External validation of radiobiological models for local control prediction in lung cancer patients treated with stereotactic body radiation therapy by Bao-Tian Huang, Pei-Xian Lin, Ying Wang, Li-Mei Luo

“…The ROC curves indicated discriminative power for all the 2-year and 3-year models, with the exception of the Klement model. …”
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Measuring implicit associations with behaviours to improve resident mood: development of implicit association tasks for nursing home care providers by Inge Knippenberg, Ruslan Leontjevas, Ine Declercq, Jacques van Lankveld, Debby Gerritsen

“…A subsample (n = 111) completed additional questionnaires to evaluate convergent validity (with self-reported attitudes towards depression, altruism, and mood-improving behaviours), and discriminant validity (against social desirability), and repeated the tasks after 2 weeks to assess test-retest reliability. …”
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Urinary I-FABP, L-FABP, TFF-3, and SAA Can Diagnose and Predict the Disease Course in Necrotizing Enterocolitis at the Early Stage of Disease by Stepan Coufal, Alena Kokesova, Helena Tlaskalova-Hogenova, Barbora Frybova, Jiri Snajdauf, Michal Rygl, Miloslav Kverka

“…I-FABP was able to discriminate between infants who will develop NEC or sepsis and the SAA was able to discriminate between medical and surgical NEC. …”
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Outlining the Psychological Profile of Persistent Depression in Fibromyalgia Patients Through Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) by Andrea Doreste, Jesus Pujol, Eva Penelo, Víctor Pérez, Laura Blanco-Hinojo, Gerard Martínez-Vilavella, Helena Pardina-Torner, Fabiola Ojeda, Jordi Monfort, Joan Deus

“…<b>Results:</b> The PAI showed strong discriminative ability in detecting PDD, characterized by high scores in cognitive and emotional depression and low scores in identity alteration, dominance, and grandeur. …”
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Cognitive performance and differentiation of B-SNIP psychosis Biotypes: Algorithmic Diagnostics for Efficient Prescription of Treatments (ADEPT) - 2 by Brett A. Clementz, Ishanu Chattopadhyay, S. Kristian Hill, Jennifer E. McDowell, Sarah K. Keedy, David A. Parker, Rebekah L. Trotti, Elena I. Ivleva, Matcheri S. Keshavan, Elliot S. Gershon, Godfrey D. Pearlson, Carol A. Tamminga, Robert D. Gibbons

“…Except for antisaccade proportion correct and Tower of London, there was no overlap of the top discriminating items for B-SNIP Biotypes and DSM psychosis categories. …”
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Development and validation of a food-related quality of life questionnaire (CANUT-QVA) for cancer patients by Kenza Drareni, Catherine Mercier, Reisya Rizki Riantiningtyas, Anestis Dougkas, Benjamin Riche, Pascale Roux, Chantal Fingal, Hélène Labrosse, Fadila Farsi, David Dayde, Mélanie Roche, Julie Anne Nazare, Arnaud Fournel, Delphine Maucort-Boulch, Moustafa Bensafi, Véronique Mourier, Amandine Bruyas, Agnès Giboreau

“…Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and multiple correspondence analysis were performed for both groups to determine construct and discriminant validity. Analysis of test-retest reliability was also performed to evaluate reproducibility. …”
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Individualized resting-state functional connectivity abnormalities unveil two major depressive disorder subtypes with contrasting abnormal patterns of abnormality by Keke Fang, Lianjie Niu, Baohong Wen, Liang Liu, Ya Tian, Huiting Yang, Ying Hou, Shaoqiang Han, Xianfu Sun, Wenzhou Zhang

“…These subtypes significantly enhanced case-control discriminability and showed strong internal discriminability between subtypes. …”
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Parameter Analysis and Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication of the Precision Steel Ball Transmission by Jin Jingchuan, An Zijun Yang, Ronggang

“…On the basis of the study of contact mechanics and kinematics of precision steel ball transmission,the minimum film thickness formula of precision steel ball transmission meshing vice is derived by applying Hamrock-Dowson formula.The influence rule of the basic parameters such as the short amplitude coefficient of cycloidal tooth profile,rolling circle radius and steel ball radius on the meshing pair minimum film thickness is studied by applying numerical calculation method.The lubrication condition of meshing pair is analyzed and discriminated,the calculation method of the parameter selection of meshing pair in a state of complete elastohydrodynamic lubrication is proposed with calculating the range of the basic parameters.The theory basis of design and application for precision steel ball transmission is provided.…”
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AAC compression detection based on scaling factor transition probability by Qijuan HUANG, Rangding WANG, Diqun YAN

