Is it all about the windows? Residents' values in residential heritage buildings by Freya Wise, Alice Moncaster, Derek Jones

“…Challenges, including costs and finding skilled tradespeople to produce shutters or undertake restoration were identified. …”
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A Practical Swelling Constitutive Model of Anhydrite and Its Application on Tunnel Engineering by Jianxun Wu, Fei Lin, Xiaohong Zhou, Zhigang Zhang, Jinyang Fan, Zhenkun Hou

“…Swelling of anhydrite rock causes serious damage to the tunnel and generates high additional costs in the process of tunnel construction and operation and has gradually become one of the main factors that threaten the safety of the tunnel. …”
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Wearable Technology in Cardiology: Advancements, Applications, and Future Prospects by Nihar Jena, Prabhat Singh, Deepak Chandramohan, Hari N. Garapati, Jyotsna Gummadi, Maneeth Mylavarapu, Bushra Firdous Shaik, Athmananda Nanjundappa, Dinesh Reddy Apala, Christian Toquica, Boney Lapsiwala, Prathap Kumar Simhadri

“…Recent research suggests that wearable electrocardiograms are comparable to conventional monitoring devices in terms of performance and can help reduce healthcare costs. However, as technological improvements continue to evolve, challenges related to accessibility, patient privacy, and the need for improved accuracy are also emerging. …”
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Cell‐to‐cell and type‐to‐type heterogeneity of signaling networks: insights from the crowd by Attila Gabor, Marco Tognetti, Alice Driessen, Jovan Tanevski, Baosen Guo, Wencai Cao, He Shen, Thomas Yu, Verena Chung, Single Cell Signaling in Breast Cancer DREAM Consortium members, Bernd Bodenmiller, Julio Saez‐Rodriguez, Augustinas Prusokas, Alidivinas Prusokas, Renata Retkute, Anand Rajasekar, Karthik Raman, Malvika Sudhakar, Raghunathan Rengaswamy, Edward S.C. Shih, Min‐jeong Kim, Changje Cho, Dohyang Kim, Hyeju Oh, Jinseub Hwang, Kim Jongtae, Yeongeun Nam, Sanghoo Yoon, Taeyong Kwon, Kyeongjun Lee, Sarika Chaudhary, Nehal Sharma, Shreya Bande, Gao Gao fan zhu Cankut Cubuk, Pelin Gundogdu, Joaquin Dopazo, Kinza Rian, Carlos Loucera, Matias M Falco, Martin Garrido‐Rodriguez, Maria Peña‐Chilet, Huiyuan Chen, Gabor Turu, Laszlo Hunyadi, Adam Misak, Baosen Guo, Wencai Cao, He Shen, Lisheng Zhou, Xiaoqing Jiang, Pieta Zhang, Aakansha Rai, Rintu Kutum, Sadhna Rana, Rajgopal Srinivasan, Swatantra Pradhan, James Li, Vladimir Bajic, Christophe Van Neste, Didier Barradas‐bautista, Somayah Abdullah Albarade, Igor Nikolskiy, Musalula Sinkala, Duc Tran, Hung Nguyen, Tin Nguyen, Alexander Wu, Benjamin DeMeo, Brian Hie, Rohit Singh, Jiwei Liu, Xueer Chen, Leonor Saiz, Jose M. G Vilar, Peng Qiu, Akash Gosain, Anjali Dhall, Dinesh Bajaj, Harpreet Kaur, Krishna Bagaria, Mayank Chauhan, Neelam Sharma, Gajendra Raghava, Sumeet Patiyal, Jianye Hao, Jiajie Peng, Shangyi Ning, Yi Ma, Zhongyu Wei, Atte Aalto, Jorge Goncalves, Laurent Mombaerts, Xinnan Dai, Jie Zheng, Piyushkumar Mundra, Fan Xu, Jie Wang, Krishna Kant Singh, Mingyu Lee

“…These technologies are, however, limited to proteins for which antibodies are available and are fairly costly, making predictions of new markers and of existing markers under new conditions a valuable alternative. …”
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An Overview of Post-Fertilization Parental Care in Gobiidae by Miguel Trujillo-García, Bertha Patricia Ceballos-Vázquez, Palestina Guevara-Fiore, Hope Klug

“…Parental care increases offspring survival but is typically costly to the parent providing it. Understanding diversity in parental care across animals is a timely topic in evolutionary ecology. …”
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Process Optimization of Thawed Cloudy Huyou Juice Clarification Using a Composite of Carboxymethyl Chitosan and Sodium Alginate by Peichao Zhang, Liang Zhang, Xiayu Liu, Yuxi Wang, Jiatong Xu, Pengfei Liu, Boyuan Guan

“…Cloudy huyou juice is increasingly popular for its unique flavor, but flocculent precipitation after cold storage and thawing affects its sensory quality and increases production costs. This study optimized the clarification of thawed cloudy huyou juice using a composite of carboxymethyl chitosan (CC) and sodium alginate (SA), prepared via ionic and covalent crosslinking. …”
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Presenting the Development Model of Active Sports Tourism with an Economic Approach: the Share of Health-Oriented Sports in the Gross Domestic Product by Zahra Sohrabi, Mehrdad Moharam Zadeh, Rasool Nazari

“…The current model acknowledges that active sports tourism may directly and indirectly affect the Gross domestic product (GDP).Originality: It was found that increasing attention to active sports tourism improves people's health and quality of life and can also lead to increased productivity, reduced health costs, the growth of related industries, and an increase in gross domestic product.…”
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Adaptive mesh-aligned Gaussian Splatting for monocular human avatar reconstruction by Hai Yuan, Xia Yuan, Yanli Liu, Guanyu Xing, Jing Hu, Xi Wu, Zijun Zhou

