National Burden of Cancers in Tunisia: A Disability Adjusted Life-year Approach by Houda Ben Ayed, Mohamed Hsairi, Sourour Yaich, Habib Feki, Jihene Jedidi, Raouf Karray, Mondher Kassis, Jamel Damak

“…Cancer places a considerable burden on society that is reflected in both economic and humanitarian costs. We aimed to estimate the disease burden of cancers in Tunisia using the Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) as a health measure. …”
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Criterios de elección de centro y segregación escolar en la ciudad de Valencia by Félix Fajardo Magraner, Julia Salom Carrasco, María Dolores Pitarch Garrido

“…Los resultados indican que el principal criterio de elección de centro escolar es la proximidad entre el hogar y el colegio, y que el modo de desplazamiento más utilizado es el peatonal. Sin embargo, los costes de desplazamiento y los medios utilizados están directamente relacionados con las características socioeconómicas de las familias y con la morfología urbana de los barrios en los que se ubican los centros educativos y las residencias de los menores. …”
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Incremental SAR Automatic Target Recognition with Divergence-Constrained Class-Specific Dictionary Learning by Xiaojie Ma, Xusong Bu, Dezhao Zhang, Zhaohui Wang, Jing Li

“…While existing approaches predominantly rely on batch learning paradigms, their practical deployment is constrained by the sequential arrival of training data and high retraining costs. To overcome this challenge, this paper introduces a divergence-constrained incremental dictionary learning framework that enables progressive model updates without full data reprocessing. …”
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Proposal of a novel particle swarm optimization for constrained optimization problems (1st report: Basic study with benchmark problems) by So FUKUHARA, Nobuhisa KATSUMATA, Masao ARAKAWA

“…Notably, it takes a lot of calculation costs to obtain the optimal solution on the boundary of constraints or the complicated feasible area. …”
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Investigation of quality indicators of grape pomace of white and red grape varieties as pectin-containing raw materials used in the design of functional soft drinks by Z. N. Khatko, J. M. Begeretova, T. A. Belyavtseva

“…The amount of grape pomace is about 20-25% of the total mass; if not used, this leads to an increase in production costs. Traditionally, grape pomace has been used as fertilizer or animal feed, but only the polyphenol content has been studied. …”
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Branch Drift: A Visually Explainable Metric for Consistency Monitoring in Collaborative Software Development by Karl Kegel, Sebastian Gotz, Uwe Assmann

“…Their resolution is time-consuming and costly. Depending on the development process, a branch exists for a few hours or up to several months. …”
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Proposal of a Novel Online-Coupling Modular-Structure Maglev Carrier by Ahmet Fevzi Bozkurt, Kadir Erkan

“…The advantages of modularity include the ability to design more compact agents, leading to reduced manufacturing costs and energy consumption per unit, while simultaneously enhancing operational efficiency. …”
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Perspectives of pregnant women on the utilisation of a maternity waiting home near Onandjokwe Lutheran Hospital in Oshikoto Region, Namibia by Daniel O. Ashipala, Medusalem H. Joel, Louise Pretorius

“…Enablers visiting MWHs included the safe delivery of babies by skilled staff, reduced transport costs, access to timely management of labour complications and affordable accommodation. …”
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The effect of micro-movement on prevention of intraoperative acquired pressure injury in overweight patients undergoing posterior lumbar surgery: a randomized controlled trial by Jing Zhang, Ping Wang, Li En Qi, Shuo Feng, Feng Zhang

“…This simple intervention could significantly improve patient outcomes and reduce healthcare costs associated with IAPI.…”
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The Use of Epoetin-α in Revision Knee Arthroplasty by Lawrence A. Delasotta, Ashwin V. Rangavajjula, Michael L. Frank, Jamie L. Blair, Fabio R. Orozco, Alvin C. Ong

