A novel feature selection technique: Detection and classification of Android malware by Sandeep Sharma, Prachi, Rita Chhikara, Kavita Khanna

“…This approach surpasses existing methods by delivering comparable performance with a significantly reduced number of features compared to individual approaches.…”
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Measurement properties of instruments to assess insight in psychosis: A systematic review protocol. by Hadar Hazan, Melissa C Funaro, Vinod H Srihari

“…The findings will inform future research and clinical practice, facilitating the selection of the most appropriate tools for assessing insight and ultimately contributing to improved care for individuals with psychosis. The findings will provide clinicians and researchers with robust tools for assessing insight, ultimately enhancing treatment outcomes for individuals with psychosis.…”
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Computationally expensive constrained problems via surrogate-assisted dynamic population evolutionary optimization by Zan Yang, Chen Jiang, Jiansheng Liu

“…For accelerating the convergence, the sparse local search is designed based on update state of the current best solution in which two excellent but non adjacent individuals are used to provide valuable guidance information for local search. …”
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The impact of fruit and vegetable intake on healthcare costs and preventive care in older adults: evidence from SHARE data by S. Asieh Hosseini Tabaghdehi, Cristina Elisa Orso, Cristina Tealdi, Simona Tenaglia

“…However, among hospitalized individuals, daily consumption is associated with fewer hospitalizations and shorter hospital stays. …”
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FEATURES OF LIFE-MEANING ORIENTATIONS OF YOUNG ADULTS WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS OF REFLEXION by Yulia I. Popova

“…Gender-nonspecific features of this connection are: level of retro-reflexion influences such life-meaning orientations as self-contentment, self-productivity and assessment of individual’s past; level of situational reflexion influences such life-meaning orientations as ability of self-regulation and image of individual’s strength and freedom; level of prospective-reflexion influences such life-meaning orientations as assessment of future success and the ability to clearly see life goals. …”
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Validation and Analysis of Recreational Runners’ Kinematics Obtained from a Sacral IMU by Hossein Asgari, Ben Heller

“…In the second part of our study, negligible intra-individual differences were observed with changes in speed, while inter-individual differences were large. …”
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THE DEMOCRACY RHETORIC: A RESEARCH ON THE GRADUATE DISSERTATIONS by Mehmet Çakır

“…Juntas,memorandums, coups, post modern coups and civilian coups can be defined asoverall actions have the characteristics of social, political and militaryorganizations; which are bloody, hurtful, restrictor the individual rights andfreedoms; we have experienced many times since Turkey was established, ignorethe national will. …”
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Models, systems, networks in economics, engineering, nature and society by V.M. Volodin, T.Yu. Pashchenko, D.V. Senatorov

“…We saw both similarities and differences in individual clusters, where the main one is unanimous decision-making, and, conversely, in practice there are also those that are more reminiscent of other types of associations. …”

Effects of a News Literacy Video on News Literacy Perceptions and Misinformation Evaluation by Rita Tang, Melissa Tully, Leticia Bode, Emily K. Vraga

“…Our findings suggest that after watching the NL video, individuals valued NL more but their self-perceived news literacy did not improve. …”
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Letter Position Dyslexia in Arabic: From Form to Position by Naama Friedmann, Manar Haddad-Hanna

“…This study reports the reading of 11 Arabic-speaking individuals with letter position dyslexia (LPD), and the effect of letter form on their reading errors. …”
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A rare haplotype of the GJD3 gene segregating in familial Meniere’s disease interferes with connexin assembly by Alba Escalera-Balsera, Paula Robles-Bolivar, Alberto M. Parra-Perez, Silvia Murillo-Cuesta, Han Chow Chua, Lourdes Rodríguez-de la Rosa, Julio Contreras, Ewa Domarecka, Juan Carlos Amor-Dorado, Andrés Soto-Varela, Isabel Varela-Nieto, Agnieszka J. Szczepek, Alvaro Gallego-Martinez, Jose A. Lopez-Escamez

“…This haplotype was found in five individuals with FMD, segregating in three unrelated families with a total of ten individuals; and in another eight MD individuals. …”
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Factors Associated with Spontaneous Clearance of Hepatitis C Virus among Illicit Drug Users by Jason Grebely, Jesse D Raffa, Calvin Lai, Mel Krajden, Brian Conway, Mark W Tyndall

