Microclonal propagation of elite industrial grape cultivars (<i>Vitis vinifera</i> L.) by A. Yu. Fizikova

“…The use of the microclonal propagation protocol developed in this study for industrial grape cultivars will reduce labor costs and shorten the time required to obtain a plant ready for adaptation to open ground two to three times.…”
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Antimalarial Efficacy and Toxicological Assessment of Extracts of Some Ghanaian Medicinal Plants by Michael Konney Laryea, Lawrence Sheringham Borquaye

“…The economic costs associated with morbidity and mortality due to malaria and malaria associated complications in many sub-Saharan countries and other malaria endemic regions of the world are huge. …”
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Cell-level deep learning as proxy model for reservoir simulation and production forecasting by Rafael M. Magalhães, Thiago J. Machado, Moisés D. Santos, Gustavo P. Oliveira

“…Abstract Optimizing strategies in the Oil and Gas Industry, particularly within reservoir engineering and management, remains a significant challenge due to the prohibitive computational time costs and high resource demands of current simulation methods, even for medium-sized reservoirs. …”
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Research on Order Allocation Strategies for Ride-Hailing Platforms Considering Passenger Order Cancellations During Order Overflow by Yan Xia, Wuyong Qian, Chunyi Ji

“…Meanwhile, a considerable number of orders are canceled by passengers after being accepted, leading to a waste of platform capacity, reduced order dispatch efficiency, and additional empty-running costs for drivers. This issue is particularly prominent during peak hours with order overflow. …”
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Feature-Separated Lightweight Model for Road Extraction in Wild Environments by Che Shi, Yuefeng Cen, Gang Cen

“…Existing methods often suffer from high computational costs and limited accuracy. To address these issues, we propose a lightweight road extraction model based on an encoder-decoder architecture, employing CSPDarknet53 as the backbone to reduce redundant computations. …”
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Optimization of Hydraulic Machinery Bladings by Multilevel CFD Techniques by Thum Susanne, Schilling Rudolf

“…<p>The numerical design optimization for complex hydraulic machinery bladings requires a high number of design parameters and the use of a precise CFD solver yielding high computational costs. To reduce the CPU time needed, a multilevel CFD method has been developed. …”
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Data Augmentation With Flickering Backgrounds and Instances for Instance Segmentation by Kisu Lee, Jungeun Kim, Ha Young Kim

“…Data augmentation (DA) tailored to instances is vital for instance segmentation to improve model robustness and accuracy without high manual annotation costs. Existing erasing methods risk losing information about instances, whereas instance-level methods necessitate additional overhead, such as an object bank and context calculations to decide locations to attach objects to an image. …”
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Modeling IoT Smart Home Network by U. A. Vishnyakou, Yu. Chuyue

“…The use of Alibaba cloud platform, which reduces complexity and development time, reduces costs, was justified in the project of building the IoT SH network. …”
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Large Language Models for Automated Characterization of Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities using N-Shot Learning by Ayesha Dina, Elijah Needham, Denis Ulybyshev

“…Manual characterization of vulnerabilities is both time-consuming and costly. While many researchers employ Machine Learning (ML)-based methods to predict characterizations, these methods heavily rely on large amounts of labeled training data. …”
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A Theoretical Model for a Spray-type Ionic Solutions Dehumidifier Driven by Industrial Waste Heat by Liang Jyun-De, Hung Cheng-Kai

“…This feature helps avoid the overestimation of the solution mass flow rate, which could lead to additional system costs and increased pump energy consumption.…”
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Topic modeling-based prediction of software defects and root cause using BERTopic, and multioutput classifier by Devi Priya Gottumukkala, Prasad Reddy P.V.G.D, S. Krishna Rao

