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This study aims to explore how environmental, social and governance (ESG) consistency impacts the firm performance, specifically, the relationship between ESG performance and economic performance (EP). This study posits that the company’s commitment...

This study investigates the role of data structure in multicriteria sorting by integrating supervised and unsupervised approaches. Specifically, a hybrid framework combining TOPSIS-Sort-B and cluster analysis is proposed to define class boundaries an...

Background: Consistent evaluation methods foster fairness, reduce bias, and enhance student understanding and motivation. Notably, mathematical inconsistencies, such as improper weighting, flawed averaging, and unsound scaling, can undermine the accu...

We present Quantum-Informational History Optimization Theory (QIHOT) as a formal proposal for selecting a single realized quantum history from a space of dynamically admissible histories subject to boundary constraints. In the present paper, we restr...

This work addresses the problem of Shannon entropy estimation in countably infinite alphabets studying and adopting some recent convergence results of the entropy functional, which is known to be a discontinuous function in the space of probabilities...

The interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA) is a reliable diagnostic tool for bovine tuberculosis (bTB) due to its high sensitivity and specificity. However, the assay relies on viable T-cell function, making it susceptible to functionally undetectable...

Labeling images is expensive, but unlabeled data is abundant. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) addresses this gap, though the dominant pseudo-labeling methods can suffer from confirmation bias—reinforcing their own confident-but-wrong predictions...

Laser-ignited particle combustion is critical to energy, aerospace, and defense applications, yet progress in deciphering its physicochemical mechanisms is hindered by poor reproducibility of combustion data from randomly packed samples. Classical th...

The resazurin assay, also known as the Alamar Blue assay, stands as a cornerstone technique in cell biology, microbiology, and drug development. It assesses the viability of cells through the conversion of resazurin into highly fluorescent resorufin....

The A549 cell line has become a cornerstone in biomedical research, particularly in cancer studies and serves as a critical tool in cytotoxicity studies and drug screening where it is used to evaluate the impact of pharmaceutical compounds on cellula...

Background: Prior studies on the relationship between bowel health and mortality have generally focused on the individual association of stool frequency or consistency with mortality but did not present a joint association. Therefore, we aimed to sys...

Meteorological measurements from Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) increase the volume of observations available for validating and improving high-spatiotemporal-resolution models. Accurate model forecasts for UAS operations are essential to the succe...

Background/Objectives: Tl-201 myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography (MPS) is a minimally invasive test for patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD). While its predictive and prognostic values are well establishe...

Three exergy accounting approaches are used to evaluate exergy efficiency: the Energy Resources Exergy Accounting (EREA), the Natural Resources’ Exergy Accounting (NREA) and the Extended Exergy Accounting (EEA). To test the consistency of the results...

Especially for larger molecules relevant to life sciences, vibrational self-consistent field (VSCF) calculations can become unmanageably demanding even when only first and second order potential coupling terms are considered. This paper investigates...

To investigate whether a simple observational tool may be a substitute to the time-consuming and costly 3-dimensional (3D) analysis, the study applied the Wisconsin Gait Scale (WGS), enabling assessment which is highly consistent with 3D gait paramet...

Spatial decision-making in different virtual environments may vary based on the levels of spatial awareness experienced within Virtual Reality (VR) systems. Features and characteristics of VR systems may act as facilitators or distractors of spatial...

Background: Numerous studies have used autologous mesenchymal stem cell injections (AMSCI) to treat osteoarthritis. We hypothesized that AMSCI is an effective osteoarthritis treatment with increasing efficacy at higher doses. Methods: We conducted a...

We constructed phase diagrams of conformationally asymmetric diblock copolymer A-B melts using the polymer self-consistent field (SCF) calculations of both the dissipative particle dynamics chain (DPDC) model (i.e., compressible melts of discrete Gau...

A model of set theory ZFC is defined in our recent research, in which, for a given $n\ge 3$, $\left({\mathsf{A}}_n\right)$ there exists a good lightface ${\mathsf{\Delta }}_n^1$ well-ordering of the reals, but $\left({\mathsf{B}}_n\right)$ no well-orderings of the reals (not necessarily good) exist in the previous class ${\mathsf{\Delta }}_{n-1}^{}$...

In geographic information systems, the reliability of querying, analysing, or reasoning results depends on the data quality. One central criterion of data quality is consistency, and identifying inconsistencies is crucial for maintaining the integrit...

The multinomial distribution is often used in modeling categorical data because it describes the probability of a random observation being assigned to one of several mutually exclusive categories. Given a finite or numerable multinomial model $\mathcal{M}\left(|n,\mathit{p}\right)$ w...

To reflect the initiative design and initiative of human security management and safety warning, ecological safety assessment is of great value. In the comprehensive evaluation of regional ecological security with the participation of experts, the ex...

Big data technique is a series of novel technologies to deal with large amounts of data from various sources. Unfortunately, it is inevitable that the data from different sources conflict with each other from the aspects of format, semantics, and val...

