Indoor Pollutant Classification Modeling using Relevant Sensors under Thermodynamic Conditions with Multilayer Perceptron Hyperparameter Tuning

 Percival J. Forcadilla Abstract Air pollutants that are generated from indoor sources such as cigarettes, cleaning products, air fresheners, etc. impact human health. These sources are usually safe but exposure beyond the recommended standards could be hazardous to health. Due to this fact, people started to use technology to monitor indoor air quality (IAQ) but have no capability of recognizing pollutant sources. This research is an...

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Characteristics of Marine Heatwaves in the Philippines

Brisneve Edullantes a1, Brenna Mei M. Concolis a1, Raven Quilestino-Olario a1, Dale Patrick D. Atup a, Aiza Cortes a, Aletta T. Yñiguez b Abstract Marine Heatwaves (MHWs) are prolonged, discrete, and anomalously warm events, which have recently gained global attention due to their far-reaching effects and reported impacts. Although intensive studies have been carried out at global and regional scales, these events remained understudied in the...

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Performativity of Terror-Tagging and the Prospects for a Marcos Presidency

Regletto Aldrich Imbong  Introduction The Philippine government has been relentless in its counterinsurgencycampaigns. From the colonial wars that vilified as insurgents and bandits thehonored heroes of today, up to the anti-communist and anti-secessionist civiland military efforts of the postcolonial regimes, these campaigns have not onlyrolled out large state resources but also cost lives of innocent civilians.Patterned after the United...

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Populists in power: trust in public institutions and support for strong leadership in the post-authoritarian democracies of Indonesia and the Philippines

Ronald Pernia ABSTRACT How does support for strong leadership affect institutional trust in post-authoritarian democracies? Studies suggest that fostering trust in public institutions is contingent upon citizens’ favourable evaluation of the government’s institutional performance, whereas individual’s cultural orientations and political values are seldom given much interest. However, the resurgence of leaders with ‘populist’ tendencies presents...

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