Determinants of climate change adaptation strategies among rural household farmers in the Wolaita zone, Southern Ethiopia by Demissie Dalacho Debisa, Teshome Yirgu Bayu, Thomas Toma Tora

“…The problem confrontation index identified major barriers such as high costs of agricultural inputs, insufficient institutional support, and limited market access. …”
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Key Technologies in Intelligent O&M System Construction for Urban Rail Transit Communication by WANG Xianlei

“…[Objective] Aiming to design and construct a high-performance, high-reliability intelligent O&M (operation and maintenance) system for urban rail transit communication and to formulate scientific maintenance strategies, it is necessary to transform traditional periodic scheduled maintenance to condition-based maintenance according to test analysis, and to prior assessment-based predictive maintenance, thereby reducing the probability of equipment failure and operational costs. Furthermore, it is to shift from traditional manual O&M management to an automated, information-based intelligent monitoring and maintenance approach. …”
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A demand-centered scheduling framework for shared supercomputing resources: modeling, metrics, and case insights by Hyungwook Shim

“…However, limited infrastructure capacity and rising construction costs have made traditional supply-side expansion strategies increasingly unsustainable. …”
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SFSIN: A Lightweight Model for Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution with Strip-like Feature Superpixel Interaction Network by Yanxia Lyu, Yuhang Liu, Qianqian Zhao, Ziwen Hao, Xin Song

“…Remote sensing image (RSI) super-resolution plays a critical role in improving image details and reducing costs associated with physical imaging devices. However, existing super-resolution methods are not applicable to resource-constrained edge devices because they are hampered by a large number of parameters and significant computational complexity. …”
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Cross-border e-shopping on e-commerce B2C multi-sided digital platforms: Antecedents and moderating role of country of location by Marzanna K. Witek-Hajduk, Anna Grudecka

“…Chinese MSPs regarding the influence of payment security on ease of use and influence on trust in a foreign MSP of the following antecedents: consumer service on a given MSP, its reputation, and perception of prices/costs. Implications & Recommendations: This article offers valuable insights into e-consumer behaviour useful to MSPs’ managers. …”
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Evolution from the physical process-based approaches to machine learning approaches to predicting urban floods: a literature review by Md Shike Bin Mazid Anik, Chunjiang An, S. Samuel Li

“…Open-source tools, public education, and better planning are also needed to make cities safer and more resilient to costly floods.…”
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Impact of digital technology on farmland transfer and food security: an empirical study in rural China by Xinyu Guo, Xianghua Liu, Jinwei Lv, Ruojia Zhu

“…The potential mechanisms are the resource reallocation effect triggered by increased non-farm employment and income, the efficiency-enhancing effect of agricultural production driven by digital technology, and the transaction facilitation effect brought about by lower information costs. Heterogeneity analysis shows that in terms of policy support, the increase of grain purchase price and direct subsidy positively regulate the willingness to transfer; In terms of farmers’ capital endowment, the groups with high human capital and physical capital are more inclined to transfer out of farmland, while the households with high land capital show the characteristics of farmland dependence, and the households with high information capital have a stronger willingness to transfer farmland; In terms of economic and cultural attributes, farmers located in agricultural areas, underdeveloped areas and traditional villages also have stronger willingness to transfer farmland. …”
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Experimental evolution of a pathogen confronted with innate immune memory increases variation in virulence. by Ana Korša, Moritz Baur, Nora K E Schulz, Jaime M Anaya-Rojas, Alexander Mellmann, Joachim Kurtz

“…Theory predicts that the way virulence evolves depends on the balance between the benefits and costs it provides to pathogen fitness. Additionally, host responses to infections, such as resistance or tolerance, play a critical role in shaping virulence evolution. …”
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Estimating Subsurface Geostatistical Properties from GPR Reflection Data Using a Supervised Deep Learning Approach by Yu Liu, James Irving, Klaus Holliger

“…However, the associated computational costs are inherently high. To alleviate this problem, we present an alternative deep-learning-based technique, that, once trained in a supervised context, allows us to perform the same task in a highly efficient manner. …”
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Multi-timescale scheme for cooperative user association and hybrid beamforming in mmWave MIMO systems by Mohammadreza Heydarian, Didier Colle, Mario Pickavet, Wouter Tavernier

