Effectiveness of Self-instructional Module on Knowledge Regarding Prevention of Surgical Site Infection among Postoperative Cardiac Patients: A Research Protocol by Shiwani Padmakar Dandade, Arati Raut

“…Need of the study: Surgical Site Infections (SSI) in cardiac surgery remain a significant medical problem due to the deteriorated postoperative quality of life, increased mortality, more extended hospital stays, and increased treatment costs. Aim: The present study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of Self-Instructional Modules (SIM) on knowledge regarding the prevention of SSI among postoperative cardiac patients. …”
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Monitoring of Water Quality for Reduced Water Use in a Partial Recirculating Aquaculture System by Petra Camilla Lindholm‐Lehto, Kalle Sinisalo, Jani Tapio Pulkkinen, Tapio Kiuru

“…In RAS, investment and production costs can be high, and due to the microbial actions typically occurring in RAS, off‐flavours can occur and accumulate in fish flesh. …”
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RSWD-YOLO: A Walnut Detection Method Based on UAV Remote Sensing Images by Yansong Wang, Xuanxi Yang, Haoyu Wang, Huihua Wang, Zaiqing Chen, Lijun Yun

“…Traditional manual counting methods are limited by labor and time costs, leading to inaccurate walnut quantity assessments. …”
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The Impact of Green Taxation on Sustainable Economic Development in the European Union by Valentin Marian Antohi, Costinela Fortea, Monica Laura Zlati, Marius Sorin Dinca

“…The econometric evidence also shows that, while taxation of polluting activities may generate short-term costs for some industries, in the long run, green taxation stimulates innovation and investment in clean technologies, thus contributing to sustainable economic growth. …”
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Disease Burden and Treatment-Seeking Behaviour of Adults with Atopic Dermatitis in Singapore: An Online Cross-Sectional Survey by Yik Weng Yew, Malvin Kang, Sharanya Jois, Adrien Gras, Christian Apfelbacher

“…Results AD patients in Singapore face challenges like self-consciousness due to appearance (38%), treatment costs (36%) and the need for additional skincare (34%), with severe AD patients significantly more affected by these issues. …”
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Electric Bus Charging Schedules Relying on Real Data-Driven Targets Based on Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning by Jiaju Qi, Lei Lei, Thorsteinn Jonsson, Lajos Hanzo

“…As a result, the high-level agent learns an effective policy for prescribing the charging targets for every charging period, while the low-level agent learns an optimal policy for setting the charging power of every time step within a single charging period, with the aim of minimizing the charging costs while meeting the charging target. It is proved that the flat policy constructed by superimposing the optimal high-level policy and the optimal low-level policy performs as well as the optimal policy of the original MDP. …”
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Finite element modeling method of centrifugal rotary processing by A. N. Soloviev, M. A. Tamarkin, Nguyen Van Tho

“…High productivity, low costs and extensive technological capabilities are the main advantages of these cleaning and finishing operations. …”
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Minimizing of Renewable Energy Sources Impact on the Energy System Operation by the Joint Use of Solar and Wind Generation by V. A. Liubchyk, S. V. Bystrykh, A. N. Kazak

“…Complexes of energy sources with a power ratio in the specified range can reduce the required capacity of energy storage systems compared to the capacity for only solar or only wind power plants by 2.6–4.0 times, which leads to a reduction in capital costs and the payback period of the project. Going beyond the recommended range leads to a pronounced surplus or shortage of electricity generation in different periods of the day of different periods of the year, depending on the ratio of installed capacities. …”
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Vibratory Pile Driving in High Viscous Soil Layers: Numerical Analysis of Penetration Resistance and Prebored Hole of CEL Method by Caihui Li, Changkai Qiu, Xuejin Liu, Junhao Wang, Xiaofei Jing

“…The findings provide scientific guidance for steel sheet pile construction in high-viscosity stratified formations, offering significant implications for enhancing construction efficiency, ensuring operational safety, and reducing costs in such challenging geological conditions.…”
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The Effect of Posture Training Support Orthosis on Static Balance in Elderly Patients with Spinal Hyperkyphosis by Fatemeh Azadinia, Mojtaba Kamyab, Hamid Behtash, Reza Vaheb Kashani, Masoud Ramin Mirzazadeh Javaheri

“…Improved balance could reduce the risk of falls and direct and indirect costs of falls and related fractures.…”
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The Impact of Value of stock market on Poverty and Inequality: A Case Study of Iran’s Provinces by Majid Aghaei, Farzan Reehani

