Optimization of Life Cycle Extension of Asphalt Concrete Mixtures in regard to Material Properties, Structural Design, and Economic Implications by Jan Mikolaj, Lubos Remek, Matus Kozel

“…The aim is to attain maximal economic effectiveness, by minimizing financial costs for rehabilitation and maintenance and economic costs of road user. …”
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Consideration of quantity loss in packaging strategies for the fresh agricultural products supply chain by Zhonghua Ma, Rufei Li

“…This study constructs a mathematical model that comprehensively considers fresh product loss rates, consumer attitudes, packaging costs, and related investment decisions to explore the impact of different packaging strategies on loss reduction, profit, and sustainability in the fresh agricultural products supply chain. …”
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ANALISIS KELAYAKAN FINANSIAL USAHATANI KOPI ARABIKA DI DESA BANDUNG BARU KECAMATAN KABAWETAN KABUPATEN KEPAHIANG by Siska Sri Wahyuni, Satria Putra Utama, Gita Mulyasari

“…The purpose of this study were : 1) To Analyze the financial feasibility of arabica coffee farm in village of Bandung Baru subdistrict Kabawetan Kepahiang regency Bengkulu Province from the financial aspect, 2) To Calculate the payback period and the level of sensitivity against the declaine in Arabica coffee farm production, price reductions, increased investment costs, operating costs and maintenance. Determination of respondent carried out using Stratified Random Sampling, data consist of primary data and secondary data. …”
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Change in the repair cycle of excavator fingers by Levashova E.E.

“…The calculation established that financial costs can be reduced by 60–97%.…”
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Traceable ring signature scheme based on domestic cryptographic algorithm SM9 by XIE Zhenjie, YIN Xiaokang, CAI Ruijie, ZHANG Yao

“…By introducing a cryptographic accumulator, the computational costs of ring signature generation and verification, as well as the size of the signature data, were reduced to a constant level. …”
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Design and Mechanical Properties of Steel-UHPC Lightweight Composite Decks by Yong Liu, Xin Zhang, Rong Liu, Guorong Chen

“…Furthermore, engineering practices in China have proven that LWCD can effectively reduce manufacturing costs and maintenance costs throughout the whole life cycle of the structures. …”
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Research on Simulation Platform Technology for ROV by DU Kaibing, LIU Haoping, TIAN Zhaozhao

“…However, conducting marine test of ROV is costly and requires pilots with rich operational experience. …”
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Multi-objective layout optimization of hospital outpatient clinics based on NSGA II by Yanlin Zhao, Jiamei Gu

“…By simultaneously incorporating patient walking distance, hospital operating costs, patient waiting time, and medical staff work efficiency as optimization objectives, and adopting an adaptive population size adjustment strategy, this paper optimizes the existing outpatient layout in a case study of a three-story outpatient building at Panzhihua Central Hospital. …”
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Optimization of grain import market layout in the context of food security: a study of soybean in China by Xiaonan Wang, Yi Lu

“…The import optimization considering seasonal factors can reduce risks at equivalent costs while ensuring import stability. Second, increased soybean export availability from Russia or Kazakhstan can further reduce risks at equivalent costs while ensuring the stability of soybean imports. …”
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Mitigating the Risks in Energy Retrofits of Residential Buildings in China by Ling Jia

“…It stems from poor project performance in quality, time, costs, etc. The risk is an essential factor hindering such project objectives and project success. …”
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FlexNPU: a dataflow-aware flexible deep learning accelerator for energy-efficient edge devices by Arnab Raha, Deepak A. Mathaikutty, Shamik Kundu, Soumendu K. Ghosh

“…Considering that data movement costs considerably outweigh compute costs from an energy perspective, the flexibility in dataflow allows us to optimize the movement per layer for minimal data transfer and energy consumption, a capability unattainable in fixed dataflow architectures. …”
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The financial trade-offs of corporate social responsibility: A simultaneous equation approach in the Nigerian context by Olabamiji Atanda, Abiodun Daniel Aikomo, Idorenyin John Okon

“…These results suggest that CSR engagement involves financial trade-offs, with firms balancing short-term costs against long-term reputational benefits, particularly relevant in contexts like Nigeria where CSR lacks regulatory backing. …”
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Can household clean energy transition reduce medical expenditures? Evidence from China by Tao Li, Dan Xiao Yang

“…Mechanism analysis reveals that the reduction in medical costs is attributable to the improvements in health outcomes and increases in income resulting from the clean energy transition. …”
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Forecasting Industrial Electricity Consumption in Iran: A Novel Hybrid Approach for Sustainable Energy Management by Mohsen Rezaei

“…The findings have significant implications for optimizing energy usage, improving efficiency, and reducing costs in industrial operations.…”
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Emergency risk dispatch for integrated electricity and heating system subjected to hurricane event by Tongchui Liu, Zhu Zhu, Mingyang Liu

“…Additionally, higher values risk coefficient result in greater risk probability and lower risk costs.…”
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Satsuma Mandarin Budget and Profitability Analysis for North Florida by Kevin R. Athearn, Peter C. Andersen, Brent V. Brodbeck, Lei Lani L. Davis, Clay Olson, Daniel K. Fenneman, Matthew C. Lollar, Derek Farnsworth, Michael Perez

“…An enterprise budget estimates revenues, costs, and net returns for a particular crop or farm enterprise to help growers assess the economic viability and risk of an enterprise, compare enterprises, and evaluate production or marketing changes. …”
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Knowledge and space in models of regional development by T. B. Melnikova

“…Space characteristics of knowledge proliferation can be modeled through functions of activity and resistance, flexibility parameter, function of distance fading, parameter of transaction costs for knowledge transfer.…”
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Prospects of Introducing the System of Personnel Support at Enterprises of the Gas and Oil Complex in the Russian Federation by E. A. Alpeeva, E. V. Stotskiy

“…The application of these recommendations could improve the reputation of the company as a just employer and raise profit thanks to cutting costs of personnel firing.…”
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Cloud computing virtualization technology based on bandwidth resource-aware migration algorithm by Jin Zhiwei

“…The results showed that the algorithm outperformed others, achieving optimal performance in just 102 iterations and excelling in resource occupancy, utilization, load balancing, migration costs, average migration quantity, latency, and task completion time. …”
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Comparison of reduced and geared hydraulic drives of transport construction machines by Grinchar N.G., Shoshin A.S., Chalova M.Yu.

“…This solution allows you to simplify the light, reduce production costs and increase the reliability of the drive in operation. …”
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