Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Coastal Resilience: Adaptations for Climate Change in Singapore's East Coast by Ferdousi Sharmin Sumi, Razin Sachi, Sumaiya Rahman Tanisa

“…In response to that, conventional engineering-based coastal defenses have proven to be inadequate, costly, and environmentally damaging. This study critically examines these rigid infrastructure approaches and explores the potential of Nature-based Solutions (NbS), guided by the principles of landscape urbanism, improve resilience and reduce exposure to climate hazards. …”
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Sustainability and Efficiency: Comparative Analysis of Vegetable-Based and Synthetic Cutting Fluids in SAE 1045 Steel Turning by Josean da S. Lima Junior, Yuri L. Santos, Kaciê K. A. Trindade, Maxime Montoya, Kleber G. B. Alves, Flávio J. da Silva

“…The formulations' impact on tool wear and durability at varying cutting speeds (90, 70 and 50 m/min) and on the surface roughness of the workpiece was analyzed. Economically, the costs per production volume were compared, using data from the machining tests. …”
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Development of Technical Diagnostics for Lubrication in Gear Modules for Advanced Robotic Applications by Silvia Maláková, Ľubomír Ilečko, Tibor Krenicky, Marian Dzimko

“…The results contribute to increased system reliability and extended service life, reduced maintenance and repair costs, and improved environmental aspects of robotic system maintenance.…”
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Sustainability and Innovation: Incorporating Waste from Ophthalmic Lenses into Natural Rubber Composites by José Afonso Rocha, Carlos Toshiyuki Hiranobe, Dener da Silva Souza, Samara da Silva Araújo, Márcia Ferreira Hiranobe, Guilherme Henrique Barros de Souza, Elmer Mateus Gennaro, Flávio Camargo Cabrera, Guilherme Pina Cardim, Michael Jones da Silva, Erivaldo Antônio da Silva, José Francisco Resende da Silva, Renivaldo José dos Santos

“…This study investigates the recycling of ophthalmic lens waste (OLW) in the production of vulcanized natural rubber (NR) composites, aiming to promote sustainability and reduce costs. To this end, Vietnamese natural rubber and ophthalmic lens waste were used, varying the filler content from 0 to 50 phr. …”
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Trajectory Optimization of Hypersonic Periodic Cruise Using an Improved PSO Algorithm by Hesong Li, Yi Wang, Shangcheng Xu, Yunfan Zhou, Dan Su

“…Numerical results demonstrate that optimized periodic cruise trajectory costs less fuel compared with steady-state cruise trajectory, and without computing gradient information, the proposed method is also robust. …”
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OPGW fault localization method based on transformer and federated learning by Yan Zhigang, Cui Min, Su Xinyue, Wang Jinrui, Ma Xiao, Wu Lijun

“…Then, by introducing FedL for model training at each OPGW edge sensor, only model parameters are exchanged without transmitting raw data, greatly reducing computational costs and network bandwidth requirements. Finally, the Transformer network was introduced into the model, which greatly improved the processing efficiency of fault data through parallel computing. …”
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Diagnosis of rheumatic and autoimmune diseases datasetDataverse by Mohammed Fadhil Mahdi, Arezoo Jahani, Dhafar Hamed Abd

“…It facilitates early diagnosis, supports explainable artificial intelligence models, advances precision medicine, enhances research, and reduces diagnostic costs and time.…”
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Justification for high-ascent attainment for balloon radiosonde soundings at GRUAN and other sites by M. Fujiwara, B. Sun, B. Sun, A. Reale, D. Cimini, S. Larosa, L. Borg, C. von Rohden, M. Sommer, R. Dirksen, M. Maturilli, H. Vömel, R. Kivi, B. Ingleby, R. J. Kramer, B. Demoz, F. Madonna, F. Madonna, F. Carminati, O. Lewis, B. Candy, C. Thomas, D. Edwards, Noersomadi, K. Shimizu, P. Thorne

“…The analysis herein shows that the extra costs and technical challenges involved in consistent attainment of high ascents are more than outweighed by the benefits for a broad variety of real-time and delayed-mode applications. …”
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Performance Gain of Collaborative Versus Sequential Motion in Modular Robotic Manipulators for Pick-and-Place Operations by Remy Carlier, Joris Gillis, Pieter De Clercq, Gianni Borghesan, Kurt Stockman, Jeroen D. M. De Kooning