“…Abstract Hybrid beamforming has received significant attention as a solution to the thermal issues, costs, and implementation complexities associated with fully digital mmWave extremely large MIMO (XL-MIMO) systems. …”
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Carbon neutral drying technologies for sustainable transformation in Thailand's rubber industry by Kyu Kyu Tin, Anil Kumar

“…Besides, research into hybrid solar-biomass drying systems for para rubber sheets has promising results, helping efficient drying with high quality and lower costs compared to traditional techniques like sun exposure or smoke drying. …”
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A Multi-Systems Approach to Human Movement after ACL Reconstruction: The Musculoskeletal System by Daniel Larson, Vien Vu, Brandon M Ness, Elizabeth Wellsandt, Scot Morrison

“…Fortunately, testing for deficits can be accomplished with methods available to the clinician without access to costly equipment or time-intensive procedures. Interventions to address musculoskeletal system deficits can be implemented with a periodized program. …”
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Role of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors in cardiovascular events in patients with heart failure by Eva Muja, Letizia Giuseppina Floccari, Artan Simaku, Klodeta Grosha, Besim Lama, Ilirian Laçi

“… Heart failure is a major cause of morbidity and mortality globally, with a significant impact on both patients’ quality of life and healthcare costs. Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2-I), initially developed for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus, have attracted particular interest due to their therapeutic potential in patients with heart failure, regardless of the presence of diabetes. …”
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Geographic variation in thermal tolerance of western corn rootworm by Karl A. Roeder, Skylar Drey, Jesse D. Daniels, Jamieson C. Botsch

“…Abstract Western corn rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera, is one of the most economically important crop pests in the world with estimates of damage and control costing over $1 billion USD annually. Yet despite an abundance of research devoted to studying rootworm biology in the central Corn Belt of the United States, information on key aspects of their thermal biology is still lacking. …”
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Assessing ML classification algorithms and NLP techniques for depression detection: An experimental case study. by Giuliano Lorenzoni, Cristina Tavares, Nathalia Nascimento, Paulo Alencar, Donald Cowan

“…Early mental disorder detection can reduce costs for public health agencies and prevent other major comorbidities. …”
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Molecular evolution and functional characterization of Drosophila insulin-like peptides. by Sebastian Grönke, David-Francis Clarke, Susan Broughton, T Daniel Andrews, Linda Partridge

“…Multicellular animals match costly activities, such as growth and reproduction, to the environment through nutrient-sensing pathways. …”
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POLITICAL PARTIES AND THEIR ROLE IN SAFEGUARDING THE SUPREMACY OF THE CONSTITUTION by Silvia-Elena, OLARU

“…Unfortunately, in societies in transition, where authentic democracy is still developing, political parties - in some countries - perceive governing as a means of obtaining ministerial portfolios at all costs, irrespective of whether they have professionals for the field concerned or not. …”
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National Burden of Cancers in Tunisia: A Disability Adjusted Life-year Approach by Houda Ben Ayed, Mohamed Hsairi, Sourour Yaich, Habib Feki, Jihene Jedidi, Raouf Karray, Mondher Kassis, Jamel Damak

“…Cancer places a considerable burden on society that is reflected in both economic and humanitarian costs. We aimed to estimate the disease burden of cancers in Tunisia using the Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) as a health measure. …”
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Criterios de elección de centro y segregación escolar en la ciudad de Valencia by Félix Fajardo Magraner, Julia Salom Carrasco, María Dolores Pitarch Garrido

“…Los resultados indican que el principal criterio de elección de centro escolar es la proximidad entre el hogar y el colegio, y que el modo de desplazamiento más utilizado es el peatonal. Sin embargo, los costes de desplazamiento y los medios utilizados están directamente relacionados con las características socioeconómicas de las familias y con la morfología urbana de los barrios en los que se ubican los centros educativos y las residencias de los menores. …”
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Incremental SAR Automatic Target Recognition with Divergence-Constrained Class-Specific Dictionary Learning by Xiaojie Ma, Xusong Bu, Dezhao Zhang, Zhaohui Wang, Jing Li

“…While existing approaches predominantly rely on batch learning paradigms, their practical deployment is constrained by the sequential arrival of training data and high retraining costs. To overcome this challenge, this paper introduces a divergence-constrained incremental dictionary learning framework that enables progressive model updates without full data reprocessing. …”
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