Enhancing communication skills in diabetes care: an observational study regarding the impact of role-playing training for medical staff by Miyako Kishimoto, Yuri Kaneko, Akiko Wakui-Kimura, Yuko Tachibana, Fumihiko Sato, Takako Kikuchi, Yumi Matsushita, Mika Hashiguchi, Yuka Imai, Erika Sakanaya, Ikuko Senga, Eri Kaido, Hiromi Naito, Aya Yatsuzuka, Akikazu Hashimoto, Keisuke Ueno, Kenjiro Imai, Takehiro Sugiyama, Ken Ohashi, Hiroji Kitazato

“…Compared with in-person seminars, the positive aspects of online seminars were a reduction in time and travel costs and the removal of geographical obstacles. …”
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The impact of temporal hydrogen regulation on hydrogen exporters and their domestic energy transition by Leon Schumm, Hazem Abdel-Khalek, Tom Brown, Falko Ueckerdt, Michael Sterner, Maximilian Parzen, Davide Fioriti

“…We find substantial co-benefits of domestic carbon dioxide mitigation and hydrogen exports, whereby exports can reduce market-based costs for domestic electricity consumers while mitigation reduces costs for hydrogen exporters. …”
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Optimization of external container delivery and pickup scheduling based on appointment mechanism. by Pengfei Huang, Hao Wang, Fangjiao Tan, Yuyue Jiang, Jinfen Cai

“…Therefore, this study aims to minimize truck companies' operational costs by establishing an optimization model for external truck scheduling. …”
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Installation for maintaining the operating temperature of electrolytes when restoring machine parts with electroplated coatings by A. N. Kotomchin, A. F. Sinelnikov

“…The use of electroplating in the production and restoration of machine parts is important for increasing reliability and reducing costs in the operation of cars. At the same time, strengthening and restoring parts with chrome, iron and alloys based on them leads to additional costs, due to the specifics of technologies and the need to maintain certain operating temperatures of electrolytes to obtain high-quality and high-performance precipitation. …”
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Why do Chinese migrant workers return? Exploring economic push-pull factors and emotional ties. by Qiong Zhou, Zhe Huang, Lining Zeng, Jun Xu

“…This model investigates how perceived benefits, trust, costs, and both personal and government support affect migrant workers' willingness to return. …”
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METHODS TO INCREASE EFFICIENCY OF MANAGEMENT AND AUDIT INSTRUMENTS TO CONTROL ANIMAL DISEASES IN CRISIS SITUATIONS by Mirela Daniela NICOLA, Dorina Nicoleta MOCUTA

“…Generally, they are affecting mostly the less developed countries where because of the poverty and the economic vulnerability have /not invested in infrastructure (small farms), technology and research. …”
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Review of Carbonation Resistance in Hydrated Cement Based Materials by Joseph Mwiti Marangu, Joseph Karanja Thiong’o, Jackson Muthengia Wachira

“…Blended cements are preferred to Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) in construction industry due to costs and technological and environmental benefits associated with them. …”
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Study and Analysis of a Multilayer Multipair Electret-Based Thin-Film Mechanical Antenna by K. P. Zhou, Y. T. Niu, W. N. Liu, Z. D. Wang, S. H. Guo, B. Li, Z. Wang, X. K. Zhao

“…At present, VLF and ULF antennas are mostly bulky and require hundreds of antennas and more to be set up, which is costly and inefficient. …”
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On the Design of Junction Termination for 4H-SiC High-Voltage Devices by Zimo Yuan, Anders Hallen, Mietek Bakowski

“…The termination pattern is then directly scaled without any iterative design process to optimize the termination area, and the simulation results show that the field distribution can be mostly preserved. Optimization and limitations that are related to fabrication and design considerations are also addressed in the end.…”
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Aflatoxin M1 Levels in Cheeses in Türkiye: A Review by Barış Ötün

“…Milk and dairy products mostly contain mycotoxins such as aflatoxin M1, aflatoxin M2, ochratoxin, cyclopiazonic acid, trichothecene, zearalenone, patulin. …”
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Platform search design with heterogeneous consumers by Junbao Li, Chengying He, Zhanzhong Shi

“…We find that when confronted with higher search costs, naïve consumers tend to assess fewer products and limit the depth of their evaluations. …”
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Environmental judicature and firm productivity: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment. by Xiaoqi Huang, Wenbo Yao, Zhi Cao

“…Our findings show that environmental courts will reduce firm productivity in the short term, chiefly owing to the increased environmental violation costs, environmental reputation costs and environmental compliance costs. …”
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The Development of Residential Areas on the Example of Łuków: Reurbanization and Suburbanization by Rafał Fornal, Artur Myna

“…Suburbanization results in social costs and high costs of provision of technical and social infrastructure. …”
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Energy and economic benefits from economies of scale in intercity freight transportation by Philip Krammer, Andreas W. Schäfer

“…Abstract Since the beginning of motorization, intercity freight transportation modes have carried an ever-increasing load and experienced a nearly continuous decline in average unit costs and energy intensity. Using a unique dataset, we demonstrate the tight, inverse relationships between the average load carried with average transport unit costs and energy intensity, which are invariant across mode, space, and time, for the countries and time periods considered. …”
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Barriers to Blockchain Technology Implementation in Small and Medium-Sized Logistics Enterprises by Quy-Thuan Bui, Son-Tung Le

“…Blockchain has the potential to enhance supply chain efficiency, increase transparency, and reduce operational costs. However, small and medium-sized logistics enterprises (SMEs) face significant challenges in adopting this technology. …”
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Hydraulic fracturing radioactive source tracing technology based on hydraulic fracturing tracing mechanics model by Pang Yang, Song Yushou, Pan Qun, Zhao Lin

“…In the examination of economic and environmental benefits, it is found that the model proposed by the research reduces labor expenditure costs to 292,000 yuan, equipment costs to 392,000 yuan, chemical supplies costs to 217,000 yuan, and maintenance costs to 98,000 yuan, but the revenue increases to 1.34 million yuan, and environmental satisfaction reaches 81.4%. …”
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Double layered expansion planning for virtual power plants considering virtual energy storage systems by Jianghai Ma, Xuanwen Gu, Yao Zhang, Jinming Gu, Wenjie Luo, Feng Gao

“…To address the constraints imposed by high costs of conventional physical energy storage in virtual power plant planning, a bi-level expansion planning model incorporating virtual energy storage systems is proposed. …”
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Landslide susceptibility assessment using lightweight dense residual network with emphasis on deep spatial features by Shenghua Xu, Zhuolu Wang, Jiping Liu, Xinrui Ma, Tingting Zhou, Qing Tang

“…To minimize computational costs, we design a depthwise separable residual module that optimizes traditional convolution on residual branches into depthwise separable convolution. …”
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Universal energy efficiency analysis models for integrated energy systems supporting multiple scenarios by LILI YAO, LIANGWU XU, ZENGXU ZHAO

“…The proposed models significantly reduced IEMS construction costs, with an average reduction of 63% in labor costs.…”
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Progress and Challenges in the Process of Using Solid Waste as a Catalyst for Biodiesel Synthesis by Zhaolin Dong, Kaili Dong, Haotian Li, Liangyi Zhang, Yitong Wang

“…Biodiesel, as one of the alternatives to fossil fuels, faces significant challenges in large-scale industrial production due to its high production costs. In addition to raw material costs, catalyst costs are also a critical factor that cannot be overlooked. …”
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