Designing Sustainable Recovery Network of End-of-Life Product during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Real and Applied Case Study by Sina Abbasi, Maryam Daneshmand-Mehr, Armin Ghane Kanafi

“…One of the most important aspects of supply chain management (SCM) is the recovery network (RN), which covers all activities associated with return products (such as collection, recovery, repair, recycling, and waste disposal). …”
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Global value added and embodied carbon emission transfers driven by lithium battery trade by Meihui Jiang, Xiaoqing Hao, Bingyan Li, Wenlin Cai, Yanfang Zhang

“…To uncover the environmental costs driven by lithium battery trade, this study traces value added and embodied carbon emission transfers using input-output model and network analysis. …”
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Geostatistics Precision Agriculture Modeling on Moisture Root Zone Profiles in Clay Loam and Clay Soils, Using Time Domain Reflectometry Multisensors and Soil Analysis by Agathos Filintas

“…The results showed that kriging modeling, spatial and temporal imaging for accurate profile SWC <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>θ</mi><mi>v</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>T</mi><mi>D</mi><mi>R</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> (m³·m⁻³) maps, the exponential model was identified as the most appropriate with TDR sensors using calibration M1, and the exponential and spherical models were the most appropriate when using calibration M2. …”
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Shedding light on pharmacoepidemiology of eye diseases: a cohort study in Western Iran by Zeinab Mousavi, Masood Bagheri, Farid Najafi, Mahsa Yavari, Omid Bahiraee, Mehdi Moradinazar

“…Dry eye disease (12.19%), allergic conjunctivitis (8.98%), and glaucoma (1.12%) were the most prevalent conditions, showing disparities between genders and across socioeconomic groups. …”
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Wearable Artificial Intelligence for Sleep Disorders: Scoping Review by Sarah Aziz, Amal A M Ali, Hania Aslam, Alaa A Abd-alrazaq, Rawan AlSaad, Mohannad Alajlani, Reham Ahmad, Laila Khalil, Arfan Ahmed, Javaid Sheikh

“…Commercial devices were the most commonly used type of wearable technology, appearing in 30 out of 46 (65%) studies. …”
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Modeling of project activities for UAV modernization to conduct swarm drone attack missions by Oleg Fedorovych, Leonid Malieiev, Oleksii Hubka, Andrei Popov

“…While innovative components enhance UAV capabilities, they also increase project duration, costs, and associated risks – factors that are particularly critical during a state of war. …”
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A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE ASSORTMENT OF DIFFERENT MEDICATION GROUPS USED IN THE CENTRAL REGIONAL HOSPITAL OF THE MUNICIPAL REGION AND THE REGIONAL HOSPITAL OF THE FEDERAL STATE... by B. G. Bochkarev, I. V. Kalinin, T. I. Kabakova

“…Using ABC analysis it was established that the Group A (the most costly) medications in the penitentiary medical organization consisted exclusively of anti-viraldrugs used for treating HIV-infected patients, which is 54.91% of the stock that are represented by 18 international non-proprietary medication names. …”
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Unveiling the third dimension of glass by Faidra Oikonomopoulou

“…Even though cast glass has, so far, been rarely applied in structural applications, the development of new building systems and their experimental validation presented in this work provide a strong basis for further developments and applications in a range of compressive structures. At present, the most considerable drawbacks hindering the marketability of cast glass components are (a) the cost barriers imposed by their customized production and application and (b) the lack of standardized strength data and building guidelines. …”
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Melatonin versus midazolam in the premedication of anxious children attending for elective surgery under general anaesthesia: the MAGIC non-inferiority RCT by Christopher Deery, Robert Bolt, Diana Papaioannou, Matthew Wilson, Marie Hyslop, Esther Herbert, Nikki Totton, Zoe Marshman, Tracey Young, Jennifer Kettle, Sondos Albadri, Simon Atkins, Katie Biggs, Janet Clarkson, Chris Evans, Laura Flight, Jacqui Gath, Fiona Gilchrist, Kate Hutchence, Nicholas Ireland, Amanda Loban, Amy Norrington, Hamish Paton, Jaydip Ray, Helen Rodd, Elena Sheldon, Richard Simmonds, Christopher Vernazza

