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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Workbench in the Teaching of Optics to Junior High School by Emerson B. Cuzzamu

“…The study determined the status of textbooks in Physics of Optics in terms of availability, relevance of content, scope of subject-matter, and suitability; the degree of need for workbench in Optics; the validity of the proposed developed workbench in Optics as rated by Physics experts in terms of introduction, learning competencies, presentation of concepts, and exercises. …”
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VIBROACOUSTIC DYNAMICS SIMULATION OF RAIL ON SLEEPERS by Sergey Fedorovich Podust, Denis Alexandrovich Kuklin

“…It permits to specify the noise emission pattern in low and high frequencies of the rated audio band. …”
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Post-marketing safety concerns with dolutegravir: a pharmacovigilance study based on the FDA adverse event reporting system database by Juan Su, Long He, Menglei Wang

“…Notably, subgroup analyses revealed that progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (n = 9) in males, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (n = 6) and deafness neurosensory (n = 3) in the 18–45 age group, and hepatic necrosis (n = 4) in the 46–65 age group were rated as high clinical priority. The overall onset time for all AEs exhibited an early failure pattern, with a median onset time of 74 days (IQR 19–310.5), whereas the median onset time for designated medical events (DMEs) was 59 days (IQR 12–186).ConclusionThe long-term safety of DTG requires reassessing its risk-benefit ratio. …”
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Modern methods of studying of human gastro-intestinal microflora by Ye. A. Poluektova, O. S. Lyashenko, O. S. Shifrin, A. A. Sheptulin, V. T. Ivashkin

“…From the middle of XX century bacteriological method of investigation based on obtaining of pure culture was widely applied in rating of microflora pattern. However, during the last decade modern methods of diagnostics which allow to investigate structure and functions of microorganisms at a genetic level, even at the presence of single bacterial cell in a sample.Conclusion. …”
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Voters’ Attributions of Psychopathic Traits to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton After the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election and the 2020 Trump Impeachment Trial by Paul E. Jose, Ira J. Roseman, Anna Geiserman, Taylor Winter, Boris Bizumic

“…The sample, 159 Trump voters and 154 Clinton voters, rated their own authoritarian beliefs and their perceptions of psychopathic tendencies in both candidates, and reported their vote. …”
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Methods in Ranking Fuzzy Numbers: A Unified Index and Comparative Reviews by Thanh-Lam Nguyen

“…To date, numerous indices have been established; however, counterintuition, less discrimination, and/or inconsistency on their fuzzy-number rating outcomes have prohibited their comprehensive implementation. …”
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Shape of You: Eye-Tracking and Social Perceptions of the Human Body by Edward Morrison, Marianne Lanigan

“…Dependent variables were the number and duration of fixations, and Likert ratings. Most visual attention was paid to the chest and midriff, but this pattern differed slightly depending on the judgement being made, and on the BMI of the body. …”
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The Influence of Language Experience on Speech Perception: Heritage Spanish Speaker Perception of Contrastive and Allophonic Consonants by Amanda Boomershine, Keith Johnson

“…The participants completed a similarity rating task with stimuli containing VCV sequences with the intervocalic consonants [d], [ð], and [ɾ]. …”
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Advancing building façade design: digital fabrication of an optimized non-conventional roster brick prototype by Dalhar Susanto, Raisa Putri Alifa, Stefanie Aylien, Miktha Farid Alkadri

“…A human activity pattern survey highlights the need to improve occupant comfort, as people spend significant time inside buildings. …”
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Clinical-cognitive Characterization of Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 2 by Alberto Caballero Laguna, Luis Velázquez Pérez, Alián Pérez Marrero

“…The sample consisted of 28 patients with a mild stage of the disease to which the Scale for the Assessment and Rating of Ataxia and Montreal Cognitive Assessment Scale were applied to evaluate the progression of the disease from the clinical and cognitive point of view, respectively, with a difference of one year between the two samplings. …”
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Daily activities and self-esteem among university students with and without ADHD by Eryn H. Turner, Seth C. Harty

“…Differences between students with and without ADHD were observed both in momentary self-esteem ratings and the frequencies of endorsed activities. …”
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Cognitive and emotional disturbances in adult patients with myotonic dystrophy type 1 by E. K. Erokhina, K. V. Shamtieva, E. A. Melnik, D. O. Kazakov, S. A. Kurbatov, E. P. Pavlikova, O. A. Tikhonova, E. A. Mershina, V. E. Sinitsyn, D. V. Vlodavets

“…All patients underwent neuropsychological testing using the Montreal Cognitive RatingScale, Mini‑Mental State Examination, Addenbrooke’s III, Wechsler tests, pathfinding, symbolic and numeric modalities, Luria’s 10 Words, Frontal Dysfunction Battery; assessment of emotional disturbances using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Rating Scale and the Apathy Scale; quality of life assessment –  36‑Item Short‑Form Medical Outcomes Study. …”
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