Quand gérer des feux de circulation préfigure des choix de mobilité : les enjeux stratégiques d’un outil technique by Céline Brandeleer, Thomas Ermans

“…This technical device redistributes the temporal sharing of space in favour of public transport, which allows the constant erosion of the commercial speed faced by the Société de transports intercommunaux de Bruxelles (STIB) to be halted, thus cutting back on operational costs. Our objective is to make sense of this technical device and to highlight the underlying political challenges in terms of the management of space. …”
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Deciding Irreducibility/Indecomposability of Feedback Shift Registers Is NP-Hard by Lin Wang

“…A FSR f is said to be reducible if all the output sequences of another FSR g can also be generated by f and the FSR g costs less memory than f. A FSR is said to be decomposable if it has the same set of output sequences as a cascade connection of two FSRs. …”
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FUNDAMENTALS OF INNOVATION IN MODERN BANKING SERVICES by Nizami Khudiyev, Ragib Mammadli

“…Innovative advancements help banks digitize their banking services, operations and management, improve efficiency, productivity and functionality, reduce costs, create new banking products and improve existing ones. …”
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A Study on Hover Performance of Ducted Fans for an Unmanned VTOL Aircraft by Young Jae Choi, Seong-Yong Wie, Sanghyun Chae

“…Shape of the duct inner surface was asymmetric in longitudinal direction, and considering various aspects such as test site or costs for test operation, a 40% scaled-down model of the ducted fan was adopted for this study. …”
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Keeping Food Safe: Preparing and Cooking by Claudia Peñuela, Amarat Simonne

“…Well-prepared meals can save money and meet nutritional needs, and making safe and healthy meals a part of your lifestyle can contribute to lower healthcare costs. But many people with busy schedules find it difficult to make time to cook meals. …”
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ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE TYPICAL RURAL AREAS IN BULGARIA by Emil MUTAFOV, Yuliyana YARKOVA

“…Bulgaria is not an exception and it is important to periodically review and analyze Rural areas' progress on certain parameters, such as GDP per capita, foreign direct investments, tangible fixed assets acquisition costs, coefficient of economic activity, etc. The main goal of this article is to review the progress for a period of 5 years in the typically Rural areas in Bulgaria according to classification NUTS 3 and draw possible future goals for better regional and rural development. …”
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Reluctance to change and end psychotherapy by John E. Berg

“…Delayed recovery emanates as an increase in costs to society and the family. This is the case when return to work after treatment is partly or completely retarded.…”
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Citrus Reset Management by Stephen H. Futch

“…Today, tree replacement is more important than ever since overhead and production costs are escalating and a full stand of productive trees is essential to maximize production and profits. …”
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Le développement collaboratif d’un nouveau concept pour une activité by Jaakko Virkkunen

“…Each technological revolution profoundly changes the conditions of balancing these contradictory demands by enabling the creation of new kinds of use values, the reduction of costs, and a broadened exchange. The culturally available forms of activity can be seen as different concepts of balancing contradictory demands. …”
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Cleansing the world of the germ of laziness: hygiene, sanitation, and the Javanese population in Suriname by Rosemarijn Hoefte

“…Moreover, authorities and planters objected to the construction of latrines because of the costs and their belief that the Javanese were “unhygienic”. …”
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Reconciling Bergmann's rule throughout the annual cycle in two congeneric large-bodied migratory waterbirds by Dehai Gu, Yanbo Xie, Tetsuo Shimada, Hiroyoshi Higuchi, Diana Solovyeva, Inga Bysykatova-Harmey, Yanlei Liu, Junjian Zhang, Qingshan Zhao, Lei Cao, Anthony D. Fox

“…Bergmann's rule predicts that the larger of two homeotherm species differing only in size would occur at higher latitudes, or in cooler climates than the smaller, because of relative thermoregulatory costs in relation to body mass/surface area ratio. …”
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Chinese population may require further venetoclax dose reduction beyond guidelines when combined with voriconazole: real-world evidence from China by Rongrong Wang, Yanfen Li, Ran Zhang, Yuan Ren, Yifan Liu, Tianlin Wang, Jin Wu, Xiangjin Zheng, Shu Li, Yu Jing

