hosmer-Lemeshow statistic of 0.16 and 0.34, respectively. …”
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A Prospective Study of Lumbar Facet Arthroplasty in the Treatment of Degenerative Spondylolisthesis and Stenosis: Early Cost-effective Assessment from the Total Posterior Spine Sys... by Jared D. Ament, Amir Vokshoor, Yaser Badr, Todd Lanman, Kee D. Kim, J. Patrick Johnson

“…Scenario, probabilistic, and threshold sensitivity analyses were conducted to determine model discrimination and calibration. **Results:** The primary time horizon used to estimate cost and health utility was 2 years after index surgery. …”
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Urinary Sodium Concentration Is an Independent Predictor of All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality in a Type 2 Diabetes Cohort Population by Pierre-Jean Saulnier, Elise Gand, Stéphanie Ragot, Lise Bankir, Xavier Piguel, Frédéric Fumeron, Vincent Rigalleau, Jean-Michel Halimi, Richard Marechaud, Ronan Roussel, Samy Hadjadj, SURDIAGENE Study group

“…Improvement in prediction of mortality by the addition of UNa to a model including known risk factors was assessed by the relative integrated discrimination improvement (rIDI) index. Results. Participants (n=1,439) were followed for a median of 5.7 years, during which 254 cardiovascular deaths and 429 all-cause deaths were recorded. …”
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Monitoring for 5-aminosalicylate nephrotoxicity in adults with inflammatory bowel disease: prognostic model development and validation using data from the Clinical Practice Researc... by Abhishek Abhishek, Richard D Riley, Christian D Mallen, Guruprasad P Aithal, Georgina Nakafero, Matthew J Grainge, Maarten W Taal, Tim Card, Matthew D Stevenson

“…Model performance was assessed in terms of calibration and discrimination.Results 13 728 and 7318 participants who contributed 40 378 and 20 679 person-years follow-up formed the development and validation cohorts with 170 (1.2%) and 98 (1.3%) outcome events respectively. …”
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Radiomics for differentiating adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma in non-small cell lung cancer beyond nodule morphology in chest CT by Minmini Selvam, Abjasree Sadanandan, Anupama Chandrasekharan, Sidharth Ramesh, Arunan Murali, Ganapathy Krishnamurthi

“…The average Area Under the Curve score was 88%, representing good discrimination between the two classes of lung nodules. …”
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Translation, cultural adaptation and validation of the SCHNOS in French by Marie-Renée Atallah, Daniel Milad, Youcef-Hamza Benamer, Mikhail Saltychev, Sam P. Most, Sami P. Moubayed

“…Results Three items from the original SCHNOS were modified to produce the French-SCHNOS (F-SCHNOS). Discrimination abilities of F-SCHNOS-O and F-SCHNOS-C were perfect, with values of 2.18(p < 0.001, 95% CI 1.74 to 2.62) for SCHNOS-O and 2.62(p < 0.001, 95% CI 2.03 to 3.21). …”
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VDR Polymorphisms in Autoimmune Connective Tissue Diseases: Focus on Italian Population by Andrea Latini, Giada De Benedittis, Carlo Perricone, Serena Colafrancesco, Paola Conigliaro, Fulvia Ceccarelli, Maria Sole Chimenti, Lucia Novelli, Roberta Priori, Fabrizio Conti, Cinzia Ciccacci, Paola Borgiani

“…Genotyping of rs2228570, rs7975232, and rs731236 in VDR gene was performed by an allelic discrimination assay. A case/control association study and a genotype/phenotype correlation analysis have been performed. …”
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Impact fracturing of rock-like material using carbon dioxide under different temperatures and pressures by Shaobin Hu, Zhengyong Yan, Chun Zhu, Manchao He, Shuogang Pang

“…The study investigates the rock-breaking process and crack propagation patterns under supercritical CO2 thermal shock, revealing and discussing the types of thermal shock-induced fractures, their formation conditions, and discrimination criteria. The research indicates that higher supercritical CO2 thermal shock pressures and faster pressure release rates facilitate the formation of radial branching fractures, circumferential cracks, and branch cracks. …”
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Quality Evaluation of Bioactive Ingredients in Lianhua Qingwen Capsule Based on Quantitative Analysis of Multicomponent by the Single Marker Method and the Chemical Recognition Pat... by Qianqian Zhou, Lin Yang, Yiwu Wang, Jiajia Zou, Shuya Li, Lei Dai, Yan Li, Dan He

“…Orthogonal partial least-squares discrimination analysis (OPLS-DA) showed that forsythoside A could be used as the primary marker responsible for the quality differences. …”
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Development and internal validation of prognostic models for event-free survival in newly diagnosed Ewing sarcoma patients based on routinely collected clinical characteristics fro... by Richard Riley, BERNADETTE BRENNAN, Kym Snell, Piers Gaunt, Laura Kirton

“…The models will be internally validated using bootstrapping to give optimism-adjusted performance statistics (calibration and discrimination) and model stability results. Patient and clinical user groups will be asked to determine risk thresholds to guide treatment decisions in clinical practice based on the model. …”
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Arabic translation, cultural adaptation, and validation of the BDDQ-AS for rhinoplasty patients by Ahmed S. Abdelhamid, Saad Elzayat, Mohamed A. Amer, Hossam S. Elsherif, Garyfalia Lekakis, Sam P. Most

“…The A-BDDQ-AS was deemed reliable with an Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) of 0.989. A-BDDQ had good discrimination scores (above 2.0) with adequate difficulty parameters. …”
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Heterogeneous graph convolutional neural network for protein-ligand scoring by Kevin Crampon, Alexis Giorkallos, Xavier Vigouroux, Stephanie Baud, Luiz Angelo Steffenel

“…Then a heterogeneous graph convolutional network (HGCN) is used allowing the discrimination of the information according to the edge crossed. …”
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Automated Indirect Immunofluorescence Evaluation of Antinuclear Autoantibodies on HEp-2 Cells by Jörn Voigt, Christopher Krause, Edda Rohwäder, Sandra Saschenbrecker, Melanie Hahn, Maick Danckwardt, Christian Feirer, Konstantin Ens, Kai Fechner, Erhardt Barth, Thomas Martinetz, Winfried Stöcker

“…In this study, the automated pattern recognition was compared to conventional visual interpretation in a total of 351 sera. In the discrimination of positive from negative samples, concordant results between visual and automated evaluation were obtained for 349 sera (99.4%, kappa = 0.984). …”
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Psychometric analysis of the three item loneliness scale in the Czech Republic by Zdenek Meier, Lukas Novak, Jakub Helvich, Patrik Licka, Peter Tavel

“…Item Response Theory (IRT) was used to estimate Differential Item Functioning (DIF), the discrimination and difficulty of the TILS items and to estimate the measurement precision of the whole scale. …”
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The Impact of Abatwa Settlement Patterns on their Social Economic Development: A Case Study of Kisoro Municipality. by Ahishakiye, Vincent

“…Findings of the study indicated that Batwa have faced a lot of challenges as a result of being landless, and Batwa women arc at the center or different forms of violations compared to men, although both genders arc experiencing some level or vulnerability and challenges such as racism, discrimination and human rights violations. Different institutions such as NGOs, churches and individual Batwa organizations (UOBDU) have tried to solve the challenge of the landlessness Batwa face but there are still more needed to implement and protect their land rights as other ethnic groups in Uganda. …”
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