Construction and Optical Testing of Inflatable Membrane Mirror Using Structured Light Technique by Felipe Patiño-Jiménez, Yuri Nahmad-Molinari, Víctor Iván Moreno-Oliva, Fátima De Los Santos-García, Agustin Santiago-Alvarado

“…Concentration ratio achieved for a focal length of 5068 mm was of 25.1 suns, making a promising approach for lowering initial investment costs in applications such as hot-water, parabolic dish with Stirling engines, or concentrated photovoltaic electricity generation.…”
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Coevolutionary history of predation constrains the evolvability of antibiotic resistance in prey bacteria by Saheli Saha, Sneha Sureshkumar, Vaibhav Sharma, Samay Pande

“…Moreover, lower degree of resistance in the evolved strains also incurs reduced fitness costs while preserving their ancestral ability to resist predation. …”
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IMITATING NEUTRON IRRADIATION DAMAGE USING A COMBINATION OF ION BEAMS by Václav Šísl, Martin Ševeček

“…There is a strong motivation for using ion beams to imitate neutron irradiation damage, mainly in order to reduce costs and time demands linked to neutron irradiation experiments. …”
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Innovative System for Animal Waste Utilization Using Closed-Loop Material and Energy Cycles and Bioenergy: A Case Study by Zygmunt Kowalski, Agnieszka Makara

“…It estimates the integrated system’s investment costs and economic and environmental outcomes. The presented method allows for biogas production from the bio-fermentation of 160,000 t/y of animal waste; this would more than cover the heat requirements for obtaining 110,000 t/y of meat and bone meal using the hydrothermal method.…”
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Ribosome and transcript copy numbers, polysome occupancy and enzyme dynamics in Arabidopsis by Maria Piques, Waltraud X Schulze, Melanie Höhne, Björn Usadel, Yves Gibon, Johann Rohwer, Mark Stitt

“…Global translation rates are used to estimate the energy costs of protein synthesis and relate them to the plant carbon budget, in particular the rates of starch degradation and respiration at night.…”
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Survey on Anti-Drone Systems: Components, Designs, and Challenges by Seongjoon Park, Hyeong Tae Kim, Sangmin Lee, Hyeontae Joo, Hwangnam Kim

“…However, it is unaffordable to construct a military grade anti-drone system for every private or public facility due to installation and operation costs, and regulatory restrictions. We focus on analyzing anti-drone system that does not use military weapons, investigating a wide range of anti-drone technologies, and deriving proper system models for reliable drone defense. …”
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Design and Simulation of an Optimized Reliable Microgrid System for Kabale University Using Solar and Battery Storage. by Aturinde, Alban

“…The project highlights the potential of microgrids to enhance energy security, reduce costs, and promote environmental sustainability in educational institutions and similar settings facing energy challenges.…”
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Water Stress Promotes Secondary Sexual Dimorphism in Ecophysiological Traits of Papaya Seedlings by Ingrid Trancoso, Guilherme A. R. de Souza, João Vitor Paravidini de Souza, Rosana Maria dos Santos Nani de Miranda, Diesily de Andrade Neves, Miroslava Rakocevic, Eliemar Campostrini

“…Plant genders could express different functional strategies to compensate for different reproductive costs, as females have an additional role in fruit and seed production. …”
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Am I attached? A patient-partnered approach to creating infographics about attachment to primary care in Ontario, Canada by Maggie MacNeil, Aya Tagami, Peter Sheffield, Vivian R. Ramsden, Joan Barker, Jennifer Boyle, Clare Cruickshank, Eliot Frymire, Richard H. Glazier, Anita Gombos Hill, Michael E. Green, Mary Huang, Marijke Jurriaans, Caron Leid, Melissa McCallum, Sarah Precious, Jo-Ann Stans, Julie Vizza, Murray Walz, Sue Wilkins, Rebecca Ganann

“…Abstract Background Having a primary care provider is associated with better care experiences and lower care costs. In 2021, INSPIRE-PHC released Primary Care Data Reports - publicly available summaries of administrative billing data about how populations in each of Ontario’s 60 health teams use primary care services. …”
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We Need to Talk About Quality of Life with Cancer Patients: Primum Non Nocere in Oncology by Vlad Bogin

“…By integrating geriatric and palliative assessments, improving shared decision making, and moving away from a default treatment-at-all-costs mindset, clinicians can better align care with what truly matters to patients. …”
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Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Associated Uveitis. Current Status: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, and Clinical Issues by Alexandr A. Yakovlev, Tatiana N. Nikitina, Mikhail M. Kostik

“…This pathology reduces patients’ quality of life and can lead to significant social and economic losses, both due to direct health costs and due to disability (total loss of sight). …”
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Performance Analysis of WSS-Based ROADM With Shared-Per-Group Tunable Wavelength Converters by Li Zhao, Liping Zhang

“…Thus, the proposed SPG architecture may produce better blocking performance than the conventional shared-per-link, shared-per-wavelength architectures consuming lower costs. Meanwhile, analytical model is proposed to evaluate the SPG blocking probability by means of the self-constrained iteration method. …”
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Development of Criteria for the Effectiveness of Implementation of Value- Based Approach Using the Concept of Quality of Life by E. V. Smirnova

“…In order to optimally balance subjective and objective characteristics of effectiveness, it is crucial to incorporate the indicators of patient's quality of life and health—as one of the most important components—and the indicators of volume of financial costs to achieve good health, that fully reflect the outcomes of value-based healthcare measures.Purpose. …”
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Typhoid fever in sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges of diagnosis and management of infections by Samuel Kariuki

“…Typhi strains having multiple resistance to nearly all commonly available drugs in most developing countries has been a major challenge to health care systems, reducing the effective treatment options for the disease, increasing treatment costs and increasing the risk of complications and death. …”
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Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Traditional Accounting - An Overview of Opportunities and Challenges by Tang Xiaogeng

“…These innovations enable businesses to reduce operational costs and help more educated and appropriate decision-making. …”
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THE FINANCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF FAMILY MEMBERS BEFORE MOVING TO A NURSING HOME by Yonatan Elgabsy

“…Employers also face significant costs due to absenteeism, reduced productivity, and workforce attrition. …”
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Economic Perspective in the Production of Copper Nanowire using Amino Acids as Capping Agent by Puspa Sari Dewi, Asep BayuDani Nandiyanto

“…Furthermore, the evaluation is done by estimating the ideal situation and several other state assumptions such as changes in raw material prices, labor costs, and also income tax. From the results of this study, Glycine is known as the most profitable amino acid to be used in this process. …”
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OpenEdgeComputeFramework. A Framework for Seamless Edge-Cloud Computing by Andrei-Robert CAZACU

“…One such solution is edge-computing, first making its appearance in the 1990s when Akamai launched its content delivery network [1], moving the content source closer to the user to minimize latency and transmission costs. Today, this concept evolved into a computing paradigm [2], which supports deploying applications on nearby devices with near zero down-time. …”
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The influence of sample preparation quality on the results of spectral analysis by M. V. Lagoyskaya

“…These include additional cash costs for the purchase of adapters, the need for additional standardization procedures, the availability of special reference samples. …”
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Sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures and their implications for international agricultural trade: challenges and opportunities; comprehensive review by Gezani Piet Mabunda, Ndivho Nemukondeni, Letlhogonolo Selaledi

“…However, compliance with the rules imposes excessive costs on exporters and importers and limits market access. …”
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