Investigating Enhanced Cooling Load Estimation through Hybrid LSSVR Models by Ali Hassan, Hamza Rashid

“…Given the significant influence of cooling systems on operational costs, it is valuable to explore models for forecasting building heating and cooling loads. …”
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‘Stuck in catch-22’: a qualitative study of perceived work ability and decision-making about employment in severe asthma by P. Mackiewicz, H. Hussein, A. H. Mansur, M. T. Krishna, G. I. Walters

“…Four major themes were constructed: impact of patients’ asthma control on work, psychological burden of living with SA, costs and benefits of being in employment, and adaptations and strategies for remaining in employment. …”
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A METHODOLOGY FOR ASSESSMENT THE EFFICIENCY OF WAGE SYSTEM IN PUBLIC (MUNICIPAL) ESTABLISHMENTS: THE FIRST TESTING RESULTS IN THE SOCIAL SPHERE by N. Volgin, I. Demidov

“…The methods of calculating the labour results and costs are given. At that the monetary method allows to investigate the ratio of real remuneration of labour (RRL) and labour performance against the general financial indices, and also separately against the budget and off-budget financing at the level of separate employees and top managers. …”
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Missing Categorical Data in Sociological Surveys: An Experimental Evaluation of Imputation Techniques by Yaroslav Kostenko, Andrii Gorbachyk

“…The work emphasizes the importance of principled imputation and provides practical recommendations for sociologists regarding method selection, predictor set construction, and consideration of computational costs when addressing missing categorical data.…”
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ASSISTANCE FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE BELOVED PET COMMUNITY WITH GROOMING SKILLS IN AN ARTISTIC MANNER IN PANGKAJENE DISTRICT, PANGKEP REGENCY by DWI KESUMA SARI, RINI AMRIANI, Dian Fatmawati, Muh. Zulfadillah Sinusi, Makruf Arif

“…This will help owners to save on grooming costs for their pets. During the implementation of the activity, a demonstration of legal grooming was carried out on two cats, pocket books were distributed, and educational videos were shown on legal grooming technique guides. …”
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Evolution of flight control systems and aerial photography in unmanned agricultural aircraft by Yu. S. Tsench, R. K. Kurbanov, N. I. Zakharova

“…It is anticipated that future intellectualization and miniaturization of flight control systems will not only boost UAV performance but also reduce the economic costs associated with the aerial monitoring of agricultural biological assets.…”
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Facilitating safe transition to home for preterm infants (FAST home): Protocol for a retrospective observational study. by Lisa Szatkowski, Janine Abramson, Sha Tao, Sarah E Seaton, Jon Dorling, Michelle Arellano-Meza, Jane Harvey, Tom Harvey, Shalini Ojha

“…Longer hospital stays than necessary can be detrimental to infants, stressful for families, and costly. Currently, little is known about whether, how long and why preterm infants stay in hospital beyond physiological readiness for discharge.…”
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Container Flow-Transport Technology of Selection Grain Production by Mikhail L. Kryukov, Viktor K. Pyshkin, Andrey S. Chulkov, Svetlana V. Vlasova, Maksim V. Ivanov, Kirill A. Stepanov

“…Low-level mechanization is one of the main reasons for the high costs in selection and primary seed production. Crop breeders use transport and loading facilities for seed material transporting in an unsystematic manner. …”
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Lean production management system and sustainability of lean transformations by N. S. Davydova, N. V. Grashchenkova

“…Its implementation ensures a constant increase in the efficiency of processes due to identifying and elim- inating losses, achieving the proper state of an enterprise according to standardized indicators in the SQDCLME areas: (S (safety), Q (quality), D (delivery), C (costs), L (labor), M (corporate culture), E (environment). …”
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Insurance Crisis, Legal Environment, and the Sustainability of Professional Liability Insurance Market in the Construction Industry: Based on the US Market by Yiguang Pan, Xiaomei Deng, Rashid Maqbool, Weirui Niu

“…In an equilibrium state, competitive markets can eliminate individuals with high accident rates and companies with high operating costs. Moreover, these findings will also set a base for future researches to investigate the role of insurance market and legal environment in depth while providing the intensive critical factors towards sustainable construction industry.…”
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Factors of Financial Imbalance in the Compulsory Pension Insurance System: the Case of Russia by A. l. Safonov, Yu. V. Dolzhenkova

