A Hierarchical Graph-Enhanced Transformer Network for Remote Sensing Scene Classification by Ziwei Li, Weiming Xu, Shiyu Yang, Juan Wang, Hua Su, Zhanchao Huang, Sheng Wu

“…Moreover, we develop a fine-grained graph neural network extractor that constructs the spatial topological relationships of pixel-level scene images, thereby aiding in the discrimination of similar complex scene categories. Finally, the visual features and spatial structural features are fully integrated and input into the classifier by employing skip connections. …”
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A novel nomogram for predicting mortality risk in young and middle-aged patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis: a retrospective study by Lei Sun, Lei Sun, Yue Zhang, Yue Zhang, Xinliang Zuo, Xinliang Zuo, Yongmei Liu

“…The model exhibited a specificity of 83.67% and a sensitivity of 82.76%, demonstrating substantial discriminative ability. The model’s robustness was confirmed through internal validation with 1,000 bootstrap samples, yielding an AUC of 0.894 (95% CI: 0.806–0.949). …”
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Responsible research in health disparities using the Adolescent Brain Cognitive DevelopmentSM (ABCD) study by MR Gonzalez, C Cardenas-Iniguez, DE Linares, S Wonnum, K Bagot, EJ White, A Cuan, S DiMatteo, YD Akiel, P Lindsley, JC Harris, E Perez-Amparan, TD Powell, Comité Organizador Latino de City Heights (COLCH), G Dowling, D Alkire, WK Thompson, TM Murray

“…We expand the societal level to acknowledge structural discrimination as the root cause of systemic and structural inequities resulting in health disparities among marginalized youth. …”
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Determination of a normal orogenic palaeo-geothermal gradient with clay mineral and organic matter indices: a review by Rafael Ferreiro Mählmann, Meinert Rahn, Sébastien Potel, Lan Nguyen-Thanh, Rainer Petschick

“…Comparison between different regions is possible when using KI standardization and same data discrimination. In both parts of the Alps a complex thermal history of short durations (< 5.0 myr for the Northern Calcareous Alps to 10 myr for the Helvetic Alps) caused similar VR/KI trends, but disequilibrium is suggested by weaker regression parameters. …”
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Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index (SII) and Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio (NLR): A Strong Predictor of Disease Severity in Large-Artery Atherosclerosis (LAA) Stroke Patients by Liu K, Yang L, Liu Y, Zhang Y, Zhu J, Zhang H, He Z

“…The SII values under the receiver operating characteristic curve (0.701, 95% CI (0.649– 0.791, P < 0.001, cut-off value 912.97) and NLR values under the receiver operating characteristic curve (0.604,5% CI (0.519– 0.689), P < 0.01, cut-off value 1.461), and SII values had high discrimination ability. Both SII and NLR had high diagnostic and predictive value for stroke severity, and SII was better than NLR.Conclusion: The higher SII and NLR, the more severity in LAA stroke patients. …”
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Abnormal EEG Spectral Power and Coherence Measures During Pre-Motor Stage in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis by Saroj Bista, Amina Coffey, Matthew Mitchell, Antonio Fasano, Stefan Dukic, Teresa Buxo, Eileen Giglia, Mark Heverin, Muthuraman Muthuraman, Richard G. Carson, Madeleine Lowery, Lara McManus, Orla Hardiman, Bahman Nasseroleslami

“…Combining abnormal EEG connectivity from rest, pre-motor, and execution stages provided more powerful discrimination between patients and controls with a uniquely higher contribution of measures pertaining to the pre-motor stage. …”
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Anemia, Hyperglycemia, and Reduced Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Improve the GRACE Score&rsquo;s Predictability for In-hospital Mortality in Acute Coronary Syndrome; Single-Ce... by Turu' Allo IJ, Pramudyo M, Akbar MR

