Immune Response to Mycobacterial Infection: Lessons from Flow Cytometry by Nikoletta Rovina, Marios Panagiotou, Konstantinos Pontikis, Magdalini Kyriakopoulou, Nikolaos G. Koulouris, Antonia Koutsoukou

“…This paper reviews the current diagnostic tools for mycobacterial infection and focuses on the application of flow cytometry as a promising method for rapid and reliable diagnosis of mycobacterial infection as well as discrimination between active and latent TB: it summarizes diagnostic biomarkers distinguishing the two states of infection and also features of the distinct immune response against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) at certain stages of infection as revealed by flow cytometry to date.…”
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Contrastive Dual-Pool Feature Adaption for Domain Incremental Remote Sensing Scene Classification by Yingzhao Shao, Yunsong Li, Xiaodong Han

“…DACL introduces three key components: (1) a dual-pool architecture comprising a prompt pool for domain-specific tokens and an adapter pool for feature adaptation, enabling efficient domain-specific feature extraction; (2) a dual loss mechanism that combines image-attracting loss and text-separating loss to enhance intra-domain feature discrimination while maintaining clear class boundaries; and (3) a K-means-based domain selector that efficiently matches unknown domain features with existing domain representations using cosine similarity. …”
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Application of HPLC Combined with Laser Induced Fluorescence for Protein Profile Analysis of Tissue Homogenates in Cervical Cancer by Sujatha Bhat, Ajeetkumar Patil, Lavanya Rai, V. B. Kartha, Santhosh Chidangil

“…A total of 44 samples including normal cervical biopsy samples from the hysterectomy patients and the patients suffering from different stages of the cervical cancer were recorded by HPLC-LIF and analysed by Principle Component Analysis (PCA) to get statistical information on different tissue components. Discrimination of different stages of the samples was carried out by considering three parameters—scores of factor, spectral residual, and Mahalanobis Distance. …”
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multistrap: boosting phylogenetic analyses with structural information by Athanasios Baltzis, Luisa Santus, Björn E. Langer, Cedrik Magis, Damien M. de Vienne, Olivier Gascuel, Leila Mansouri, Cedric Notredame

“…The combined sequence and structure bootstrap support values yield improved discrimination between correct and incorrect branches. …”
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Caregivers’ experience of having a child with Down syndrome: a meta-synthesis by Xiao Nan Zhang, Shuo Zhang, Chun Yan Liu, Zhi Hong Ni, Hai Tao Lv

“…Results We found that feeding pressures, educational concerns, language difficulties, and discrimination and stigmatisation led to psychological, economic, and family stress in caregivers of children with Down syndrome. …”
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A Critical Introduction to "Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)" by Masoumeh Matoor, Khadijeh Aliabadi, Naser Mozayani, Ali Delavar, Mohammad Reza Nili Ahmadabadi

“…However, the new underlying theory of MOOCs (relativism) and its many criticizes, MOOCs ability to create and spread educational discrimination, various technical shortcomings, and serious deficiencies in educational application were among the disadvantages. …”
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Morphometric Assessment of the Piriform Aperture and Its Clinical and Forensic Applications by Beryl Shitandi Ominde, Joyce Ekeme Ikubor, Jennifer Efe Jaiyeoba-Ojigho, Orovwoghene Faithful Omoro, Patrick Sunday Igbigbi

“…The width of the aperture was the best sex-discriminating parameter (70.2%). The overall accuracy for sex discrimination using the aperture’s dimensions was 75.0%. …”
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Specialized Metabolite Profiling-Based Variations of Watercress Leaves (<i>Nasturtium officinale</i> R.Br.) from Hydroponic and Aquaponic Systems by Ivon Buitrago-Villanueva, Ricardo Barbosa-Cornelio, Ericsson Coy-Barrera

“…The results revealed 23 key metabolites, predominantly glucosinolates and flavonoids, that significantly influenced the metabolic profile discrimination, with the aquaponic system yielding the highest diversity and relative abundance of metabolites (variable importance in the projection (VIP) > 1). …”
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Sexual Harassment and Stigma Among the Youth in Kabale Municipality Kabale District. by Mugumya, Muhammadi

“…The study findings on causes of sexual harassment and stigma among the youth were the nature of dressing, poverty, sexual coercion low-paying jobs, and sex discrimination. The study findings on the effect of sexual harassment and stigma among the youth were sexual harassment in childhood and adolescence is associated with dropping out of school and delinquency, it leads to loss of goodwill of the victim, sexual harassment leads to increased sexual arousal, sexual harassment affects the women economic self-sufficiency and it leads to distractions from work and job dissatisfaction. …”
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Public Procurement Practices and End User Satisfaction in Rubanda District Local Government. by Niwagaba, Bob

