The validation of the Vietnamese comprehensive score for financial toxicity (COST) in people with chronic disease by Minh Huu Le, Tuyen Thi Hong Nguyen, Minh Cuong Nguyen, Yen Nhi Tran, Ngoc Duoc Lan Tran, Van Lanh Nguyen

“…Objectives: This study aimed to explore the psychometric properties of the Vietnamese comprehensive score for financial toxicity (COST) among people with chronic disease. …”
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Cost-Effective Triboelectric-Assisted Sensory Actuator Designed for Intelligent Robot and Exoskeleton by Haowen Liu, Yusong Chu, Yudong Zhao, Guanyu Zhu, Xuan Li, Minglu Zhu, Tao Chen

“…Joint actuators are the key components in the innovation and iterative optimization of the robots, with a significant impact on both the performances of robots and manufacturing costs. Conventional industrial collaborative robots often use high-precision position and torque sensors, which are not cost-effective or energy-efficient in specific applications like assistive exoskeletons, legged robots, or wheeled robots. …”
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Low-cost, synthetic model for training and simulation of open and semi-open rhinoplasty by Arthur Antunes Coimbra Pinheiro Pacífico, Bárbara Matos de Carvalho Borges, Anna Letícia Silveira Parnaíba, Marco Antônio de Lucena Furtado, Samy Lima Carneiro, Mateus Pinheiro Fernandes Feitosa Arrais, Davi Sousa Garcia

“…Although it requires skill for its manufacture, it has characteristics such as low cost, which favor its dissemination among medical schools. …”
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Faber-Schauder Wavelet Sparse Grid Approach for Option Pricing with Transactions Cost by Shu-Li Mei

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Life cycle cost of communication towers: identification and hierarchical classification of influencing factors by Jing Zhang, Yang Wang, Qianyi Xu, Hongshuai Gao

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Safety and medical cost effectiveness of preventive treatment of children with latent tuberculosis infection by O. D. Baronova, V. A. Aksenova, N. I. Klevno, V. S. Odinets, O. V. Pilipenko

“…The objective: to assess the safety and medical cost effectiveness of different LTBI treatment regimens in children and adolescents.Subjects and methods. 205 children in the age from 6 to 17 years old with latent tuberculosis infection were included in the study: The main (prospective) group included 31 children who were treated with isoniazid and rifapentine (HRpt). …”
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Cost of Production for Fresh Market Grapefruit Grown in Indian River, 2017/18 by Ariel Singerman

“… This 4-page fact sheet written by Ariel Singerman and published by the UF/IFAS Food and Resource Economics Department presents the cost of production per acre for growing fresh grapefruit in the Indian River region during 2017/18. …”
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Saponins enhance the stability and cost-efficiency of human embryonic stem cell culture by Jingyi Shi, Mei Wu, Shi Fang, Zhuo Liu, Huihui Liu, Ying Zhao, Linlin Liu, Zhicheng Shao

“…Despite establishing of chemically defined hESC culture media over the past decade, these media's reliance on growth factors, which are costly and prone to degradation, poses a challenge for sustained and stable cell culture. …”
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Effect of controlled availability fertilizers on increasing fertilizer efficiency and decreasing labor costs by MA Jun-wei, HE Nian-zu, CHEN Jun, XIA Chao-ming

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Kidney Beam-A Cost-Effective Digital Intervention to Improve Mental Health by Sharlene A. Greenwood, Juliet Briggs, Christy Walklin, Emmanuel Mangahis, Hannah M.L. Young, Ellen M. Castle, Roseanne E. Billany, Elham Asgari, Sunil Bhandari, Nicolette Bishop, Kate Bramham, James O. Burton, Jackie Campbell, Joseph Chilcot, Nicola Cooper, Vashist Deelchand, Matthew P.M. Graham-Brown, Lynda Haggis, Alexander Hamilton, Mark Jesky, Philip A. Kalra, Pelagia Koufaki, Kieran McCafferty, Andrew C. Nixon, Helen Noble, Zoe L. Saynor, Maarten W. Taal, James Tollitt, David C. Wheeler, Thomas J. Wilkinson, Hannah Worboys, Jamie Macdonald

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Logistics Cost Management and Control of E-Commerce Enterprise Under the Background of IoT by Kang Wang, Zhanqiao Liu

“…Despite the rapid growth of enterprises in China, logistics costs remain a significant challenge, accounting for a large proportion of overall business expenses and hindering corporate development. …”
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Feasibility and Cost-Benefit Analysis of Methanol as a Sustainable Alternative Fuel for Ships by Pei-Chi Wu, Cherng-Yuan Lin

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Optimisation tools for meeting nutrient requirements of Indian children and adults at optimal cost by Fathima Ayoob, Jawahar R. Manivannan, Ashikh Ahmed, Afsal K. Murikkanchery, Abhishek Kumar, Santu Ghosh, Patrick Webb, Anura V. Kurpad, Tinku Thomas

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Costs of transitioning the livestock sector to net-zero emissions under future climates by Franco Bilotto, Karen Michelle Christie-Whitehead, Bill Malcolm, Nicoli Barnes, Brendan Cullen, Margaret Ayre, Matthew Tom Harrison

“…We conclude that costs of transitioning to net-zero are lower when interventions are bundled and/or evoke productivity co-benefits.…”
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Integral Cost-Benefit Analysis of Maglev Rail Projects Under Market Imperfections by J. Paul Elhorst, Jan Oosterhaven

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Cost-Effectiveness of Extracorporeal Photopheresis in Patients With Chronic Graft-vs-Host Disease by Adrian Peacock, Frances C. Dehle, Oscar A. Mesa Zapata, Francesca Gennari, Maro R.I. Williams, Nada Hamad, Stephen Larsen, Simon J. Harrison, Colman Taylor

“…# Background The mainstay first-line therapy for chronic graft-vs-host disease (cGVHD) is corticosteroids; however, for steroid-refractory patients, there is a distinct lack of cost-effective or efficacious treatment. The aim of this study was to assess the cost-effectiveness of extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP) compared with standard-of-care therapies for the treatment of cGVHD in Australia. …”
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From mountains to data: low-cost weather stations in Kyrgyzstan’s challenging terrain by Marco Zennaro, Ermanno Pietrosemoli, Aziz Soltobaev, Talant Sultanovand, Bolot Moldobekov

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A LOW-COST METHOD FOR THE DETECTION OF DUPLICATE HOLDINGS AMONG GENEBANK ACCESSIONS by F. . Yndgaard, I. G. Loskutov, S. O. Solberg, O. N. Kovaleva, A. . Kolodinska-Brantestam, J. T. Svensson

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Cost-effectiveness assessment of liquid biopsy for early detection of lung cancer in Brazil. by Kátia Marie Senna, Ivan Ricardo Zimmermann, Márcia Gisele Santos da Costa, Bernardo Rangel Tura, José Ronyeryson Dos Santos Evangelista, Marisa Santos

“…Probabilistic sensitivity analysis confirmed a low likelihood of cost-effectiveness, even with varying test sensitivity, lung cancer prevalence, and cost assumptions.…”
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A cost function to determine the optimum filter and parameters for stabilizing gaze data by Pieter Blignaut

“…The effect of various filters and parameter settings on accuracy, precision and filter related latency is examined. A cost function can be used to obtain the optimal parameters (filter, length of window, metric and threshold for removal of samples and removal percentage). …”
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