“…Abstract The occurrence of software defects remains a major obstacle in software engineering, resulting in costly debugging and maintenance efforts. This study introduces a new angle for software defect prediction (SDP), utilizing advanced natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) techniques. …”
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Review of Carbonation Resistance in Hydrated Cement Based Materials by Joseph Mwiti Marangu, Joseph Karanja Thiong’o, Jackson Muthengia Wachira

“…Blended cements are preferred to Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) in construction industry due to costs and technological and environmental benefits associated with them. …”
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Prediction of porosity, hardness and surface roughness in additive manufactured AlSi10Mg samples. by Fatma Alamri, Imad Barsoum, Shrinivas Bojanampati, Maher Maalouf

“…The results presented in this study provide significant advantages for additive manufacturing, potentially reducing experimentation costs by identifying the process parameters that optimize the quality of the fabricated parts.…”
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El fenómeno del comercio informal como factor de impacto en los comerciantes formales by Wilder Quintero-Quintero, Ligia Fernanda Lemus-Jiménez, José Gregorio Arévalo-Ascanio, Mauricio Enrique Sotelo Barrios

“…Furthermore, they were found to be 70% affected by informal activities that offer products at lower prices because they do not cover taxes, rent, utilities, and administration costs. Finally, it was concluded that informal commerce affects the income levels of formal merchants because they attract customers with lower prices and cause visual and auditory disturbances and garbage pollution.…”
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Radiotherapy services in Brazil: current scenario, challenges, and proposals for solutions by Raquel Guimarães Domingos da Silva, Claudia Affonso Silva Araujo

“…Two topics were related to costs (resources, funding models, and financial stability), one to policy environment (political instability), and one to poverty levels and planning distribution of technology. …”
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REVIEW OF APPROACHES TO IMMUNOTHERAPY IN ONCOLOGY by I. L. Tsarev, A. V. Melerzanov

“…This approach will significantly reduce costs and save precious time for the patient.…”
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Towards an HCV vaccine: an overview of the immunization strategies for eliciting an effective B-cell response by Gabriel L. Costa, Giuseppe A. Sautto

“…Direct-acting antivirals are highly effective; however, they are burdened by high costs and the unchanged risk of HCC and reinfection, making prophylactic countermeasures an urgent medical need. …”
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MeDML: Med-Dynamic Meta Learning - A multi-layered representation to identify provider fraud in healthcare by Nitish Kumar, Deepak Chaurasiya, Alok Singh, Siddhartha Asthana, Kushagra Agarwal, Ankur Arora

“…Every year, health insurance fraud costs taxpayers billions of dollars and puts patient’s health and welfare at risk. …”
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From Trade Fairs to Urban Development: Exploring Destination Loyalty and City Branding Through the Thessaloniki International Fair by Dimitris Kourkouridis, Asimenia Salepaki

“…However, transportation and accessibility were identified as areas for improvement, as these logistical issues detract from the overall experience and impose perceived ‘costs’ within the exchange. The findings highlight these factors’ roles in shaping destination loyalty and offer actionable recommendations for improving exhibitor experiences. …”
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PROBLEMS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES: ROBOTICSL by A. E. Varshavsky

“…Purpose: the purpose of the work is to consider the problems of development and the market of industrial and service robots.Methods: the methodology of the work is based on an analysis of application areas, new trends in the development of industrial and service robots, as well as development programs for robotics in the most developed countries, including the development of robotics in Russia.Results: the results of the work include the analysis of market indicators (global costs, data on the industrial robot market, including the forecast indicators of the markets for the main types of industrial robots, robot components, and on the market for service robots), a brief analysis of the program and directions for the development of robotics in leading countries, as well as data on the use and production of robots abroad and in Russia.Conclusions and relevance: the conclusion is reduced to the need for government bodies to provide effective coordination and necessary funding for research and development, which are of great importance for the country's economy as a whole and for the development of robotics, the implementation of a new structural policy based on long-term development priorities; accelerated recovery of leading manufacturing industries (machine-tool construction, radio-electronic industry, etc.); renewal of fixed capital, etc. …”
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