Basal Ganglia Disease and Visuospatial Cognition: Are There Disease-Specific Impairments? by Erich Mohr, Jules J. Claus, Pim Brouwers

“…Factor analysis yielded a factor reflecting general visuospatial processing capacity which discriminated between demented and non-demented PD patients but not between demented PD and HD patients. …”
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Brain metabolites in ISIAH and Wistar rats by O. B. Shevelev, A. A. Seryapina, A. L. Markel, M. P. Moshkin

“…Processing of primary data using Partial least squares Discriminant Analysis (PLS-DA) allowed us to identify the main discriminating axis (Y1), its variations reflecting the predominance of excitatory neurometabolites (glutamine and glutamate) over inhibitory ones (GABA and glycine). …”
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Integrating PCA and DEA techniques for strategic assessment of network security by Reza Rasinojehdehi, Seyyed Najafi

“…The resulting performance measurements allow us to classify computer network security into four levels: "terribly insecure," "insecure," "safe," and "very safe. To optimize the discriminating power of DEA, we employ Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to reduce the number of inputs and outputs. …”
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Generalizability of machine learning models for diabetes detection a study with nordic islet transplant and PIMA datasets by Dinesh Chellappan, Harikumar Rajaguru

“…Evaluated the performance of a system by using the following classifiers as Non-Linear Regression—NLR, Linear Regression—LR, Gaussian Mixture Model—GMM, Expectation Maximization—EM, Bayesian Linear Discriminant Analysis—BLDA, Softmax Discriminant Classifier—SDC, and Support Vector Machine with Radial Basis Function kernel—SVM-RBF classifier on two publicly available datasets namely the Nordic Islet Transplant Program (NITP) and the PIMA Indian Diabetes Dataset (PIDD). …”
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The Use of Corticosteroid Randomisation after Significant Head Injury (CRASH) Prognostic Model as Mortality Predictor of Traumatic Brain Injury Patients Underwent Surgery in Low-Mi... by Radian A. Halimi, Iwan Fuadi, Dionisius Alby

“…The model has an excellent discriminative ability. However, there is still a lack of studies on its use in surgical patients in low-middle income countries. …”
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Charm and beauty production in hadronic collisions via muon measurements at forward rapidity with ALICE by Zhang Maolin

“…In the LHC Run 3, the new Muon Forward Tracker (MFT) adds vertex capabilities to the muon spectrometer, providing a unique way to discriminate muons from charm- and beauty-hadron decays. …”
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Peripheral blood biomarkers as differential diagnostic markers of disease severity in neonates with hyperbilirubinemia by Dereje Mengesha Berta, Negesse Cherie, Berhanu Woldu, Aregawi Yalew, Elias Chane, Amare Mekuaninnit, Mebratu Tamir, Zufan Yiheyis, Abiy Ayele Angelo, Zewudu Mulatie, Adamu Kassie, Bisrat Birke Teketelew

“…Blood biomarkers score area under curve >.7 was selected as the best discriminative marker. The accepted threshold for statistical significance was set at P < 0.05. …”
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Marcas da violência e jogos do poder no romance urbano de Patrícia Melo by Cláudia Castanheira

“…The object is to highlight how the use of the male voice and masculine cultural experiences, taken to its ultimate consequences, may be converted into a subliminal criticism regarding the ways of how the discriminating speeches are built, through sexual, economic and social criteria in our society.…”
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Research of Full-posture Workspace and Its Characteristic of 3-RRR Planar Parallel Robot by Cui Jiankun, Yu Jiajun, Cao Liya

“…A new representation method of the workspace of a planar parallel manipulator is presented.Taking the 3 RRR plane parallel robot as an example,according to the iterative search method,the inverse solution equation is used as the discriminant,and the circular search of workspace is carried out. …”
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INEDUC : pratiques numériques des adolescents et territoires by Mickaël Le Mentec, Pascal Plantard

“…The results show that the territorial variable does not appear as discriminating on digital equipment but it is, as well as social variable, since we are interested in digital uses and coaching practices at home. …”
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Interrelation of Self-Report, Behavioural and Electrophysiological Measures Assessing Pain-Related Information Processing by Oliver Dittmar, Rüdiger Krehl, Stefan Lautenbacher

