Automatic Navigation and Self-Driving Technology in Agricultural Machinery: A State-of-the-Art Systematic Review by Md. Sabbir Hossain, Mostafijur Rahman, Ashifur Rahman, Md. Mohsin Kabir, M. F. Mridha, Jie Huang, Jungpil Shin

“…Key applications of self-driving machinery in planting, harvesting, and field monitoring were explored, with findings showing improvements in farm productivity, reduced operational costs, and enhanced worker safety. Despite the benefits, challenges such as technological barriers, regulatory issues, and infrastructure limitations remain. …”
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Phage-displayed synthetic library and screening platform for nanobody discovery by Baolong Xia, Ah-Ram Kim, Feimei Liu, Myeonghoon Han, Emily Stoneburner, Stephanie Makdissi, Francesca Di Cara, Stephanie E Mohr, Aaron Ring, Norbert Perrimon

“…However, traditional nanobody generation methods rely on camelid immunization, which can be costly and time-consuming, restricting their practical feasibility. …”
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Evaluation of the efficiency of innovative projects by A. S. Obukhova, E. R. Shcherbachenko, L. N. Guselnikova

“…Hence the need to use technological advances in the production of goods and services, constantly improving their quality, finding new ways to reduce costs and increase competitiveness. To form approaches to determining the strategy of development and survival, organizations should always keep in mind the key issues of the strategic plan in the field of creating and developing new, unique and competitive products.…”
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Adaptive context biasing in transformer-based ASR systems by Nurmemet Yolwas, Yineng Cai, Lixu Sun, Yongchao Li, Wushouer Silamu, Qiqi Du, Ya Huang, Zhiwu Sun, Jian Peng, Yajie Wei

“…Our findings indicate that the Context Bias Adaptive Model effectively mitigates the adverse effects of contextual bias while substantially reducing computational costs.…”
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An Iterative Algorithm for the Management of an Electric Car-Rental Service by J. Alberto Conejero, Cristina Jordán, Esther Sanabria-Codesal

“…These bookings can increase the operational costs due to the necessity of moving vehicles from one depot to another by the company staff in order to attend previously accepted bookings. …”
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Research on the design and performance of drill pipe joints based on fracture mechanics methods by Jian-guo Qin, Zhuo-yi Feng, Miao Wang, Hai-xia Gong, Xiu-zhuang Mei, Hong-yan Yang

“…Abstract In actual drilling operations, fatigue failure of drill pipe joints primarily occurs at the threaded connections, significantly increasing drilling costs. Given the severe vibrations and abnormal wear experienced by drill pipes under complex working conditions, a three-dimensional finite element model of drill pipe joints was developed. …”
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Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Increasing the Digital Literacy of Personnel in the Context of Digital Transformation by V. S. Knyazkova

“…Structurally, the algorithm consists of assessing the costs of improving the digital literacy of employees, and also includes methodological approaches to assessing the integral effect of the implemented activities. …”
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Functional neurological disorder: Practical management by Barbara A. Dworetzky, Gaston Baslet

“…There is high health care utilization and costs, and many patients have a chronic course and remain disabled. …”
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Optimal energy management of microgrid based on multi-parameter dynamic programming by Xuejie Wang, Yanchao Ji, Jianze Wang, Yuanjun Wang, Lei Qi

“…In order to obtain higher economic benefits and pay less environmental costs, reasonable scheduling of various distributed power sources is able to achieve this goal. …”
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Assessing environmental and economic dynamics in the EU agri-food sector: The impact of imports through a BVAR analysis by Eleni Zafeiriou, Spyridon Galatsidas, Georgios Tsantopoulos, Spyridon Sofios, Siakou Evangelia, Garyfallos Arabatzis

“…Despite progress in sustainable practices, economic expansion has fallen short of offsetting environmental costs, with imports playing a critical role. The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) under the EU Green Deal highlights the need to address trade-related emissions. …”
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GENETICS FOR DIAGNOSTICS IN PREVENTIVE MEDICINE by I. V. Sidonets, A. N. Meshkov

