Artificial Intelligence Meets Bioequivalence: Using Generative Adversarial Networks for Smarter, Smaller Trials by Anastasios Nikolopoulos, Vangelis D. Karalis

“…This approach proved effective across various scenarios, enhancing BE study sample sizes, reducing costs, and accelerating trial durations. This study highlights the potential of WGANs to improve data augmentation and optimize subject recruitment in BE studies.…”
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ACCESSING FINANCE FOR INNOVATIVE EU SMES – KEY DRIVERS AND CHALLENGES by Laura Vasilescu

“…The limited market power, lack of management skills, absence of adequate accounting records and insufficient assets, transaction costs and lack of collateral, all tend to increase the risk profile of SMEs. …”
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Quantitative Identification of Adulterated Sichuan Pepper Powder by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Coupled with Chemometrics by Xi-Yu Wu, Shi-Ping Zhu, Hua Huang, Dan Xu

“…However, some cheap adulterants have been illegally found in Sichuan pepper powder in the market due to merchants trying to cut costs and gain an extra profit. In order to determine the compositions of Sichuan pepper powder quickly and effectively, a direct detection method using near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy has been developed. 462 samples of adulterated Sichuan pepper powder mixed with different amounts of wheat bran, rice bran, corn flour, and rosin powder were studied. …”
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Infected connections: Unraveling the impact of a bacterial symbiont on ant-aphid partnership. by Margaux Jossart, Thierry Hance, Claire Detrain

“…This free-living S. symbiotica strain induces fitness costs on its aphid host which can be offset by a lower selective pressure exerted by parasitoids. …”
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A Diagnosis Framework for High-reliability Equipment with Small Sample Based on Transfer Learning by Jinxin Pan, Bo Jing, Xiaoxuan Jiao, Shenglong Wang, Qingyi Zhang

“…However, for equipment with high reliability, it is arduous to form a large-scale well-annotated dataset due to the expense of data acquisition and costly annotation. Besides, the generated data have a large number of redundant features which degraded the performance of models. …”
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THE INFLUENCE OF THE REDUCTION OF THE EMPLOYERS’ SOCIAL INSURANCE STATE CONTRIBUTIONS ON THE STAFF EXPENSES. CASE STUDY FOR PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF LOWER SECONDARY EDUCATION by NICOLETA CRISTINA MATEI, MARIANA GURAU

“…We have also presented the theoretical aspects related to the staff expenses, the budgetary execution phases that staff expenses must cover, the accounting treatment of costs of employers' social insurance contributions, the recognition of employers’ expenses for the social insurance State contributions in the bookkeeping of lower secondary education institutions, as well as the influence of changes in rates of the social security State contributions from the employer on the staff expenditure of the institutions mentioned.…”
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Association between depression and health care expenditure in middle-aged and older patients with heart disease. by Shushu You, Xiang Gu, Jing Sui, Ziyu Xiang, Fan Gao

“…Nevertheless, earlier investigations have focused on the healthcare costs incurred by individual patients with heart disease or those with depression. …”
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Repurposing of TV boxes for a circular economy in smart cities applications by Gustavo P. C. P. da Luz, Gabriel Massuyoshi Sato, Luis Fernando Gomez Gonzalez, Juliana Freitag Borin

“…Typically, these devices are destroyed, which not only incurs significant costs for the government but also generates substantial e-waste. …”
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Embodied decisions as active inference. by Matteo Priorelli, Ivilin Peev Stoianov, Giovanni Pezzulo

“…First, that decision and action processes can unfold in parallel; second, that action-related components, such as the motor costs associated with selecting a particular choice alternative or required to "change mind" between choice alternatives, exert a feedback effect on the decision taken. …”
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Analisis Perbandingan Kinerja Keuangan Perusahaan Sebelum dan Sesudah Isu Boikot Perang Gaza by Triya Wardah, Erlinda Nur Khasanah

“…This shows that overall, the decrease in several of these ratios reflects the impact of the Gaza war boycott that was only felt in early 2024, which resulted in decreased sales or increased operating costs.…”
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Estimating abundance of harvested populations at the management unit scale. by Allison C Keever, James D Kelly, Garrett B Clevinger, Bradley S Cohen

