A number of chemicals, including several organochlorine pesticides, have been identified as persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Here, the properties of chlorpyrifos (CPY; CAS No. 2921-88-2) and its active metabolite, chlorpyrifos oxon (CPYO; CAS No. 5598-15-2), are assessed relative to criteria for classification of compounds as persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic substances (PBTs). The ma...

Learning data representations that reflect the customers’ creditworthiness can improve marketing campaigns, customer relationship management, and process management or credit risk assessment in retail banks. In this research, we show it is possible to steer latent space of Variational Autoencoder (VAE) using a semi-supervised learning framework specific grouping input called Weight Evidence (Wo...

Tawangmangu district which is located in Karanganyar Regency, Central Java a crowded area susceptible to disaster. Therefore, susceptibility zoning analysis needed support the planning and development of area. The method used bivariate statistics - weight evidence has never been implemented its location. There are two types data, data potential soil movement case (divided into train as 61 point...

Over 40 years of scientific evidence indicates that methyl methacrylate (MMA) causes olfactory effects in rodents that are relevant to humans. More recent scientific studies have focused on understanding the apparent lack of species concordance between the rodent and human studies. Toxicokinetic studies and a physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model describing inhalation dosimetry of ...

Background: Higher education authorities continue to be concerned about dropout rates among university students. Dropping out affects cost efficiency and tarnishes the reputation of institution. As a result, profiling at risk student is crucial.
 Purpose: To build profile students using administrative data.
 Methods: The researcher employed data mining technique in which predictors we...

"woe,, " ,, " "women or men-our chromosomes, our genitalia, how we (and others) are brought up to think about ourselves, or all of the above? One of the first responses to the birth of a child of ambiguous sex by clinicians, and parents, is to seek to "disambiguate" the situation: to assign the newborns identity as either female or male, surgically modify the child's genitalia to conform believ...

Prior findings of emotional numbness (rather than distress) among socially excluded persons led the authors to investigate whether exclusion causes a far-reaching insensitivity to both physical and emotional pain. Experiments 1-4 showed that receiving an ostensibly diagnostic forecast of a lonesome future life reduced sensitivity to physical pain, as indicated by both (higher) thresholds and to...