Social and environmental determinants of disease uncertainty in obstructive sleep apnea: a dyadic qualitative study on patients and co-residents by Yuqi Niu, Yefan Shao, Linlin Chen, Yali Wang, Shanwen Sun, Xiaochun Zhang

“…Ethical approval was obtained, and informed consent was secured from all participants prior to the study.ResultsThe analysis of the interview data yielded seven major themes and 19 sub-themes. (1) “The Shadow of Knowing Little”; (2) “The Fog of Night and Day”; (3) “Symbiotic Suffering”; (4) “The Hidden Costs”; (5) “Delay in Seeking Medical Care”; (6) “Complex Choices”; (7) “Vacancies Calling for Attention.”ConclusionThe findings underscore that OSA patients and their co-residents face considerable uncertainty related to disease awareness, symptom experiences, medical decision-making, treatment plans, and social support. …”
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Genotypic variations of Tamarix aphylla (L.) H.Karst. population for heavy metal phytoremediation: a case study in Markazi province, Iran by Mina Taghizadeh, Fatemeh Asghari, Mousa Solgi, Ali Khadivi

“…Trees offer a more economically viable option for remediating heavy metal-contaminated soils as their extensive root systems, substantial biomass, lower requirements, and management contribute to reduced operational costs. This study seeks to enhance the understanding of metal accumulation in Tamarix aphylla (L.) …”
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Design and Performance Investigation of a Solar- Powered Biological Greywater Treatment System in the Iraqi Climate by Hashim A. Mahdi, Hassan Naji Salman AL-Joboory, Akram G. Abdula, Alia A. Hameed, Aseel K. Rasheed

“…The present work investigates the performance of a recycling solar- powered greywater treatment system for the purposes of irrigation, used to reduce the amount of waste grey water and reduce electricity consumption and reduce the costs of constructing large scale water treatment plants. …”
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Interoperation Scheme for Dedicated Wireless Trunking Systems in Urban Rail Transit by XU Lijin, GONG Jiansheng

“…Various schemes are compared and analyzed in depth in terms of additional equipment requirements, interface types, interoperation levels, roaming talk group capacity, compatibility with broadband systems, and construction costs. Based on the development and application of SIP (session initiation protocol) in dispatching systems, an interoperation scheme for a network-wide unified wireless dispatching system based on SIP protocol is proposed. …”
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A Method of Simultaneous Vehicle Localization and Roadside Pole-shaped Object Inventory Creation Based on Integrated LiDAR-IMU-GNSS System by YUAN Chao, PAN Wenbo, CHEN Zhiwei, HUANG Wenyu, LI Yuanzhengyu, YANG Zhenyu

“…At present, the use of mobile LiDAR systems (MLS) to collect environmental information and generate roadside pole-shaped object inventories is limited by equipment costs and has poor real-time performance. Although LiDAR-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) techniques have been widely applied in the navigation field, research on simultaneous real-time localization and creation of roadside pole-shaped object inventories remains absent. …”
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Cludoop: An Efficient Distributed Density-Based Clustering for Big Data Using Hadoop by Yanwei Yu, Jindong Zhao, Xiaodong Wang, Qin Wang, Yonggang Zhang

“…It employs the proposed serial clustering CluC as a plugged-in clustering on parallel mapper, along with a cell description instead of completed cell in transmission to reduce both network and I/O costs. Guided by proposed cell-based principles, we also design a Merging-Refinement-Merging 3-step framework to merge c-clusters on the overlay of assigned preclustering result on reducer. …”
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Genesis analysis and effective development of normal pressure shale gas reservoir: A case of Wufeng-Longmaxi shale gas reservoir in southeast margin of Sichuan Basin by XUE Gang, XIONG Wei, ZHANG Peixian

“…The fracturing scale simulation shows that it is necessary to further optimise the horizontal well segmented fracturing parameters, increase the output of single wells, and reduce development costs. Only in this way can effective development be realised.…”
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The effects of nursing care package implementation on pressure injuries prevention in the intensive care unit by Sevda Önen, Özlem Doğu

“…This also contributes to the prevention of pressure injury formation and health costs.…”
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From sensors to insights: Technological trends in image-based high-throughput plant phenotyping by Rui-Feng Wang, Hao-Ran Qu, Wen-Hao Su

“…Despite significant advancements, current HTPP systems still face several challenges, including high costs, limited generalization in open-field conditions, and the need for large-scale annotated datasets. …”
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Estimating health and economic burden of PM10 pollution in Agra, India using AirQ+ and VSL approaches by Deepali Kushwaha, Swami Prasad Saxena, Ranjit Kumar

