Reinforcement Method for Transmission Corridor to Enhance Resilience Against Typhoon Disasters by Shanshan SHI, Xinchi WEI, Zijun YUAN, Haozhong CHENG, Yun SU, Heng ZHANG

“…Stage 1 aims to minimize the sum of costs such as reinforcement and load loss, considering measures like corridor reinforcement and generator output adjustment. …”
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Development of a Modular Virtual Calibration Platform for Power Machinery by Wei Cui, Hongyu Liu, He Li, Shutao Zhang, Qingxin Wang, Wenrui Cui, Feiyang Zhao, Wenbin Yu

“…The hardware-in-the-loop (HIL)-based virtual calibration technology for power machinery significantly enhances the efficiency and flexibility of electronic controller calibration, reducing dependency on physical experiments and lowering development costs. This paper presents an independently developed modular virtual calibration platform, designed based on the ISO/IEC 42010 architecture approach and the V-Model development process. …”
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Smart Fermentation Technologies: Microbial Process Control in Traditional Fermented Foods by Chong Shin Yee, Nur Asyiqin Zahia-Azizan, Muhamad Hafiz Abd Rahim, Nurul Aqilah Mohd Zaini, Raja Balqis Raja-Razali, Muhammad Ameer Ushidee-Radzi, Zul Ilham, Wan Abd Al Qadr Imad Wan-Mohtar

“…Despite significant technical advancements, challenges related to high costs, the absence of standardized frameworks, and access restrictions for small producers remain substantial limitations. …”
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Tetraalkylammonium and phosphonium salt for asphaltene dispersion; experimental studies on interaction mechanisms by Shirin Baghersaei, Babak Mokhtari, Nahid Pourreza, Bahram Soltani Soulgani

“…Asphaltenes deposition is one of the most severe problems in the petroleum industry, imposing high costs on oil producer companies. The use of chemical dispersants reduces the risk of asphaltene deposition. …”
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Diabetic foot ulcer healing with polylactic acid membrane assessed by thermographic imaging: a case report by Víctor Manuel Loza-González, Mario Aurelio Martínez-Jiménez, Ana Lorena Novoa-Moreno, José Luis Ramírez-GarcíaLuna, José Luis Ramírez-GarcíaLuna, Alejandra Ortiz-Dosal, Alejandra Ortiz-Dosal, Eleazar Samuel Kolosovas-Machuca, Eleazar Samuel Kolosovas-Machuca

“…Diabetic foot ulcers reduce patient’s quality of life and increase treatment costs, evaluating this condition is promising. We report the clinical progression of an elderly patient who developed a diabetic foot ulcer following minor trauma. …”
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A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms for Classification of Diabetes Utilizing Confusion Matrix Analysis by Maad M. Mijwil, Mohammad Aljanabi

“… Healthcare experts have been employing machine learning more and more in recent years to enhance patient outcomes and reduce costs. In addition, machine learning has been applied in various areas, including disease diagnosis, patient risk classification, customized treatment suggestions, and drug development. …”
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Support Vector Machines and Model Selection for Control Chart Pattern Recognition by Chih-Jen Su, I-Fei Chen, Tzong-Ru Tsai, Tzu-Hsuan Wang, Yuhlong Lio

“…Resource-intensiveness often occurs in modern industrial settings; meanwhile, common issues and irregular patterns in production can lead to defects and variations in work-piece dimensions, negatively impacting products and increasing costs. Utilizing traditional process control charts to monitor the process and identify potential anomalies is expensive when intensive resources are needed. …”
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EXPLORING INTRA-CITY TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM AS A CATALYST FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN CALABAR, NIGERIA by Akpanika Ekenyong NYONG, Nnana Okoi OFEM, Udeme Akaninyene UMO, Tangban Egbe EBAGU, Inyang Jenny BENJAMIN, Anthony Okon BEN, Mbaze-Ebock Vivian ARREY, Edem EBONG, Paul Odah EBIALA, Lilian Anwulika OKORO, Emmanuel Nnamdi NWOBU, Eja lwara EJA, University of Calabar, Department of Tourism Studies, Calabar, Nigeria, e-mail: ejaiwara43@gmail.com, Inuaesiet Victoria UTITOFON, Iwuchukwu Goodluck NDUBUISI

“…However, challenges such as high transportation costs and inefficient traffic management were identified. …”
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An End-to-End Particle Gradation Detection Method for Earth–Rockfill Dams from Images Using an Enhanced YOLOv8-Seg Model by Yu Tang, Shixiang Zhao, Hui Qin, Pan Ming, Tianxing Fang, Jinyuan Zeng

“…This method significantly contributes to the automation of construction workflows, cutting labor costs, minimizing structural disruption, and ensuring reliable measurement quality in earth–rockfill dam projects.…”
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Commercial cash crop production and households’ economic welfare: Evidence from the pulse farmers in rural China by Ji-liang MA, Fan LI, Hui-jie ZHANG, NAWAB Khan