“…With the increasing demand for efficiency and profitability in industrial applications, modularity offers significant advantages such as system reconfiguration, reduced acquisition costs, and enhanced versatility. However, achieving compatibility across multi-vendor modular systems remains a challenge, particularly in motion control. …”
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The application of the metaverse in surgical clinical teaching: transforming medical education through immersive approaches by Tao Yu, Zhichao Yang, Meng Zhang, Lin Yao, Xiaodan Sun

“…However, significant challenges remain, including high technological costs, substantial equipment requirements, and the complexity of content development. …”
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Comparative description of immunological tests for tuberculous infection detection. Mass screening opportunities. by L. V. Slogotskaya, E. M. Bogorodskaya

“…The specificity of tuberculin testing is fairly low due mass BCG vaccination among children and adolescents, IGRA tests possess high specificity but can not be used for mass screening due to high costs, intravenous manipulations and need for the well-equipped laboratory. …”
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Blockchain‐Empowered H‐CPS Architecture for Smart Agriculture by Xiaoding Wang, Qibin Wu, Haitao Zeng, Xu Yang, Hui Cui, Xun Yi, Md. Jalil Piran, Ming Luo, Youxiong Que

“…A semantic‐based blockchain framework is introduced to address challenges in data management and AI model integration, optimizing production, improving traceability, reducing costs, and enhancing financial security. This framework directly addresses real‐world agricultural challenges, such as optimized irrigation, improved crop breeding efficiency, and enhanced supply chain transparency. …”
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Regulations and Guidelines for Chemigation by Haimanote K. Bayabil, Kati W. Migliaccio, Jonathan H. Crane, Teresa Olczyk, Qingren Wang

“…If the irrigation is properly plumed and chemigation properly implemented, chemigation can help growers reduce chemical usage and costs as it is applied using existing irrigation distribution infrastructure. …”
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A Critical Perspective on the Electricity Energy Policies of African Countries by Karabulut Andac

“…Post-COVID-19, efforts continue to create policies that prevent rising energy costs from impacting consumers, with government spending on affordability nearing $630 billion, particularly in Europe. …”
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IMITATION MODEL OF DEVELOPING RETAIL NETWORK ON THE PLATFORM IBM COGNOS TM1 by Vyacheslav V. Nefedov, Olga V. Kitova, Andrey V. Starovoytov

“…The model includes dynamics of demand, prices and costs of marketing, it is parametric and provides serious results with a wide range of income data due to principles of system dynamics, sigma-shaped functions of market response and some additional eristic described in the article.…”
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A Simheuristic Method for the Reversible Lanes Allocation and Scheduling Problem at Smart Container Terminal Gate by Wenyuan Wang, Ying Jiang, Yun Peng, Yong Zhou, Qi Tian

“…Together with a consideration of minimized total costs (both construction and operating) of terminal gate system, this paper first developed an optimization model to decide the number and scheduling rules of the reversible lanes at a terminal gate. …”
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Optimization Techniques on Quantum and Classical Systems: A Comprehensive Comparative Study by Shaik Hussain, Rajitha Morampudi, Priyamvada K., Bhargavi R. Naveena

“…Future research should address challenges like noise, limited qubits, and high material costs to improve quantum computers’ efficiency and availability.…”
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Large Eddy Simulation of a Bluff Body Stabilized Lean Premixed Flame by A. Andreini, C. Bianchini, A. Innocenti

“…Such comparison comprehends a sensitivity study to mesh refinement and combustion model characteristic constants, computational costs, and robustness of the approach. In order to expand the overview on different methods simulations were performed with both commercial and open-source codes switching from quasi-2D to fully 3D computations.…”
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A Graph-Based Ant Colony Optimization Approach for Process Planning by JinFeng Wang, XiaoLiang Fan, Shuting Wan

“…Ant colony goes through the necessary nodes on the graph to achieve the optimal solution with the objective of minimizing total production costs (TPC). Two cases have been carried out to study the influence of various parameters of ACO on the system performance. …”
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Discrete Information Acquisition in Financial Markets by Jingrui Pan, Shancun Liu, Qiang Zhang, Yaodong Yang

“…Furthermore, the impact of information technologies on price informativeness is uncertain: an improvement in information quality tends to reduce price informativeness due to more investors’ free ride on prices, whereas a reduction in information costs enhances price informativeness by encouraging more investors to acquire information. …”
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