“…Several statistical approaches use readily available age-at-harvest data to estimate populations, but these often rely on auxiliary data which can be costly to collect and may not provide reliable estimates at the management unit scale. …”
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Polygenic insight identifies precision biomarkers decoding protein catabolism and autophagy pathways in obstructive sleep apnea by Xiaoying Ke, Min Huang, Yingying Zheng, Guohao Chen

“…Abstract Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common sleep disorder characterized by recurrent upper airway obstructions, leading to substantial health burdens and socioeconomic costs. This study aimed to identify Hypoxia and Mitophagy-Related Differentially Expressed Genes (HMRDEGs) and evaluate their potential as biomarkers and therapeutic targets for OSA. …”
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Cold stress reduces rice grain yield in temperate conditions by Rasim Unan, Temel Genctan, Rafael M. Pedroso

“…Cold stress negatively affected rice plant density, and plant densities below the critical minimum plant warranted crop termination and resowing, depending on application costs. Cold stress had a far more devastating effect on germination and seedling stages than on later development stages in temperate conditions.…”
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Labour Productivity as Indicator of Regional Economy Efficiency by G. Yu. Gagarina, L. S. Arkhipova, D. A. Sizova

“…However, we should take into account that natural and climatic factors in this group of regions increase labour costs and therefore, cut labour productivity. The authors show that in regions with conventional specialization on manufacturing industry (when the raw-materials sector retains a certain importance) the said indicator demonstrates a high value, even in spite of some unfavorable trends on labour market. …”
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Chronic Renal Disease in the Older Adult by Maislete Gutiérrez Rufín, Chanel Polanco López

“…Due to the fact that it is asymptomatic it results to a final stage diagnosis, with high costs of treatment and lost of quality of life.<br /> <strong>Objective:</strong> to identify the mortality due to chronic renal disease in older adults of the teaching policlinic Dr Mario Escalona Reguera from April to December 2016. …”
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Financial frictions and stock return: A novel least minus more frictional factor for asset pricing models in emerging economies. by Saifullah Khan, Adnan Shoaib, Rehan Aftab, Muhammad Yasir, Muhammad Bilal Saeed

“…Managers can leverage these insights to formulate superior strategies aimed at enhancing profitability, fostering robust business-to-business relationships, and minimizing costs across various levels. The findings enable firms to preemptively optimize their operations within the context of prevailing financial frictions.…”
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Machine Learning Model for Detecting Attack in Service Supply Chain by ASMAU OYINLADE OLANIYI, O. A Ayeni, M. G. Adewunmi

“…Random Forest is tremendously good for detection with less false positives; however, due to its high computational costs, it may be challenging to implement in real-time. …”
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The Role of Continuous Peripheral Nerve Blocks by José Aguirre, Alicia Del Moral, Irina Cobo, Alain Borgeat, Stephan Blumenthal

“…The documented benefits strongly depend on the analgesia quality and include decreasing baseline/dynamic pain, reducing additional analgesic requirements, decrease of postoperative joint inflammation and inflammatory markers, sleep disturbances and opioid-related side effects, increase of patient satisfaction and ambulation/functioning improvement, an accelerated resumption of passive joint range-of-motion, reducing time until discharge readiness, decrease in blood loss/blood transfusions, potential reduction of the incidence of postsurgical chronic pain and reduction of costs. Evidence deriving from randomized controlled trials suggests that in some situations there are also prolonged benefits of regional anesthesia after catheter removal in addition to the immediate postoperative effects. …”
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Software for developing digital twins of agricultural machinery working bodies by D. A. Mironov, D.  V. Popov, R. K. Rasulov, A. K. Lamm

“…Accumulating and analysing vast amounts of information, digital twins help optimize the use of resources such as water, fertilizers, and pesticides, which in turn leads to increased yields and reduced costs. Moreover, digital twins enable the automation of many processes in agriculture, including the management of agricultural machinery and equipment. …”
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RULA method in the ergonomic analysis of an ophthalmic surgeon’s work: a case study by Teresa Alexandra Vaz Ferreira, Cláudia Cristina Cabral de Carvalho

“…Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs) represent a widespread occupational health issue across many countries, leading to high organizational costs and constituting one of the main causes of work disability. …”
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