Herpes zoster in older adults: Impact on carbon footprint in the United States by Desmond Curran, Jacopo Bitetti, Imogen Catterall, Stephen Wincott

“…We provide estimates for (I) annual herpes zoster (HZ) cases, (II) carbon costs related to healthcare utilization, and (III) annual carbon emissions due to HZ among ≥50 years of age (YOA) United States (US) population. …”
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Subclinical hypocalcemia in dairy cows: reproductive and economic impacts on Eastern European farms by Daniel Ionut Berean, Liviu Marian Bogdan, Raluca Cimpean

“…These factors contributed to increased indirect costs. Economic analysis indicated that SCHC cows incurred approximately 54 EUR more in additional costs per animal compared to normocalcemic cows.DiscussionSCHC is a hidden contributor to economic losses in dairy operations, primarily due to its negative impact on reproductive performance and udder health. …”
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Translation of single channel electro encephalic signals into limb motion by A.B.R. Lara, Oscar E. Ruiz, L.O. Araujo Junior, F.P. Bhering

“…The non-invasive multi-channel headset used in the study of Brain–Computer Interface (BCI) systems for the development of NPs, presents high resolution in data collection, but also presents high computing expenses and hardware costs. To overcome the barrier of the costs and present an accessible technology for these studies, this manuscript presents the implementation of a method that uses a single-channel headset to sample the Electro Encephalo Graph (EEG) wave. …”
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KEPUTUSAN STRUKTUR MODAL DAN KEBIJAKAN DIVIDEN SEBAGAI MEKANISME MENGURANGI MASALAH KEAGENAN by Arief Yulianto

“…This paper aims to provide empirical evidence  on the managerial ownership (agency costs  hypothesis) which suggests debt equity ratio and dividend payout ratio may reduce agency costs. …”
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Prevalence and healthcare burden of inappropriate antimicrobial treatment in patients at high risk of complications from acute respiratory infections: a scoping review by Cate Polacek, Tristan T. Timbrook, Tristan T. Timbrook, Chendi Cui, Zoe Heins, Ning A. Rosenthal

“…This scoping review described the prevalence of inappropriate antimicrobial use and its healthcare burden in this patient population.Materials and methodsWe queried Medline and CINAHL databases using keywords related to antimicrobials for ARIs in high-risk patients, and included United States studies reporting prescribing patterns, outcomes, adverse events, and costs.ResultsOur search yielded 3,383 studies after de-duplication, from which 482 were selected for full-text evaluation based on exclusion criteria, resulting in 32 papers analyzed that included relevant information on high-risk populations. …”
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Evaluating the Progress of Tourism in a Less-Developed Area of China: A Tourism Development Index Approach Based on Night-Time Light and POI Data by Xuan Liu, Guohui Zhou, Hanlin Wang, Ergang Wen

“…This study is an attempt to rapidly evaluate tourism development using only open-access data, which could play a positive role in saving public management costs in less-developed areas.…”
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Viable and Agile Model for Improving the Quality Area in an Automotive Company in Mexico by Blanca Alhely Ceballos Chávez, José Guillermo Takeo Nava, Jesús Jaime Moreno Escobar, Oswaldo Morales Matamoros

“…The Problem Resolution Process is vital both pre- and post-sale, influencing customer satisfaction and warranty costs. Strengthening connectivity and collaboration will lead to faster problem resolution, reduced costs, and enhanced reputation. …”
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Cross-Border Interaction between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in Logistics: Conceptual Approaches by G. Bodaubayeva, H. Holzhacker, A. Beifert, N. Zhaken

“…The analysis of the Trans-Caspian Route and the Southern Corridor highlights challenges such as high transport costs, lack of institutional support, geopolitical influences, and investment risks. …”
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Selecting the optimal settings loading-unloading front of refrigerating warehouse by Ibragimov N.N., Ismatullaev A.F.

