Prediction of the main degradation mechanisms in a hot forging steel die: Optical scanning, simulation, microstructural evolution, and neural network modeling by Aliakbar Emamverdian, Catalin Pruncu, Hongsheng Liu, Atabak Rahimzadeh, Luciano Lamberti

“…Since unexpected tool failures can increase final manufacturing costs from 15 to 30 %, using the current ANN prediction models developed here may help reduce costs by up to 15 %. …”
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Smart Technologies for Socioeconomic Sustainability in Urban Housing: A Southeast Asian Perspective by Nor Suzylah Sohaimi, Muhammad Hafiz Abd Razak, Mohd Syahril Said, Filzani Illia Ibrahim, Tülay Zıvalı

“…However, adoption is uneven owing to high capital costs, limited policy incentives, and skills gaps. …”
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Deep learning enhanced road traffic analysis: Scalable vehicle detection and velocity estimation using PlanetScope imagery by Maciej Adamiak, Yulia Grinblat, Julian Psotta, Nir Fulman, Himshikhar Mazumdar, Shiyu Tang, Alexander Zipf

“…Conventional methods such as stationary sensors and mobile systems like UAVs are limited in coverage and constrained by high costs and legal restrictions. Satellite-based approaches provide broad spatial coverage, but face challenges, including high costs, low frame rates, and difficulty detecting small vehicles in medium-resolution imagery. …”
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The pricing of green bonds and the determinants of the green bond premium in the Asia-Pacific and European markets by Parath Wongaree, Chiraphol N. Chiyachantana, David K. Ding, Pattarawan Prasarnphanich, Wasin Siwasarit

“…These factors are linked to lower credit risk, enhanced issuer reputations, and the mitigation of foreign exchange risk, all of which play a significant role in reducing overall financing costs.…”
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Plasma-Activated Water as a Sustainable Nitrogen Source: Supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Controlled Environment Agriculture by Pamela Estefania Andrade, Patrice Jacob Savi, Flavia Souza Almeida, Bruno Augusto Carciofi, Abby Pace, Yugeng Zou, Nathan Eylands, George Annor, Neil Mattson, Christian Nansen

“…We also assess PAW’s techno-economic viability, including energy requirements, production costs, and potential scalability through renewable energy. …”
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Hydrothermal carbonization of digested sludge from wastewater treatment plants: Processes, potential and key challenges by Nina Kossińska, Renata Krzyżyńska, Heba Ghazal, Hussam Jouhara, Marzena Kwapińska, Witold Kwapiński

“…Despite the compatibility of hydrothermal carbonization with Green Deal policies, challenges related to energy efficiency, legislative compliance, public acceptance, and high investment costs for integrated thermal technologies still need to be addressed. …”
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Tracking Poultry Drinking Behavior and Floor Eggs in Cage-Free Houses with Innovative Depth Anything Model by Xiao Yang, Guoyu Lu, Jinchang Zhang, Bidur Paneru, Anjan Dhungana, Samin Dahal, Ramesh Bahadur Bist, Lilong Chai

“…These findings highlight DAM’s potential as a valuable tool in poultry science, reducing costs while improving the precision of behavioral analysis and farm management tasks.…”
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Rapid and Simultaneous Prediction of Eight Diesel Quality Parameters through ATR-FTIR Analysis by Maurilio Gustavo Nespeca, Rafael Rodrigues Hatanaka, Danilo Luiz Flumignan, José Eduardo de Oliveira

“…Quality assessment of diesel fuel is highly necessary for society, but the costs and time spent are very high while using standard methods. …”
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Induction Therapy With Oral Tacrolimus Provides Long‐Term Benefit in Thiopurine‐Naïve Refractory Ulcerative Colitis Patients Despite Low Serum Albumin Levels by Shoko Igawa, Toshihiro Inokuchi, Sakiko Hiraoka, Junki Toyosawa, Yuki Aoyama, Yasushi Yamasaki, Hideaki Kinugasa, Masahiro Takahara, Hiroyuki Okada, Motoyuki Otsuka

“…Methods We evaluated the clinical outcomes, adverse events, and accumulated medication costs in consecutive 72 UC patients treated with tacrolimus. …”
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Potential of conventional and new breeding technologies to manage soybean diseases by Muhammad Ismail Buzdar, Muhammad Jawad Akbar Awan, Ghulam Raza, Rubab Zahra Naqvi, Shahid Mansoor, Imran Amin

“…The use of chemical fungicides at the farm level is a preferred method to control plant pathogens, but their indiscriminate application causes environmental harm and increases production costs, emphasizing the need for eco-friendly disease management. …”
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Cellulase production and morphology of “Trichoderma reesei” in different experimental conditions by Rahela CARPA, Alin CÂNDEA, Alexei REMIZOVSCHI, Lucian BARBU-TUDORAN, Maria Cornelia MAIOR

