Optimizing energy and load management in island microgrids for enhancing resilience against resource interruptions by Majid Hosseina, Mahmoud Samiei Moghaddam, Amir Hassannia

“…Existing approaches primarily focus on minimizing operational costs or emissions but fail to simultaneously address load curtailment, voltage stability, and resilience under uncertain conditions. …”
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Utilizing of graphite tailings as fine aggregates in asphalt mixture: Road performance and economic environment assessments by Hongshuai Gao, Bing An, Yuanjian Dai, Kunbo Fan, Jiaming Ding, Hongbo Liu

“…Moreover, the environmental benefits and economic merits of the asphalt mixture were evaluated through toxicity measuring and a cost-benefit examination. The findings from the experiment revealed that the physical and chemical properties of JX-GT outperformed those of LB-GT and FA. …”
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Analysis of Coordinated Operation of the Clean Energy System Based on the Multiobjective Optimization Model by Xunyang Wang, Zhicheng Ma, Chen Liang, Shien He, Yongqiang Wang

“…The model seeks to maximize power generation and minimize output fluctuations, power purchase costs, and maintenance costs under the constraints of the grid structure. …”
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Estimation of residual operability and energy efficiency optimization of oil purification column by Marko S. Jaric, Sanja Z. Petronic, Ivana V. Vasovic Maksimovic, Nedzad R. Rudonja, Martina M. Balac, Marko D. Ristic

“…This approach enhances reliability and cost-effectiveness in oil and gas facilities while prioritizing environmental protection.…”
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Centre-based landscape of muscular dystrophies in Gujarat: insight into genetic diagnosis and management by Gaurang Sindhav, Pooja Trivedi, Krishnakumari Patel, Dhruv Prajapati, Anil Shah, Sharad Gupta

“…Population-based OMIC studies are needed, but progress is slow due to the time, cost, and effort. In light of this, muscular dystrophies (MDs) are rare neuromuscular diseases characterized by progressive muscle degradation, weakness, cardiac and respiratory issues, and loss of ambulation. …”
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An Empirical Model-Based Algorithm for Removing Motion-Caused Artifacts in Motor Imagery EEG Data for Classification Using an Optimized CNN Model by Rajesh Kannan Megalingam, Kariparambil Sudheesh Sankardas, Sakthiprasad Kuttankulangara Manoharan

“…Electroencephalography (EEG) is a non-invasive technique with high temporal resolution and cost-effective, portable, and easy-to-use features. …”
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Hybrid Wind–Redox Flow Battery System for Decarbonizing Off-Grid Mining Operations by Armel Robert, Baby-Jean Robert Mungyeko Bisulandu, Adrian Ilinca, Daniel R. Rousse

“…However, the study also highlights a key economic challenge: the high Levelized Cost of Storage (LCOS) of CAD (Canadian dollars) 7831/MWh, which remains a barrier to large-scale implementation. …”
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Cryo‐Exfoliation Synthesis of Borophene and its Application in Wearable Electronics by Zhixuan Li, Gaurav Pandey, Arkamita Bandyopadhyay, Kamlendra Awasthi, John V. Kennedy, Prashant Kumar, Ajayan Vinu

“…This study presents a novel, cost‐effective, environmentally friendly cryo‐exfoliation method for borophene synthesis. …”
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Construction of CuCo₂O₄@NiFe-LDH Core–Shell Heterostructure for High-Performance Hybrid Supercapacitors by Yang Chen, Man Li, Chengyu Xue, Fuxiang Wei

“…Transition metal oxides (TMOs) are considered to be highly promising materials for supercapacitor electrodes due to their low cost, multiple convertible valence states, and excellent electrochemical properties. …”
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SFT-GAN: Sparse Fast Transformer Fusion Method Based on GAN for Remote Sensing Spatiotemporal Fusion by Zhaoxu Ma, Wenxing Bao, Wei Feng, Xiaowu Zhang, Xuan Ma, Kewen Qu

“…Third, these methods often depend on complex network architectures, resulting in high computational costs. To address the aforementioned challenges, this article proposes a Sparse Fast Transformer fusion method based on Generative Adversarial Network (SFT-GAN). …”
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Acute Dietary Nitrate Supplementation and Exercise Performance in COPD: A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Randomised Controlled Pilot Study. by Katrina J Curtis, Katie A O'Brien, Rebecca J Tanner, Juliet I Polkey, Magdalena Minnion, Martin Feelisch, Michael I Polkey, Lindsay M Edwards, Nicholas S Hopkinson