“…The sequencing of first human genome followed by rapid development of technologies, that led to significant lowering of costs for genetic analyze and its fast performing, made possible a broad invention of genetic diagnostics methods into clinical practice. …”
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Testicular Interposition Flap for Repair of Perineal Urinary Fistulae: A Novel Surgical Technique by Valary T. Raup, Jairam R. Eswara, Stephen D. Marshall, Steven B. Brandes

“…Additionally, mobilizing one of the testicles and developing it through the external inguinal ring may be a less morbid and less costly procedure than harvesting and tunneling a muscle flap. …”
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Technological modernisation of the Russian agro-industrial complex by Astanakulov Komil, Tatarintsev Vladimir L., Nuriddinov Jasurbek, Mukumova Feruza, Allaberdiyeva Kumri, Suyunova Zamira

“…This leads to lower labour productivity, higher production costs and, as a consequence, low competitiveness. …”
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Efficient inner product arguments with sublogarithmic proof and sub-square-root verifier by Zibo Zhou, Zongyang Zhang, Jianwei Liu, Haifeng Qian

“…We then modify the commitment keys in inner product arguments to be structured and reduce the verifier complexity by delegating the costly computations to the prover. Compared with the state-of-the-art inner product arguments, our protocol is highly competitive in terms of asymptotic complexity.…”
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PARAMETRIC DISTRIBUTION FAMILIES USEFUL FOR MODELLING NON - LIFE INSURANCE PAYMENTS DATA. TAIL BEHAVIOUR by Sandra Teodorescu

“…The present paper describes a series of parametric distributions used for modeling non-life insurance payments data.Of those listed, special attention is paid to the transformed Beta distribution family.This distribution as well as those which are obtained from it(special cases of four-parameter transformed Beta distribution) are used in the modeling of high costs, or even extreme ones.In the literature it follows the tail behaviour of distributions depending on the parameters, because the insurance payments data are tipically highly positively skewed and distributed with large upper tails.In the paper is described the tail behavior of the distribution in the left and right side respectively, and deduced from it, a general case.There are also some graphs of probability density function for one of the transformed Beta family members, which comes to reinforce the comments made.…”
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Patents and economic development in South Africa: Managing intellectual property rights by Anthipi Pouris, Anastassios Pouris

“…We found that the current intellectual property rights regime not only fails to support the objectives of the national innovation system but also that it facilitates exploitation by foreign interests and creates substantial social costs. Policy recommendations are provided.…”
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The transition from thermal to membrane-based seawater desalination—industry insights article by Hussain A Al Nasser, Fatma Al-Radhi, Ali A Al-Hamzah, Christopher M Fellows

“…While energy consumption is clearly the dominant factor in assessing the environmental impact of desalination technologies, there are other factors involved in the transition from thermal-based to membrane-based desalination that need to be considered in assessing the full environmental costs. These include the impact of product water containing higher total dissolved solids on transmission systems and on the suitable use cases for desalinated water, the large quantity of composite polymer waste generated by membrane desalination, and the higher brine concentrations discharged into marine environments. …”
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Decarbonizing Pakistan’s Cement Sector: The Role of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Technologies by Ubaid Zia, Saleha Qureshi, Hina Aslam, Muhammad Zulfiqar

“…CCS presents several challenges, including high costs and energy requirements, as well as advanced monitoring requirements. …”
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Why Legal Transplants instead of More Adaptation within the Process of Legal Approximation in the Central-Eastern European Member States of the EU and the Candidate Countries? by Mónika Józon

“…It questions, whether could have been feasible other alternative strategic solutions both for the EU and the candidates for achieving a less costly and more effective functional compatibility between the conditionalities of the candidates and the integration mechanisms of the EU? …”
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Orthodontic treatment finishing with minimally invasive resin composite veneers. by Rafael Massunari Maenosono, Carla Muller Ramos, Letícia Ferreira de Freitas Brianezzi, Denise Ferracioli Oda, Rafael Francisco Lia Mondelli, Sérgio Kiyoshi Ishikiriama

“…Resin composite veneers are still an excellent alternative for esthetical reanatomization of anterior teeth, being capable to generate optimized results with low costs and time.…”
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