“…Cellulases production involving alternative substrates has been intensely researched, because it offers perspectives for lowering the costs for enzyme production, costs which are a major obstacle for the development of this field. …”
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Optimization control strategy for active distribution areas with E-SOP considering energy storage characteristics by Weixu YU, Yewen WEI, Peng YUAN, Sijia ZHANG, Zhipeng ZHOU, Jie ZHANG

“…On this basis, a multi-objective optimization model is developed, aiming to minimize comprehensive costs and voltage deviations, to configure the capacity of the E-SOP. …”
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Bevacizumab in ovarian cancer therapy: current advances, clinical challenges, and emerging strategies by Mingyue Zhang, Mingyue Zhang, Jun Zhu, Yin Bao, Yin Bao, Qiang Ao, Qiang Ao, Xiaoling Mao, Xiaoling Mao, Zhengzhou Qiu, Yiming Zhang, Yang Chen, Hong Zhu, Jun Gao

“…The use of biosimilars and adaptive platform trials offers promise in reducing costs and improving accessibility. These technological innovations mark a shift in ovarian cancer treatment from traditional chemotherapy to precision medicine, presenting new opportunities to improve long-term patient survival.…”
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Innovative Methodologies for the Early Detection of Breast Cancer: A Review Categorized by Target Biological Samples by Antonella Grasso, Vittorio Altomare, Giulia Fiorini, Alessandro Zompanti, Giorgio Pennazza, Marco Santonico

“…Conventional methods (mammography, MRI, etc.) offer proven efficacy, but are costly and invasive. Innovative methods using biosensors offer reduced infrastructure needs, lower costs, and patient-friendly sampling. …”
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European stakeholders’ perspectives on achieving more sustainable wheat cultivation across different pedoclimatic zones by Alicia Morugán-Coronado, Javier Calatrava, Laura Meno, Laura Meno, Flora Alonso-Vega, Flora Alonso-Vega, Eija Pouta, Annika Tienhaara, Stefan Schrader, David-Alexander Bind, Hilde Wustenberghs, Sander Fleerakkers, David Fernández-Calviño, David Fernández-Calviño, María Dolores Gómez-López

“…That situation exacerbates environmental pollution, biodiversity loss, and increases production costs.MethodsThis research identified particularly relevant current agro-environmental problems, barriers and priorities regarding the requirements of end users in wheat cropping systems. …”
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An Iterative Pixel-Based Dimensional Voting Model for High Spatial-Resolution Image Classification by Muhamad Asyraf Mohd Pouzi, Haza Nuzly Abdull Hamed, Muhammad Razib Othman, Hishammuddin Asmuni, Mohd Adham Isa, Husni Ruslai

“…Traditional classification methods often struggle due to ineffective stand-alone data classification, high costs associated with data fusion, and the need for frequent data collection. …”
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Anaerobic Digestion as an Alternative to Improve the Industrial Production of MnP Economically and Environmentally Using Olive Mill Solid Waste as the Substrate by Michael Araneda, Fernanda Pinto-Ibieta, Bernabé Alonso-Fariñas, Fernando G. Fermoso, Gustavo Ciudad

“…Manganese peroxidase (MnP) is widely studied for its potential in bioremediation, although its production typically relies on costly synthetic culture media (SCM). This study evaluates olive mill solid waste (OMSW) as a sustainable substrate for MnP production. …”
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Competition in the product market, CEO's power, and readability of financial reports by Shokrollah Khajavi, Soraya Weysihesar, Ali Asghar Dehghani Saadi

“…Product market conditions are an important factor that affects the balance of benefits and costs associated with CEO power. On the one hand, competition in the product market serves as an external mechanism of corporate governance, which can reduce the likelihood of management engaging in opportunistic behavior and enhance the clarity of the company's financial reports. …”
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FORECASTING OF A REMAINING LIFE OF ENGINEERING SYSTEMS BY USING THE PARAMETRIC MODELS OF RELIABILITY VARIATION by Gennadiy A. Berketov, Anatoly P. Tsurkin, Denis V. Golovko

“…This method allows to organize a preventive maintenance of a system taking into account its technical position at this moment all that lead to reducing the maintenance costs.…”
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THE ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE FISCAL AUTHORITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF INCREASING THE LEVEL OF TAX DISCIPLINE by Natalia Beskorovaynaya, Vladimir Molodykh, Andrey Rubezhnoy

“…Proposed modification of existing methods based on the indicative criteria to assess the specifics of the tasks of the structural units of the fiscal authorities in the process of organizational transformation, taking account of the costs of their implementation. As a resultant factor we use an integral index, characterizing the extent of tax evasion and discipline of taxpayers.…”
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