A Retrospective Claims-Based Study Evaluating Clinical and Economic Burden Among Patients With Moderate to Severe Osteoarthritis Pain in the United States by Patricia B. Schepman, Sheena Thakkar, Rebecca L. Robinson, Craig G. Beck, Deepa Malhotra, Birol Emir, Ryan N. Hansen

“…# Background There has been limited evaluation of medication adherence, healthcare resource utilization (HCRU), and healthcare costs over time in patients with osteoarthritis (OA), and stratification by pain severity level has not been reported. …”
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Trends and indicators of nursing workforce shortages in Canada: a retrospective ecological study, 2015–2022 by Cathy Eastwood, Tracie Risling, Guosong Wu, Natalie Sapiro, Megan Harmon, Riley Martens

“…Job vacancies rose by 6.4% (95% CI: 6.29 to 6.51%), overtime hours increased by 13.09 million (95% CI: 10.28 to 15.87) and yearly overtime costs rose by 0.78 billion CAD (95% CI: 0.64 to 0.92). …”
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An Insurance Value Modeling Approach That Captures the Wider Value of a Novel Antimicrobial to Health Systems, Patients, and the Population by Mei S. Chan, Richard Holloway, Robert King, Rosie Polya, Rebecca Sloan, Jack C. Kowalik, Tom Ashfield, Luke S.P. Moore, Thomas Porter, Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard

“… # Discussion The overall insurance value if AMR remains at current levels (a conservative projection), is over 5 times greater than insurance value from just the operational healthcare costs perspective, traditionally the sole perspective used in health budgeting. …”
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Evolution of Citrus Disease Management Programs and Their Economic Implications: The Case of Florida’s Citrus Industry by Ronald P. Muraro

“…Managing new exotic endemic diseases is very costly, and it is imperative that state and federal governments focus on preventing the introduction of other diseases such as citrus variegated cholorosis and citrus leprosis virus. …”
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Evolution of Citrus Disease Management Programs and Their Economic Implications: The Case of Florida’s Citrus Industry by Ronald P. Muraro

“…Managing new exotic endemic diseases is very costly, and it is imperative that state and federal governments focus on preventing the introduction of other diseases such as citrus variegated cholorosis and citrus leprosis virus. …”
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Influenza: prevention, prophylaxis and treatment by Roxane Jones, Stuart Jones

“…In South Africa during the period from 1997 to 2001, influenza and pneumonia combined was one of the top five causes of death for both males and females.1 Influenza illness causes substantial morbidity and mortality, with healthcare costs and lost productivity due to absenteeism resulting in both direct and indirect costs and, ultimately, a formidable economic burden.2…”
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The Crisis of US-centric Globalization: Causes, Trends and Scenarios of Development by A. A. Kasantzev, V. M. Sergeev

“…Recently the USA’s abilities as global hegemon have shrunk dramatically in relative terms as well as American electorate’s willingness to bear the costs of hegemony. Washington is unable to maintain stable functioning of “the rules of the game” neither separately, nor with its allies. …”
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Leveraging smart glasses for telemedicine to improve primary healthcare services and referrals in a remote rural district, Kingandu, DRC, 2019–2020 by Jules Diaka, Wim Van Damme, Felipe Sere, Lenka Benova, Willem van de Put, Steven Serneels

“…Key stakeholders were interviewed and the project costs were analysed. Results The use cases for the intervention were defined in consultation with the stakeholders. …”
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International disparities in open access practices in the Earth Sciences by Olivier Pourret, David William Hedding, Daniel Enrique Ibarra, Dasapta Erwin Irawan, Haiyan Liu, Jonathan Peter Tennant

“…Fully OA journals were mostly published by emerging publishers and their article processing charges ranged from $1000 to $2200.Conclusions: The rise in OA publishing has potential implications for researchers and tends to shift article-processing charges from organizations to individuals. …”
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The impact of electric boilers and heat storages in the Nordic power markets and district heating systems by Pauli Hiltunen, Tomi J. Lindroos, Miika Rämä

