A set of 400 pictures standardised for Portuguese: norms for name agreement, familiarity and visual complexity for children and adults by Sabine Pompéia, Mônica Carolina Miranda, Orlando Francisco Amodeo Bueno

“…Name agreement, familiarity and visual complexity ratings were obtained. These variables have been shown to be important for the selection of adequate stimuli for cognitive studies. …”
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Race and gender biases persist in public perceptions of scientists’ credibility by Dayeon Eom, Amanda L. Molder, Helen A. Tosteson, Emily L. Howell, Meredith DeSalazar, Elliot Kirschner, Sarah S. Goodwin, Dietram A. Scheufele

“…Our findings revealed significant intersectional biases: Black female scientists received the lowest ratings in both warmth and competence, with ratings dropping further when introducing a story about a White patient. …”
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Predicting Financial Distress through Ranking Working Capital Management Components Using Random Forest Algorithm by Pouya Sadeghi, Daryush Farid, Hamid Reza Mirzaei, Abolfazl Dehghani

“…These scores, being close to 1, suggested that the model's estimations were performed with a high degree of accuracy.The analysis of the relative importance of each working capital management component in achieving this 85% accuracy rate revealed some key insights. The Average Collection Period (ACP) was identified as the most important factor in predicting financial distress. …”
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Crosstalk between delayed and immediate subjective evaluation tasks by Guangqi Niu, Johan Lauwereyns

“…To investigate potential influences across subjective evaluations, the present study employed a dual-task paradigm in which an immediate rating task was embedded in a delayed choice task. …”
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Reduced threat-safety discrimination and generally enhanced generalization responses in adversity exposed youth with emerging psychiatric symptoms by Zhiling Qiao, Celine Samaey, Lise Jennen, Victor Mazereel, Davy Vancampfort, Bart Boets, Ruud van Winkel

“…Contrary to our hypothesis, this effect was driven by their enhanced risk ratings for the safety cue rather than blunted responses to the danger cue. …”
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Evaluating the effectiveness of the Drink Less smartphone app for reducing alcohol consumption compared with usual digital care: a comprehensive synopsis from a 6-month follow-up R... by Claire Garnett, Melissa Oldham, Gemma Loebenberg, Larisa Dinu, Emma Beard, Colin Angus, Robyn Burton, Matt Field, Felix Greaves, Matthew Hickman, Eileen Kaner, Susan Michie, Marcus Munafò, Elena Pizzo, Jamie Brown

“…Results The retention rate at 6-month follow-up was 80%. The data were not missing completely at random with differences detected in educational qualifications, occupation and income, indicating that multiple imputation was the most appropriate analytic approach. …”
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Screening for psychosocial distress and depression among cancer patients in a regional cancer centre in Nigeria: a cross-sectional study by Nwosu et al.

“…The predictors of psychosocial distress were the presence of co-morbidities (AOR=2.6; 95%CI: 1.3- 5.1) and good self-rated health status (AOR= 0.2; 95%CI: 0.1-0.3). The predictors of depression were the outpatient setting of care (AOR=0.4; 95%CI: 0.2-0.7) and good self-rated health (AOR= 0.3; 95%CI: 0.2-0.4). …”

Automation of multicriteria ranking of students using ePortfolio by L. A. Ponomareva, O. N. Romashkova, A. N. Belyakova, V. S. Zabolotnikova

“…The authors described the scheme of the information system (IS) operation “ePortfolio”, presented a process interaction pattern for the portfolio formation, as well as a diagram of business processes under calculating an individual rating. …”
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Evaluating the Effects of Mitigating Urban Heat Islands of Green Infrastructure on Increasing the Productivity of Light and Heavy Work (Case Study: Tabriz Metropolitan) by Mahdi Herischian, Hassan Mahmoudzadeh, Rasoul Ghorbani

“…The primary inputs for the model included a land use/land cover raster map, a reference evapotranspiration (ET0) raster map, a biophysical table containing details about each land use/land cover class, a vector map of city buildings, and an energy consumption rate table categorized by building type and air temperature. …”
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Pain chronobiology in clinical trial participants with fibromyalgia: a comparison with neuropathic pain by Ryan Navarro, Wilma Hopman, Ian Gilron

“…In these trials, pain intensity (0–10 scale) was rated at 8:00 am and 8:00 pm during a 7-day pretrial baseline period and throughout each trial. …”
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Assessing aesthetic impressions with pictorial measures: A novel approach in empirical aesthetics by Ivan Z. Stojilović

