Metadata Extraction and Management in Data Lakes With GEMMS by Christoph Quix, Rihan Hai, Ivan Vatov

“…Data lakes should reduce the upfront integration costs and provide a more flexible way for data integration and analysis, as source data is loaded in its original structure to the data lake repository. …”
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Technological Progress Toward Peanut Disease Management: A Review by Muhammad Asif, Aleena Rayamajhi, Md Sultan Mahmud

“…Historically, crop disease scouting has been labor-intensive and costly. Recent innovations in computer vision, artificial intelligence (AI), and remote sensing have transformed disease identification and scouting, making the process more efficient and economical. …”
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Determinants of banking efficiency in the MENA region: A two-stage DEA-Tobit approach by Soufiane Benbachir

“…In contrast, Liquidity and operational costs negatively affect PTE and TE. Non-performing loans negatively impact TE but not PTE, and macroeconomic factors positively influence both TE and PTE. …”
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Green supply chain strategy considering participant fairness concern and uncertainty of research and development by Haohao Song, Rong Wang, Xiangyu Mao, Jing Tao, Mengqi Zhang, Xiaobo Wang, Xiaojuan Sang

“…However, the change in the manufacturer’s profit is uncertain, which is also related to its fixed R&D costs and R&D efficiency. Under the manufacturer-dominated structure, fairness concern behavior can lead to a decrease in products’ pricing, greenness, demand, and profits for both the manufacturer and retailer; But under the retailer-dominated structure, the manufacturer’s fairness concern has no impact on products’ retail price, greenness, and demand. …”
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Criterion to foresee the affinity of various coatings/substrates to asphaltene deposition in oil wells by Sakineh Hadizadeh, M. Reza Malayeri

“…However, these methods are often associated with significant hazards, operational limitations, and costs. In light of these challenges, recent research has shifted towards preventive measures, particularly using surface coatings/substrates to inhibit asphaltene deposition. …”
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Evaluating the Economic Impact of Airborne Infectious Diseases on the Health System: A Cross-sectional Study Utilizing Disability-adjusted Life Years and Lost Productivity by Alireza Ghorbani, Hadi Lotfi, Ali Taj, Zahra Keyvanlo, Mohammad Hosseinzadehhesari, Mohammad Miri

“…Moreover, YLD was 5283 and 5086 in males and females, respectively. The total costs of productivity loss due to absenteeism (TPL) and due to COVID-19 premature mortality were about $4 and $8 million purchasing power parity for all working-age classes, respectively. …”
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Contrastive Learning Algorithm for Low-Resource Cryptographic Attack Event Detection by Peng Luo, Rangjia Cai, Yuanbo Guo

“…However, conventional event detection models depend on expert-annotated trigger words, which are costly to obtain and constrain the applicability of detection methods in cryptographic security. …”
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Methodology of Choosing the Most Eco-Friendly Waste Collection Truck by Ondrej STOPKA, Vladimir ĽUPTÁK, Maria STOPKOVÁ, Branislav ŠARKAN, Jaroslav MAŠEK

“…Currently, the city uses costly CNG-propelled trucks, which release a lot of harmful emissions. …”
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Optimizing maritime logistics for sustainable development in Kenya's Blue Economy by Conrad Ochego Mogaka

“…Results: The study finds that efficient maritime logistics enhance trade efficiency, reduce transportation costs, and support sustainable practices, thus maximizing the blue economy's potential. …”
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The Opinions of the Sheep Breeders about the National Sheep and Goat Breeding Program under Farmer Condition in Niğde Province by Selina Güngör, Betül Gürer

“…In this context, the support model for reducing costs was selected by breeders as the best criterion in a policy to be implemented for the protection of native animal genetic resources. …”
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Rational Way of Forming Stubble Coulisses under North Kazakhstan Conditions by V. L. Astaf'ev

