INSTITUTIONAL RATIONALIZATION OF MANAGEMENT FOR STABLE PROGRESS OF RURAL AREAS by Marina Sergeevna IURKOVA, Anna Alexeevna GOLUBEVA, Valentina Ivanovna TROFIMOVA, Natalia Vladimirovna PROVIDONOVA

“…The results obtained shows that farmers in the study area had low formal education and were mostly married males with an average age and household size of 32 years and six (6) persons respectively. …”
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Uncertainty aware energy management in microgrids with integrated electric bicycle charging stations and green certificate market by Hossein Shayeghi, Iraj Faraji Davoudkhani

“…Case III, incorporating stochastic management, further lowers costs by 1.5% and by 19.8% relative to case I, but increases demand response costs by 7.5% and reduces GCM revenue by 38.9% due to renewable fluctuations. …”
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Addressing geographical challenges in locating strategic nickel industrial parks: a case study of Indonesia by Hasan Nur, Aadhaar Chaturvedi, Valery Pavlov

“…Sensitivity analyses examine transportation costs, setup costs, centralised versus decentralised strategies, and ore supply variability. …”
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Long short‐term memory‐based forecasting of uncertain parameters in an islanded hybrid microgrid and its energy management using improved grey wolf optimization algorithm by Raji Krishna, Hemamalini S

“…The objective of energy management in an islanded hybrid microgrid (HMG) is to minimize daily operating costs by considering load demand and the bidding costs of energy sources and storage devices. …”
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Industrial wastewater treatment and reuse: Heckman probit sample selection model by Urgessa Tilahun Bekabil, M.K. Jayamohan, Amsalu Bedemo Beyene

“…Results revealed that R&D costs, innovation practices, the availability of purpose-driven vehicles for waste transport, energy costs, and the scale of operations significantly affect the reuse of treated wastewater. …”
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When Rivals Are Absent: Male Aggression Towards Females in Bluefin Killifish by Ratna Karatgi, Rebecca C. Fuller

“…ABSTRACT The process of obtaining mates, mating, and (potentially) caring for offspring is costly. While there are inherent costs to reproduction, behavioral interactions among individuals are often the primary drivers of reproductive costs. …”
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Sustainability-driven optimization of np chart for enhanced process monitoring by Salah Haridy, Ridvan Aydin, Asma'a Omar, Zehra Araci, Mohammad Shamsuzzaman, Ahmed Maged

“…Sensitivity analysis further examines the impact of design parameters on total sustainability costs, providing practical insights for manufacturers aiming to reduce carbon emissions and inspection costs while maintaining high-quality production standards. …”
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Financial hardship among patients suffering from neglected tropical diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis of global literature. by Chanthawat Patikorn, Jeong-Yeon Cho, Joshua Higashi, Xiao Xian Huang, Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk

“…Costs of visceral leishmaniasis impoverished 20-26% of the 61 households investigated, depending on the costs captured. …”
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Association of triglyceride-glucose index with postoperative recovery-related factors in type II cesarean scar pregnancy treated by transvaginal surgery by Xiaoyan Li, Shuhua Liu, Dehong Liu

“…Results A significant correlation was found between TyG and hospitalization costs (β = −677.5, p = 0.02). Higher TyG levels were associated with shorter hospital stays and lower costs, while no significant associations were observed with other factors. …”
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Motives of Chinese foreign direct investment in Africa: With regulation effects of institutional quality. by Lilin Yuan, Peng Ji

“…Hence, when selecting investment locations, Chinese enterprises should prioritize the host country's (region's) market size, labor costs, and institutional quality. Additionally, they should utilize the moderating effect of institutional quality to mitigate the disadvantages associated with higher labor costs.…”
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Comparison of Real-world Outcomes Between Patients Treated with Tapentadol ER or Oxycodone CR by Mike Durkin, Jacqueline Pesa, Jessica Lopatto, Rachel Halpern, Damon Van Voorhis, Stephanie Korrer

“…The tapentadol ER compared with the oxycodone CR cohort had higher mean pharmacy costs ($4,263 versus $3,694; p <0.001), lower mean inpatient costs ($3,625 versus $6,309; p<0.001), and lower mean total healthcare costs ($16,510 versus $19,330; p=0.004)…”
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Economic losses due to low coverage of lipid-lowering therapy in patients with cardiovascular diseases in the Russian Federation by Yu. A. Balanova, A. V. Kontsevaya, A. E. Imaeva, O. I. Karpov, M. B. Khudyakov

“…The share of direct costs for hospitalizations is 86%, while in the presence of cerebrovascular diseases it is 76.8%. …”
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Medical and social significance and calculation of the economic burden of axial spondyloarthritis in the Russian Federation by A. M. Lila, T. V. Dubinina, R. O. Dreval, S. А. Lapshina, A. N. Zabotina

“…The ratio of direct and indirect costs was 1:4, i.e. 4.7 billion rubles – direct costs (84.3 thousand rubles per 1 patient) and 17.2 billion rubles – indirect costs (311.2 thousand rubles per 1 patient). …”
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Towards a new Existenzminimum by Sara Brysch

“…It does so by combining a case study approach with a building costs simulation. Findings indicate that co-design decisions based on a collective self-redefinition of Existenzminimum (minimum dwelling) affect the housing layout and contribute to reduce building costs. …”
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The Role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Future of Forestry Sector Logistics by Leonel J. R. Nunes

“…Background: The forestry industry plays an important role in the economy and environmental sustainability, facing significant logistical challenges such as the geographical dispersion of plantations, the variability of raw materials, and high transportation costs. Artificial Intelligence (AI) emerges as a promising tool to optimize logistics processes, contributing to the reduction in costs, waste, and environmental impacts. …”
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An Improved Spider Wasp Optimizer for Green Vehicle Route Planning in Flower Collection by Mengxin Lu, Shujuan Wang

“…To this end, this study proposes a green vehicle routing planning model that incorporates multiple factors, such as fixed costs, refrigeration costs, transportation costs, and so on, to minimize the total costs under hard time window constraints. …”
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Smart Energy Management for Hybrid Systems: A Genetic Algorithm in Response to Market Volatility by Dácil Díaz-Bello, Carlos Vargas-Salgado, Jesús Águila-León, David Alfonso-Solar

“…The results demonstrate a 23% reduction in operational costs and an 18% decrease in energy importation under Critical conditions, while demand shifting during peak periods reduced peak electricity costs by up to 59%. …”
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The potential public for the Museum of Life Fiocruz: Cultural practices and leisure habits within its zone of influence by Vanessa Fernandes Guimarães, José Sérgio Damico, Diego Vaz Bevilaqua, Sonia Mano, Ana Carolina de Souza Gonzalez

“…Their habits involve casual leisure activities that do not add costs to their budget, such as activities developed in the domestic environment. …”
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Determination of the energy required to expose the surface of the knife and the bottom of the bulldozer blade to the ground at the beginning of the pass by V. A. Nikolayev

“…The total energy costs, power, traction force are revealed, based on the initial conditions. …”
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Utilización de lavazas enriquecidas en alimentación de cerdos de levante-ceba (30-90 kg.) Use of supplemented kitchen refuse for feeding growing - finishing pigs (30-90 kg.) by Reyes R. Gustavo, Cuellar B. Piedad

“…The economical analysis showed better results for TI (kitchen refuse + protein supplement) and the same treatment had lower production cost per finished pig, than it would be expected from the use of commercial feed.…”
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