Research works

The Expansion of Imperial Japan's Sugar Industry

Abstract After the establishment of Manchukuo (1932–45), Japan launched a second wave of sugar industry expansion in Northeast China. The South Manchuria Railway Company Economic Research Association proposed a sugar policy aimed at achieving self-sufficiency in sugar production,...

Accurate Determination of Absolute Raman Cross Sections of Carbon Dioxide Using H2 as a Reference

Abstract The accurate determination of Raman cross sections is challenging for multiple reasons, the major one being the incomplete intensity calibration of experimental setups. In this work, the absolute Raman cross sections of CO2, a molecule important in environmental science...

Utilization of mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists within guideline-directed medical therapy for patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction at Wallaga University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital: a hospital-based retrospective study

Despite the advancements of therapy and prevention, heart failure continues to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Appropriate use of Guideline Directed Medical Therapy has been proved to improve the clinical outcome of patients with heart failure with reduced...

The disfluency effect revisited: processing demands moderate memory performance

“Desirable difficulties” describe encoding conditions that enhance memory. Recently, this principle has been extended to perceptual difficulties, such as hard-to-read fonts. Although several studies report a memory benefit of disfluency, other findings fail to replicate this effe...

Adaptive operator selection via deep reinforcement learning for decomposition-based multi-objective multi-task optimization

Abstract Multi-objective multi-task optimization (MO-MTO), which aims to simultaneously solve multiple related multi-objective problems by leveraging knowledge transfer across tasks to enhance optimization performance on each task, has emerged as a new research focus in the field...

The development finance regime complex and crisis response: a comparative perspective of multilateral development banks’ response to COVID-19

Abstract This article explains variation in multilateral development banks’ (MDBs) crisis-response policies during the COVID-19 crisis. Drawing on a focused, structured comparison of 22 MDBs, this study analyzes five crisis-response policies: investment scale-ups and resource rep...

Converging demands, diverging experiences: gendered leadership in the Australian mining, oil and gas sector during a prolonged crisis

Purpose Effective leadership during a prolonged crisis requires significant emotional and moral labour. Prior literature has examined gendered differences in leadership behaviour and performance during a crisis, yet less is known about how leaders experience gendered expectations...

Programmable Closed Bipolar Electrochemical Platforms with Ion-Selective Electrode for Electrochemiluminescence Sensing

Abstract Precise and independent control of the interfacial potential of bipolar electrodes (BPEs) is essential for controllable and programmable bipolar electrochemical systems but remains challenging because BPE polarization is inherently coupled to the applied driving voltage...

Machine Learning Classification and Portfolio Construction: Does the Loss Function Matter?

Classification outperforms regression across matched machine learning models in portfolio construction. A stacking ensemble of gradient boosted trees, random forest, and neural network yields a value-weighted annualized Sharpe ratio of 2.08 for classification and 1.39 for regress...

Developing attributes and attribute-levels for a discrete choice experiment on preference for primary healthcare providers among urban slum dwellers in Bangladesh

Abstract Background Due to rapid urbanization, in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), urban primary healthcare (PHC) systems are not compatible with meeting the growing need for healthcare services. However, limited research exists on what patients consider important w...

Influence of weather variables on population dynamics of rice insect pests and their natural enemies: A six year light trap study in Gazipur, Bangladesh

Sustainable rice production in tropical and subtropical agroecosystems, it is essential to know, how climatic variability regulates the dynamics of insect pests and natural enemies. Our study evaluated the monthly and seasonal pattern of key weather variables and their influence...

Quantification of Urinary Free and Total Oxidative Stress Biomarkers and Their Differential Associations with Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Exposure: A Bushfire Smoke Study

Abstract Urinary excretion profiles of free and metabolically conjugated oxidative stress biomarkers (OSBs) remain poorly characterized, potentially underestimating total excretion and biasing exposure–effect interpretation. In this study, the profiles of free, glucuronidated, an...

OUT-Guard: Context-Aware Risk Detection and Adaptive De-Identification of Rare and Extreme Information

Records containing rare and extreme information can pose substantial disclosure risks even after direct identifiers have been removed. Existing methods typically assess numerical outliers, rare categories, small contextual cells, and behavioral anomalies independently, limiting t...

Infrastructure as Inherited Knowledge: Artificial Intelligence and the Governance of Long‐Life Infrastructure

ABSTRACT Epistemic orphaning, responsibility drift, loss of institutional memory, and non‐stationarity are not new problems in infrastructure governance—they have accompanied long‐life infrastructure throughout its history. What artificial intelligence changes is not the existenc...

Impact of the 2023 ACR/EULAR classification criteria on thrombotic antiphospholipid syndrome: reclassification patterns and long-term outcomes in a 419-patient cohort

The 2023 ACR/EULAR classification criteria for antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) were developed to improve specificity and to define more homogeneous research populations. However, their performance in real-world cohorts of thrombotic APS with long-term hard outcomes remains insuff...

Global Existence and Exponential Stability of a Boundary Contact Problem for the 2D Mindlin–Timoshenko System

Abstract We analyze a contact problem for the two-dimensional Mindlin–Timoshenko system describing the vibratory motion of elastic plates in unilateral contact with a rigid obstacle along a portion of the boundary. Precisely, we establish the existence of solutions and prove that...

From Isolated to Complex: Diagnostic Yield of Chromosomal Microarray and Exome Sequencing in Fetal Growth Restriction

ABSTRACT Objective To characterize the overall diagnostic yield of sequential chromosomal microarray (CMA) and exome sequencing (ES) across the phenotypic spectrum of fetal growth restriction (FGR). Methods A retrospective cohort of 320 consecutive FGR pregnancies presenting at ≥...

Functional and Technological Characterization of Microorganisms Isolated from Wet Coffee Fermentation in Brazil: A Multivariate Approach for the Selection of Promising Isolates

Abstract Coffee fermentation is a stage of wet coffee processing carried out by microorganisms. This study aimed to characterize microorganisms isolated from wet coffee fermentation by their enzymatic potential and to evaluate how different stress conditions affect the selection...

Modeling Realistic Farmer Behavior in Heuristic-Based Irrigation Decisions with Fuzzy Logic

Abstract This study addresses the challenge of integrating complex human behavior into hydrological models by developing a behavioral simulation model (BSM) within a multiagent framework. Focusing on farmers’ response to water scarcity in Iran’s Lake Urmia basin, the BSM utilizes...

Biomechanical analysis of lower limb asymmetry in elite junior male Tai Chi athletes: associations with stomping technique performance

Abstract Long-term unilateral dominant training in Tai Chi is commonly associated with lower-limb functional asymmetry in elite athletes, which may correlate with reduced movement proficiency and increased injury susceptibility. This study recruited 80 elite junior male Tai Chi a...