“…Research findings from the regression model show that transparency in procurement(R=.463**, P<0.001), competition in procurement ((R=.219, P<0.001), and non-discrimination (R=.493**, P<0.001) have a positive significance on the service delivery in Rubanda district local government. …”
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Enrollment and Retention of Female Sex Workers in HIV Care in Health Facilities in Mbarara City. by Arinaitwe, Bridget, Ariho, Philbert, Naturinda, Christine Hilda, Byoleko, Brian, Base, Anitah, Atwijukiire, Humphrey, Matavu, Hariat, Kabami, Jane, Obua, Celestine, Wakida, Edith K., Otwine, Anne

“…The barriers are summarized into four major themes: (1) stigma, community discrimination, and beliefs; (2) social obstacles; (3) adverse effects of ART; and (4) inadequate services at the health facilities. …”
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Discovery and Validation of Potential Serum Biomarkers for Heart Failure by Untargeted Metabolomics by Guisheng Zhou, Junzhi Zhang, Hongli Guo, Xiaochao Hu, Yingzhuo Wang, Kunqun Shi, Tongtong Liu, Shengyan Yin, Huanhuan Liu, Chunling Liu, Shijia Liu

“…A ROC curve analysis for HC versus HF discrimination showed an area under the ROC curve (AUC) of 0.9853 (95% CI: 0.9859–1.0000), a sensitivity of 95%, and a specificity of 100%. …”
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Building Bridges in a Divided Society: Addressing Hindutva and Muslim Conflicts in India by Mehmet Masatoğlu

“…This research investigates the purposeful aggravation of racial discrimination, nationalism, and exclusionary policies that have a disproportionate impact on the Muslim population in India, which is a minority population. …”
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Original Approach for Automated Quantification of Antinuclear Autoantibodies by Indirect Immunofluorescence by Daniel Bertin, Noémie Jourde-Chiche, Pierre Bongrand, Nathalie Bardin

“…Indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) is the gold standard method for the detection of antinuclear antibodies (ANA) which are essential markers for the diagnosis of systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases. For the discrimination of positive and negative samples, we propose here an original approach named Immunofluorescence for Computed Antinuclear antibody Rational Evaluation (ICARE) based on the calculation of a fluorescence index (FI). …”
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Adaptive Spatial Regularization Target Tracking Algorithm Based on Multifeature Fusion by Turdi Tohti, Xifeng Guo, Askar Hamdulla

“…The accuracy and robustness of object-tracking algorithms are challenging tasks in the field of artificial intelligence. The discriminative correlation filter has fast tracking speed and target discrimination ability in visual target tracking, but it will be affected by unnecessary boundary effects. …”
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Psychometric Analysis of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale in Argentinean Population by Leandro Eidman, Julieta Arbizu, Agustín Marturet

“…The items met expected values for their discrimination, which showed that the instrument can distinguish between people with presence or absence of anxiety symptoms associated with Sars-Cov-2. …”
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The development of a story recall test for distinguishing between Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment in Thai cohort by Natinee Na Chiangmai, Peera Wongupparaj, Pattrawadee Makmee, Claudio Mulatti, Remo Job

“…It provides promising discrimination between individuals with cognition intact, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). …”
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Factors Associated With the Accuracy of Large Language Models in Basic Medical Science Examinations: Cross-Sectional Study by Naritsaret Kaewboonlert, Jiraphon Poontananggul, Natthipong Pongsuwan, Gun Bhakdisongkhram

“…Variables such as the difficulty index, discrimination index, and question characteristics were collected. …”
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Crossmodal Recruitment of the Ventral Visual Stream in Congenital Blindness by Maurice Ptito, Isabelle Matteau, Arthur Zhi Wang, Olaf B. Paulson, Hartwig R. Siebner, Ron Kupers

“…These results indicate that congenitally blind subjects recruit key regions in the ventral visual pathway during nonhaptic tactile shape discrimination. The activation of LOtv by nonhaptic tactile shape processing in blind and sighted subjects adds further support to the notion that this area subserves an abstract or supramodal representation of shape. …”
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Predictive Models in Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Mohammad Saatchi, Fatemeh Khatami, Rahil Mashhadi, Akram Mirzaei, Leila Zareian, Zeinab Ahadi, Seyed Mohammad Kazem Aghamir

“…The present study’s findings showed that MRI significantly improved the detection accuracy of prostate cancer and had the highest discrimination to distinguish candidates for biopsy.…”
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