Enhancing Efficiency in Industrial Metal Roof Replacement: Utilizing Goal Programming for Cost Optimization by Wilson Sutanto, Stefanus Hanifa Prajitna, Christian Harito

“…The study uses GP to address the time-cost trade-off in project management, aiming to minimise project costs while meeting project deadlines and quality requirements. …”
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Cosmetic Tourism: A Cost-utility Analysis of Abdominoplasty Performed in the United States and Abroad by Morvarid Mehdizadeh, BA, Angelica Hernandez Alvarez, MD, Joshua A. Bloom, MD, Justin J. Cordero, BS, Iulianna Taritsa, BS, Daniela Lee, BS, Samuel J. Lin, MD, MBA

“…Rising abdominoplasty costs in the United States have driven patients to seek affordable options abroad despite risks, fueling the medical tourism industry. …”
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Planning of Labor Costs for Creation and Development of State Information Systems and Their Functional Program Complexes by Vladimir Nikolaevich Naumov, Dmitry Viktorovich Kucherenko

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Predicting Freeway Work Zone Delays and Costs with a Hybrid Machine-Learning Model by Bo Du, Steven Chien, Joyoung Lee, Lazar Spasovic

“…The proposed hybrid model can be used to calculate contractor penalty in terms of cost overruns as well as incentive reward schedule in case of early work competition. …”
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Characteristics of medical costs and resource use in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with and without glucocorticoids by Eiichi Tanaka, Eisuke Inoue, Ryoko Sakai, Katsuhiko Iwasaki, Ayako Shoji, Masayoshi Harigai

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Cost-Efficient Privacy-Preserving Authentication and Key Management Scheme for Internet of Vehicle Ecosystem by Tahir Ali Shah, Fahad Algarni, Insaf Ullah, Ako Muhammad Abdullah, Fazal Noor, Muhammad Asghar Khan

“…We have included a cost analysis that indicates the proposed scheme is more efficient than IoV’s current privacy-preserving authentication and key management schemes.…”
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Laboratory performance assessment of low-cost water level sensor for field monitoring in the tropics by Ning Ding, Qingchuan Zhu, Frederic Cherqui, Nicolas Walcker, Jean-Luc Bertrand-Krajewski, Perrine Hamel

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Vernacular Infrastructure: a hidden cost in the economics of climate change and permafrost thaw in Alaska by Emma L. Verstraete, Alexandra J. Zachwieja

“…The effects of climate change on infrastructure are expected to cost Alaska between 3–5 billion dollars by 2100. …”
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Sustainable Investments in Construction: Cost–Benefit Analysis Between Rehabilitation and New Building in Romania by Tudor Panfil Toader, Marta-Ioana Moldoveanu, Daniela-Mihaiela Boca, Raluca Iștoan, Lidia Maria Lupan, Aurelia Bradu, Andreea Hegyi, Ana Boga

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The Influence of Activity- Based Costing Implementation on Firm Performance: An Empirical Evidence from Vietnam by Pham Duc Cuong

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A strategy for cost-effective large language model use at health system-scale by Eyal Klang, Donald Apakama, Ethan E. Abbott, Akhil Vaid, Joshua Lampert, Ankit Sakhuja, Robert Freeman, Alexander W. Charney, David Reich, Monica Kraft, Girish N. Nadkarni, Benjamin S. Glicksberg

“…An economic analysis demonstrated up to a 17-fold cost reduction at 50 tasks using concatenation. These results identify the limits of LLMs for effective utilization and highlight avenues for cost-efficiency at the enterprise scale.…”
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The Cost of Ankylosing Spondylitis in the UK Using Linked Routine and Patient-Reported Survey Data. by Roxanne Cooksey, Muhammad J Husain, Sinead Brophy, Helen Davies, Muhammad A Rahman, Mark D Atkinson, Ceri J Phillips, Stefan Siebert

“…The majority of the cost (>80%) was as a result of work-related costs.…”
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Decreasing cost of heat pump heat supply systemby changing first circuit collector by I. Hallyyev, K. H. Gilfanov

“…The aim of this work is to reduce the cost of the heat pump heating system by using a solar collector in the primary circuit of the heat pump. …”
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Healthcare Costs of Hospitalizations Due to Aspergillosis and 25-Year Trends in Spain, 1997–2021 by María Rincón Villar, Montserrat Alonso-Sardón, Elisa Alvarez-Artero, Beatriz Rodríguez Alonso, Amparo López-Bernús, Ángela Romero-Alegría, Javier Pardo-Lledías, Moncef Belhassen-García

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Optimal time-based and cost-based contracts in construction projects under asymmetric information by Guanqun Shi, Jingru Tong, Zhiyuan Chen, Yichen Wang

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Occurrence, mortality and cost of brain disorders in Denmark: a population-based cohort study by Henrik Toft Sørensen, Christian Fynbo Christiansen, Søren Viborg Vestergaard, Sandra Stallknecht, Jens Olsen, Niels Skipper

“…The total attributable direct costs of brain disorders in 2015 were €5.2 billion and total attributable indirect costs were €11.2 billion. …”
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The effect of family physician program and health transformation plan on utilization and cost of health services by Zeynab Safarpoor, Farhad Lotfi, Mohsen Bayati, Hossein Moordzade, Zahra Goudarzi, Khosro Keshavarz

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Improving maintenance efficiency and controlling costs in healthcare institutions through advanced analytical method by Kun Li, Lei Su, Jing Cheng, Yinyan Sun, Xinghua Ma

“…Following one year of practical application, a significant reduction in costs was observed after implementing this method. …”
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Common institutional ownership and cost of equity: evidence from publicly listed companies in China by Larry Su

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Association between intrinsic capacities limitations and annual healthcare costs in Nursing Home residents by N Costa, E Gombault, C Marcélo, A Pagès, L Molinier, P de Souto Barreto, Y Rolland

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