Emotional responses of college students to filtered fluorescent lighting in a classroom (v3) by Hon K. Yuen, Anna L. Wood, Jane E. Krentel, Robert A. Oster, Anthony D. Cunningham, Gavin R. Jenkins

“…During each phase, students rated 18 pairs of words from the Mehrabian and Russell pleasure, arousal, and dominance semantic differential scale at least four times to assess the emotional impact of the lighting conditions…”
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A linear hydraulic fracture with tortuosity and fluid–slip at the fluid–rock interface by M.R.R. Kgatle-Maseko, T.L. Vetezo

“…The right combination of the fluid–slip parameter r and the tortuosity parameter n is found to remove singularity at the fracture tip. Four working conditions at the fracture entry are considered and their solutions are obtained numerically. …”
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The Epoch and Personality of Peter the Great in Nikolay Charykov’s Research by O. A. Chernov

“…For example, the author points to Ivan III's marriage to Zoe Palaiologina (Sophia Palaiologina); the employment of captive Livonians by Ivan IV; sending Russian youth to study at Western European universities; Boris Godunov's plans to form a European league of Christian sovereigns. …”
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Cuerpos desnudos, plurales y caricaturizados de atletas griegos: Memoria e identidad by Fábio de Souza Lessa, María Cecilia Colombani

“…La documentación para este estudio consistirá en imágenes áticas sobre soporte cerámico de la época clásica (siglos V y IV a.C.).…”
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Sialidase NEU3 dynamically associates to different membrane domains specifically modifying their ganglioside pattern and triggering Akt phosphorylation. by Dario Bonardi, Nadia Papini, Mario Pasini, Loredana Dileo, Flavia Orizio, Eugenio Monti, Luigi Caimi, Bruno Venerando, Roberto Bresciani

“…., DRM and non-DRM; iii) NEU3 is degraded via the proteasomal pathway; iv) the enzyme specifically modifies the ganglioside composition of the membrane areas where it resides; and v) NEU3 triggers phosphorylation of Akt, even in absence of exogenously administered EGF. …”
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The practice of quality assurance in the TVET system of the state of Amhara as perceived by major stakeholders by Melaku Mengistu Gebremeskel

“…Eleven teachers and twelve students selected through purposive sampling method were also involved in an independently conducted FGD to garner qualitative data. Besides, four deans, two OCACA participants and two industry managers were involved in a one-to-one interview drawn through the same sampling method. …”
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Transmigrant Students’ Motivation and Problems in Learning Local Languages: Language Maintenance by Gunawan Tambunsaribu

“…This research reveals that there are four main reasons for the students to learn the local language, namely a) because they want to increase their knowledge and skills in the local languages; b) because they want to understand the language and culture of friends from other tribes; c) because they like the local languages (the accent, expression, and intonation); and d) because they want to get closer with fellow students who use the local languages. …”
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Spatial Dimension Analysis and Judgement of Abnormal Rainfalls by GAO Yueming, LIN Qinghua, LIU Shupiao, XU Chaoyang

“…The automatic reporting system of water levels and rainfalls is widely used in flood control,hydrology,and meteorology in China.The automatically measured rainfall data is one of the conditions triggering flood control early warning,and its quality and accuracy directly affect the credibility of the warning.In order to avoid false warnings,it is necessary to analyze and filter abnormal rainfalls in real time.This paper explored the correlation of rainfalls in spatial planes and compared the application effects of four statistical methods including the Pauta criterion,Chauvenet criterion,Grubbs test,and Dixon test in the spatial dimension,so as to infer whether the rainfall at a certain point is abnormal.Specifically,the Chauvenet criterion has the optimal comprehensive performance,and its accuracy,precision,recall rate,and F1 score are 0.86,0.78,0.83,and 0.80,respectively.In addition,the Grubbs test and Dixon test obtain similar results,but they both are slightly worse than the Chauvenet criterion since there may be many abnormal rainfalls in regional groups.The Pauta criterion has the worst performance,but its precision is the highest,which is 0.97.In addition,it is effective to optimize rainfalls that have been judged to be abnormal many times by algorithm flows,and the algorithm precision can be significantly improved.It has been proved that it is feasible to judge whether the rainfall at a certain point is abnormal from the spatial plane,which can effectively help water conservancy supervision departments to improve the quality of early warning and reduce labor costs.…”
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Antibacterial and Antifungal Activities of the Leaf Exudate of Aloe megalacantha Baker by Demoze Asmerom, Tesfay Haile Kalay, Gebrehiwot Gebremedhin Tafere

