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  1. Journal article

    The Philippine Local Water Sector: Institutional Issues in Supply Governance

    This paper presents the current water access in the Philippines and reviews the mandates of the two main water regulatory bodies: the Local Water Utilities Administration and the National Water Resources Board. Identifying various overlaps and ambiguities, this study highlights the need…

    LOR-00183 Published 5 Oct 2021 12 views 3 downloads

    Cited by 4

  2. Journal article

    Socio-spatial and seasonal dynamics of small, private water service providers in Khulna district, Bangladesh

    Small water service providers operating in informal markets across the Global South address critical gaps in public investments in the rural water sector. This study analyses the growth and operations of private desalination plants and distributing vendors in Khulna, Bangladesh, within…

    LOR-00182 Published 6 Aug 2021 17 views 2 downloads

    Cited by 8

  3. Preprint

    A Recall Score Is Not a Use Forecast: What Factual-Memory Benchmarks Predict About Whether a Conversational Memory System Uses What It Stores, Why the Published Transfer Failure Runs Through the Harness and the Write Policy, and the Within-Harness Test That Would Settle It

    Life of Research Long-term memory systems for conversational assistants are compared almost entirely on question-answering benchmarks that ask for a fact stated somewhere in a long history. A 2026 benchmark for what its authors call memory utilization reports that strength on those…

    LOR-00181 Published 3 Nov 2026 3 views 1 downloads DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23899944

  4. Preprint

    A Checklist Is Not a Simplification: Where the Published Gains of Decomposed LLM Evaluation Come From, Why a Controlled Null on Holistic Criteria Does Not Reach Instance-Specific or Verifiable Decompositions, and the Ablations a Decomposition Claim Owes

    Life of Research Automatic evaluation with a language model as judge is often improved, in published work, by splitting the judgment into parts: sub-criteria, checklist questions, rubric items or atomic claims, each scored separately and then combined. A 2026 controlled study reports…

    LOR-00180 Published 2 Nov 2026 2 views 2 downloads DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23886823

  5. Preprint

    A Gap to a Reference Is Not a Loss: What Text-Capability Comparisons Between Vision-Language Models and Their Language Backbones Measure, Why Independent Audits and Vendor Reports Disagree in Sign, and the Controlled Trajectory That Would Assign the Cause

    Life of Research A vision-language model is usually built by attaching an image encoder to a pretrained language model and training the combination on multimodal data, and a recurring claim is that this damages the language model's own text abilities. A 2026 study gives the strongest…

    LOR-00179 Published 1 Nov 2026 3 views 5 downloads DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23858880

  6. Preprint

    A Stable Attribution Is Not a Stable Error Rate: What Feature-Attribution Monitoring Can See Under Drift, Why 'More Sensitive Than the Inputs' and 'Silent While Fairness Fails' Are Both Correct, and the Label-Free Statistic the Fairness Alarm Needed

    Life of Research Deployed classifiers are often monitored without labels, and feature attributions are one of the signals watched: a production monitoring service alerts when the ranking of SHAP attributions moves, and one line of work argues that the explanation space is more sensitive…

    LOR-00178 Published 2 Nov 2026 4 views 4 downloads DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23871653

  7. Software

    What AI Cannot Do: Limits of Artificial Intelligence and the Role of Human Creativity

    Artificial intelligence (AI) is powerful at processing data, but it does not imagine, discover or decide on its own: it recombines what it was trained on, while humans notice new problems and invent new solutions. This paper examines six limits of current AI: imagination and creativity…

    LOR-00177 Published 2 Nov 2026 5 views 7 downloads

  8. Preprint

    The Role of AI-Based Demand Forecasting in Inventory Planning for Seasonal Small Businesses in India

    This study explores how seasonal changes in customer demand affect inventory planning among selected small businesses in New Palam Vihar and Rajendra Park, Gurugram, and considers whether affordable AI-based demand forecasting could help business owners make better stock decisions…

    LOR-00176 Published 2 Nov 2026 7 views 7 downloads

  9. Thesis / Dissertation

    Ромаджи като визуален език: ролята на латиницата в глобализацията на манга и съвременното японско изкуство

    Explores the idea how written language communicates and becomes part of the illustration in Japanese manga and contemporary Japanese art. By comparing four case studies.

