When Rivals Are Absent: Male Aggression Towards Females in Bluefin Killifish by Ratna Karatgi, Rebecca C. Fuller

“…ABSTRACT The process of obtaining mates, mating, and (potentially) caring for offspring is costly. While there are inherent costs to reproduction, behavioral interactions among individuals are often the primary drivers of reproductive costs. …”
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Sustainability-driven optimization of np chart for enhanced process monitoring by Salah Haridy, Ridvan Aydin, Asma'a Omar, Zehra Araci, Mohammad Shamsuzzaman, Ahmed Maged

“…Sensitivity analysis further examines the impact of design parameters on total sustainability costs, providing practical insights for manufacturers aiming to reduce carbon emissions and inspection costs while maintaining high-quality production standards. …”
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Financial hardship among patients suffering from neglected tropical diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis of global literature. by Chanthawat Patikorn, Jeong-Yeon Cho, Joshua Higashi, Xiao Xian Huang, Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk

“…Costs of visceral leishmaniasis impoverished 20-26% of the 61 households investigated, depending on the costs captured. …”
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Association of triglyceride-glucose index with postoperative recovery-related factors in type II cesarean scar pregnancy treated by transvaginal surgery by Xiaoyan Li, Shuhua Liu, Dehong Liu

“…Results A significant correlation was found between TyG and hospitalization costs (β = −677.5, p = 0.02). Higher TyG levels were associated with shorter hospital stays and lower costs, while no significant associations were observed with other factors. …”
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Motives of Chinese foreign direct investment in Africa: With regulation effects of institutional quality. by Lilin Yuan, Peng Ji

“…Hence, when selecting investment locations, Chinese enterprises should prioritize the host country's (region's) market size, labor costs, and institutional quality. Additionally, they should utilize the moderating effect of institutional quality to mitigate the disadvantages associated with higher labor costs.…”
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Comparison of Real-world Outcomes Between Patients Treated with Tapentadol ER or Oxycodone CR by Mike Durkin, Jacqueline Pesa, Jessica Lopatto, Rachel Halpern, Damon Van Voorhis, Stephanie Korrer

“…The tapentadol ER compared with the oxycodone CR cohort had higher mean pharmacy costs ($4,263 versus $3,694; p <0.001), lower mean inpatient costs ($3,625 versus $6,309; p<0.001), and lower mean total healthcare costs ($16,510 versus $19,330; p=0.004)…”
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Scientific toolkit for predictive efficiency management of railway transportation by D. A. Macheret, N. A. Valeev

“…The marginal coefficient of operating costs as a leading indicator of efficiency can become an indicative basis for such management. …”
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Challenges in Creating Business Value from Health Information Systems (HIS): A Hybrid Fuzzy Approach by Ahad Zareravasan, Reza Alizadeh

“…The outcome of this study shows that to handle HIS business value creation challenges, healthcare executives should start with infrastructure costs, maintenance costs, and systems compatibility challenges.…”
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Economic losses due to low coverage of lipid-lowering therapy in patients with cardiovascular diseases in the Russian Federation by Yu. A. Balanova, A. V. Kontsevaya, A. E. Imaeva, O. I. Karpov, M. B. Khudyakov

“…The share of direct costs for hospitalizations is 86%, while in the presence of cerebrovascular diseases it is 76.8%. …”
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Medical and social significance and calculation of the economic burden of axial spondyloarthritis in the Russian Federation by A. M. Lila, T. V. Dubinina, R. O. Dreval, S. А. Lapshina, A. N. Zabotina

“…The ratio of direct and indirect costs was 1:4, i.e. 4.7 billion rubles – direct costs (84.3 thousand rubles per 1 patient) and 17.2 billion rubles – indirect costs (311.2 thousand rubles per 1 patient). …”
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Towards a new Existenzminimum by Sara Brysch

“…It does so by combining a case study approach with a building costs simulation. Findings indicate that co-design decisions based on a collective self-redefinition of Existenzminimum (minimum dwelling) affect the housing layout and contribute to reduce building costs. …”
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The Role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Future of Forestry Sector Logistics by Leonel J. R. Nunes

“…Background: The forestry industry plays an important role in the economy and environmental sustainability, facing significant logistical challenges such as the geographical dispersion of plantations, the variability of raw materials, and high transportation costs. Artificial Intelligence (AI) emerges as a promising tool to optimize logistics processes, contributing to the reduction in costs, waste, and environmental impacts. …”
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An Improved Spider Wasp Optimizer for Green Vehicle Route Planning in Flower Collection by Mengxin Lu, Shujuan Wang

“…To this end, this study proposes a green vehicle routing planning model that incorporates multiple factors, such as fixed costs, refrigeration costs, transportation costs, and so on, to minimize the total costs under hard time window constraints. …”
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Smart Energy Management for Hybrid Systems: A Genetic Algorithm in Response to Market Volatility by Dácil Díaz-Bello, Carlos Vargas-Salgado, Jesús Águila-León, David Alfonso-Solar

“…The results demonstrate a 23% reduction in operational costs and an 18% decrease in energy importation under Critical conditions, while demand shifting during peak periods reduced peak electricity costs by up to 59%. …”
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Determination of the energy required to expose the surface of the knife and the bottom of the bulldozer blade to the ground at the beginning of the pass by V. A. Nikolayev

“…The total energy costs, power, traction force are revealed, based on the initial conditions. …”
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Utilización de lavazas enriquecidas en alimentación de cerdos de levante-ceba (30-90 kg.) Use of supplemented kitchen refuse for feeding growing - finishing pigs (30-90 kg.) by Reyes R. Gustavo, Cuellar B. Piedad

“…The economical analysis showed better results for TI (kitchen refuse + protein supplement) and the same treatment had lower production cost per finished pig, than it would be expected from the use of commercial feed.…”
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OPTIMASI BIAYA DISTRIBUSI BERAS MISKIN (RASKIN) MENGGUNAKAN MASALAH TRANSPORTASI TAK SEIMBANG by Venn Yan Ishak Ilwaru, Yopi Andry Lesnussa, Jesica Tentua

“…The purpose of this research was to minimize the distribution costs of poor rice (RASKIN) by using the ASM (Abdul, Shaleh, Maliki) modification method, so that the distribution costs obtained were optimal. …”
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Research on energy storage planning methods for distributed renewable energy integrated rural power distribution networks by Haoshuai Jia, Renqing Feng, Hai Jiang, Chao Gao, Yue Zhao, Rui Zhang, Ziyi Xuan

“…Based on this analysis, a collaborative optimization model for energy storage and renewable energy-integrated distribution networks is constructed, comprehensively considering operational costs of the rural grid as well as the investment and operational costs of energy storage systems, with the objective of minimizing total operational costs. …”
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Healthcare Resource Use and Expenditures among Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients Treated with HER2-Targeted Agents by Nicole Meyer, Yanni Hao, Xue Song, Nianwen Shi, William Johnson, Jaqueline Willemann Rogerio, Denise A. Yardley

“…To compare healthcare utilization (HCU) and costs of women newly diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer (mBC) by receipt of HER2-targeted agents (H2T) and among H2T subgroups. …”
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Analysis of quality and technical and economic indicators of the technology for the production of packaged meat and bone broths with long shelf life by Fomenko O. S., Rudik F. Ya.

“…The economic benefits are driven by reduced production costs and extended shelf life of the finished product.…”
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