Estimation of apparent thermal inertia of roofing materials from aerial thermal imagery by Emanuele Mandanici, Gabriele Lo Grasso, Maria A. Tini, Antonio Zanutta

“…The present contribution aims to test a methodology for mapping the Apparent Thermal Inertia (ATI)—a proxy that can be derived from remote sensing data—of roofing surfaces at the scale of an entire city and with a high spatial resolution. …”
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Domestic Interest Rate and Capital Inflows Policy in Nigeria by Innocent Chile Nzeh, Uche Collins Nwogwugwu, Maria Chinecherem Uzonwanne, Chika Priscilla Imoagwu, Edwin Udochukwu Nwachukwu

“…Using a monthly dataset from 2010M1 to 2021M3 and the ARDL estimation technique, total sterilization serves as a proxy for sterilization policy, while the treasury bills rate proxies the domestic interest rate. …”
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GOVERNMENT HEALTH EXPENDITURE AND EDUCATIONAL OUTCOME IN NIGERIA: INTERROGATING THE NEXUS by Aishat Princess Umar, Mathew Rotimi Ekundayo, Naphtali W. John

“…To achieve this objective the study collected time series data on the relevant variables namely: government health expenditure, school enrolment ratio which was used as the proxy for educational outcome, infant mortality which chosen because it received the direct effect of a change in government health expenditure and the Gross Domestic Product of Nigeria. …”
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Relative Permeability of Hydrogen and Aqueous Brines in Sandstones and Carbonates at Reservoir Conditions by Amin Rezaei, Aliakbar Hassanpouryouzband, Ian Molnar, Zeinab Derikvand, R. Stuart Haszeldine, Katriona Edlmann

“…Our results suggest that nitrogen can be used as a proxy gas for hydrogen to carry out multiphase fluid flow experiments, to provide the fundamental constitutive relationships necessary for large‐scale simulations of geological hydrogen storage.…”
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Effects of Habitat Change on the Web Characteristics and Fitness of the Giant Wood Spider (Nephila pilipes) in Sri Lanka by Tharaka Wijerathna, Dilini Tharanga, Inoka C. Perera, Mayuri R. Wijesinghe

“…Web architectural and silk thread properties were measured in 25 webs of adult female spiders in each of the two habitats, while female abdomen size was used as the proxy for fitness. Findings support both hypotheses. …”
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Iron Limitation Drives the Globally Extreme Fluorescence/Chlorophyll Ratios of the Southern Ocean by Christina Schallenberg, Robert F. Strzepek, Sophie Bestley, Bozena Wojtasiewicz, Thomas W. Trull

“…Our analysis reveals a positive correlation between F/Chl and a proxy for iron limitation based on non‐photochemical quenching dynamics. …”
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Assessing the effects of fjord geometry on Greenland tidewater glacier stability by Elizabeth Fischer, Andy Aschwanden

“…Measuring calving rates directly is challenging and thus we developed an averaged von Mises stress state at the glacier terminus as a calving rate proxy that can be estimated from surface velocities, ice thickness, a terminus position and subglacial topography. …”
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The effect of living conditions on the stature of men and women: the case of south-eastern France (18th, 19th and 20th centuries) by Luana Batista-Goulart, Isabelle Séguy, Stefan Tzortzis, Gérald Quatrehomme

“…In this paper we analyse the impact of different living conditions on the length of the femur, as a proxy for stature, of three Mediterranean samples with known historical contexts, and assess sex differentials in femur length changes. …”
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Mackinawite partial oxidation to green rust produces a large, abiotic uranium isotope fractionation by Romain Guilbaud, Morten B. Andersen, Helen M. Freeman, Jeffrey Paulo H. Perez, David Uhlig, Liane G. Benning

“…Accurate reconstructions of oxygen levels in such conditions are therefore required, but current geochemical proxies fail in identifying transitional redox conditions. …”
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Researching diverse understandings of justice and the potential of restorative measures for hate crimes by Olga Jubany, Isabelle Carles

“…Beyond these measures, restorative encounters, victim-offender mediation, restorative conferences and circles, and the use of proxy victims and offenders are particularly promising practices due to the potential effects for all parties: a more direct and satisfactory justice experience for the victims, a focus on their wellbeing, a decrease in offenders’ recidivism, and the resolution of social and community conflicts, among others. …”
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Sex and hand differences in haptic processing: implications for mental rotation ability by Daniela E. Aguilar Ramirez, Claudia L. R. Gonzalez

“…The current study investigates how the sensorimotor-haptic system relates to mental rotation ability, specifically to examine the influence of hand performance (as a proxy for hemispheric specialization) and biological sex on this relationship. …”
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Multi-ciphertext batch auditable decryption outsourcing SM9-HIBE key encapsulation mechanism by Kuan LIU, Jianting NING, Wei WU, Shengmin XU, Chao LIN