“…We investigated the hypotheses that acute nitrate dosing would improve exercise performance and reduce the oxygen cost of submaximal exercise in people with COPD.<h4>Methods</h4>We performed a double-blind, placebo-controlled, cross-over single dose study. …”
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Understanding the changes in long-distance travel behavior due to socio-economic and pandemic drivers by Farzana Faiza Farha, Sadia Afroj, Md. Musleh Uddin Hasan, Effat Farzana

“…Access to private cars was a positive determinant for long-distance trips during the pandemic; hence, the excess cost of private transportation compelled people to use risky public transportation. …”
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Treatment of the oily produced water (OPW) using coagulant mixtures by R. Hosny, M. Fathy, M. Ramzi, Th. Abdel Moghny, S.E.M. Desouky, S.A. Shama

“…Generally chitosan/CMC characterized significantly by its high ability to adsorb petroleum oil and suspended solids from OPW, additionally, reduces the economic cost of water treatment.…”
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What slows the progress of health systems strengthening at subnational level? A political economy analysis of three districts in Uganda. by Justine Namakula, Xavier Nsabagasani, Ligia Paina, Abigail Neel, Chimwemwe Msukwa, Daniela C Rodriguez, Freddie Ssengooba

“…Despite playing a crucial role in compensating for local shortfalls in resources, donor resources and engagements should not happen at the cost of the subnational voice in priority setting and decision-making.…”
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A Novel Approach of Wind Turbine Blade Root Load Monitoring Based on Bearings Vibrational Data and a New AE‐LSTM‐Attention Neural Network by Feiyun Cong, Chen Liang, Weifei Hu, Tongzhou Zhang, Feng Tang, Qihao Zhou

“…., setting the transmission ratio of the gearbox as the number of LSTM steps, by which the most cost‐effective prediction performance can be achieved. …”
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Activation of cellular immune responses using a dengue tetravalent subunit DNA vaccine candidate with different cytokines as adjuvants by Luciana de Souza Fernandes, Carine Ribeiro Pessoa, Roberto Sousa Dias, Cynthia Canedo da Silva, Sérgio Oliveira de Paula

“…DNA vaccines offer logistical and cost advantages, and cytokine adjuvants may enhance immunogenicity. …”
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Home spirometry telemonitoring in pediatric patients with asthma: a mixed study by Dingrong Fan, Ao Shen, Qianqian Wang, Lu Peng, Ruixue Xia, Hengyu Zhou

“…However, several challenges, such as cost, insurance coverage, data security, health education, and healthcare workload, need to be addressed prior to its widespread implementation. …”
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NMPC-Based Performance Evaluation of Active Balancing Networks of Li-ion Batteries for Overnight EV Charging by Muhammad Azmat Ullah, Afaq Ahmed, Ali Arshad Uppal, Qadeer Ahmed

“…For each framework, extensive simulations are conducted by varying the weights of different terms in the cost function of the NMPC problem. The simulation results demonstrate that both SC- and BB-based architectures have been able to achieve balancing, wherein the average balancing time of SC is <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$186~\%$ </tex-math></inline-formula> more than that of BB. …”
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Screening macrocyclic peptide libraries by yeast display allows control of selection process and affinity ranking by Sara Linciano, Ylenia Mazzocato, Zhanna Romanyuk, Filippo Vascon, Lluc Farrera-Soler, Edward Will, Yuyu Xing, Shiyu Chen, Yoichi Kumada, Marta Simeoni, Alessandro Scarso, Laura Cendron, Christian Heinis, Alessandro Angelini

“…The yeast display-based approach described here offers a facile, quantitative and cost-effective alternative to rapidly and efficiently discover and characterise genetically encoded macrocyclic peptide ligands with sufficiently good binding properties against therapeutically relevant targets.…”
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The antibiotic procurement saga: a long-neglected stewardship target to combat antimicrobial resistance in Pakistan by Shairyar Afzal, Mishal Bajwa, Nabeel Ahmed, Jawaria Jabeen, Mian Shahzeb Haroon, Rana Muhammad Zahid Mushtaq, Zikria Saleem

“…Results The study identified five central themes: (1) The state of antibiotic use in hospitals is characterized by a lack of antibiotic use policy, resulting in mostly empirical and irrational prescribing practices. (2) Medicine availability significantly influences prescribing decisions, often taking precedence over clinical needs. (3) The procurement process, although structured, is flawed owing to rigid adherence to the Standard Medicine List (SML). (4) Rationality in procurement is compromised by disregard for AMR, with decisions driven more by cost and demand than clinical evidence. (5) The clinical acumen of pharmacists is underutilized in procurement due to multifarious barriers. …”
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