“…However, when there is a little snow in winter, the second way provides more intensive snow accumulation.Conclusions It has been experimentally found that using the direct combining reaper with the stripper adapter decreases labour inputs by 17.8% and total costs by 23.8% as compared to the formation of coulisses by using sequential passes of the direct combining and the stripping reapers. …”
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Street-level imagery dataset for the detection of informal vendors in urban environmentZenodo by Keyla Garcia-Jaimes, John R. Ballesteros, John W. Branch-Bedoya

“…Street vending is a prominent component of the informal economy, yet its prevalence remains poorly quantified due to the limitations of traditional survey methods, which are costly, invasive, and labor-intensive. To enable scalable, image-based assessments of this activity, we present the StreetVendor-SLI dataset, specifically designed for detecting vendors in urban environments. …”
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Ethical limits and suggestions for improving the use of AI in scientific research, academic publishing, and the peer review process, based on deontological and consequentialist vie... by Mohammed Daoudi

“…Key barriers include limited access to AI tools (47.6%), high costs (38.1%), and insufficient technical skills (45.2%). …”
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Analytical Model for Seismic Performance of Hollow RC Bridge Piers Considering Elongation Reduction in Reinforcement Deteriorated by Aging and Other Factors by Tae-Hoon Kim, Ick-Hyun Kim, Hyun Mock Shin

“…Deterioration caused by de-icing agents and carbonation has reduced the lifespan of bridge structures, thus necessitating frequent maintenance and increasing economic and social costs. A validated nonlinear finite element analysis program RCAHEST (Reinforced Concrete Analysis in Higher Evaluation System Technology) was enhanced with a deterioration model and an extended damage index that incorporates elongation reduction in reinforcing bars. …”
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Modeling dynamic scenarios for safety, reliability, availability, and maintainability analysis by Cesar Augusto Gabe, Luciano Ondir Freire, Delvonei Alves de Andrade

“…By modeling complex human and automated interventional scenarios, this method reduces capital costs and keeps safety and availability of systems.…”
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FERTILITY CARE IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES: Public sector access to medically assisted reproduction in South Africa: a case study by Gerhardus Marthinus Boshoff, Willem Ombelet, Carin Huyser

“…In order to ease the travel distance of patients, alternative primary diagnostic routes with accessible clinics are needed. In addition, costs of therapeutic procedures in the public sector should be re-evaluated to be offered at affordable rates for marginalised patients.…”
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Modelado de propiedades mecánicas de mezclas asfálticas espumadas recicladas mediante regresión no lineal y redes neuronales artificiales y clasificación de diferentes diseños util... by Mehrdad Mirshekarian Babaki, Ali Pirhadi Tavandashti

“…Foamed asphalt mixtures, created using reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) and foamed bitumen, offer energy savings, reduced use of virgin materials, and lower transportation costs, combining the characteristics of rigid and flexible pavements. …”
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PROCESSES OF THE TELECOM OPERATOR’S INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE TRANSFORMATION by Leonid Smidovych, Yurii Davydovskyi

“…Conclusions: the transformation to modern information architecture will ensure compliance of BSS/OSS systems with market requirements and new technologies, adapt to their changes, allow operators to increase competitiveness, reduce operating and capital costs, create technological conditions for open digital ecosystem and transform the operator into a digital services provider. …”
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Key drivers of medical crowdfunding success: a comprehensive analysis of 84,712 projects by Siyuan Zhang, Qing Zhang, Mengning Wang, Xin Tang, Xin Lu, Wei Huang

“…In China, the insufficiency of medical insurance to cover all medical expenses, coupled with significant urban-rural disparities, leaves certain households, especially those in impoverished regions, unable to bear unforeseen high healthcare costs. Consequently, there arises a need for medical crowdfunding as a supplementary mechanism to the healthcare insurance system. …”
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Comparative analysis of the main trends in the Interaction of scientifc and educational Organizations with Industrial enterprises by E.  A.  Kirillova

“…The prevailing budget sources of financing in the structure of research and development costs show a weak interest of Russian companies in the real economic sector in the research and development results. …”
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