“…Reclassification improvement was quantified using continuous net reclassification improvement (cNRI) and integrated discrimination improvement (IDI).Results: Among 634 patients (mean age 58.10± 11.08 years old; 80.3% male), anemia, hyperglycemia, and reduced LVEF were observed in 197 (31.1%), 123 (19.4%), and 364 (57.4%) patients, respectively. …”
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Coarse-scale vertical distribution of pelagic amphipods in two contrasting seasons of the southern Gulf of Mexico by Marco Violante-Huerta, Laura Sanvicente-Añorve, Miguel Alatorre-Mendieta, Edlin Guerra-Castro

“…The SIMPER analysis also showed these taxa as responsible for the discrimination of the epi- and mesopelagic assemblages. …”
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Development and validation of a hyperlipidemia risk prediction model for middle-aged and older adult Chinese using 2015 CHARLS data by Li-xiang Zhang, Shan-Bing Hou, Fang-fang Zhao, Ting-ting Wang, Ying Jiang, Xiao-juan Zhou, Jiao-yu Cao

“…The Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curve (AUC) for the nomograms was 0.717 (95% Confidence Interval (CI): 0.703–0.731), indicating good discrimination. The Decision Curve Analysis (DCA) demonstrated that when the probability of hyperlipidemia in the middle-aged and older adult population falls between 0.11 and 0.61, the application of the nomogram yields the highest net benefit, suggesting that the nomogram model possesses good clinical applicability. …”
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Development and external validation of a nomogram for the early prediction of acute kidney injury in septic patients: a multicenter retrospective clinical study by Qin-Yue Su, Wen-Jie Chen, Yan-Jun Zheng, Wen Shi, Fang-Chen Gong, Shun-Wei Huang, Zhi-tao Yang, Hong-Ping Qu, En-Qiang Mao, Rui-Lan Wang, Du-Ming Zhu, Gang Zhao, Wei Chen, Sheng Wang, Qian Wang, Chang-Qing Zhu, Gao Yuan, Er-Zhen Chen, Ying Chen

“…We evaluated the model’s discrimination, precision and clinical benefit through receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves, calibration plots, decision curve analysis (DCA) and clinical impact curves (CIC) in both internal and external validation.Results AKI incidence was 53.2% in the development cohort and 48.2% in the external validation cohort. …”
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Prediction model and scoring system for in-hospital mortality risk in infants with heart failure aged 1–36 months: A retrospective case-control study by Meng Wei, Shuai Shang, Huasheng Lv, Xiaoyan Liang, Yanmei Lu, Baopeng Tang

“…The model evaluation results for the train and test sets of infant and toddler heart failure patients are as follows: C-index values for discrimination in the train and test sets are 0.721 and 0.728, respectively. …”
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Role of C5aR2 in prognosis of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome through negative modulation of C5a: A prospective observational study by Muhammed Rashid, Sreedharan Nair, Pooja Gopal Poojari, Vijetha Shenoy Belle, Vijayanarayana Kunhikatta, Daniel A. Vaz, Vishal Shanbhag, Viji Pulikkel Chandran, Shravya Chitrapady, Girish Thunga

“…C5a/C5aR2 ratio had better discrimination (AUC: 0.707 vs 0.699 vs 0.511) and higher specificity (78.1 vs 71.9 vs 3.1) than C5R2 and C5a in predicting the poor prognosis among ARDS patients. …”
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Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder increases cognitive inflexibility in people with coronary artery disease by Agne Stanyte, Naomi A. Fineberg, Julija Gecaite-Stonciene, Aurelija Podlipskyte, Julius Neverauskas, Alicja Juskiene, Vesta Steibliene, Nijole Kazukauskiene, Julius Burkauskas

“…A preoccupation with details trait was associated with fewer errors on a compound discrimination stage of the IED (ρ = −0.251, p = .026). …”
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Perspectives and experiences regarding pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in a community sample of Veterans with unhealthy alcohol use: overall and across sexual orientation and gende... by Olivia V. Fletcher, Kristine Beaver, Elizabeth J. Austin, Jenna van Draanen, E. Jennifer Edelman, Emily C. Williams