“…Practical significance of the research in the implementation of its results lies in the possibility of reducing operating costs, depending on the type of loading and unloading front.…”
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Robotic irrigation complex for crop cultivation in irrigated areas by M. G. Zagoruiko, D.  A. Soloviev, N. F. Ryzhko, S. N. Ryzhko

“…It was found that such a complex would optimize the irrigation process, reduce costs and resource consumption in the irrigated area, and decrease environmental pollution. …”
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Multi-Energy Microgrid Data-Driven Distributionally Robust Optimization Dispatch Considering Uncertainty Correlation by LI Jiawei, SUN Qinghe, WANG Qiong, YE Yujian, HU Heng, ZHANG Xi

“…[Results] Case simulations demonstrate that the proposed distributionally robust model effectively eliminates unrealistic distributions in the ambiguity set，resulting in an 8.16% reduction in out-of-sample costs. The proposed sample-pruning algorithm further reduces the out-of-sample costs by 3.33%. …”
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Adoption Dynamics of Organic Pesticides Among Cocoa Producers In Two Ecological Zones Of Ghana by Michael Asigbaase, Simon Abugre, Mary Banowiiri, Josephine Akutteh

“…Non‐adopters cited barriers such as high transportation costs, offensive odors, and limited information access. …”
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Efficient Attention Transformer Network With Self-Similarity Feature Enhancement for Hyperspectral Image Classification by Yuyang Wang, Zhenqiu Shu, Zhengtao Yu

“…However, the inherent high-dimensional property of hyperspectral images (HSIs) leads to a sharp increase in the number of parameters and expensive computational costs. Moreover, self-attention operations in transformer-based HSIC methods may introduce irrelevant spectral–spatial information, and thus may consequently impact the classification performance. …”
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Bi-Level Resilience-Oriented Sitting and Sizing of Energy Hubs in Electrical, Thermal and Gas Networks Considering Energy Management System by Dhafer M. Dahis, Seyed Saeedallah Mortazavi, Mahmood Joorabian, Alireza Saffarian

“…This considers the minimization of annual operating and resilience costs based on optimal power flow equations in networks. …”
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Barriers, Drivers, and Social Considerations for AI Adoption in Supply Chain Management: A Tertiary Study by Johannes Hangl, Viktoria Joy Behrens, Simon Krause

“…The main drivers of AI in SCM are saving costs and increasing efficiency in combination with reducing time and resources. …”
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NET SINGLE PREMIUM ON CRITICAL ILLNESS INSURANCE WITH MULTI-STATE MODEL by Inggriani Millennia Taraly, Neva Satyahadewi, Hendra Perdana, Ray Tamtama, Siti Aprizkiyandari

“…The benefits obtained are in the form of death compensation, and treatment costs when the insured is diagnosed with a critical illness. …”
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ON THE BARLEY PLANTING METHODS ON DRAINED SOIL by Yu. I. Mitrofanov, A. E. Artemiev, N. A. Smirnova

“…The labor productivity is increased by 1.5–3 times, labor costs per 1 hectare connected with planting operations are reduced by 37.6–58.4%, and fuel consumption is reduced by 7.4–39.2 %. …”
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Federated learning-based CT liver tumor detection using a teacher‒student SANet with semisupervised learning by Cheng-Shun Lee, Jenn-Jier James Lien, Kai Chain, Li-Chun Huang, Zhong-Wei Hsu

“…Conclusions This study presents a promising method for enhancing the CT-based liver tumor detection while reducing the incurred labor and time costs by utilizing federated learning, the teacher-student SANet framework, and SSL techniques. …”
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An Improved Whale Optimization Algorithm for the Clean Production Transformation of Automotive Body Painting by Qin Yang, Xinning Li, Teng Yang, Hu Wu, Liwen Zhang

“…A multi-level, multi-objective decision-making model is developed by integrating three dimensions of clean production: material flow (optimizing material costs), energy flow (minimizing painting energy consumption), and environmental emission flow (reducing carbon emissions and processing time). …”
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A deep neural network approach for optimizing charging behavior for electric vehicle ride-hailing fleet by Kaizhe Chen, Jin Liu, Wenjing Lyu, Tianyuan Wang, Jinxi Wen

“…The integration of AI to optimize the operations of these EV ride-hailing fleets could substantially help achieve the dual objectives of reducing charging costs and simultaneously lowering carbon emissions. …”
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