Adherence and barriers to Mediterranean diet in Tunisian patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease by Ayadi Shema, Trad Nouha, Krifa Nesrine, Mensi Asma, Belhadj Mabrouk Emna, Mouelhi Leila, Dabbeche Radhouene

“…Poor adherence tied to diet-induced higher costs (p = 0.021) and difficulty to new-diet adoption (p = 0.026). …”
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Construction and Optical Testing of Inflatable Membrane Mirror Using Structured Light Technique by Felipe Patiño-Jiménez, Yuri Nahmad-Molinari, Víctor Iván Moreno-Oliva, Fátima De Los Santos-García, Agustin Santiago-Alvarado

“…Concentration ratio achieved for a focal length of 5068 mm was of 25.1 suns, making a promising approach for lowering initial investment costs in applications such as hot-water, parabolic dish with Stirling engines, or concentrated photovoltaic electricity generation.…”
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Coevolutionary history of predation constrains the evolvability of antibiotic resistance in prey bacteria by Saheli Saha, Sneha Sureshkumar, Vaibhav Sharma, Samay Pande

“…Moreover, lower degree of resistance in the evolved strains also incurs reduced fitness costs while preserving their ancestral ability to resist predation. …”
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IMITATING NEUTRON IRRADIATION DAMAGE USING A COMBINATION OF ION BEAMS by Václav Šísl, Martin Ševeček

“…There is a strong motivation for using ion beams to imitate neutron irradiation damage, mainly in order to reduce costs and time demands linked to neutron irradiation experiments. …”
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Innovative System for Animal Waste Utilization Using Closed-Loop Material and Energy Cycles and Bioenergy: A Case Study by Zygmunt Kowalski, Agnieszka Makara

“…It estimates the integrated system’s investment costs and economic and environmental outcomes. The presented method allows for biogas production from the bio-fermentation of 160,000 t/y of animal waste; this would more than cover the heat requirements for obtaining 110,000 t/y of meat and bone meal using the hydrothermal method.…”
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Ribosome and transcript copy numbers, polysome occupancy and enzyme dynamics in Arabidopsis by Maria Piques, Waltraud X Schulze, Melanie Höhne, Björn Usadel, Yves Gibon, Johann Rohwer, Mark Stitt

“…Global translation rates are used to estimate the energy costs of protein synthesis and relate them to the plant carbon budget, in particular the rates of starch degradation and respiration at night.…”
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Survey on Anti-Drone Systems: Components, Designs, and Challenges by Seongjoon Park, Hyeong Tae Kim, Sangmin Lee, Hyeontae Joo, Hwangnam Kim

“…However, it is unaffordable to construct a military grade anti-drone system for every private or public facility due to installation and operation costs, and regulatory restrictions. We focus on analyzing anti-drone system that does not use military weapons, investigating a wide range of anti-drone technologies, and deriving proper system models for reliable drone defense. …”
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Design and Simulation of an Optimized Reliable Microgrid System for Kabale University Using Solar and Battery Storage. by Aturinde, Alban

“…The project highlights the potential of microgrids to enhance energy security, reduce costs, and promote environmental sustainability in educational institutions and similar settings facing energy challenges.…”
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We Need to Talk About Quality of Life with Cancer Patients: Primum Non Nocere in Oncology by Vlad Bogin

“…By integrating geriatric and palliative assessments, improving shared decision making, and moving away from a default treatment-at-all-costs mindset, clinicians can better align care with what truly matters to patients. …”
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Performance Analysis of WSS-Based ROADM With Shared-Per-Group Tunable Wavelength Converters by Li Zhao, Liping Zhang

“…Thus, the proposed SPG architecture may produce better blocking performance than the conventional shared-per-link, shared-per-wavelength architectures consuming lower costs. Meanwhile, analytical model is proposed to evaluate the SPG blocking probability by means of the self-constrained iteration method. …”
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Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Traditional Accounting - An Overview of Opportunities and Challenges by Tang Xiaogeng

“…These innovations enable businesses to reduce operational costs and help more educated and appropriate decision-making. …”
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THE FINANCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF FAMILY MEMBERS BEFORE MOVING TO A NURSING HOME by Yonatan Elgabsy

“…Employers also face significant costs due to absenteeism, reduced productivity, and workforce attrition. …”
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OpenEdgeComputeFramework. A Framework for Seamless Edge-Cloud Computing by Andrei-Robert CAZACU

“…One such solution is edge-computing, first making its appearance in the 1990s when Akamai launched its content delivery network [1], moving the content source closer to the user to minimize latency and transmission costs. Today, this concept evolved into a computing paradigm [2], which supports deploying applications on nearby devices with near zero down-time. …”
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The influence of sample preparation quality on the results of spectral analysis by M. V. Lagoyskaya

“…These include additional cash costs for the purchase of adapters, the need for additional standardization procedures, the availability of special reference samples. …”
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Sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures and their implications for international agricultural trade: challenges and opportunities; comprehensive review by Gezani Piet Mabunda, Ndivho Nemukondeni, Letlhogonolo Selaledi

“…However, compliance with the rules imposes excessive costs on exporters and importers and limits market access. …”
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Reduction of Climate Risk as a Key to Business Performance – Framework for Sustainable Corporate Treasury Management (CTM) by Grzegorz Michalski

“…Results: Effective management of climate risk through sustainable policies and financial instruments raises treasury levels and strengthens corporate competitiveness by reducing unexpected losses and the costs of maintaining high liquidity reserves. …”
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Simulating Environmental Innovation Behavior of Private Enterprise with Innovation Subsidies by Hongjun Guan, Zhen Zhang, Aiwu Zhao, Shuang Guan

“…By reducing innovation costs, innovation subsidies can help private enterprises convert their production modes to green production. …”
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A REVIEW OF RAILWAY TRACKS MAINTENANCE OPTIMIZATION THROUGH RAMS METHOD by Rasyadani Luthfan Hadi, Satrio Wicaksono, I Wayan Suweca

“…The implementation of RAMS on railway tracks can be used as a reference to improve the performance of railway track assets and provide long-term benefits by minimizing costs due to accidents or catastrophic failures for the Indonesian railway industry.…”
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A fiber-optic traffic monitoring network trained with video inputs by Khen Cohen, Liav Hen, Ariel Lellouch

“…Our approach highlights the potential of combining fiber-optic sensors and cameras, focusing on practicality and scalability, protecting privacy, and minimizing infrastructure costs. To encourage future research, we share our datasets.…”
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PRIORITY IMPROVEMENT OF SEA TRANSPORTATION SERVICES KMP DHARMA RUCITRA VII ROUTE SURABAYA – LABUAN BAJO by Nika Devi Permata Wijaya, Zaid Dzulkarnain Zubizaretta, Yoseph Kalasanso

“…By using the AHP method, an analysis related to the prioritization of the 6 selected stakeholders is obtained as follows: service improvement criteria which include Safety, Security, Comfort, Convenience, and Regularity obtained the highest priority value on Departure Schedule Improvement of 34% by improving service related to the accuracy of the departure schedule by giving repeated socialization of information or pasting information as clearly as possible, then followed by an increase in Compliance and Passenger Safety Standards of 19%, Shipping Frequency of 17%, Load Factor of 11%, Shipping Costs of 10%, and finally Law Enforcement of 9%. …”
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