Recent progress and emerging technologies in geothermal energy utilization for sustainable building heating and cooling: a focus on smart system integration and enhanced efficiency... by Val Hyginus Udoka Eze, Esther Chidinma Eze, George Uwadiegwu Alaneme, Pius Erheyovwe Bubu

“…However, installation costs for GSHPs range from $2,500 to $5,000 per kW, while deep geothermal systems require higher capital investments. …”
Get full text

Mechanical Circulatory Support in Patients Without Cardiogenic Shock Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention by P. Elliott Miller, Aliza S. Gordon, Ying Liu, Tariq Ahmad, Samantha G. Bromfield, Saket Girotra, Carlos D. Davila, Geoffrey Crawford, John Whitney, Nihar R. Desai

“…Secondary outcomes included stroke, bleeding, incident dialysis, repeat revascularization, and total health care costs during the index admission and at 30 days. …”
Get full text

Anemia and blood transfusions in myelofibrosis: economic and organizational impact on Italian patients, caregivers and hospitals by Francesca Palandri, Alessandro Inzoli, Antonella Barone, Daniela Dordoni, Elisa Formenti, Giorgio Corradini D’Elia, Victoria Lucia Rabsiun Aramburu, Giuseppe Alberto Palumbo, Massimo Breccia

“…Indirect social costs for transfusion dependent patients (€2,332) are estimated to be six times greater than those for non-anemic patients (€367). …”
Get full text

Rapid molecular testing or chest X-ray or tuberculin skin testing for household contact assessment of tuberculosis infection: A cluster-randomized trial. by Menonli Adjobimey, Anete Trajman, Mayara Lisboa Bastos, Chantal Valiquette, Diana Gibson, Frimege Djohoun, Olivia Oxlade, Federica Fregonese, Dissou Affolabi, Valentin Kouchade, Elisa Aguiar, Renata Spener-Gomes, Marcelo Cordeiro-Santos, Renato T Stein, Marcelo Scotta, Andrea Benedetti, Dick Menzies

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>This randomized trial provides high-quality evidence that TST followed by selected use of CXR or an RMT to exclude disease can achieve high rates of TPT initiation at reasonable costs. A limitation of the trial is the potential study effect, which may have affected adherence by providers and HHCs. …”
Get full text

Disease trajectories and medical expenditures of older adults with disabilities: insights from China’s long-term care insurance program by Lijun Zeng, Huaicheng Tan, Shujuan Yang, Lisha Hou, Jinhui Wu, Birong Dong, Adam Gordon, Qingyu Dou

“…Diagnoses and hospitalization costs were extracted from electronic medical records and the medical insurance system. …”
Get full text

Nairobi motorcycle transit comparison dataset: Fuel vs. electric vehicle performance tracking (2023)Mendeley Data by Alois Mbutura, Martin Kitetu, Halloran Stratford, M.J. Booysen

“…Financial data, such as revenue, maintenance costs, fuel costs (for ICE motorcycles), and electricity usage (for electric motorcycles), were collected via daily phone-based surveys administered to riders. …”
Get full text

Analysing Economic Performance of Wine Estates Across Three Decades - What can we Learn for the Future? by Anthony William Bennett, Simone Mueller Loose

“…From 2009 onward, rising labour and material costs as well as stagnating yields started eroding profitability gains, leading to an overall stagnation of long-term profitability. …”
Get full text

When Leadership Drives Nurses Away: Empirical Research Qualitative on High Turnover Rates Reasons by Saleem Al‐Rjoub

“…Nurse turnover impacts organisational costs, organisational stability, and quality of care. …”
Get full text

Normalization of assembly technical process of the frame of power and control equipment for nuclear power plants by the method of simulation by I. A. Loskutov

“…In order to minimize the costs of enterprises, an assumption was made about the rationality of the number of nuclear power plants. …”
Get full text

The use of acoustic emission technique in MWD for mine to mill approach as a smart tool for sustainable mining by Mohammad Hossein Jalalian, Raheb Bagherpour, Mehrbod Khoshouei

