Coevolution of cooperation and epidemic spreading by Mehran Noori, Nahid Azimi-Tafreshi, Mohammad Salahshour

“…Rather, individuals' choices in adopting costly preventive measures are predominantly driven by the self-interested effect of such measures in reducing the probability of getting infected.…”
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The Effect of Inflation and Efficiency on Performance Indonesian Sharia Commercial Bank by Ani Setyawati, Haqiqi Rafsanjani, Luluk Latifah

“…In contrast, operational efficiency, as measured by the ratio of Operating Costs to Operating Income (BOPO), has a greater impact on Islamic banking profitability than inflation. …”
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The implementation of a calibration plan of instruments in a metrological laboratory by Eduardo Laime Neto Segundo

“…This period variability leads to problems in the quality of the provided services, increase the costs in the logistics sector, in addition to causing managerial difficulties. …”
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Finance Planning for Small Innovation Companies by A. V. Grigorovich

“…Importance of compiling finance plans for these companies is explained by the necessity to compare the level of supposed costs, profitability and payback time with shareholders’ expectations; decision-making on financing tools; appraisal of investment appeal for potential investors. …”
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A Post-Processing Framework for Crowd Worker Responses Using Large Language Models by Ryuya Itano, Tatsuki Tamano, Takahiro Koita, Honoka Tanitsu

“…Accordingly, responses need to be collected in a standardized format, such as binary-choice or multiple categorizations, to avoid large aggregation costs. Recently, with the advent of large language models (LLMs), natural language responses can be automatically and flexibly aggregated. …”
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La mobilité quotidienne dans les grandes villes du monde : application de la théorie des réseaux bayésiens by Giovanni Fusco

“…These two factors explain the modal split and the costs and externalities of urban transportation.…”
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Current state of digital transformation of russian banks by S. S. Matveevskii

“…The analysis allowed the author to draw conclusions that the digital transformation of Russian banks is characterized by: the complex implementation of BCBS scenarios and the interaction between banks and Fintechcompanies, the emergence of neo-banks; increased competition in the banking sector; innovative opportunities for the production and sale of banking services and products, the emergence of new risks; accumulation and use of large amounts of data; the need to significantly change the information systems of banks (growth in demand for the services of IT companies); the emergence of ecosystems in which non-banking organizations are actively involved; large costs of Russian banks, which, as a rule, leads to an improvement in their financial results (as a result, medium and small banks begin to lose in the market).…”
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Break-even maturity as a guide to financial distress by Colin Ellis

“…However, simple measures of borrowing costs such as secondary market yields typically ignore differences in debt maturities and hence refinancing risks. …”
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Optimización de flotas de vehículos, una herramienta para incrementar la eficiencia

“…De este modo, las empresas pueden beneficiarse de la reducción de costes y la mejora de la calidad del servicio a sus clientes. …”
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An Examination of Cybersecurity Knowledge Transfer: Teaching, Research, and Website Security at U.S. Colleges and Universities by Aditya Gupta, James R. Wolf

“…However, university website security is not significantly associated with cybersecurity teaching excellence, institution size or tuition costs.…”
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Insect and Mite Integrated Pest Management in Florida Cotton by Joseph E. Funderburk, Nicole Casuso, Norman C. Leppla, Michael Donahoe

“…These pests hide in different places on or within the plant or field, which makes them difficult to find and identify and costly to manage. The purpose of this 14-page guide written by Joseph Funderburk, Nicole Casuso, Norman Leppla, and Michael Donahoe and published by the Department of Entomology and Nematology is to provide Florida cotton growers a selected set of options for integrated pest management of insects and mites in cotton fields. …”
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Procesos participativos y crisis: ¿participación como respuesta a la crisis o participación recortada por la crisis? by Joan Font, Pau Alarcón, Carolina Galais, Graham Smith

“…However, there were some changes, and it was observed that in both dimensions of these processes, some proposals were more austere but more innovative and the executive institutions rather less so, especially in the case of more costly ideas.…”
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Research on RedCap deployment scheme based on 5G network by Yan Fei

“…As a lightweight 5G technology, RedCap is a new terminal type defined in the 5G Rel-17 version, which can effectively balance the industry's demand for both technical performance and deployment costs. It is generally believed that the core value of this lightweight 5G technology lies in its integration with the excellent characteristics of NR networks, and the key issue is how to introduce RedCap based on the 5G wireless network already deployed by operators. …”
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« J’ai peur quand je fais le docteur pour mes enfants » : l’automédication au cœur des pratiques de soins des jeunes enfants à Antananarivo, Madagascar by Chiarella Mattern

“…In the daily management of illnesses, choices are based on a pragmatic desire to heal at lower costs. The management of early childhood illnesses differs from adult care practices which are predominantly characterized by self-consumption of medicines. …”
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A Model for the Evaluation of Brazilian Road Transport: A Sustainable Perspective by Mariana Gonçalves de Carvalho Wolff, Marco Antonio Farah Caldas

“…Freight transportation in Brazil is heavily based on the road mode bringing heavy dependence of this mode to the country and some consequences such as high operating costs and high air emissions. For these reasons, it was considered the necessity of evaluating new investments made in this mode from a sustainable perspective, taking into account not only economic but also social and environmental concepts. …”
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The Russian science: current challenges and how to overcome them by Yevgeny Yasin

“…The share of expenditure on research and development in the country's GDP takes 30th place in the world, R&D costs per scientist is about 19 thousand dollars a year compared to 100 thousand dollars in China, 131 thousand dollars in Germany and 147 thousand dollars in Korea. …”
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Impression formation stimuli: A corpus of behavior statements rated on morality, competence, informativeness, and believability. by Amy Mickelberg, Bradley Walker, Ullrich K H Ecker, Piers Howe, Andrew Perfors, Nicolas Fay

“…However, a corpus of behavior statements is costly to generate, and pre-existing corpora may be outdated and might not measure the dimension(s) of interest. …”
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Nitrogen Cycling and Management for Romaine and Crisphead Lettuce Grown on Organic Soils by Luis Santos, Alan L. Wright, Yigang Luo, Huangjun Lu, Dennis Calvin Odero

“…A good N fertilization scheme should reduce costs, conserve natural resources, and minimize negative environmental impacts. …”
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Automatic Test Environment of Speech Recognition Software for Intelligent Display by ZHONG Li, LIU Buqi, YANG Ying

“…Software test of smart display speech recognition software involves a combination of multiple external environmental noise, speed of speech, and intonation of instruction voice, which causes a large number of test case combinations and high execution costs.This paper proposed a test environment which uses a script to automatically create and simultaneously play instruction voices with various types of elements combination, record and judge the recognition results. …”
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Organization of Sustainable Corporate Interaction in Business-Ecosystems by V. A. Kirillova

“…Topicality of the subject is stipulated by the necessity of working-out algorithms to identify stakeholders and channels of communication with them, which could help cut costs and control risks present in the process in general and within the frames of business-ecosystems in particular. …”
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