Immune response in a wild bird is predicted by oxidative status, but does not cause oxidative stress. by Dominic L Cram, Jonathan D Blount, Jennifer E York, Andrew J Young

“…The immune system provides vital protection against pathogens, but extensive evidence suggests that mounting immune responses can entail survival and fecundity costs. The physiological mechanisms that underpin these costs remain poorly understood, despite their potentially important role in shaping life-histories. …”
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Optimizing Pharmaceutical Inventory and Investment Strategies During Pandemics: A Dynamic Approach Integrating Environmental Emission Rates and Advanced Optimization Algorithms by Vinita Dwivedi, Mamta Keswani, Uttam Kumar Khedlekar, Lalji Kumar

“…The study addresses a complex replenishment problem involving joint pricing, environmental costs, order costs, preservation technology, and replenishment schedules for non-instantaneous deteriorating items, aiming to maximize retailer's profit. …”
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Clinical efficacy of laparoscopic cholecystectomy combined with percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage in severe acute cholecystitis: an analysis of prognostic risk factors by Lexiang Chen, Mingfu Hu, Shanhu Huang, Yi Sun

“…However, the joint group incurred higher surgical costs, total hospitalization costs, and medication costs than the LC group (P < 0.05). …”
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Condition optimization for organizing the operation of connected trains on an ongoing basis on the Trans-Siberian Railway of the Eastern operational range of the railway network by M. I. Mekhedov, E. A. Sotnikov, P. S. Kholodnyak, D. A. Kursin, N. V. Kornienko

“…It is shown that the minimization of costs is ensured by the sequential (flow) execution of these operations. …”
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CLINICAL AND ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF LACOSAMIDE IN PATIENTS WITH PARTIAL EPILEPSY by E. A. Pyadushkina, M. Yu. Frolov

“…The Model allows calculation of the direct medical costs (for the drugs and medical services) and direct non-medical costs (payment of temporary and permanent disability allowances) from the point of view of healthcare and social security system of a constituent member of the Russian Federation. …”
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Maternal and neonatal outcomes following preterm birth: a retrospective cohort study by James Li, Matthew Davis, Kara M Rood, Vanessa Perez Patel, Eric Zuk, Damien Croft, Hyagriv N Simhan

“…Background Preterm births (PTBs) and associated costs in the USA are a public health concern. This study evaluated maternal and neonatal hospital-based outcomes, resource use and costs during delivery and up to 30 days postdischarge following PTB.Methods This study was conducted in the USA among individuals who delivered at ≥23 weeks gestation (1 January 2016–30 September 2021) captured in the Premier AI Healthcare Database. …”
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Analysis of the Amendments in IAS 7 and IFRS 7 within the Scope of Supplier Finance Arrangements by Seçil Sigali, Reha Memişoğlu

“…Supplier finance-reverse factoring transactions have positive effects on supply chain finance and resilience, mainly by lowering the financing costs of suppliers that are mostly small- and medium-sized enterprises. …”
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Model Reference Adaptive Sensorless Control of Variable-Speed Pumped Storage Doubly Fed Induction Machine Under Reversible Operations by Zhi Zheng, Ziqiang Man, Shuxin Tan, Wei Yan, Yu Lu, Jie Tian, Weiqun Liu, Xu Wang

“…The sensorless control of doubly fed induction machine (DFIM) rotor magnetic flux based on a model reference adaptive system (MRAS) is proposed to improve the reliability of a large-scale variable-speed pumped storage (VSPS) system and reduce operation and maintenance costs. The existing sensorless control of doubly fed induction machines (DFIMs) is mostly focused on generator operation, making it difficult to apply to the VSPS system. …”
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Variation within and between digital pathology and light microscopy for the diagnosis of histopathology slides: blinded crossover comparison study by David RJ Snead, Ayesha S Azam, Jenny Thirlwall, Peter Kimani, Louise Hiller, Adam Bickers, Clinton Boyd, David Boyle, David Clark, Ian Ellis, Kishore Gopalakrishnan, Mohammad Ilyas, Paul Kelly, Maurice Loughrey, Desley Neil, Emad Rakha, Ian SD Roberts, Shatrughan Sah, Maria Soares, YeeWah Tsang, Manuel Salto-Tellez, Helen Higgins, Donna Howe, Abigail Takyi, Yan Chen, Agnieszka Ignatowicz, Jason Madan, Henry Nwankwo, George Partridge, Janet Dunn