“…However, existing methods struggle to achieve high fidelity reconstruction from monocular input while keeping hardware costs low. Many approaches rely on the SMPL body prior and apply vertex offsets to represent clothed avatars. …”
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A Survey on UAV Control with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning by Chijioke C. Ekechi, Tarek Elfouly, Ali Alouani, Tamer Khattab

“…Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become increasingly prevalent in both governmental and civilian applications, offering significant reductions in operational costs by minimizing human involvement. There is a growing demand for autonomous, scalable, and intelligent coordination strategies in complex aerial missions involving multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). …”
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Non-melanoma skin cancer in Serbia (1999-2015) -the need for national prevention and control strategy by Ilić Danijela, Videnović Goran, Kozomara Ružica, Radaković Sonja S., Vlahović Zoran, Matvijenko Vladimir, Živković Snežana

“…Although NMSCs have a relatively low mortality rate, they are an important public health concern and the most costly cancers in many countries. The two main objectives in this study were: first, to analyze the trend of age-standardized incidence rate of NMSCs in Serbia and second, to assess the need for national prevention and control strategy based on analyzed trend. …”
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Design of improved JAYA algorithm for cigarette finished product logistics delivery by Jun Wen, Yewei Hu, Le Li, Zongrui Wu, Guangwei Xiao, Kai Guo, Lei Li

“…This has given rise to salient issues, including elevated distribution costs and diminished delivery efficiency. These factors impede the enhancement of service quality and the fortification of market competitiveness. …”
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The role of perceptions in adoption of cricket farming for improved food security and livelihoods by Charles Adino Ng'ong'a, Kelvin Mashisia Shikuku, Mohammed Hussen Alemu, Evans Manyara Nyakeri, Monica Awuor Ayieko

“…The results show that a positive perception of the benefits and ease of implementing insect farming is associated with a significantly higher likelihood of adopting of cricket farming (p<0.05), whereas a negative perception of its pecuniary and non-pecuniary costs, is associated with a lower likelihood of adoption (p<0.05). …”
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Enhancing Concrete Sustainability: A Critical Review of the Performance of Recycled Concrete Aggregates (RCAs) in Structural Concrete by Alireza Alibeigibeni, Flavio Stochino, Marco Zucca, Fernando López Gayarre

“…Life cycle assessment (LCA) analyses reveal reductions in energy use, CO₂ emissions, and material costs when RCAs are properly processed and locally sourced. …”
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Development and Validation of a Deep Learning System for the Detection of Nondisplaced Femoral Neck Fractures by Lianxin Wang, Ce Zhang, Yaozong Wang, Xin Yue, Yunbang Liang, Naikun Sun

“…Hip fractures pose a significant challenge to healthcare systems due to their high costs and associated mortality rates, with femoral neck fractures accounting for nearly half of all hip fractures. …”
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Study of a lytic bacteriophage as a tool for the control of Salmonella Gallinarum in layer poultry by Xoana Ortiz, María Inés Gismondi, Hebe Barrios

“…Although this disease was eradicated fromindustrial hatcheries in several developed countries, it is still present in commercial farms in LatinAmerica, causing substantial economic losses due to high mortality rates, limited production of qualityeggs, high veterinary costs, and the need to renovate infected facilities. …”
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A Convenient Strategy for Studying Antibody Aggregation and Inhibition of Aggregation: Characterization and Simulation by Yibo Guo, Xi Chen, Guchen Fang, Xuejun Cao, Junfen Wan

“…While the inhibitory effects of excipients on aggregation have been extensively studied using early experimental characterization methods, complete formulation research requires significant amounts of antibodies and time, resulting in high research costs. <b>Methods:</b> This study proposed a quick and small-scale position-restrained simulation method which elucidated the mechanism of the reversible self-association (RSA) of antibodies and the influence of excipients on RSA under different conditions. …”
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Duration of Antimicrobial Therapy in Community Acquired Pneumonia: Less Is More by Marilia Rita Pinzone, Bruno Cacopardo, Lilian Abbo, Giuseppe Nunnari

“…The use of biomarkers, such as procalcitonin, to guide the initiation and duration of antimicrobial therapy may reduce total antibiotic exposure and treatment duration, healthcare costs, and the risk of developing antimicrobial resistance. …”
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Connecting Droplet Adhesion with Sperm Kinematics: A New Paradigm in Sperm Quality Monitoring by Sudip Shyam, Sirshendu Misra, Veronika Magdanz, Sushanta K Mitra

“…Abstract Conventional microscopy‐driven sperm health monitoring systems suffer from high infrastructural costs and complex protocols. Here, a simple, economical sperm motility assessment system is proposed. …”
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Analysis of Dynamic Damage-Induced Porosity Changes of Granites in Leaching Mining Technique Based on SHPB Test by Yichen Miao, Changwu Liu, Zhiliang He, Yuanjun Ma, Haikuan Wu, Ding Wang

“…In situ leaching was a very important technical approach in ion-adsorption rare earth mining, because it can effectively avoid the geological hazards, protect the environment, and reduce the mining costs. The critical issue of this mining technique was to increase the permeability of ion-adsorption rare earth deposits. …”
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Laser Treatment of Wood Surfaces for Ski Cores: An Experimental Parameter Study by Alexander Petutschnigg, Michael Stöckler, Florian Steinwendner, Julian Schnepps, Herwig Gütler, Johann Blinzer, Helmut Holzer, Thomas Schnabel

“…Recently, the production of skis with wooden cores has increased due to changes in customer awareness concerning ecological issues and rising raw material costs for mineral oil resources. The preparation of ski surfaces is one of the main expense factors in the production of skis. …”
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