“…Abstract The Mine-to-Mill (MTM) approach is crucial in mining due to the high energy consumption and costs of comminution processes like crushing and grinding, which account for over 50% of total energy use. …”
Get full text

Enhancing Railway Track Intervention Planning: Accounting for Component Interactions and Evolving Failure Risks by Hamed Mehranfar, Bryan T. Adey, Saviz Moghtadernejad, Claudia Fecarotti

“…This manuscript proposes a methodology to leverage digitalisation to efficiently generate an overview of required condition-based railway track interventions, possession windows, and expected costs for railway networks at the beginning of the intervention planning process. …”
Get full text

A Modified Horse Herd Optimization Algorithm and Its Application in the Program Source Code Clustering by Bahman Arasteh, Peri Gunes, Asgarali Bouyer, Farhad Soleimanian Gharehchopogh, Hamed Alipour Banaei, Reza Ghanbarzadeh

“…When the software’s source code is the only available resource, comprehending the program profoundly impacts the costs associated with software maintenance. The primary objective of comprehending the source code is extracting information used during the software maintenance phase. …”
Get full text

Single-Glazed Vacuum Tube Collector with SnAl₂O₃ Selective Flat Absorber Plate and Gravity Single-Stage Direct Water Flow: A Comprehensive Geometric Optimizat... by Aleksandar Nešović, Robert Kowalik

“…Different operational (absorber temperature, ambient temperature and wind speed), geometric (mass, surface occupation, total surface occupation and volume occupation), economic (manufacturing costs and exploitation costs) and ecological (embodied energy and greenhouse gas emission) indicators were taken into account. …”
Get full text

Consequences of using renewable energy sources by N. G. Lyubimova, A. S. Flaksman

“…Energy generation on them is considered an environmentally friendly production and does not require large operational costs. The subject of the study is economic relations that occur concerning construction and use of RES. …”
Get full text

Empirical Correlation between Geotechnical and Geophysical Parameters in a Landslide Zone (Case Study: Nargeschal Landslide) by Sadegh Rezaei, Issa Shooshpasha, Hamed Rezaei

“…Geotechnical methods provide accurate data, but are time consuming and costly. Geophysical techniques, however, are fast and inexpensive, yet their accuracy is lower than that of the geotechnical methods. …”
Get full text

Automated combined unit with universal tillage adapter by B. Kh. Akhalaya, Yu. S. Tsench, A. V. Mironova

“…The location of the holder and slotting device with an inclination to the horizontal plane of 40-45 and 15-20 degrees, respectively, reduces the traction resistance of the unit and reduces energy costs.…”
Get full text

Investigating the hydrogen renaissance in the global energy transition with AI integration by Abderrahim Lakhouit

“…However, its widespread adoption is hindered by challenges such as high production costs, storage limitations, and infrastructure gaps. …”
Get full text

Modeling incident management processes in information security at an enterprise by E. S. Mityakov, E. A. Maksimova, S. V. Artemova, A. A. Bakaev, Zh. G. Vegera

“…The primary aim of the study is to develop a model for managing information security incidents within an enterprise that minimizes damage and costs associated with incident resolution under limited resources and time constraints.Methods. …”
Get full text

Semi-Supervised Anomaly Detection for the Identification of Damages in an Aerospace Sandwich Structure Based on Synthetically Generated Strain Data by Florian Forsthuber, Christoph Kralovec, Martin Schagerl

“…However, the acquisition of sufficiently large amounts of labeled and representative data from both pristine and damaged structures is very costly. To address this, a ML-based SHM approach is proposed that identifies structural damage using only physics-based synthetic strain data generated from the structure’s numerical finite element model. …”
Get full text

Current issues and critical tasks of university science by B. P. Eliseev

“…The planned values of individual indicators (domestic research and development costs, the share of the higher education sector in domestic research costs, scientometric indicators of Russian authors’ publications in the international databases of Scopus and Web of Science, etc.) have not been achieved. …”
Get full text