    LOR-00175 Published 1 Nov 2026 6 views 7 downloads

  10. Preprint

    A Detector Score Is Not a Release Risk: What PII Detection Benchmarks Certify About Deployment, Why 'Rivals Human Annotators' and 'Fails Under Shift' Are Both Measured, and the Coverage Audit a Release Decision Needs

    Life of Research Automatic detection of personally identifiable information (PII) is the step that decides what text may leave an organisation, and its published record appears to contradict itself. Clinical de-identification systems have been reported to match or exceed human…

    LOR-00174 Published 1 Nov 2026 5 views 7 downloads DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23849157

  11. Preprint

    Written Is Not Kept: What a Single-Layer Readout of the Residual Stream Licenses When Adjacent Layers Undo Part of Each Other's Writes, Why Cancellation and Iterative Refinement Are Not Rival Findings, and the Persistence Check Interpretability Claims Skip

    Life of Research Most feature-based interpretability reads a transformer one layer at a time. A probe, a lens or a sparse dictionary is fitted to the residual stream, or to one layer's output, at a chosen depth, and what it finds there is reported as something the model has represented…

    LOR-00173 Published 31 Oct 2026 4 views 4 downloads DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23838677

  12. Journal article

    ADVANCING FRENCH LANGUAGE STUDIES IN NIGERIA THROUGH DIGITAL STORYTELLING, CINEMA AND NEW MEDIA

    The advancement of French language studies in Nigeria requires innovative teaching and learning approaches that respond to the changing demands of contemporary education and technological development. Traditional methods of teaching French, which often emphasize grammar translation…

    LOR-00172 Published 1 Nov 2026 10 views 6 downloads

  13. Thesis / Dissertation

    DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION APPROACH AND MATHEMATICS ACHIEVEMENT OF GRADE 5 LEARNERS: AN ACTION PLAN

    Differentiated instruction played an important role for the success in teaching mathematics in today’s educational setting. This study explored the differentiated instruction approach and mathematics achievement of grade 5 learners that aimed to create an action plan that would maximize…

    LOR-00171 Published 31 Oct 2026 12 views 7 downloads

  14. Preprint

    A Held-Out Site Is a Sample of One: What Random, Spatial and Site-Disjoint Splits Each Estimate, Why Leakage That Differs Between Configurations Reorders a Comparison, and How Many Sites a General Claim Needs

    Life of Research A September 2026 study of farm-machinery traversability reports that a forward-facing near-infrared camera appears to beat a colour camera on a paddy-boundary class under its corpus's own sequence-level split, that the advantage disappears once recording sites are held…

    LOR-00170 Published 31 Oct 2026 6 views 8 downloads DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23824501

  15. Preprint

    A Denial Is Also a Report: What First-Person Experience Claims From Language Models Can Show, Why the Mirror Argument Cuts Against Trained Denials as Hard as Against Affirmations, and the Four Links a Self-Report Would Have to Carry

    Life of Research When a language model says it is experiencing something, a standard objection holds that the sentence reflects human first-person writing in its training data and is no evidence of anything inside the model; a 2026 paper sharpens this into a named fallacy. In this…

    LOR-00169 Published 30 Oct 2026 5 views 10 downloads DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23810600

  16. Journal article

    Флотация орқали кўмирни бойитиш учун СФКМ-1 ва СФКМ-2 маркали флотореагентлар ишлаб чиқиш

    This study focuses on the development of SFKM-1 and SFKM-2 flotation reagents for coal beneficiation by flotation. The research addresses the application of surfactant-based flotation reagents to improve the separation of coal particles and enhance the efficiency of the beneficiation…

    LOR-00168 Published 21 May 2024 9 views 4 downloads

  17. Journal article

    GAME-BASED LEARNING AND PERFORMANCE OF THE GRADE 6 LEARNERS IN MATHEMATICS: AN INTERVENTION PLAN

    Game-based learning is considered as one of the effective approaches in teaching particularly in mathematics in which most learners found it less interesting and a bit difficult compared to other learning areas. Thus, this study explored on the extent of efficacy of game-based learning…

    LOR-00167 Published 31 Oct 2026 19 views 7 downloads

  18. Journal article

    Тинчлик ва барқарорлик тушунчасининг ижтимоий-фалсафий моҳияти

    Аннотация: Мазкур мақолада ҳам “тинчлик” ва “барқарорлик” тушунчаларининг маъно ва мазмуни, мутахассисларнинг қарашлари ва истиқболли жараёнлар ҳақида структурали-функционал таҳлил қилинади. Қолаверса, Ўзбекистоннинг тинчликни таъминлашдаги ташаббусларининг концептуал мазмуни очиб…

    LOR-00166 Published 27 Jan 2025 10 views 6 downloads

  19. Journal article

    Peace and stability as a fundamental characteristic of uzbek people's spirituality

    Annotation: This article analyzes the fact that peace and stability are an integral part of the spirituality of the Uzbek people. In this, characteristics of peace and the process of formation of the Uzbek nations are conceptually illuminated. In the article, the reason for harmony…

    LOR-00165 Published 30 Jul 2025 9 views 4 downloads

  20. Preprint

    Reality-Grounded Autonomous Intelligence: An Evidence-, Authority-, and Outcome-Governed Architecture for Reliable AI Agents

    Autonomous AI agents increasingly combine language-model reasoning with tools that can inspect, modify, and act upon external environments. Their reliability therefore depends on more than the quality of generated text: an agent must preserve the user's authorized objective, distinguish…

    LOR-00164 Published 30 Oct 2026 18 views 17 downloads