“…Seasonal trends were analyzed using Mann-Kendall and Sen’s slope tests, and economic costs were calculated using the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL) approach. …”
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Multimodal Knowledge Distillation for Emotion Recognition by Zhenxuan Zhang, Guanyu Lu

“…However, the practical application of EEG-based approaches is often hindered by high costs and operational complexity, making EOG a more feasible alternative in real-world scenarios. …”
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A novel flexible identity-net with diffusion models for painting-style generation by Yifei Zhao, Ziqi Liang, Yingrui Qiu, Xiaona Wang

“…However, traditional creative processes face challenges such as slow innovation, high costs, and limited scalability. Consequently, deep learning has emerged as a promising solution for enhancing painting-style creative design. …”
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Advancing Sustainable Groundwater Management With a Hydro‐Economic System Model: Investigations in the Harney Basin, Oregon by W. K. Jaeger, J. Antle, S. B. Gingerich, D. Bigelow

“…The HEM shows that: (a) although current groundwater pumping rates will gradually raise costs and reduce well yields, irrigators gain the highest aggregate economic return by continuing current pumping; (b) lowland areas of the basin are hydrologically connected, which limits the efficacy of remedies focused on regulations only in some portions of the basin; (c) community expectations regarding the efficacy of several proposed solutions are overly optimistic; and (d) the study's scenarios identify interventions that would stabilize the groundwater system and prevent additional adverse impacts on residential and livestock wells and groundwater‐dependent ecosystems. …”
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Studies of the constructed rail seat supports by M. Yu. Khvostik, M. A. Starodubtseva

“…Possessing the advantages of wooden sleepers (bars), they have higher wear resistance, lower life cycle costs (recyclable), are more homogeneous and do not rot. …”
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Autonomous UAV Detection of <i>Ochotona curzoniae</i> Burrows with Enhanced YOLOv11 by Huimin Zhao, Linqi Jia, Yuankai Wang, Fei Yan

“…To address the inefficiency and high costs of traditional pika burrow monitoring, this study proposes an intelligent monitoring solution that integrates drone remote sensing with deep learning. …”
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Optimization of shool education institutions network in Ukraine in conditions of administrative-territorial reform: reasons, regional differences, ways of implementation by Mуkola Baranovskiy, Olga Baranovska

“…It has been proved that the costs of education take a leading place in the overall expenditure structure of local communities but their share (30-40%) is almost the same as in many European countries. …”
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Marxist Perspectives on the Global Enclosures of Social Reproduction by Friederike Beier

“…Feminist scholars use the concept to explain how unpaid care and housework is commodified or de-commodified to integrate women into the paid labour force or to reduce the costs of social reproduction according to the needs of the economy. …”
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Theoretical substantiation of system for organising preventive treatment of asphalt concrete road pavements by V. V. Petrusevich

“…The article presents an overview of the state of the problem of preventing destruction of asphalt concrete pavements abroad and in the Republic of Belarus, an analysis of the measures taken to implement the developed hydrophobic preventive Protekt-01composition at transport infrastructure facilities, and also, based on the data obtained from production testing a ‘System for organizing preventive treatment’ has been proposed, which will be aimed at preventing the beginning and future destruction of the asphalt concrete pavement of highways and will be based on monitoring the technical condition of the control object, planning, organizing, implementing and managing preventive and repair measures using navigation equipment and software that makes it possible to optimize the balance of costs and road surface defects.Originality. Thus, based on the theoretical substantiation and the results of practical implementation of the developed composition, the following are proposed:- method for ensuring the operation of a control system for liquid road-building materials which enables to eliminate overconsumption of the distributed substance;- ‘System for organizing preventive treatment’, which enables to increase the service life of asphalt concrete pavement by 1.2–1.5 times.…”
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Organizational and Economic Aspects of the State Support of the Enterprises and Organizations of National Defense Industry by Y. V. Mishin

“…The proposals were developed on the basis of the analysis of the specific features of the organization of production and military products manufactured by the defense industry, as well as existing legal documents in the field of state support for investment activities.Conclusions and Relevance: аt the present stage of development of the Russian economy, the state must not only provide support to enterprises and organizations of the defense industrial complex in the form of concessional loans, subsidize interest rates on them, but also finance research and development costs from the federal budget. It should create interest among potential buyers in their acquisition of civilian products not only by economic, but also by administrative methods. …”
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Design and Implementation of an Integrated Underwater Wireless Optical Communication and Ranging System by WANG Jiale, ZHENG Kaiwen, LIAN Jie

“…The separation of traditional communication and sensing modules has led to large device sizes and high costs, which restrict the overall system performance. …”
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