“…A randomized study to evaluate the direct and indirect costs of such a treatment methodology in the mildly anemic revision patient may be warranted.…”
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Comparison of Harmonic Scalpel and Electrocautery During Breast Surgery: A Cohort Study by Hassan Moaiery, Mohammad Yahya Faridi

“…Objective: As one of the most frequent procedures, breast surgery incurs high healthcare costs. The significance of surgical quality and complications before and after breast surgery entailed the use of methods with the highest outcomes and the least complications. …”
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Technical-and-economical justification of the optimal composition of means of mechanization considering agroecological regionalizing of an agricultural territories at microlevel by F. F. Mukhamad'yarov, S. L. Korobitsyn, N. N. Soboleva

“…Evaluation of the energy efficiency of technological processes connected with processing of the soil indicates significant changes in the energy costs for the varying types of processing and technological parameters. …”
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SC-Route: A Scalable Cross-Layer Secure Routing Method for Multi-Hop Inter-Domain Wireless Networks by Yanbing Li, Yang Zhu, Shangpeng Wang

“…Second, we introduce a cross-layer information fusion mechanism that allows nodes to adapt routing costs in real time under heterogeneous network conditions, thereby improving path reliability and load balancing. …”
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New Opportunities for Involving Universities in the Demographic Agenda: a Regional Case by A. P. Bagirova, V. Yu. Kolchinskaya, E. Yu. Sokolova, M. G. Abilova

“…Regional programs aimed at increasing the birth rate have also recently introduced measures aimed at supporting the family-parent trajectory of students – student (family) capital, compensation for housing costs, etc. The aim of the study was to identify new opportunities for universities to be included in the demographic agenda through a mechanism for informing students about the involvement of business in mitigating the demographic problems of an industrial region. …”
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Experimental studies on latent heat capacity of hybrid nano-enhanced phase change materials using artificial neural network for energy storage applications by Pradnya Sameer Deshpande, R. Jyothilakshmi, Lalitha Chinmayee H. M., B. S. Sridhar

“…To further enhance predictive capabilities and reduce experimental costs, an artificial neural network (ANN) model was developed using the Keras API in Python to estimate thermal behaviour. …”
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THE IMPACT OF AUTOMATION AND DIGITALIZATION ON THE COMMERCIAL MARKET IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA by Lida CUCOȘ

“…The article looks at how digital tools can improve business operations, lower transaction costs, and boost competitiveness. It also examines how automation transforms business models, increases productivity, and fosters innovation in the Republic of Moldova's trade sector. …”
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Changes in risk habits and influencing factors in the Taiwan oral cancer screening program. by Pattaranan Munpolsri, Chiu-Wen Su, Hsu-Fei Yang, Tsui-Hsia Hsu, Yen-Yu Chou, Li-Ju Lin, Chao-Chun Wu, Sam Li-Sheng Chen, Amy Ming-Fang Yen

“…Strengthening collaboration between health organizations and the screening program could enhance public awareness, improve program effectiveness, reduce oral cancer incidence, and lower long-term healthcare costs.…”
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Investigating the priming with salicylic acid on seed germination, seedlIng growth, and fruit quality of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L. cv. Tina) in the field by Hamid Reza Darafshi, Seyyed Mohammad Javad Arvin, Fatemeh Nejad-Alimoradi

“…Overall, due to the small consumption of chemicals and the ease of used, SA priming will help to reduce production costs.…”
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Tool wear prediction based on XGBoost feature selection combined with PSO-BP network by Zhangwen Lin, Yankun Fan, Jinling Tan, Zhen Li, Peng Yang, Hua Wang, Weiwei Duan

“…These findings suggest that the proposed method can effectively predict tool wear in real-world CNC machining, contributing to improved production efficiency, reduced tool replacement frequency, and lower maintenance costs, thereby providing valuable insights for industrial applications.…”
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Prevalence of treated hyper- and hypo-thyroidism and sociodemographic and geographic disparities in France in 2020 by Joël Coste, Laurence Mandereau-Bruno, Xavier Bertagna, Jean-Louis Wémeau

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