New Seaport Development-Prospects and Challenges: Perspectives from Apapa and Calabar Seaports, Nigeria by Adepoju Olusegun Onifade

“…It was discovered that the challenges associated with the Calabar Seaport were the draught level, cost of shipment, accessibility to industries, and condition of other modes of transport. …”
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Nisin-enriched coatings on titanium implants prevent Staphylococcus aureus biofilm formation: the Galleria mellonella model as a testing platform by M Rupp, GK Mannala, N Walter, D Mendelsohn, C Roupie, G Ladam, B Labat, RMY Wong, WH Cheung, C Brochhausen, V Alt, M Riool, P Thebault

“…Additionally, this study demonstrates the feasibility of testing implant coatings in a cost-effective and ethically sound alternative in vivo model. …”
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Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae): diversity and distribution in Rio de Janeiro – Brazil by Marcelo Gigier, Gustavo Heiden, Rafaela Forzza

“…Moreover, we compared the cost-benefit on using municipality centroids versus original/curated coordinates on 5 km2 quadrants. …”
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A Quantitative Study on the Benefit of Various Waste Classifications by Jiahe Zhang, Zhenying Zhang, Jiayue Zhang, Guoyang Fan, Dazhi Wu

“…Effective MSW management can reduce the cost of waste disposal by 69.4% and greenhouse gas and acidic substance emissions and increase the energy utilisation rate four fold. …”
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Facilitators and barriers to decision-making for hospital treatment among patients diagnosed with breast cancer in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: A qualitative urban-based study. by Pascal Mkaka Dominic, Masunga K Iseselo, Raymond Athanas

“…Barriers to treatment decision-making include the cost of treatment, uncertainty about cancer treatment, and religious healing.…”
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Role of a Precision Biotic Fed to Dekalb White Laying Hens at Peak Production by ElsiAnna Rodewald, Brooke Jasek, Li Zhang, Stacey Roberts, Cristiano Bortoluzzi, Pratima Adhikari

“…There was a similar trend for the feed conversion ratio (FCR), measured in kilograms of feed per dozen eggs. Feed cost was lower in the reduced CP diets compared to the PC. …”
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Demultiplexing and barcode-specific adaptive sampling for nanopore direct RNA sequencing by Wiep van der Toorn, Patrick Bohn, Wang Liu-Wei, Marco Olguin-Nava, Anne-Sophie Gribling-Burrer, Redmond P. Smyth, Max von Kleist

“…However, applications are currently limited by the lack of accurate and cost-effective sample multiplexing. Here we introduce WarpDemuX, an ultra-fast and highly accurate adapter-barcoding and demultiplexing approach for dRNA-seq with SQK-RNA002 and SQK-RNA004 chemistries. …”
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A weakly supervised method for surgical scene components detection with visual foundation model. by Xiaoyan Zhang, Jingyi Feng, Qian Zhang, Liming Wu, Yichen Zhu, Ziyu Zhou, Jiquan Liu, Huilong Duan

“…<h4>Purpose</h4>Detection of crucial components is a fundamental problem in surgical scene understanding. Limited by the huge cost of spatial annotation, current studies mainly focus on the recognition of three surgical elements [Formula: see text]instrument, verb, target[Formula: see text], while the detection of surgical components [Formula: see text]instrument, target[Formula: see text] remains highly challenging. …”
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Comprehensive Review of Plant Protein Digestibility: Challenges, Assessment Methods, and Improvement Strategies by Mauricio Opazo-Navarrete, César Burgos-Díaz, Cristina Bravo-Reyes, Ivo Gajardo-Poblete, Manuel Chacón-Fuentes, Juan E. Reyes, Luis Mojica

“…While in vivo studies, particularly those using pigs, are considered the gold standard, in vitro and ex vivo models offer cost-effective and reproducible alternatives for simulating digestion. …”
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Optimal Scheduling of Integrated Energy Systems Considering Electric Vehicle Charging Patterns and Supply-Demand Flexibility by LIU Weimin, XIAO Hui, ZENG Linjun, YAN Qin, GUO Huidong, WU Yongxiao

“…[Results] By comparing and analyzing multiple scenarios， the proposed strategy reduces the total system cost by 16.22%. It also improves the flexibility of IES supply and demand， enables orderly charging across various EV charging modes， and lowers both economic costs and carbon emissions. …”
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Predisposition to depressive symptoms in patients with paranoid schizophrenia: constitutional-biological, socio-demographic factors and the debut of the disease by Kh. S. Zhyvago