“…Six bacterial strains, namely, S. aureus (standard), S. aureus (clinical isolate), E. coli ATCC 25922 (standard), E. coli (clinical isolate), K. pneumoniae (standard), and P. aeruginosa ATCC 27853 (standard), and four fungal strains such as C. albicans, C. glabrata, C. tropicalis, and C. krusei were studied. …”
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Cardiac Micro–Computed Tomography for Morphological and Functional Phenotyping of Muscle LIM Protein Null Mice by Cristian T. Badea, Laurence W. Hedlund, Julie F. Boslego Mackel, Lan Mao, Howard A. Rockman, G. Allan Johnson

“…Micro-CT can provide the four-dimensional data (three-dimensional isotropic volumes over time) required for morphological and functional phenotyping in mice.…”
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On improving interoperability for cross‐domain multi‐finger fingerprint matching using coupled adversarial learning by Md Mahedi Hasan, Nasser Nasrabadi, Jeremy Dawson

“…The ArcFace loss ensures intra‐class compactness and inter‐class separability, whereas the contrastive loss minimises the distance between the subspaces for the same finger. Experiments on four challenging datasets demonstrate that our proposed model outperforms state‐of‐the methods and two top‐performing commercial‐off‐the‐shelf SDKs, that is, Verifinger v12.0 and Innovatrics. …”
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Technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge among mathematics teachers: Difference of teaching experience and certification status by Rafiq Badjeber, Yulia Yulia, Mijra Mijra, Winda Winda

“…Method: Adopting a mixed-method approach with a sequential explanatory design, the study involved 65 Islamic Junior and Senior High School mathematics teachers in Palu City, selected through proportionate stratified random sampling. Additionally, four teachers were interviewed to gain deeper insights. …”
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Evaluating Rainy Weather Effects on Driving Behaviour Dimensions of Driving Behaviour Questionnaire by Vahid Bakhshi, Kayvan Aghabayk, Nasser Parishad, Nirajan Shiwakoti

“…Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis concluded a four-factor solution (high velocity with a law violation, slips, positive and cautious behaviours, and aggressive driving behaviours) with a 52% explanation of variance. …”
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Cloud Node Auto-Scaling System Automation Based on Computing Workload Prediction by Tri Fidrian Arya, Reza Fuad Rachmad, Achmad Affandi

“…The ML model is applied for prediction regression of CPU usage percentage, CPU load, and RAM usage, and then server workload is classified into four categories: Very High, High, Low, and Very Low. …”
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Identification of Public Awareness on Environmental Effects and Recycling of Waste Vegetable Oils: The Case of Malatya Province by Nesrin Dursun

“…Based on the survey results, it has been determined that: (i) frying consumption is inversely proportional to the age of the participants; (ii) even though specific questions were asked, the majority of the population have comprehensive knowledge on these specific issues; (iii) they follow internet, TV, radio, newspapers and magazines related to the subject, especially about the environmental awareness; (iv) informative activities of non-governmental organizations and municipalities are effective.…”
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Extra-Hepatic Portal Venous Obstruction in Pregnant Women of South-Asian Descent: A Case Series by Nimmi Amala, Akshaya Murali, Annamma Thomas

“…Pregnancy complicated by hypertension was noted in two of the five women (40%). Four of the five women (80%) had thrombocytopenia requiring blood products during delivery. …”
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Attenuating Photostress and Glare Disability in Pseudophakic Patients through the Addition of a Short-Wave Absorbing Filter by Billy R. Hammond

“…This was a patient-masked, randomized crossover study conducted at 6 clinical sites in the United States between September 2013 and January 2014. One hundred fifty-four bilaterally pseudophakic patients were recruited. …”
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Some Psychometric Properties of Lithuanian Thinking and Language Dysfunction Scale (TALD) by Karolina Petraškaitė, Neringa Grigutytė

“…Using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, four thought disorder symptom factors were confirmed, which reflect dimensions of positive, negative, objective, and subjective symptoms. …”
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Recent Advances in Graphene-Assisted Nonlinear Optical Signal Processing by Jian Wang, Xiao Hu

“…The graphene-assisted four-wave mixing (FWM) based wavelength conversions have been experimentally demonstrated. …”
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Mental Health in Children with Cerebral Palsy: Does Screening Capture the Complexity? by H. M. Bjorgaas, I. Elgen, T. Boe, M. Hysing

“…Children with CP (N=47) were assessed according to DSM-IV criteria using a psychiatric diagnostic instrument (Kiddie-SADS) and a mental health screening questionnaire (SDQ). …”
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