At Lunch with a Killer: The Effect of Weaver Ants on Host-Parasitoid Interactions on Mango. by Valentina Migani, Sunday Ekesi, Katharina Merkel, Thomas Hoffmeister

“…These responses can be costly and could impact population growth. As some prey species may be more affected than others, predation pressure could also alter the dynamics among species within communities. …”
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Dynamics of gabion weirs and its comparison to reinforced concrete weirs by Hazrat Amin, Mujahid Khan, Muhammad Ajmal

“…Different types of weirs have different hydraulics on upstream as well as downstream resulting in various construction costs and necessary arrangements for safe operation.  …”
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INFLUENCE OF FIRM CHARACTERISTICS ON LOAN APPROVAL FOR SMEs IN NORTH CENTRAL NIGERIA: BANKERS’ PERCEPTION by Lukman Adebayo Oke, Yusuf Olamilekan Quadri, Daud Omotosho Saheed

“…This will facilitate improved financial access and economies of scale in terms of relatively reduced loan costs. Similarly, SMEs should also consider setting up urban offices to achieve close proximity to their banks for better financial access. …”
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Features of constrained radial form turning by D. V. Moiseev, A. A. Ryzhkin

“…Analytical dependencies and tabulated values of the shear areas are the background for determining power characteristics and energy costs on the basis of the specific pressures for shaped radial turning.…”
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How is parenting stress related to parental burnout among children’s mothers in China: the mediating role of marital satisfaction and the moderating role of socioeconomic status by Xiaoyan Xu, Xiaoyan Xu, Zahyah Hanafi, Shun Zhang

“…With the implementation of the three-child policy in China, more parenting hours and higher economic costs may increase the risk of parental burnout.ObjectivesThis study investigated how was maternal parenting stress related to mothers’ parental burnout, as well as the potential mediating effect of their marital satisfaction and the moderating effect of their socioeconomic status on this relationship.MethodsData were collected from 314 mothers living in mainland China. …”
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Evaluating the impact of digital technologies on the excursion services’ management by Olesia Suntsova

“…These include the high costs of technological development and maintenance, the necessity for continuous updates and improvements, and the demand for skilled personnel capable of managing and operating advanced digital tools effectively. …”
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The Emergence Unit of a One-Day Hospital by R. V. Bolshedvorov, Ye. G. Chekanova, V. V. Likhvantsev

“…The clinical benefit in the fast-track group is not significant; the economic costs are similar to those in the recovery group under the conditions of the PACU, the financial benefit is not great. …”
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Total Quality Management Practices on Firm Performance: A Study of Selected Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria by Ejikeme Emmanuel Isichei, Samuel Taiwo Olabosinde

“…The study concludes that TQM is a vital strategy for achieving customer satisfaction and recommends rigorous monitoring of TQM implementation and strengthening internal control systems to mitigate quality-related costs and curb fraud within the industry. These insights provide valuable implications for policymakers and practitioners aiming to bolster the competitiveness of financial institutions through quality management practices.…”
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Integration of Hash Encoding Technique with Machine Learning for Employee Turnover Prediction by Ahya Radiatul Kamila, Johanes Fernandes Andry, Francka Sakti Lee, Felliks F. Tampinongkol

“…Employee turnover refers to the replacement of employees within an organization, which can lead to losses such as recruitment costs and decreased productivity. Predicting turnover is crucial for companies to anticipate and take appropriate actions to retain potential employees. …”
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An efficient multi-key BFV fully homomorphic encryption scheme with optimized relinearization by Sai Hu, Ruwei Huang, Liang Zhou

“…Nonetheless, it also has some disadvantages, such as additional noise generated during the relinearization process, the need for costly transformations during the external product process, and the requirement for a Common Reference String (CRS). …”
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Construction of a mine accident knowledge graph based on Large Language Models by ZHANG Pengyang, SHENG Long, WANG Wei, WEI Zhongcheng, ZHAO Jijun

“…Current methods for constructing knowledge graphs in the field of mining require a large amount of manually labeled high-quality supervised data during the pre-training stage, resulting in high labor costs and low efficiency. Large Language Models (LLMs) can significantly improve the quality and efficiency of information extraction with only a small amount of manually labeled high-quality data. …”
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FedDAR: Federated Learning With Data-Quantity Aware Regularization for Heterogeneous Distributed Data by Youngjun Kwak, Minyoung Jung

“…Moreover, previous approaches often rely on data and feature augmentation branches, overlooking data-quantity considerations, leading to suboptimal performance and inefficient communication costs, particularly in multi-class classification tasks. …”
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Upgrading safety systems of industrial irradiation facilities by Rogerio dos Santos Gomes, Joana D'Arc Ramos Lopes Gomes, Evaldo Luiz Correa da Costa, Mara Lucia de Lara Costa, Zieli Dutra Thomé Filho

“…The decreasing demand for these older products means that they are no longer produced, which can make it impossible or costly to obtain spare parts and the expansion of legacy systems to include new features. …”
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Association between Stress Response Genes and Features of Diurnal Cortisol Curves in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis: A New Multi-Phenotype Approach for Gene-Based Associ... by Zihuai He, Erin K Payne, Bhramar Mukherjee, Seunggeun Lee, Jennifer A Smith, Erin B Ware, Brisa N Sánchez, Teresa E Seeman, Sharon L R Kardia, Ana V Diez Roux

“…The analytic strategies presented consider different hypotheses regarding genotype-phenotype association and imply different costs of multiple testing. The proposed gene-level analysis integrating multiple cortisol features across multiple ethnic groups provides new insights into the gene-cortisol association.…”
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Structural performance of R.C. Beam with septage ash and hybrid fibre by Rajesh Kumar K.

“…Incorporating septage ash not only decreases concrete production costs but also helps mitigate industrial pollution. …”
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Automation of information distribution in adaptive electronic document management systems using machine learning by A. D. Obukhov

“…Its solution willreduce the time and material costs for design and make the transition to a more advanced, adaptive EDMS. …”
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Ultrasound elastography: advances and challenges in early detection of breast cancer by Jianmin Zhou, Yanchun Zhang, Shaohua Shi

“…The review also addresses current challenges, including the need for technical standardization, ensuring consistent reproducibility across different settings, managing economic costs, improving accessibility, and developing comprehensive education and training programs for healthcare providers. …”
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Beyond the Rocket: A Review of Propellantless Propulsion Technologies and Concepts by Mostafa Essam Eissa

“…Interplanetary voyages completed in significantly shorter timeframes and drastically reduced launch costs could be attained. Propellantless drives hold the potential to overcome numerous obstacles that current chemical propulsion cannot. …”
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The effect of interpersonal psychotherapy and other psychodynamic therapies versus 'treatment as usual' in patients with major depressive disorder. by Janus Christian Jakobsen, Jane Lindschou Hansen, Erik Simonsen, Christian Gluud

“…<h4>Background</h4>Major depressive disorder afflicts an estimated 17% of individuals during their lifetimes at tremendous suffering and costs. Interpersonal psychotherapy and other psychodynamic therapies may be effective interventions for major depressive disorder, but the effects have only had limited assessment in systematic reviews.…”
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Adapted Machinery and Technology for Alpine Pasture Dairy Farming by A. B. Baragunov

“…The paper highlights that grazing a dairy herd on ecologically pristine mountain pastures facilitates the production of raw milk at reduced costs. Preserving the native properties of milk and achieving superior product quality necessitates prompt milk processing, particularly through efficient cooling and storage at low temperatures. …”
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