“…The results showed that factors such as market purchase prices, agricultural technology services, farmers’ access to loans, and government subsidies promoted smallholders’ commercial pulse farming; production costs and perceptions of climate change risks constrained smallholders’ commercial pulse production. …”
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Concept of value-based healthcare by N. Z. Musina, V. V. Omelyanovskiy, R. V. Gostischev, O. A. Sukhorukikh, V. K. Fedyaeva, N. N. Sisigina, D. G. Shchurov

“…According to international experience, VBHC increases the quality of medical care and provides the optimization of costs. To implement VBHC model in the Russian Federation, it is necessary to ensure the informatization of the providing medical care, development, and improvement of medical quality control systems (development of the resulting criteria for medical care quality for all diseases), and introduction of the rating system for medical organizations. …”
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What Drives Profitability in the Romanian ICT Sector? by Lucian Belascu, Dan Gabriel Dumitrescu, Alexandra Smedoiu Popoviciu, Alexandra Horobet

“…At the same time, other disparities resulting from the characteristics of the business – size, personnel costs, productivity – are present. Our results show the high heterogeneity of profitability between firms in the ICT sector, but also the greater importance of the factors intrinsic to the firm compared to that of industry or location factors, which raises the question of whether this sector has incorporated into profitability the tax advantages it enjoys and how sustainable its performance will be once these advantages will diminish…”
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Accelerating discovery of next-generation power electronics materials via high-throughput ab initio screening by Jiashu Chen, Mingzhu Liu, Minghui Liu, Xinzhong Wang, Yiwen Su, Guangping Zheng

“…Nevertheless, the WBG materials have some limitations that there exists the proliferation of intrinsic defects, with prohibitively high fabrication costs. We identify next-generation PEs materials beyond SiC, GaN, and Ga2O3 based on a high-throughput computational methodology. …”
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A Digital Twin Framework for Nuclear Power Equipment Maintenance: Design, Prototyping, and Preliminary Validation [version 2; peer review: 3 approved, 3 approved with reservations] by Qingfeng Xu, Qian Huang, Fengtian Chang, Yifan Zhi, Min Zhang, Guanghui Zhou, Chao Zhang

“…Traditional time-based maintenance strategies are limited in NPE contexts due to stringent safety requirements and high costs of complex systems. Specifically, maintenance processes lack transparency, state monitoring relies heavily on manual inspections, and decisions depend passively on individual expertise. …”
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Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Skin Cancers: A Review by Anastasia Hodorogea, Andreea Calinescu, Mihaela Antohe, Mihaela Balaban, Roxana Ioana Nedelcu, Gabriela Turcu, Daniela Adriana Ion, Ioana Anca Badarau, Catalin Mihai Popescu, Raluca Popescu, Cristiana Popp, Mirela Cioplea, Luciana Nichita, Ionela Hulea, Alice Brinzea

“…More studies are required on this topic in order to establish clear correlations. High costs related to skin cancer therapies in general as well as high impact on patients’ quality of life demand finding new, reliable prognostic and therapeutic markers with significant public health impact.…”
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Care and Neurorehabilitation in the Disorder of Consciousness: A Model in Progress by Giuliano Dolce, Francesco Arcuri, Simone Carozzo, Maria Daniela Cortese, Pierpaolo Greco, Lucia Francesca Lucca, Loris Pignolo, Maria Elena Pugliese, Francesco Riganello

“…The model application has progressively shortened the time of hospitalization and reduced costs at unchanged quality of services.…”
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Meta-Synthesis of Land Value Capture (LVC) Mechanism and Its Instruments by Mahsa Fatahian, Homayoon Nooraie, Reza Nasr Esfahani

“…Traditional revenue sources are insufficient to meet the substantial costs of urban initiatives, resulting in a significant financial gap between escalating expenditures and stagnant income streams. …”
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Assessing Risk Priority Numbers of Failures in the Screw Tightening Machine of a Hard Disk Drive Production System by Naraphorn Paoprasert, Wai Yan Htet Lin, Thepniramit Muneekaew

“…In a competitive environment, many production industries must reduce costs while maintaining asset value and reliability. …”
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Design and Energy-Saving Analysis of a New LNG Vaporizer Based on Mg-Based Hydrogen Storage Metal by Wenke Yuan, Zixuan Yin, Yan Su, Zhangyu Liu, Leyi Bao, Jinyu An

“…Combined with solar energy storage devices, for a northern city in China (about 40° N), the savings in electricity costs could be about $2200 per year.…”
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A study of the applicability of a straw-fired batch boiler as a heat source for a small-scale cogeneration unit by Sornek Krzysztof, Filipowicz Mariusz

“…Straw-fired batch boilers, due to their relatively simple structure and low operating costs, are an excellent source of heat for a wide range of applications. …”
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