Customer Attrition Detection Using the LGBM Model by Huang Jie

“…In internet service industries, such as competitive industries, it costs more to attract new consumers to become customers of the company than saving the consumers who already are customers. …”
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Activated Lignin for Biodiesel Formation by Amanda Tanner, Melanie Beazley, Michael Hampton

“…Current biodiesel production is costly, in part due to the catalysts added during transesterification and later washed out. …”
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Transformation of Social and Labour Relations in Russia in Digitalization Times by G. L. Podvoysky

“…On the one hand, digitalization fosters a growth in organization efficiency at the expense of cutting transaction costs and optimization of labour processes. At the same time it can lead to serious risks in the sphere of eroding worker’s social capital by reducing intensity of interaction with colleagues, drop in work team cohesion and violations of work-rest balance. …”
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Optimizing Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem considering the Reliability Function by Saeideh Naderi, Mohsen Vaez-Ghasemi, Farzad Movahedi Sobhani

“…Using the provided mathematical model, this research leads to decreasing time and lags, decreasing costs, and increasing reliability in multimode activities.…”
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The Role of Public Institutions for Innovation Support in Brazil by Cláudia Brito Silva Cirani, Carlos Mamori Kono, André Moraes dos Santos, Adalberto Ramos Cassia

“…T he results showed that the investigated companies are interested in using the instruments; however, they face diffic ulties for their adoption, due to excessive bureaucracy, high costs of innovation, and legal i nsecurity.…”
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Interest Rate Liberalization and Firm Leverage in China: Effects and Channels by Caiyun Chen, Xuefei Peng, Liufang Yu

“…Mechanism analysis shows that firms with high information asymmetry enjoy more decline in leverage relative to firms with low information asymmetry, and further, liberalization policy enables the reduction in credit transaction costs, which indicates that the behavior of banks actively collecting corporate information is an important channel that interest rate liberalization impacts firm leverage. …”
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Factors related to adherence to treatment for systemic hypertension by Silvana Maria Coelho Leite Fava, Eliana Cavalari Teraoka, Amanda dos Santos Oliveira, Amanda Aparecida Teixeira Ferreira Calixto, Letícia Palota Eid, Eugênia Velludo Veiga

“…The following were identified as factors related to adherence to treatment: treatment costs, educational activities, sex, physician-patient relationship, physiological and behavioral aspects, drug therapy, attending checkups and lifestyle. …”
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Study on the Physicochemical Properties of Chitosan and their Applications in the Biomedical Sector by Digafe Alemu, Efrata Getachew, Ajoy Kanti Mondal

“…However, it has its drawbacks, such as the raw material source being seasonal and localized, the extraction procedure being time-consuming, costly, and involving the use of harsh chemicals in substantial amounts, and the quality of chitosan obtained from marine sources being variable. …”
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Research on traction load forecasting of electrified railway by LIU Fu, LIAO Qishu

“…In order to ensure the power quality of traction power supply system and reduce the costs for purchasing electricity by traction substation, a probabilistic forecasting model of traction load based on sparse Gaussian process (SGP) is proposed. …”
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Optimizing wind-PV-battery microgrids for sustainable and resilient residential communities by Jyotismita Mishra, Ajay Shankar

“…The method aims to minimize renewable energy costs by determining the optimal sizing of components based on a given microgrid load profile. …”
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Application of CRISPR/Cas gene editing for infectious disease control in poultry by Gallala Mahdi

“…Traditional disease control measures are costly and not always effective, prompting the need for complementary methods. …”
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Research on Social Governance of Network Public Opinion: An Evolutionary Game Model by Zeguo Qiu, Xiuang Yuan, Yuchen Yin

“…Finally, this article proposes that the government should build a social governance system for network public opinion, which will effectively reduce governance costs and improve governance efficiency.…”
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LEAN-TECHNOLOGIES AS A RESOURCE OF EDUCATION MODERNIZATION by A. R. Groshev, G. E. Karataeva

“…The comparative analysis of costs per student has confirmed the effectiveness of outsourcing. …”
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Optimized Green Unrelated Parallel Machine Scheduling Problem Subject to Preventive Maintenance by Najat Almasarwah

“…However, optimizing the number of products returned early in the UPMSP with preventive maintenance reduces costs as a step to support the concept of sustainability and enhance efficiency.…”
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THE DILEMMA OF DEMAND SIDE POLICIES VERSUS SUPPLY SIDE POLICIES FOR RELAUNCHING CAPITALIST ECONOMIES by PETRE PRISECARU

“…In the financial sector there was not enough regulation and supervision of corporate governance while in goods industry the pressure of over-regulation led to higher factor costs and supply contraction. The direct result of supply side policies and particularly of monetarist instruments is seen now clearly in the USA: large deficits, huge debts, reduced savings, heavy dependence on foreign money (capital) and resources, relatively low domestic output and supply.…”
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CLASSIFICATION OF RISKS IN AGRICULTURAL INSURANCE by Lilian MARIN

“…With a proper research of these indicators, the sectoral structures of agro-ecosystems can predict for income or prevent the growth of zonal costs in social production. The optimal periods for obtaining high and stable yields of the studied culture connected with the physical factors of nature are determined. …”
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The economic implications of the enteric disease complex and its control by the utilization of pleuromutillins in swine by Veturia Ileana Nueleanu, Boc M., Anca Mărculescu, Cernea M.

“…That results in low production values, in correlation with low costs of production and decreased profitability. …”
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Considering Materials Management in Construction: An Exploratory Study by Zakaria Dakhli, Zoubeir Lafhaj

“…While materials count for a considerable amount of construction costs, the way materials are managed seems to be improvised rather than approached methodically. …”
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Start Now to Design Citrus Groves for Mechanical Harvesting by Bob Rouse, Steve Futch

“…It is a general consensus among industry leaders that efficiencies in harvesting offer the greatest potential to reduce costs and keep our juice industry economically viable. …”
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Enhancing Torrefaction Process Modeling with Data Augmentation: a Study on Agri-food Residues by Bartolomeo Cosenza, Michele Miccio, Ahmad Adeed Arshad

“…This approach offers several benefits: it enables accurate modeling with limited experimental data, reduces the need for extensive experimental work, lowers costs, and improves process optimization capabilities, presently in torrefaction processing and, more in general, in resource utilization and waste management.…”
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