A Robust Mathematical Model for Sustainable and Resilient Supply Chain Network Design: Preparing a Supply Chain to Deal with Disruptions by Zahra Sadeghi, Omid Boyer, Shila Sharifzadeh, Nadia Saeidi

“…The model has three objectives: minimizing total costs and maximizing suppliers’ social and environmental scores. …”
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Building for Birds Evaluation Tool: Forest Fragments Used as Stopover Sites by Migrant Birds by Mark E. Hostetler, Jan-Michael Archer

“…Developers are sometimes reluctant to conserve trees and forest fragments in subdivided residential/commercial areas because it costs time and money, but there is value in this conservation effort not only for many different species of forest birds, but for future homeowners waking to birdsong in the mornings. …”
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CNN for Computer Vision tasks by Р. Ковальчук, О. Польшакова

“…Among the identified limitations are the complexity of tuning hyperparameters and computational costs associated with increasing the network's depth and the size of training data. …”
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THE ROLE OF STRATEGIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT IN DRIVING SUSTAINABLE GROWTH IN A GREEN ECONOMY by Fisnik Morina, Elvis Elezaj

“…This study analyzes the impact of strategic financial management on sustainable economic development through three case studies: Greencells in Germany, a leading and highly successful company in solar energy; the ECOPROFIT program in Slovenia, a project that aims to effectively manage the process of reducing costs and waste in enterprises, and Ujë Rugove, a Kosovar company that has received green financing to advance its production process. …”
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Det stillasittande, överviktiga och kostsamma barnet by Jonas Johansson

“…The result shows that children are constructed as sedentary, overweight and costly, and that the problem should be solved within education by regulated physical activity. …”
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Research on Interstation Tracking Interval of CBTC System Based onTrain-train Communication by ZHENG Yi, HU Yunqing, GENG Hongliang, SUN Ye, SHEN Tao, SUN Ke

“…CBTC system based on train-train communication not only reduces construction and maintenance costs by reducing deployment of some trackside equipments, but also reduces communication delay through direct train-train communication. …”
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Willingness to Share Knowledge Compared with Selected Social Psychology Theories by Ewa Krok

“…This analysis leads to the following conclusions: •we share our knowledge and expect a return; •we share our knowledge when we believe that the benefits of this action outweigh the costs; •we are pushed to share knowledge by the power of empathy; •workers’ willingness to share knowledge is influenced by three social processes: subordination, identification and internalisation; •the decision to share knowledge is preceded by an intention formed under the influence of an individual attitude towards that behaviour, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control; and •the decision to share knowledge is also influenced by additional components, including the knowledge and skills to implement this behaviour, environmental limitations, behavioural emphasis and habits.…”
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Scheduling Manufacturing with Flexible Recipes to Maximize the Utilization of Renewable Energy by Károly Kalauz, Botond Bertók, Márton Frits

“…Fortunately, the flexibility of production, possible schedules, or alternative recipes allow not only the minimization of costs but also the maximum use of renewable resources. …”
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Research and application of adaptive algorithm for 5G voice quality evaluation by Yuxiang ZHAO, Yaxin JI, Li YU, Tianyi ZHOU, Hang ZHOU

“…MOS (mean opinion score) is usually used to evaluate voice quality in the industry.It can objectively and fairly reflect the user’s voice service perception.It is difficult and costly to obtain data by road test, so a trained supervised learning model is usually used to predict the MOS score.However, the operator voice data has the characteristics of low percentage of MOS low score data and time sequence change, which affects the accuracy and generalization of the model prediction.Based on the study of existing data acquisition systems and machine learning algorithms of operators, an adaptive algorithm for MOS evaluation of 5G speech quality was proposed.Firstly, POLQA algorithm test equipment based on full parameter evaluation obtained training data to ensure the accuracy of training samples.Secondly, by means of data enhancement, the difficulty of acquiring poor quality samples was solved.Finally, based on the adaptive algorithm selection, the optimal MOS prediction model could be selected periodically and dynamically according to the timing changes of data features, so as to achieve large-scale and intelligent evaluation of 5G voice quality.…”
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Conscience at the End of Life by Ralph Neil Baergen, James Skidmore