“…There was uncertainty in the results of the cost-effectiveness analysis, though melatonin was found to be slightly cheaper (£46.20) than midazolam. …”
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A VALUE-BASED APPROACH TO THE ORGANIZATION OF MEDICAL CARE FOR THE POPULATION (FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PATIENTS AND MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS) by Elena A. Smirnova

“…The aim of the work is to identify the most significant causes and disadvantages of the introduction of value-based healthcare. …”
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Incomes and Expenses of Single-Parent Families of Farmers of Sverdlovsk Region (according to Budget Surveys of 1960) by V. N. Mamyachenkov

“…A huge role of private farming in the economy of surveyed households is proved: for a significant part of them the products of farms formed the basis of the daily diet. It is declared that most of the costs of single-parent families of farmers amounted to costs of food and industrial goods. …”
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EXPERIMENTAL STUDY TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF TIMERS ON USER SUSCEPTIBILITY TO PHISHING ATTACKS by Amy E. Antonucci, Yair Levy, Laurie P. Dringus, Martha Snyder

“…Social engineering costs organizations billions of dollars. It exploits the weakest link of information systems security, the users. …”
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Water Quality Credit Trading: General Principles by Tara Wade, Tatiana Borisova

“…Market-based programs, such as water quality credit trading, can provide environmental benefits at lower costs and more quickly than other policy instruments (Shortle 2013). …”
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Effectiveness Modelling and Economic Evaluation of Primary HPV Screening for Cervical Cancer Prevention in New Zealand. by Jie-Bin Lew, Kate Simms, Megan Smith, Hazel Lewis, Harold Neal, Karen Canfell

“…Sixteen potential strategies for HPV screening were considered.<h4>Results</h4>Most primary HPV strategies were more effective than current practice, for both unvaccinated women and cohorts offered vaccination. …”
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Project quality, regulation quality by Elena Mussinelli

“…Not to mention the «badly written, lengthy regulations that are difficult to read and even more difficult to apply, (which) now represent a constant factor with which even the most prepared and motivated operator must come to terms» (Gorlani, 2022), which lead to confusion and interpretative doubts. …”
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Digital technologies for water use and management in agriculture: Recent applications and future outlook by Carlos Parra-López, Saker Ben Abdallah, Guillermo Garcia-Garcia, Abdo Hassoun, Hana Trollman, Sandeep Jagtap, Sumit Gupta, Abderrahmane Aït-Kaddour, Sureerat Makmuang, Carmen Carmona-Torres

“…The review finds that these technologies offer significant potential for improving water management practices, with Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence emerging as the most versatile and widely adopted. Efficient irrigation strategies appear to be the most common application across technologies. …”
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Nonlinear Predictive Control System for Stiction Compensation in Electropneumatic Control Valves by M. E. U. J. Araújo, J. R. T. Gadelha, W. M. Santos, A. L. Maitelli, F. M. U. Araújo

“…This paper presents the implementation of a system that deals with static friction (stiction) in electropneumatic control valves, one of the most common nonlinearities that causes problems such as limit cycles and consequently wear of the valve and its moving parts, as well as losses in production and maintenance costs. …”
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Sustainability and energy self-sufficiency; overcoming the barriers by Rania Abdel Galil

“…Whereas in the MENA region, there are no incentives for economical use of energy, there is a lack of funding in public utilities in most countries, the investment climate is less attractive and a monopoly position of most electricity producers exists.…”
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Enhancing Power Efficiency in 4IR Solar Plants through AI-Powered Energy Optimization by S. Boobalan, TR. Kalai Lakshmi, Shubhangi N. Ghate, Mohammed Hameeduddin Haqqani, Sushma Jaiswal

“…The AI-powered system relies on intelligent algorithms to identify the most efficient energy sources for the industry’s needs and adjust them accordingly while learning from every task it is given. …”
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Ants as Indicators in Brazil: A Review with Suggestions to Improve the Use of Ants in Environmental Monitoring Programs by Carla R. Ribas, Renata B. F. Campos, Fernando A. Schmidt, Ricardo R. C. Solar

“…Among the parameters analyzed in the papers, species composition is the most suitable to evaluate the effect of the disturbance on ant communities. …”
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