“…BACKGROUND: Spontaneous clearance of hepatitis C virus (HCV) occurs in approximately 25% of individuals.…”
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Sources of illustrations by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“… From text: The authors wish to thank the following individuals and institutions for the use of the photographs in this book. …”
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Beyond identification of familial hypercholesterolemia: Improving downstream visits and treatments in a large health care system by Harin Lee, Tarun Kadaru, Ruth Schneider, Taylor Triana, Carol Tujardon, Colby Ayers, Mujeeb Basit, Zahid Ahmad, Amit Khera

“…The approach to improving downstream processes of care and implementation of appropriate treatment after identification of these individuals is unclear. Methods: Individuals at UT Southwestern Medical Center with an LDL-C ≥ 190mg/dL (n = 8368) ever recorded in the EHR were included in an FH registry. …”
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Sangre Por Salud (SPS) Biobank: cohort profile by Richard R Sharp, Euijung Ryu, Janet E Olson, Karen Meagher, James R Cerhan, Davinder Singh, Suzette Bielinski, Emmil Zarrugh, Marlene E Girardo, Giovanna Moreno Garzon, Valentina Hernandez, Sharon Levey, Crystal Gonzalez, Daniela B Pompa, Gabriel Q Shaibi, Lawrence Mandarino, Steven Thibodeau, Elena De Filippis

“…Purpose The Sangre Por Salud (SPS) Biobank was established to facilitate biomedical research opportunities for the Latino community by creating an easily accessible prospective cohort for scientists interested in studying health conditions and health disparities in this population.Participants Individuals self-identifying as Latino, aged 18–85 years, were prospectively recruited from the primary care Internal Medicine clinic at Mountain Park Health Center in Phoenix, Arizona. …”
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The association of visceral and subcutaneous fat areas with phenotypic age in non-elderly adults, mediated by HOMA-IR and HDL-C by Yuanhong Liu, Min Xu, Liqing Wang, Linyun Meng, Mengran Li, Shumin Mu

“…In contrast, a nonlinear relationship of visceral fat area (VFA) with PhenoAgeAccel was observed in individuals aged 18–44 years, while this relationship was linear in individuals aged 45–59 years, with thresholds of 0.769 m² and 1.220 m², respectively. …”
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Testing an Electronic Patient-Reported Outcome Platform in the Context of Traumatic Brain Injury: PRiORiTy Usability Study by Christel McMullan, Grace Turner, Ameeta Retzer, Antonio Belli, Elin Haf Davies, Laura Nice, Luke Flavell, Jackie Flavell, Melanie Calvert

“…These effects often require continuous management and individualized care. Traditional paper-based assessments can be cumbersome, potentially impeding regular monitoring of patient-reported outcomes (PROs). …”
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Cigarette Smoking Patterns Among Racial and Ethnic Groups With Chronic Lung Diseases During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Vijaya L. Seegulam, MPH, Caretia J. Washington, BS, Parvathy P. Surendran, BPT, Alyssa M. Falise, PhD, MSPH, Diana Gomez-Manjarres, MD, Catalina Lopez-Quintero, MD, MPH, PhD

“…No significant changes were observed in the mean number of days or cigarettes smoked in the past 30 days, except for a marginally significant increase in cigarette consumption among non-Hispanic Black individuals. Conclusions: These analyses suggest that the pandemic had a differential impact on the rates of current smoking across racial/ethnic subgroups in adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and/or asthma, with a detrimental effect in Hispanic individuals and an improvement among non-Hispanic White individuals. …”
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The Heart Is Not an Animated Body: Machines of Nature, Functional Organs and Monadic Domination in Leibniz by Christopher P Noble

“…On this account, organs are not equivalent to individual subordinate substances, and are, in fact, aggregates of such substances. …”
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CONTENT COMPONENTS OF STUDENTS’ VALUE ORIENTATIONS by I. A. Bakushkin, I. M. Ilyicheva

“…The authors discuss various approaches to the understanding of values and value orientations, their classification in domestic and foreign psychology, the place of values in the structure of the individual, as well as the significance of values in the structure of the individual and the need to allocate a separate group of priority values – universal values. …”
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