“…Findings revealed that the size of marked regions modestly predicted ratings on Interestingness and Comprehensibility scales, though the explained variance was limited. …”
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ADHD-hyperactive/impulsive subtype in adults by Stephen V. Faraone, Jeanne M. Landgraf, Paul S. Hodgkins, David W. Goodman, Christopher Gibbins, Margaret D. Weiss

“…Twenty-three patients out of the total sample of 691 patients (3%) received a clinician diagnosis of ADHD - hyperactive/impulsive subtype. Review of the ratings on the ADHD-RS-IV demonstrated, however, that this group had ratings of inattention comparable to the inattentive group. …”
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Finger drawing on smartphone screens enables early Parkinson's disease detection through hybrid 1D-CNN and BiGRU deep learning architecture. by Zhaohui Zhu, E Wu, Pengfei Leng, Jiajun Sun, Mingming Ma, Zhigeng Pan

“…Our hybrid model combined multi-scale convolutional feature extraction (using parallel 1D-Convolutional branches) with bidirectional temporal pattern recognition (via gated recurrent unit [GRU] networks) to analyze movement abnormalities and detect the disease.…”
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Optimizing security and energy efficiency in IoT-Based health monitoring systems for wireless body area networks by Mohammed Naif Alatawi

“…Additionally, a trust aggregation engine is implemented to quantify the trustworthiness of nodes using both global and local ratings. The healthcare provider assigns global ratings, while local ratings are crowdsourced from remote users or monitoring agents. …”
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Formulation and sensory evaluation of tofu-based creams as custard cream alternatives for dietary-restricted consumers by Yasuhiro Arii

“…In a consumer test, all TCs were rated delicious. The use of unrefined sugars instead of refined sugar suppressed the tofu-like flavor and increased the rating of TCs. …”
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Assessing Patients with Chronic Pain Using the Basic Personality Inventory as a Complement to the Multidimensional Pain Inventory by Howard J Burton, Stephen A Kline, Robin Hargadon, Barry S Cooper, Roger D Shick, May C Ong-Lam

“…It was anticipated that this pattern would be independent of sex. In addition, validity of the BPI as a measure of psychological distress among patients with pain was examined using psychiatric diagnostic ratings as independent criteria.…”
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Clinical and brain functional correlates of instrumental rigidity measurement in Parkinson’s disease by Yoshikazu Nakano, Shigeki Hirano, Mitsuyoshi Tamura, Yume Koizumi, Yoshihisa Kitayama, Michiko Izumi, Masahide Suzuki, Kosuke Yamagishi, Yutaro Suzuki, Shinobu Ikeda, Ayaka Arase, Tatsuya Yamamoto, Yoshitaka Yamanaka, Atsuhiko Sugiyama, Kazumoto Shibuya, Takuro Horikoshi, Takashi Uno, David Eidelberg, Satoshi Kuwabara

“…Twentynine patients underwent brain perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), and expression of PD-related covariance pattern (PDRP) was computed. Bias difference and elastic coefficient showed positive correlations with physician-rated rigidity (P < 0.002). …”
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The impact of spatial placement on valence judgments of images: a comparative analysis between right-handed and left-handed individuals by Maisto Marta, Actis-Grosso Rossana

“…Thirty participants (15 right-handed, 15 left-handed) rated neutral images displayed in the center, right, or left visual field using a 9-point Likert scale. …”
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Effectiveness of large language models and software libraries in sentiment analysis by Agnieszka WOJDECKA, Jakub GROMADZIŃSKI, Krzysztof WALCZAK

“… This paper investigates the effectiveness of selected tools for sentiment analysis, focusing on both dedicated software libraries (NLTK, Pattern, TextBlob) and large language models (ChatGPT and Gemini). …”
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Improved chaotic fruit fly optimization with elman neural network based data-driven approach on product reviews classification by Mohammed Alghamdi, Najla I. Al-shathry, Yahia Said, Hasan Beyari, Shaymaa Sorour, Khalid Nazim Abdul Sattar, Fouad Shoie Alallah, Abdulrhman Alshareef

“…Customer satisfaction is effectively enhanced by performing a Sentiment Analysis (SA) of many customer ratings on E-commerce platforms. Yet, predicting the correct sentiment difference in customer feedback is challenging due to complicated logic, sequence length, and text pattern adjustments. …”
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