“…Convergent validity within implicit measures was assumed to be high, as was the discriminant validity between implicit and explicit measures.…”
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Interplay between oxidative stress, neuroinflammatory cytokines and melatonin in Alzheimer's disease: Insights from cerebrospinal fluid analysis by Francisco Artime-Naveda, David Hevia, Rebeca Alonso-Arias, Carmen Martínez, Isabel Quirós-González, Rafael Cernuda-Cernuda, Alejando Alvarez-Artime, Iván Menéndez-Valle, Rosa M. Sainz, Juan C. Mayo

“…None of them appear to discriminate between AD and OT. Finally, among all the parameters assayed in this study, P-tau in combination with antioxidant capacity, offered the best ROC curve for the diagnostic ability capacity to discriminate between AD and OT, showing an 85 % specificity. …”
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Frontal Face Generation Based on Attitude Point Guidance and Attention Mechanism Improvement by Jihui Zhao, Zhengyi Yuan, Junhu Zhang, Haitao Li, Hui Li

“…At the same time, local attention is used in a discriminator to improve the local detail generation ability of the network in the face. …”
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Development and validation a methodology model for traditional Chinese medicine good practice recommendation: an exploratory sequential mixed methods study by Su Li, Su Li, Su Li, Luan Zhang, Yangyang Wang, Yangyang Wang, Runsheng Xie, Runsheng Xie, Wenjia Chen, Wenjia Chen, Myeong Soo Lee, Yasser Sami Amer, Yasser Sami Amer, Yasser Sami Amer, Amin Sharifan, Heba Hussein, Hui Li, Hui Li, Hui Li

“…Then based on real-world data (published TCM guidelines), saturation tests, structural rationality validation, and discriminability tests were conducted to validate methodology model.ResultsA total of 35 methodological literature and 190 TCM guidelines were included. …”
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Comparison of Test Your Memory and Montreal Cognitive Assessment Measures in Parkinson’s Disease by Emily J. Henderson, Howard Chu, Daisy M. Gaunt, Alan L. Whone, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Veronica Lyell

“…Methods. We assessed the discriminant ability of TYM and the equivalence between TYM and MoCA scores and measured the interrater reliability between three raters. …”
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Snap diagnosis of fulminant type 1 diabetes by the normalized glucose/HbA1c ratio by Jun-Ichiro Mori, Takahiro Miyakoshi, Hanae Yuzuriha, Teruki Kondo, Eita Nishimori, Motoji Naka, Ai Sato, Mitsuhisa Komatsu, Koh Yamashita, Toru Aizawa

“…Rounding of the figure into [PG (mmol/L) – 5.0]/[HbA1c (%) – 5.0] did not significantly sacrifice the discriminating ability of the index. Namely, the optimal cut point of rounded and normalized GAR, 10.0, showed 89.8% sensitivity. …”
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A comparative analysis of sphenoid and frontal sinuses using cone beam computed tomography for sex determination by Junaid Ahmed, Namrata, Nanditha Sujir, Nandita Shenoy, Srikant Natarajan, Archana Muralidharan, Ashwin C. Shetty

“…Independent t tests were used to compare the various parameters between sexes. Stepwise discriminant function analysis was used to determine sex. …”
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Identification of Maltase Glucoamylase as a Biomarker of Acute Kidney Injury in Patients with Cirrhosis by Linda Awdishu, Shirley Tsunoda, Michelle Pearlman, Chanthel Kokoy-Mondragon, Majid Ghassemian, Robert K. Naviaux, Heather M. Patton, Ravindra L. Mehta, Bhavya Vijay, Satish P. RamachandraRao

“…Maltase-glucoamylase was the top discriminating protein confirmed by western blotting. …”
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Special Kähler geometry and holomorphic Lagrangian fibrations by Li, Yang, Tosatti, Valentino

“…Given a holomorphic Lagrangian fibration of a compact hyperkähler manifold, we use the differential geometry of the special Kähler metric that exists on the base away from the discriminant locus, and show that the pullback of the tangent bundle of the base to the total space of a family of minimal rational curves admits a parallel splitting. …”
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A New Criterion for the Stabilization Diagram Used with Stochastic Subspace Identification Methods: An Application to an Aircraft Skeleton by E. Mrabet, M. Abdelghani, N. Ben Kahla

“…One of the most important problems using this diagram is the appearance of spurious modes that should be discriminated to simplify modes selections. This study presents a new stabilization criterion obtained through a novel numerical implementation of the stabilization diagram and the discussion of model validation employing the power spectral density. …”
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