“…Therefore, there is considerable interest in how these investment costs may be offset by improved efficiency in the service, particularly in whether DP provides any advantage to the speed of reporting slides over conventional LM. …”
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Two-stage coordinated energy scheduling of intelligent connected transportation systems considering nonanticipativity by Junjie Hu, Jun Wu, Chengming Xu, Xuetao Liu, Baozhu Liu

“…In the day-ahead stage, the model aims to minimize interconnection costs, electricity purchase costs, and wind/solar curtailment costs under representative scenarios. …”
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Infrastructure Lifecycle Corrosion Management Using AI Analytics and Digital Twins by Bilal Ayyub, Karl Stambaugh

“…Corrosion in infrastructure creates high-risk scenarios, and mitigation strategies are expensive, with significant annual costs globally. This paper advances the discourse of corrosion monitoring and tracking in infrastructure, emphasizing the importance of data analytics, AI, and Digital Twins (DT) for managing the infrastructure lifecycle while reducing risk and costs associated with corrosion. …”
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Systematic Prioritization of Sensor Improvements in an Industrial Gas Supply Network by Onur Babat, Ali Esmaili, Joshua D. Isom, Camilo Mancilla, Luis F. Zuluaga

“…The paper analyzes the impact of the sensor reading errors on parameters that affect the production costs of a leading US industrial gas supply company. …”
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Fuzzy clustering based scheduling algorithm for minimizing the tasks completion time in cloud computing environment by Nawaf R. Alharbe

“…The goal is to make better use of resources while cutting down on scheduling costs. By categorizing resources based on their characteristics, this method aims to lower search costs during project planning and speed up the resource selection process. …”
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Techno-economic and environmental aspects of the production of medium scale ligno-cellulosic ethanol under Egyptian conditions by Shadia R. Tewfik, Abdel Ghani M.G. Abulnour, Mohamed H. Sorour

“…For the proposed capacity, costs have been estimated based on published information for the equipment as updated to 2013. …”
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INNOVATIVE FACTORS AS THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMPETITIVENESS OF REGIONS OF THE SIBERIAN FEDERAL DISTRICT by S. Yakovlev

“…The dependence of the gross regional product per capita of some of the factors influencing the innovative development of the region: internal costs of research and development, the current internal development costs, the number of patents granted. …”
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Pre- and Postemergence Herbicides for Use Around Palms and Cycads by Robert H. Stamps, Jeffrey G. Norcini, Timothy K. Broschat, Charles W. Meister

“…Meister, lists herbicides for use in nurseries to reduce weed management costs in nurseries and maintenance costs in landscapes. …”
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Brazilian Amazonian microorganisms: A sustainable alternative for plant development by Monyck Jeane dos Santos Lopes, Aline Figueiredo Cardoso, Moacyr Bernardino Dias-Filho, Ely Simone Cajueiro Gurgel, Gisele Barata da Silva

“…The Brazilian Amazon, and its mostly unexplored biodiversity, have great potential for identifying and isolating beneficial microorganisms to develop sustainable protocols for plant production with less environmental damage and to meet the increasing demand for food production. …”
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APPROACH TO OPTIMISING AND MANAGING WAREHOUSE STOCKS IN A CAR SERVICE by Ivan Beloev, Dimitar Grozev

“…The objective of the proposed model is to minimise the total inventory costs, including purchasing, holding, and potential shortage costs, by applying integer linear programming techniques. …”
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Real-World Prevalence and Outcomes of Patients with Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria Treated with C5 Inhibitors in the US: A Retrospective Claims Database Analysis by Srinivas K Tantravahi, Dominick Latremouille-Viau, Raj Desai, Soyon Lee, Jincy Paulose, Anumaxine Geevarghese, Annie Guérin, Shravanthi Seshasayee, Mohin Chanpura, Glorian Yen

“…Among patients treated with C5i, estimated annual total PNH-related costs PPPY were $660 533 (eculizumab: $697 459; ravulizumab: $612 522) for the first year and $633 984 (eculizumab: $691 022; ravulizumab: $570 832) for subsequent years, with treatment costs accounting for 94.3% to 94.6% of total costs…”
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Optimizing Group Multi-Factor Authentication for Secure and Efficient IoT Device Communications by Salem AlJanah, Ning Zhang, Siok Wah Tay

“…Existing multi-factor authentication solutions are mostly used for user-to-system identity verification scenarios, whereas, in the IoT context, there are device-to-device communication scenarios. …”
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