“…Conclusions: Healthcare providers who refuse to provide medical services should be expected to explain their reasons, make prompt referrals, and bear some of the resulting costs or burdens.…”
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On the Security Dilemma and Threats of Escalation in the Context of Finland’s and Sweden’s Joining to NATO by K. V. Bogdanov, D. V. Stefanovich

“…In the conditions of continuing high-intensity armed conflict in the middle of Europe, NATO’s actions can be seen as part of the measures to impose costs on the Russian Federation and stretch the perimeter of its deterrence capabilities. …”
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Optimizing the technique of laparoscopic splenectomy in children by Józef Dzielicki, Andrzej Grabowski, Wojciech Korlacki

“…There were no statisticallysignificant differences among the three studied groups concerning the number and character of complications.Costs were significantly different in all three groups.Conclusions:1. …”
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Forage-Based Heifer Development Program for North Florida by Jose C.B. Dubeux, Nicolas DiLorenzo, Kalyn Waters, Jane C. Griffin

“…The good news is that there are options to develop heifers on forage-based programs with the possibility of reducing costs while simultaneously meeting performance targets required by the beef industry. …”
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Basic approaches to personnel health management in the workplace by J. N. Skulkina

“…Corporate health and well-being programsare becoming more relevant as they allow organizations not only to manage risk factors in the field of personnel health, but also to reduce the costs associated with the loss of ability of employees, and also contribute to the growth of labor productivity and team engagement In fact, more and more evidence indicates that workplace interventions based on a coordinated, planned and integrated approach to improving the health of workers are more effective than traditional individual measures for a healthy lifestyle. …”
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Management of Microsprinkler Systems for Florida Citrus by Lawrence R. Parsons, Kelly T. Morgan

“…Because these systems usually operate at lower pressures than conventional overhead systems, there can also be appreciable savings from reduced energy costs. In addition, microsprinkler irrigation can provide partial frost protection for both young and mature trees. …”
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THE STUDY OF STRESS-STRAIN STATE ELEMENTS OF THE TRUCK SEMI-TRAILER BODY BOTTOM by Oleg LYASHUK, Mykhailo LEVKOVYCH, Yuriy VOVK, Ivan GEVKO, Mykola STASHKIV, Liubomyr SLOBODIAN, Yuriy PYNDUS

“…Because an excess weight leads to increased production costs, reduced payload and reduced fuel efficiency. …”
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Making sense of family: a story completion study of birth children of foster carers by Bethany Shelton

“…Three themes were identified: costs, family identity, and empathy. These themes refine the key markers of birth children's experience identified in existing literature and highlight the strategies employed to make sense of their experience. …”

Hydrogen-centric machine learning approach for analyzing properties of tricyclic anti-depressant drugs by Simran Kour, J. Ravi Sankar

“…IntroductionTricyclic anti-depressant (TCA) drugs are widely used to treat depression, but traditional methods for evaluating their physicochemical properties can be time-consuming and costly. This study examines how topological indices can help to predict the properties of TCA drugs, with a special focus on the role of the hydrogen representation.MethodsTwo molecular configurations were analyzed: one with only explicit hydrogen and the other including all hydrogen atoms. …”
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Optimisasi Hyperparameter BiLSTM Menggunakan Bayesian Optimization untuk Prediksi Harga Saham by Fandi Presly Simamora, Ronsen Purba, Muhammad Fermi Pasha

“…However, finding optimal hyperparameters can be costly in terms of the model's objective function, as it requires testing all possible combinations of hyperparameter configurations. …”
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Societal self-regulation induces complex infection dynamics and chaos by Joel Wagner, Simon Bauer, Sebastian Contreras, Luk Fleddermann, Ulrich Parlitz, Viola Priesemann

“…Importantly, these arise in epidemiologically relevant parameter regions where the costs associated to infections and mitigation are jointly minimized. …”
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