“…On the other hand, equity market liquidity has not shown any significant impact on income inequality in the three groups of total provinces, developed provinces, and less developed provinces. it is suggested that measures such as market transparency, increased market access, reduced transaction costs, improved market infrastructure, financial support for firms from the capital market, and increased involvement of low-income individuals and the poor in the stock market should be taken to enhance the role of equity market liquidity in reducing poverty and promoting more equitable income distribution.…”
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DeepECG-Net: a hybrid transformer-based deep learning model for real-time ECG anomaly detection by Manal Alghieth

“…Unlike conventional CNNs, which fail to handle long-term sequence dependencies, or LSTMs, which incur high computational costs, DeepECG-Net leverages a multi-head self-attention mechanism to learn both local and global ECG signal variations efficiently. …”
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The digital university is a solution for the sustainable functioning and developing of higher education institutions in war and post-war times by Oleh Zakhozhai, Dmytro Marchenko, Oleksandr Menyaylenko

“…The presented approach to building a «digital university» is based on the use of a hybrid server park for minimize financial costs for support while simultaneously ensuring a high level of availability of the educational institution’smain services and the introduction of an improved mode of synchronous learning, which is called «distributed synchronous mode». …”
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Information system for assessing maturity level of an organization by I. N. Nurutdinova, L. A. Dimitrova

“…The application of Web-technologies improves usability, reduces software support costs. The software can be both deployed in the existing network infrastructure of a customer and used by all the functionality through connecting to a remote server. …”
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Comprehensive Evaluation of Robotic Storage Tank Blasting and Coating Technology Capabilities by Armi Faizal Awang, Stephanie Goh Siaw Tien, M Aswadi Ton Alias, M Zaini M Zakaria

“…Conventional methods often require extensive scaffolding, manual labour, and exposure to hazardous environments, leading to increased safety risks and higher operational costs. Moreover, conventional approaches are typically slower, which prolongs downtime and negatively impacts overall productivity. …”
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Synthesis of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers for Selective Extraction Followed by Solid Phase Determination of Metformin in Pharmaceutical Preparation and in Human Serum by Rana A. Kamal Aldeen, Yehya K. Al-Bayati

“… This paper demonstrates that the synthesising and storage of molecular-imprinted polymers (MIP) at room temperature using bulk polymerisation of Metformin (Met) is characterised by high sensitivity, reduced costs, increased stability, and extended life. The research used 0.8:4:20 mmol ratios of template, monomer and cross-linking agents for the polymerisation in order to ensure an appropriate adsorption capacity. …”
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Active hepatitis B virus vaccination in the prevention of viral reactivation in liver transplantation recipients with previous hepatitis B infection: a cohort study by Eric Adler, Yasemin Krucker, Mirjam Kolev, Nasser Semmo

“…However, because of the high costs and logistical challenges of long-term hepatitis B immunoglobulin use, alternative approaches such as vaccination and hepatitis B immunoglobulin-free regimens are being explored. …”
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Innovative approaches to stimulating electromobility in Ukraine as a solution to urgent energy, economic and environmental challenges by Alla Tkachenko, Yurii Kobenko

“…At the same time, the development of electromobility faces certain barriers, including an insufficient number of charging stations, high initial costs for purchasing electric vehicles, and the need for additional public and private investments. …”
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<p><strong>Reciprocal intraguild predation between <em>Neoseiulus barkeri</em> and <em>Amblyseius swirskii </em>(Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae); does experience affect anti-intraguild... by Mehdi Bohloolzadeh, Azadeh Zahedi Golpayegani, Alireza Saboori, Hosein Allahyari

“… In order to increase their inclusive fitness, animals predominantly probe their changing environment for predation cues to adopt appropriate antipredator strategies and decrease the costs of defensive behavior. Intraguild predation (IGP) occurs when a predator kills and consumes individuals of another predator which is its competitor for a shared prey. …”
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Microgrid Multivariate Load Forecasting Based on Weighted Visibility Graph: A Regional Airport Case Study by Georgios Vontzos, Vasileios Laitsos, Dimitrios Bargiotas, Athanasios Fevgas, Aspassia Daskalopulu, Lefteri H. Tsoukalas

“…The motivation for this research stems from the urgent need to enhance the accuracy and reliability of load forecasting in microgrids, which is crucial for optimizing energy management, integrating renewable sources, and reducing operational costs, thereby contributing to more sustainable and efficient energy systems. …”
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