“…This increase in the plasma concentration of VEN may result in a longer duration of days to white blood cell (WBC) > 2000 cells/mm3 (25 vs. 13, p < 0.05) and a higher likelihood of increased hospitalization costs (140,469 vs. 73,513, p = 0.068) compared to VEN 400 mg alone.ConclusionChinese population may require further dose reduction of VEN beyond guideline recommendations when combined with VOR.…”
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Association of frailty with clinical and financial outcomes of hospitalization for non-operative trauma by Zeyu Liu, BS, Saad Mallick, MD, Nam Yong Cho, BS, Esteban Aguayo, MD, Mahima Chillakanti, BS, Giselle Porter, BS, Konmal Ali, Joseph Song, BS, Areti Tillou, MD, Peyman Benharash, MD

“…Furthermore, IF patients experienced an incremental increase in LOS of 1.3 days (95%CI, 1.2–1.4 days) and costs of $3200 (95 % CI, $3100–$3400) while HF patients had a prolonged LOS by 5.1 days (95 % CI, 4.8–5.2 days) and higher costs by $11,300 (95 % CI, $11,000-11,600). …”
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Spatio-Temporal Data Augmentation Method for Network Traffic Prediction by Sung Oh, Myeong-Jun Oh, Jong-Kyung Im, Ji-Yeon Park, Joung-Sik Kim, Na-Rae Yi, Myung-Ho Kim, Sung-Ho Bae

“…However, collecting large-scale network traffic data is costly, making data augmentation a practical alternative for improving model performance without additional data acquisition costs. …”
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The potential of biogas production and effects of alfalfa silage under the synergistic influence of Lactobacillus acidophilus and Rosa roxburghii pomace waste on the fermentation q... by Maoya Li, Jiachuhan Wang, Qiming Cheng, Zhongfu Long, Chao Chen, Yixiao Xie, Yao Lei, Yulian Chen, Yuanyuan Zhao, Xiangjiang He, Wei Yan, Zhijun Wang

“…Coinoculation improvements with RP and Lactobacillus acidophilus observed here are expected to reduce costs associated with CH4 conversion bioprocesses and increase CH4 production.…”
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Policy Spotlight Effects on Critical Time-Sensitive Diseases: Nationwide Retrospective Cohort Study on Taiwan’s Hospital Emergency Capability Categorization Policy by Chih-Yuan Lin, Chih-Ching Liu, Yu-Tung Huang, Yue-Chune Lee

“…ConclusionsThe CHEC policy demonstrated the dual benefits of reducing costs and improving patient outcomes. We observed unintended consequences of policy spotlight effects, which led to a disproportionate improvement in guideline adherence and process quality for CTSDs with time-based surveillance indicators.…”
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Estimating long-term annual energy production from shorter-time-series data: methods and verification with a 10-year large-eddy simulation of a large offshore wind farm by B. Postema, B. Postema, R. A. Verzijlbergh, R. A. Verzijlbergh, P. van Dorp, P. Baas, H. J. J. Jonker, H. J. J. Jonker

“…This simulation period is, in the case of LES, mostly limited to <span class="inline-formula">≤</span> 1 year due to the computational costs. …”
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Computational Analysis of Temperature Effects on Monocrystalline PV Module using MATLAB by Qasir Ali Memon, Abdul Majeed Shaikh, Shoaib Ahmed Shaikh, Muhammad Fawad Shaikh, Shakil Ahmed Jiskani

“…It is not necessary that renewable energy sources have always led to many advantages but have drawbacks like weather dependency, unreliability, storage problems, and upfront costs. This study focuses on one of the major types of RES solar PV systems. …”
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Perioperative safety evaluation of intersphincteric resection combined with rectal eversion and total extra-abdominal resection: a prospective randomized controlled trial by Zhanpeng Yang, Aizhen Wang, Hong Liang, Qingwen Fan, Shuaipeng Li, Fuqiang Yao, Mengzhe Li, Xi Wang, Chao Zhang

“…Outcomes included distal margin positivity, anal preservation rate, postoperative complications, hospital costs,30-day readmission rates and postoperative stay. …”
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Disparities in cancer care and outcomes by insurance membership type in Indonesia: a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of national health insurance claims, 2017–2022 by Dian Kusuma, Ede Surya Darmawan, Syarif Rahman Hasibuan, Vetty Yulianty Permanasari

“…Compared with the poorest group (PBI APBN), informal non-workers (BP) and informal workers (PBPU) had higher odds of receiving transfusions (adjusted OR (AOR): 1.43 and 1.26, respectively), while formal workers (PPU) had shorter hospital stays (−0.27 days) and higher claim costs. Interestingly, PBI APBN members had greater odds of receiving biopsies than PBI APBD (AOR: 0.62) and PPU (AOR: 0.77) members. …”
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