Peer review of health research funding proposals: A systematic map and systematic review of innovations for effectiveness and efficiency. by Jonathan Shepherd, Geoff K Frampton, Karen Pickett, Jeremy C Wyatt

“…Virtual peer review using videoconferencing or teleconferencing appears promising for reducing costs by avoiding the need for reviewers to travel, but again any consequences for quality have not been adequately assessed.…”
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Leveraging information technology for effective inventory management in Singapore’s supply chain industry by Keai Lim, Chen Sheng Chang, Jie Hui, Goh

“…IT can help inventory managers to optimize inventory levels, reduce costs, improve customer service and enhance operational performance. …”
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INCREASING CENTRIFUGAL PUMP PERFORMANCE by S. V. Mikhaylova, I. A. Pogrebnaya

“…In a comparative analysis of the characteristics of pumps with a daily flow of 400 m3, the use of an energyefficient installation ESP 400–2200 with FEA provides three times lower energy costs. A comparative analysis of the energy efficiency of the presented pumps shows that the use of energy-efficient installations of electric centrifugal pumps produced by PC Borets LLC will reduce energy costs by an average of 30%.…”
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AVIONICS TECHNICAL OPERATION SYSTEM AND SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR ITS FORMATION by S. V. Kuznetsov

“…Thus, mathematical modeling of ATOS should significantly reduce the costs of the system's formation, since it allows us to introduce certain adjustments in the early stages of its operation on the basis of available and constantly updated information.…”
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A Potential Integrated Water Quality Strategy for the Mississippi River Basin and the Gulf of Mexico by Suzie Greenhalgh, Paul Faeth

“…The model incorporates a number of environmental factors, making it possible to get a more a complete picture of the costs and co-benefits of nutrient reduction. These elements also help to identify the policy options that minimize the costs to farmers and maximize benefits to society.…”
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Off-budget revenues and debt limit in municipalities in the Wielkopolska by Anna Białek-Jaworska, Robert Jaworski, Artur Wachowiak

“…Furthermore, the structure and size of budgeted activity are linked to municipal activities’ relative opportunity costs. It is because increasing municipal fees generates lower political costs than raising taxes or local fees. …”
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Construcción y empleo de los diagramas C-Q. Una vía para minimizar los costos de operación y mantenimiento de los sistemas de bombeo de pozos profundos. by R. Morales, C. Batista-Rodríguez

“…In that way one can avoid premature faults in pumps and minimize the operation and maintenance costs of the pumping system…”
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Examining the effect of full-mission simulation training on the safety and education in the maritime sector by Ashraf Mohamed Elsayed, Hany Sobhy Ibrahim

“…This is anticipated to improve the quality of the training, cut down the training costs and increase the capability of developing different scenarios. …”
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Evaluation of innovative susceptibility of economic subjects in the economy of Kazakhstan by D. N. Ulybyshev, Y. S. Petrenko, E. B. Zhailauov, N. D. Kenzhebekov, A. L. Shevyakova

“…Based on groups of capacity indicators (number of organizations performing R&D, number of employees engaged in R&D, internal R&D costs, issued security documents on industrial property, costs of product and process innovations) and performance (innovation activity, number of organizations that have created and use new technologies and facilities, number of such technologies and facilities, volume of innovative products sold) authors calculate specific indicators relative to the number of employed, the volume of GDP and the number of active legal entities. …”
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Generalized Hierarchical Co-Saliency Learning for Label-Efficient Tracking by Jie Zhao, Ying Gao, Chunjuan Bo, Dong Wang

“…To make a trade-off between the annotating costs and the tracking performance, we propose a weakly supervised tracking method based on co-saliency learning, which can be flexibly integrated into various tracking frameworks to reduce annotation costs and further enhance the target representation in current search images. …”
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ANALYSIS OF TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN THE WEST SURABAYA REGION (CASE STUDY: KALIANAK ROAD TO ROMOKALISARI HIGHWAY) by Eka Safitri, Kurnia Hadi Putra, Theresia Maria Chandra Agusdini

“…Keywords: Traffic Accident; Amount of Casualty Costs Accident; Z-Score; Kalianak Road; Tambak Langon – Osowilangun; Romokalisari Highway.…”
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The Energy-Saving Control Criterion for Impact Crushing Machines by Chausov S., Sabo A., Popova I., Budko V.

“…This creates the prerequisites both for using specific electrical energy costs as a control criterion and for the use a controlled electric drive to achieve maximum energy savings. …”
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An Investigation of Extended-Dimension Embedded CKF-SLAM Based on the Akaike Information Criterion by Hanghang Xu, Yijin Chen, Wenhui Song, Lianchao Wang

“…Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) faces significant challenges due to high computational costs, low accuracy, and instability, which are particularly problematic because SLAM systems often operate in real-time environments where timely and precise state estimation is crucial. …”
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Use of Smart Glasses for Boosting Warehouse Efficiency: Implications for Change Management by Markus Epe, Muhammad Azmat, Dewan Md Zahurul Islam, Rameez Khalid

“…<i>Background:</i> Warehousing operations, crucial to logistics and supply chain management, often seek innovative technologies to boost efficiency and reduce costs. For instance, AR devices have shown the potential to significantly reduce operational costs by up to 20% in similar industries. …”
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Plazless method of design preparation for the production of general aviation aircraft by Iurii Vorobiov, Andriy Humennyi, Oleksiy Bogach

“…This article aims to develop design solutions for a light cheap aircraft with low flight and ground costs, to substantiate the possibility and necessity of using modern CAD systems and new plazless methods to ensure the interchangeability of light aircraft components to reduce design and production costs. …”
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Integrating large language model-based agents into a virtual patient chatbot for clinical anamnesis training by Nicolas Laverde, Christian Grévisse, Sandra Jaramillo, Ruben Manrique

“…Despite its emphasis in medical curricula, traditional training methods, such as role-playing with standardized patients, remain costly, logistically complex, and fail to replicate real-life scenarios. …”
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Investment feasibility and optimization strategies of RFID technology in logistics field by Jianghan Han, Haotian Ai, Ruifeng Li, Xudong Deng, Yiyang Wu, Jian Wang, Zhijun Wei

“…The path optimization scheme improved delivery efficiency by 23.5% and reduced transportation costs by 18.2% by reducing ineffective travel distance. …”
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Features of assessing the investment attractiveness of high-tech projects by I. A. Mandych, A. V. Bykova, O. B. Gaiman

“…Models which take into account cash flows after the expiration of the payback period were also considered (by means of the nonlinear programming of calculation of the discounted payback period of investment costs and the modernized discounted payback period of investment costs). …”
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Museums and Development of Communities in Rukiga District: A Case Study of Great Lakes Museum. by Tumuheirwe, Judith

“…The government should reduce internet costs to help museums promote their exhibitions internally using technology. …”
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STATE AND DIRECTIONS OF INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY IN RUSSIA by E. A. Tretyakova

“…It is shown that the current condition is characterized by insufficient innovative activity of economy subjects and reduction of costs return of innovations; the main reasons for the situation are listed; the necessity to stimulate the demand for innovations is stated; the main conditions of innovative development of the Russian industrial enterprises are highlighted.…”
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