“…It was evaluated the prognostic significance of individual predisposing factors to depression in patients with paranoid schizophrenia and found the following factors of predisposition (p<0.05): the heredity of schizophrenia and affective disorders; low level of erudition, combined with emotional and volitional immaturity, anxiety, prone to mood swings; low income and the cost of food, clothing and leisure; poor living conditions; unstable or conflictual family relationships; the presence of the first episode of affective symptoms, such as depressive, which is stored in the further course of the disease, as well as anhedonia, sleep and appetite disorders, weight loss; statements of suicidal thoughts or intentions for life. …”
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Climate Change and Sweet Potato Production; Empirical Insights from Ebonyi State, Nigeria by Emeka Osuji, Christiana Igberi, Esther Nwachukwu, Emmanuel Osang, Akunna Tim-Ashama

“…Poor access to extension and services, land fragmentation, capital, inadequate information concerning climate change, and high cost of input resources constrained potato cultivation. …”
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Photoelectric Water Heaters Use in Hot Climate Conditions by Frid S.E., Lisitskaya N.V., Tarasenko A.B., Frolova N.D., Suleimanov M.Zh.

“…However solar collectors market growth slowdown and substantial decrease of photovoltaic panels cost make the heat generation by photovoltaic panels economically justified. …”
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A 3-D Parallel Method of PSTD-Based Reverse Time Migration of GPR Data by Lingjia Huang, Bowen Ma, Qinghua Huang

“…However, the three-dimensional (3-D) RTM of GPR data still faces big challenge due to its expensive computation cost. In this article, we develop a novel RTM method based on a 3-D parallel pseudospectral time domain (PSTD) algorithm. …”
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Structural Topology Optimization for Frequency Response Problems Using Adaptive Second-Order Arnoldi Method by Yongxin Qu, Yonghui Zhou, Yunfeng Luo

“…This leads to an unbearable computational cost, especially for large-scale problems. An effective approach, the Second-Order Arnoldi (SOAR) method, effectively solves the response and adjoint equations by projecting the original model to a reduced order model. …”
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Mathematical Model of Fluid Flow Machine Unit for a Small-Scale Compressed Gas Energy Storage System by Piotr Lis, Jarosław Milewski, Pavel Shuhayeu, Jan Paczucha, Paweł Ryś

“…These findings underscore the potential of thermally integrated hydraulic systems for efficient, scalable, and cost-effective energy storage in distributed renewable energy networks.…”
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Development of Pogo Pin-Based Holding and Release Mechanism for Deployable Solar Panel of CubeSat by Shankar Bhattarai, Hongrae Kim, Sung-Hoon Jung, Hyun-Ung Oh

“…In general, the cable cutting release mechanism have been used in 1U-3U small satellites because of its simplicity and low cost. However, this mechanism has a low constraint force and is unable to apply constraints along the in-plane and out-of-plane directions. …”
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Toward In Vivo Cancer Detection: X-Ray Scattering on Thick Phantom Samples by Viacheslav Kubytskyi, Masroor Khonkhodzhaev, Aika Tanaka, Audrey Nguyen, Alexander Lazarev, Byron Aram, Keith Rogers, Lev Mourokh, Pavel Lazarev

“…As the number of new breast cancer cases grows around the world, there is an unmet need for fast, accurate, and low-cost methods of early cancer detection. It was previously shown that X-ray scattering on lipid molecules can provide the necessary structural biomarker. …”
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MOF-based catalysts for CO2 reduction via photo-, electro-, and photoelectrocatalysis: a review by Mahmood Riyadh Atta, Akram Fadhl Al-Mahmodi, Baker Nasser Saleh Al-Dhawi, Md. Maksudur Rahman Khan

“…Future research should focus on optimizing these systems for enhanced durability, cost effectiveness, and energy efficiency to meet the growing demand for sustainable energy solutions.…”
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Design and comparison study of a novel linear Fresnel reflector solar ORC-driven hydrogen production system using different working fluids by Gang Wang, Shaoxuan Zhang, Tianlin Zou

“…Furthermore, the proposed system using hexane has the lowest levelized cost of hydrogen, smallest payback period and largest net present value (4.97 $·kg-1, 4.7 years and 47.8 million USD), showing the best economic performance. …”
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