“…The authors estimated the financial consequences of the pension valorization in the Soviet period and the pension indexation policy in Russia resulted in the rising costs of the Pension Fund of Russia. The conclusion is that the current procedure for determining insurance contributions to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, which provides for a large number of benefits, does not correspond to generally accepted world practice and creates major risks for the financial balance of the pension system. …”
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Intraoperative frozen section analysis can be omitted in early breast cancer without significantly elevating reoperation rates by Ferit Aydin, Mahmut Onur Kulturoglu, Fatih Aslan, Lutfi Dogan

“…Given the associated factors, such as costs, operational time, and workload, we believe that permanent section analysis should be introduced into routine implementation. …”
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Computer-Aided Quantum Algorithms for Real-Time Energy Market Trading by Jinghui Wu, Wenjun Zhu, Yun Xu, Kangan Shu, Wei Yang

“…The integration of QA with PPO led to a 25% increase in total return, a 15% enhancement in Sharpe ratio, a 10% reduction in maximum drawdown, and a 20% decrease in transaction costs. These results highlight the effectiveness of combining quantum optimization techniques with reinforcement learning for superior trading strategy development. …”
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The Consequence of the Siege of Temeşvar: Analysis and Evaluation of the Submission Letter of the Castellan Mustafa Pasha (1716) by Bekir Gökpınar

“…It was both difficult and costly for the Ottomans to hold the region and a significant part of the region, which remained under Ottoman rule for about 150 years, was lost in the "Holy League" wars. …”
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Extended Reality in Applied Sciences Education: A Systematic Review by Tien-Chi Huang, Hsin-Ping Tseng

“…Despite persistent challenges—including high equipment costs, spatial and temporal constraints, small sample sizes, and insufficient longitudinal evidence—these findings underscore the transformative potential of XR technologies in applied sciences education.…”
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Bio-2FA-IoD: A Biometric-Enhanced Two-Factor Authentication Protocol for Secure Internet of Drones Operations by Hyunseok Kim, Seunghyun Park

“…Furthermore, a comprehensive performance evaluation conducted using the Contiki OS and Cooja simulator illustrates Bio-2FA-IoD’s superior efficiency in computational and communication costs, alongside very low latency, high packet delivery rate, and minimal energy consumption. …”
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Unlocking the Potential of Pomelo Albedo: A Novel Substrate for Alpha-Amylase Production Using <i>Bacillus licheniformis</i> by Thi Ngoc Tran, Si-Chun Chen, Chien Thang Doan, San-Lang Wang

“…The bioprocessing of agricultural wastes to produce microbial enzymes has become significant due to its benefits in reducing enzyme production costs and improving waste management. In this study, various substrates, including spent coffee grounds, coffee husks, coffee pulp, rice husks, rice bran, pomelo albedo, pomelo flavedo, orange peel, banana peel, sugarcane bagasse, and starch, were used as organic nutrient sources for α-amylase biosynthesis by <i>B. licheniformis</i> TKU004. …”
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A Metallurgically Informed Multiscale Integrated Computational Framework for Metal Forming Processes by Vasilis Loukadakis, Spyros Papaefthymiou

“…Traditional, solely experimental approaches, though effective, are inefficient as they are resource-intensive, requiring extensive laboratory testing and the iterative calibration of processing conditions. These costs can be avoided through computational/virtual experiments based on a multiscale hierarchical framework that integrates macroscopic approaches, mesoscale modelling as well as atomic level and advanced thermodynamical simulations to study and predict the mechanical response of metallic systems. …”
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Model for selective vehicle problem considering mixed fleet with capacitated electric vehicles by Jiacheng Li, Masato Noto, Yang Zhang, Jia Guo

“…Finally, using a medium-sized example with 250 demands and 10 vehicles, the impact of parameters such as the proportion of oil to electric vehicles and expired compensation prices on delivery completion and delivery costs is explored. The study reveals that the advantages of energy conservation and emission reduction can only be fully realized when the proportion of electric vehicles reaches 80%. …”
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An approach to heart failure for the public-sector primary care clinician by Liezel Rossouw, Anthony S. Lachman, Klaus B. von Pressentin

“…Patients admitted to the hospital should not be discharged while experiencing persistent congestion, as this is associated with an increased risk of rehospitalisation, mortality and higher healthcare costs. Comprehensive patient education regarding medications, thorough follow-up during the six weeks post-discharge and linkage to primary healthcare are associated with decreased hospitalisation rates and improved outcomes.…”
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