Single nucleotide variants (SNVs) occurring in a protein coding gene may disrupt its function in multiple ways. Predicting this disruption has been recognized as an important problem in bioinformatics research. Many tools, hereafter p-tools, have bee...

Many cloud services are relying on distributed key-value stores such as ZooKeeper, Cassandra, HBase, etc. However, distributed key-value stores are notoriously difficult to design and implement without any mistakes. Because data consistency is the co...

In the modern pentathlon, the laser run is the highest influence on the results, and fast and accurate shooting is essential. This study evaluates the relationship between shooting characteristics (shot speed, consistency, accuracy) according to sex,...

To reduce congestion, numerous routing solutions have been proposed for backbone networks, but how to select paths that stay consistently optimal for a long time in extremely congested situations, avoiding the unnecessary path reroutings, has not yet...

This paper studies a heteroscedastic partially linear model based on ${\rho }^{-}$ -mixing random errors, stochastically dominated and with zero mean. Under some suitable conditions, the strong consistency and $p$ -th $\left(p>0\right)$...

As image–text posts have become a dominant form of social media communication, understanding how the two modalities jointly convey meaning remains a key challenge in multimodal analysis. This study aims to examine whether image–text consi...

We developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that evaluates the feasibility of AI-assisted multiparameter flow cytometry (MFC) diagnosis of acute leukemia. Two hundred acute leukemia patients and 94 patients with cytopenia(s) or hematocytosis w...

The in-image machine translation task involves translating text embedded within images, with the translated results presented in image format. While this task has numerous applications in various scenarios such as film poster translation and everyday...

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) pose serious threats to human health. Increasing attention has been paid to POPs to protect the environment and prevent disease. Humans are exposed to POPs through diet (the major route), inhaling air and dust and...

Consistency has always been a hot topic in the study of decision-making based on preference relations. This paper focuses on the consistency of hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations (HFLPRs). Firstly, a new definition of the additive consist...

This paper considers generalized consistent sampling and reconstruction processes in an abstract separable Hilbert space. Using an operator-theoretical approach, quasi-consistent and consistent approximations with optimal properties, such as possessi...

Because of the influential role of consistency in selecting a grease for a given application, accurate and meaningful methodologies for its measurements are vitally important. A new method, recently introduced, uses a rheometer to compress a grease s...

Although channel consistency and seamlessness have been regarded as two critical factors in conducting omnichannel business, their combined effect has yet to be revealed. By employing a polynomial regression, this study disentangles the combined effe...

In this paper, data consistency in the three-option Davidson model is investigated. Starting out with the usual consistency definition in pairwise matrices-based methods, we examine its consequences. We formulate an equivalent statement based on the...

The maximum linear (or translational) velocity achievable by an omnidirectional platform is not uniform as it depends on the angular orientation of the motion. This velocity is limited by the maximum angular velocity of the motors driving the wheels...

Comparisons of the accuracy and consistency of different remote-sensing land cover datasets are important for the rational application of multi-source land cover datasets to regional development, or to studies of global or local environmental change....

Numerous global-scale land-cover datasets have greatly contributed to the study of global environmental change and the sustainable management of natural resources. However, land-cover datasets inevitably experience information loss because of the nat...

Readers tend to allocate more cognitive resources to processing belief-consistent than belief-inconsistent information when reading multiple texts displaying discrepant views. This phenomenon, known as the text-belief consistency effect, results in i...

Waste sediment generated during tunnel construction is applied to prepare synchronous grouting material, where the influences of fly ash, slag powder, and bentonite on the rheological properties (such as consistency, fluidity, setting time, drainage...

The conventional kinesin (kinesin-1) molecular motor is a prototypical member of the kinesin superfamily. It can processively step on microtubules toward the plus end by hydrolyzing ATP molecules, performing the biological function of shuttling cargo...

Consistency checking is one of the reasons for the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) leadership in publications on multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM). Consistency is a measure of the quality of data input in the AHP. The theory of AHP provides i...

Face completion is an important topic in the field of computer vision and image processing. Its core task is to restore image information, so that the generated completion results are as consistent as possible with the ground-truth results. In existi...

The spindle unit is the core component of a machine, and its stiffness is a key performance characteristic. The stiffness consistency is a key index to measure the stiffness of spindle units; however, there is a lack of unified evaluation methods for...

Background/Objectives: To compare and analyze the application of a Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori, Hp) serum antibody typing test (Hp-sATT) and the ¹³C-urea breath test (¹³C-UBT) in the diagnosis of Hp infection against an empirical therapy backgroun...

(1) Background: This study used latent profile analysis (LPA) to investigate family patterns of paternal and maternal responses to adolescents’ discrete emotions (happiness, sadness, and anger) and examined the relationship between these profil...

This paper is about the geometric and radiometric consistency of diverse and overlapping datasets acquired with the Parrot Sequoia camera. The multispectral imagery datasets were acquired above agricultural fields in Northern Italy and radiometric ca...