“…District heating production costs decreased, but electricity price increased.…”
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The recycling of construction waste asphalt mixes – study case by Mengya Jiang, Xiaoqing Cai

“…Although CW has good application effects in highway construction, its service life is still a factor that affects its promotion. Currently, CW is mostly concrete waste, so it is integrated with asphalt mixtures to prepare new types of recycled asphalt, extending the service life of asphalt roads, reducing construction costs and environmental damage. …”
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Numerical solutions for norovirus epidemic spread: implications for public health control by Suhail Saleem, Ali Raza, Marek Lampart, Muhammad Rafiq, Nauman Ahmed, Muhammad Shoaib Arif

“…The impact of this virus is substantial, contributing to roughly 200,000 deaths annually—about 50,000 of which are among young children—mostly in low-income countries. In addition to the human toll, norovirus imposes a significant economic burden, with global costs reaching approximately $60 billion each year due to healthcare expenses and lost productivity. …”
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Integrating Frequency Setting, Timetabling, and Route Assignment to Synchronize Transit Lines by Omar J. Ibarra-Rojas, Juan C. Muñoz, Ricardo Giesen, Paul Knapp

“…Numerical results indicate that our approach is capable of reducing operating costs and increasing the level of service for large scenarios.…”
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A bilevel interactive energy trading method for distribution networks incorporating multiple microgrids by LIN Da, CHEN Zhe, LI Zhihao, WANG Xiangjin, TANG Yajie, QIN Jiakai

“…To enhance the operating revenue of distribution networks and microgrids while reducing microgrid energy usage costs， this paper proposes a distributed trading strategy for microgrids based on Stackelberg game theory. …”
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Comparing economic impacts of net-zero transition with climate damage uncertainties using a dual-model approach by Aron Denes Hartvig, Marton Simo, Dora Fazekas, Panagiotis Fragkos, Kostas Fragkiadakis, Dimitris Fragkiadakis, Zoi Vrontisi

“…The findings indicate that while economic outcomes of decarbonization may vary depending on the model paradigm used, the uncertainties in climate damage projections far exceed those of mitigation costs. By comparing the economic impacts of mitigation with potential losses from climate damages, the study finds that the costs of mitigation are lower and more predictable than the potential climate damage costs. …”
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The Impact of Conservative Accounting on the Speed of Leverage Adjustment in Response to Stock Price Crash Risk by Abdullah Khaled Azeez, Akbar Zavari Rezaei, Mehdi Heidari

“…When the costs associated with rapid adjustments exceeded transaction costs, the firms might postpone such adjustments until the benefits justify the costs of recapitalization. …”
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Negative heterosis for meiotic recombination rate in spermatocytes of the domestic chicken Gallus gallus by L. P. Malinovskaya, K. V. Tishakova, T. I. Bikchurina, A. Yu. Slobodchikova, N. Yu. Torgunakov, A. A. Torgasheva, Y. A. Tsepilov, N. A. Volkova, P. M. Borodin

“…Benefits and costs of meiotic recombination are a matter of discussion. …”
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Leveraging Dynamic Pricing and Real-Time Grid Analysis: A Danish Perspective on Flexible Industry Optimization by Sreelatha Aihloor Subramanyam, Sina Ghaemi, Hessam Golmohamadi, Amjad Anvari-Moghaddam, Birgitte Bak-Jensen

“…These results confirm the effectiveness of grid-aware, flexible control in reducing costs and enhancing stability, supporting the transition toward smarter, sustainable industrial energy systems.…”
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Urgensi Penilaian Kesehatan Bank dan Tax Avoidance pada Kinerja Keuangan Perbankan Syariah by Wahyu Tri Susilowati, Baldric Siregar

“…In addition, Islamic banks are also considered to be able to manage the costs they incur properly because they can generate high profitability. …”
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Solving Multiple Fuels Dynamic Environmental/Economic Dispatch Problem and Incentive Based Demand Response Considering Spinning Reserve Requirements by F. Mohammadi, H. Abdi, E. Dehnavi

“…DEED schedules the online generators power output over the whole dispatch period subject to some practical constraints so that the fuel costs and emission are optimized simultaneously. …”
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