“…The decryption operation of SM9-HIBE key encapsulation mechanism required two bilinear pairing operations, for the equipment requiring frequent decryption of massive data and with limited computing resources, such resourcing-consuming pairing operation will become an important bottleneck restricting the system deployment.To address the above issue, a decryption outsourcing key encapsulation mechanism OASM9-HIBE based on SM9-HIBE was proposed, which supported multi-ciphertext batch auditing.The Fujisaki-Okamoto transformation technology was utilized to prove the RCCA security of OASM9-HIBE under the random oracle model.All resourcing-consuming bilinear pairing operations were safely offloaded to the cloud server in OASM9-HIBE, the k-th hierarchical user only need to perform one simple exponentiation operation to complete the final decryption.The decryption efficiency of the original SM9-HIBE was effectively improved under the premise of not changing the downward proxy generation function of the user’s private key between hierarchical.OASM9-HIBE additively achieved the property of batch auditing of multi-transformed ciphertexts by employing the key blinding technology.Theoretical analysis and evaluation of experimental data highlight the feasibility and efficiency of OASM9-HIBE, OASM9-HIBE extends the application field of SM9 series algorithms.…”
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Quadrant categorization of spillover determinants of sovereign risk of BRICIT nations: a Bayesian approach by Pawan Kumar, Vipul Kumar Singh

“…Abstract This study investigates the determinants that drive the volatility of the credit default swaps (CDS) of BRICIT (Brazil, Russia, India, China, Indonesia, and Turkey) nations as a proxy measure for sovereign risk. On the existence of cointegration, an unrestricted error correction model integrated with the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model is applied to measure the short-run and long-run dynamics empirically. …”
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Implementing PMIPv6 Protocol Based on Extended Service Set for IEEE 802.11 Infrastructure WLAN by Deqing Zhu, Lin Xu, Yi-hua Zhu, Xianzhong Tian

“…A scheme using Extended Service Set- (ESS-) based architecture is presented to implement the proxy mobile IPv6 protocol, that is, PMIPv6, for IEEE 802.11 infrastructure Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). …”
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The Ecuadorian State in the southeastern frontier: a creation based on affection, 1893-1964 by Cecilia Ortiz-Batallas

“…It is argued that in those remote frontier territories, the Salesian missionaries became the actual and real proxy of the central government as well as of other external powers: the House of Don Bosco and the Vatican. …”
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FedDrip: Federated Learning With Diffusion-Generated Synthetic Image by Karin Huangsuwan, Timothy Liu, Simon See, Aik Beng Ng, Peerapon Vateekul

“…Moreover, we demonstrate that this virtual-client strategy can be integrated into any federated learning framework, including foundational algorithms such as FedAvg and advanced algorithms such as FedDyn and FedProx. Experiments conducted on the NIH ChestX-ray14 dataset show that our method enhances the performance of the state-of-the-art and foundational methods by 2.15%, 0.95%, and 1.96% for FedAvg, FedDyn, and FedProx, respectively, using the AUC metric. …”
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Shenkang injection for the treatment of acute kidney injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Shengchun Liao, Yurou Chen, Shuting Wang, Chen Wang, Chaoyang Ye

“…There was no difference in adverse reactions between the SKI group and the control group [RR = 1.32, 95% CI (0.66, 2.63), p = 0.431].Conclusion The use of SKI in AKI patients may reduce SCr, BUN, CysC, 24-h Upro levels, and APACHE II scores in AKI patients. …”
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Temporal Variability of Equatorial Ionization Anomaly Crest Locations Extracted From Global Ionospheric Maps by Corina Dunn, Xing Meng, Olga P. Verkhoglyadova

“…We consider apparent universal time dependence to be a proxy for the longitudinal distribution of the crest geomagnetic latitude, which exhibits the known wave‐number‐four longitudinal structure of EIA crests. …”
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Time series analysis of radiant heat using 75 hours VIIRS satellite day and night band nightfire data by Jyoti U. Devkota

“…Amount of nightfires in an area is a proxy indicator of fuel consumption and CO2 emission. …”
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Dynamic land-plant carbon sources in marine sediments inferred from ancient DNA by Ulrike Herzschuh, Josefine Friederike Weiß, Kathleen R. Stoof-Leichsenring, Lars Harms, Dirk Nürnberg, Juliane Müller

“…Here, we leverage land-plant ancient DNA from six globally distributed marine sediment cores covering the Last Glacial–Holocene transition as a proxy for the share, burial rate, preservation, and composition of terrigenous organic matter. …”
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