“…Audio compression history detection is an important part of audio forensics,which is important to detect whether audio has been tampered or forged.An algorithm of AAC audio compression history detection was presented by using the transition probability differences of scale factors as the discriminative feature.Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can distinguish the single,double and triple compressed AAC audios effectively,and from the low-bite-rate to high-bit-rate,the average classification accuracy achieves 99.75%,the same-bit-rate detection accuracy achieves 97.28%.In addition,the results of comparison experiments show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithm.…”
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Improving the Accuracy for Analyzing Heart Diseases Prediction Based on the Ensemble Method by Xiao-Yan Gao, Abdelmegeid Amin Ali, Hassan Shaban Hassan, Eman M. Anwar

“…Two features of extraction methods: linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and principal component analysis (PCA), are used to select essential features from the dataset. …”
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Quantification of Hydrogen Peroxide in Cretan Honey and Correlation with Physicochemical Parameters by Amalia Alygizou, Spyros Grigorakis, Panagiota Gotsiou, Sofia Loupassaki, Antony C. Calokerinos

“…Univariate and multivariate statistics applied to the results indicate that the results can be used to discriminate honey sample groups of different botanical origins.…”
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Vector fields on bifurcation diagrams of quasi singularities by Fawaz Alharbi, Yanlin Li

“…In addition to this, the discriminants of the versal deformations of the submersions that were accomplished are described and they are related to the duality of the cuspidal edge.…”
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Power of a determinant with two physical applications by James D. Louck

“…Two applications of this expression are given: the first is the Regge generating function for the Clebsch-Gordan coefficients of the unitary group SU(2), noting also the relation to the  3 F2 hypergeometric series; the second is to the even powers of the Vandermonde determinant, or, equivalently, all powers of the discriminant. The second result leads to an interesting map between magic square arrays and partitions and has applications to the wave functions describing the quantum Hall effect. …”
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INTERFACE SHEAR STRESS ANALYSIS AND INTERFACE SHEAR STRENGTH MEASUREMENT OF YTTRIA-STABILIZED-ZIRCONIA COATINGS by GONG ManFeng, QIAO ShengRu, MEI Fang

“…The coatings were discriminatively sprayed on three parts on specimens with different thickness,and which contributed to analyzing the relationship between coatings’ thickness and their strength properties.…”
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Detection of Counterfeit Tequila by Fluorescence Spectroscopy by José Manuel de la Rosa Vázquez, Diego Adrián Fabila-Bustos, Luis Felipe de Jesús Quintanar-Hernández, Alma Valor, Suren Stolik

“…An ultraviolet (UV) light induced fluorescence study to discriminate fake tequila from genuine ones is presented. …”
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MONITORING OF FLANK WEAR AND DAMAGE ON TURNING CUTTING TOOLS BY IMAGE PROCESSING by Joseph Kalil Khoury Junior, John Kenneth Schueller, Francisco de Assis Carvalho Pinto, Geice Paula Villibor

“…Image processing techniques, discriminant function, to identify insert breakage, and Hough Transform, to find the flank wear profile, achieved over accuracy. …”
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Dynamic Behaviors of a Discrete Two Species Predator-Prey System Incorporating Harvesting by Ting Wu

“…Secondly, we observe that the two nonnegative equilibriums of the system are unstable through the eigenvalue discriminant method, and the positive equilibrium point is asymptotically stable by Jury criterion. …”
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The traveling wave solution and dynamics analysis of the fractional order generalized Pochhammer–Chree equation by Chunyan Liu

“…Finally, many solutions were constructed using the polynomial complete discriminant system method, including rational, trigonometric, hyperbolic, Jacobian elliptic function, and implicit function solutions. …”
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The first DNA-supported record of Platicrista angustata (Eutardigrada, Hypsibiidae) from Germany and reply to Scheirer et al. (2024) by Piotr Gąsiorek

“…The recent paper of Gąsiorek et al. (2024a), containing integrative redescriptions of several taxonomically important hypsibiid species, provided necessary discriminative criteria used in modern eutardigrade identification. …”
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Evaluation of T Cell Immunity against Human Cytomegalovirus: Impact on Patient Management and Risk Assessment of Vertical Transmission by Giulia Freer, Paola Quaranta, Mauro Pistello

“…Several methods for CMV diagnosis are available on the market, but because infection is so common, careful selection is needed to discriminate primary infection from reactivation. This review focuses on methods based on CMV-specific T cell reactivity to help monitor the consequences of CMV infection/reactivation in specific categories of patients. …”
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