Quality of Life in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Pantelis Panopalis, Ann E. Clarke

“…As such, a comprehensive assessment of SLE should include several different outcomes, such as quality of life (QoL) and economic costs, in addition to measures of disease activity and damage. …”
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Pharmacometrics: A New Era of Pharmacotherapy and Drug Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries by Muhammad Usman, Sitaram Khadka, Mohammad Saleem, Huma Rasheed, Bimal Kunwar, Moshin Ali

“…The process of drug development is time-consuming, costly, and is also associated with loads of hurdles related to the safety concerns of the compounds. …”
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Bluetooth-sensed social presence is associated with immediate vigor and delayed fatigue: A multi-method time series analysis by David Willinger, Stefan Stieger

“…These results demonstrate how social-emotional processes unfold across multiple timescales, suggesting both immediate benefits and delayed costs of social presence.…”
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Generalization challenges in video deepfake detection: methods, obstacles, and technological advances by LI Junjie, WANG Jianzong, ZHANG Xulong, QU Xiaoyang

“…However, its widespread use and decreasing costs pose serious threats to personal privacy and social trust. …”
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Panacea or Pandora’s box: diverse governance strategies for conspiracy theories and their consequences in China by Ming Ma, Feng Han, Chuyao Wang

“…Based on social network analysis, topic modeling, and qualitative analysis of 46,387 Weibo posts from 3 cases, we argue that the Chinese government’s manipulation of CTs is multifaceted and carries significant audience costs. Our findings indicate that state-led CTs can indeed mobilize public opinion, but they also risk expanding beyond state control, which can lead to unintended consequences that may undermine state interests and limit policy flexibility. …”
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Twenty-First Century Skills in Finance: Prospects for a Profound Job Transformation by Alina Lavrynenko, Natalia Shmatko

“…In the next few years, automated systems will take full responsibility for data collection and its initial analysis, though they will not replace bank personnel fully given that they simply remain tools that help boost workers’ productivity and efficiency, extend the information base, accelerate decision-making, cut costs, and reduce risks. …”
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Enabling Technologies in Citrus Farming: A Living Lab Approach to Agroecology and Sustainable Water Resource Management by Giuseppe Timpanaro, Giulio Cascone, Vera Teresa Foti

“…Findings reveal that enabling technologies reduce water consumption by 33%, increase yield per hectare by 16%, and boost net profit by 25% (+€2,780/ha), enhancing resource efficiency and lowering operational costs. Additionally, the Living Lab facilitated knowledge transfer, fostered collaboration, and mitigated resistance to innovation, highlighting the need for targeted training and institutional support to promote broader adoption. …”
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MXenes: Properties, Applications, and Potential in 3D Printing by Donato Luca Palladino, Francesco Baino

“…Future research directions are also highlighted that aim to enhance scalability, reduce costs, and explore new composite formulations to optimize the performance of MXenes across various applications.…”
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Challenges facing the implementation of quality control by radiographers in Tanzania by Wilson Maliyatabu Ngoye, Jenny Motto, Wilbroad Edward Muhogora

“…Quality control (QC) programme is vital for quality radiological services at low radiation dose and costs. However, the QC implementation by radiographers in Tanzania is inadequate. …”
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Design of linear and cyclic peptide binders from protein sequence information by Qiuzhen Li, Efstathios Nikolaos Vlachos, Patrick Bryant

“…While most efforts focus on large, stable proteins, shorter peptides offer advantages such as lower manufacturing costs, reduced steric hindrance, and improved cell permeability when cyclised. …”
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Housing price and credit environment: evidence from China by Yunjue Huang, Dezhu Ye

“…By tracing how asset-driven housing booms may undermine social ethics and creditworthiness, this research contributes to broader debates on the unintended institutional costs and social consequences of real estate expansion in emerging markets.…”
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The Lean Advantage: Transforming E-Commerce Warehouse Operations for Competitive Success by Mohammad Anwar Rahman, E. Daniel Kirby

“…These efforts resulted in a 23% reduction in total lead time, doubled value-added time, and significant improvements in inspection, picking, packing, and automation, reducing delays, lowering costs, and enhancing workflow. The study fills a gap in the literature by integrating multiple Lean tools and utilizing the Critical to Quality (CTQ) matrix to ensure sustainable improvements in e-commerce warehousing, emphasizing the strategic value of Lean Six Sigma in creating efficient, customer-focused operations.…”
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Blended finance to the rescue? Subsidies, vaccine bonds and matching funds in global health by Felix Stein, Desmond McNeill

“…On a practical level, it shows that these three blended finance instruments tend to be expensive and of questionable effectiveness. Their high costs favour large corporate actors, private investors and middlemen, while their benefits for potential beneficiaries in low- and middle-income countries and for public donors remain unclear. …”
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Mergers in the Logistics Industry: A Case Study of JD Logistics’ Acquisition of Deppon Express Using SWOT and CAR Analysis by Dai Shengqing, Wang Lifeng, Wang Muhan

“…However, challenges such as cultural differences, high integration costs, and short-term profitability pressures emerged, while weaknesses in air transportation limited international expansion. …”
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Induction Machine Bearing Fault Detection Using Empirical Wavelet Transform by Ricardo Lopez-Gutierrez, Jose de Jesus Rangel-Magdaleno, Carlos Javier Morales-Perez, Arturo García-Perez

“…The detection of faults related to the optimal condition of induction motors is an important task to avoid the malfunction or loss of the motor, thus avoiding high repair or replacement costs and faults in the efficiency of the process to which they belong. …”
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Analysis of Potential Energy Transition Schemes in Hungary: From Natural Gas to Electricity by Tibor Gulyás, László Palkovics, Csaba Gondola

“…Goals include net-zero emissions, reduced foreign dependency, and manageable energy costs, with targets to reduce gas consumption to 4×109 m3 (1.5 ×109 m3) and ensure over 50 % of the energy mix is carbon-neutral electricity. …”
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Deferred Discounts in Financial Exchange Contracts–A Foundational Legal Study by Omar Abdullah Alshehabi

“…It typologizes the various forms of these discounts based on their contractual conditions and examines whether the discount constitutes a form of compensation (such as subscription fees exceeding mere administrative costs) or whether it is subject to conditions that do not entail direct compensation for the same discount. …”
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Participatory Landslide Inventory (PLI): An Online Tool for the Development of a Landslide Inventory by E. N. C. Perera, A.M.C.T. Gunaratne, S.B.D. Samarasinghe

“…However, the development of a national landslide inventory is time-consuming and costly. Accordingly, most developing countries, including Sri Lanka, have basic landslide databases, which identify the location, date, and time of occurrence on a point map. …”
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Sustainable Bonds in Indonesia: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Prospects by Fatwasari Soeratno Putri, Y. Anni Aryani, Doddy Setiawan

“…The study identifies key drivers of  sustainable bonds such as investor awareness, regulatory advancements, green marketing, and challenges like high capital costs, greenwashing risks, and regulatory inconsistencies. …”
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Regulatory obstacles to distance learning technology for the promotion of equality in higher education by Rodrigo Maciel Cabral, Daniel Castanha de Freitas

“…Because of that, there is a massification of education due the economic interest of private institutions that choose to invest in this new type of education, also considering that they will benefit from lowering costs. The expansion of distance learning comes up against the lack of universalization of the technology itself, considering that the inequality of positions is evident when it comes to the access to technologies that are required for attending distance learning. …”
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