“…Groups that experience chronic stigma, discrimination, and/or other marginalization, such as sexual and gender minoritized groups, may have enhanced HIV risk related to unhealthy alcohol use. …”
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MASFNet: Multi-level attention and spatial sampling fusion network for pine wilt disease trees detection by Dong Ren, Meng Li, Ziyu Hong, Li Liu, Jingfeng Huang, Hang Sun, Shun Ren, Pan Sao, Wenbin Wang, Jingcheng Zhang

“…Additionally, we propose a spatial sampling fusion (SSF) module that samples critical sub-regions of features across different layers, generating finer-grained features and thereby enhancing the discrimination between highly similar objects. We utilized UAVs to acquire images and randomly selected images with a resolution greater than 0.6 meters for annotation, creating a dataset of 2360 images for model training and test. …”
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Rapid Geographical Origin Identification and Quality Assessment of Angelicae Sinensis Radix by FT-NIR Spectroscopy by Zhen-yu Zhang, Ying-jun Wang, Hui Yan, Xiang-wei Chang, Gui-sheng Zhou, Lei Zhu, Pei Liu, Sheng Guo, Tina T. X. Dong, Jin-ao Duan

“…The results suggested that NIR spectroscopy combined with SVM and PLSR algorithms could be exploited in the discrimination of Angelicae Sinensis Radix from different geographical locations for quality assurance and monitoring. …”
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Hemolymph microbiota and immune effectors’ expressions driven by geographical rearing acclimation of the aquacultured Penaeus stylirostris by Valérie Perez, Viviane Boulo, Julien De Lorgeril, Dominique Pham, Dominique Ansquer, Gwenola Plougoulen, Valentine Ballan, Jean-Sébastien Lam, Océane Romatif, Jeremy Le Luyer, Corinne Falchetto, Caline Basset, Stanley Flohr, Moana Maamaatuaiahutapu, Marc André Lafille, Christophe Lau, Denis Saulnier, Nelly Wabete, Nolwenn Callac

“…Putative microbial functions were mostly associated with bacterial competition, infections and metabolism in NC, while they were highly associated with the cell metabolism in FP suggesting a rearing site discrimination. Differential relative expression of immune effectors measured in the hemolymph of two shrimp populations from NC and FP, exhibited higher level of expression in NC compared to FP. …”
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Black Boarding Academies as a Prudential Reparation by Roy Brooks

“…While there has been a transformation of political power, giving Black South Africans a strong voice in the government, economic power remains in the hands of White South Africans and racial discrimination in housing and education continues. Although at one time I was among scholars who had hoped Black Reparations could deliver a much-needed Third Reconstruction, I would be remiss as a passionate supporter of Black Reparations for many decades to ignore the cold facts—reparations have never successfully reconstructed a society. …”
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Black Boarding Academies as a Prudential Reparation by Roy Brooks

“…While there has been a transformation of political power, giving Black South Africans a strong voice in the government, economic power remains in the hands of White South Africans and racial discrimination in housing and education continues. Although at one time I was among scholars who had hoped Black Reparations could deliver a much-needed Third Reconstruction, I would be remiss as a passionate supporter of Black Reparations for many decades to ignore the cold facts—reparations have never successfully reconstructed a society. …”
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High-throughput methylation sequencing reveals novel biomarkers for the early detection of renal cell carcinoma by Wenhao Guo, Weiwu Chen, Jie Zhang, Mingzhe Li, Hongyuan Huang, Qian Wang, Xiaoyi Fei, Jian Huang, Tongning Zheng, Haobo Fan, Yunfei Wang, Hongcang Gu, Guoqing Ding, Yicheng Chen

“…For Stage I RCC tissue, the model showed excellent discrimination (AUC-ROC: 0.999, sensitivity: 98.5%, specificity: 100%). …”
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