Microcontroller-Based Platform for Lithium-Ion Battery Charging and Experimental Evaluation of Charging Strategies by Laurentiu Marius Baicu, Mihaela Andrei, Bogdan Dumitrascu

“…A key contribution of this work is the development of a low-cost, microcontroller-based platform that enables flexible implementation and testing of diverse charging strategies. …”
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Antibiotic adsorption from real pharmaceutical factory wastewater using a hole-punched flat ceramic membrane based on clay and hydroxyapatite in a fixed bed module by Zahra Hajyani, Zahrasadat Mousavi, Masoumeh Soleimanbeigi, Yong Jie Wong, Ali Aghababai Beni

“…After 142 regeneration cycles with 37 % HCl, the adsorbent retained over 90 % of its initial efficiency, highlighting its sustainability, cost-effectiveness, and high regeneration capacity for antibiotic removal.…”
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Mechanical Milling and Cold Pressing for the Fabrication of Porous SiC Ceramics via Starch Consolidation by B. F. Flores-Morales, E. Rocha-Rangel, C. A. Calles-Arriaga, W. J. Pech-Rodríguez, I. Estrada-Guel, A. Jiménez-Rosales, J. López-Hernández, J. A. Rodriguez-Garcia, J. A. Castillo-Robles

“…These findings demonstrate the potential of starch consolidation for the cost-effective production of SiC ceramics with promising mechanical properties.…”
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Integrating Logistics into Global Production: A New Approach by Pablo Coto-Millán, David Paz Saavedra, Marta de la Fuente, Xose Luis Fernandez

“…On the other hand, negative elasticities were observed for shipment timeliness and the cost competitiveness of international shipments, suggesting that inefficiencies in these areas can hinder economic growth. …”
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Assessing chikungunya's economic burden and impact on health-related quality of life: Two systematic literature reviews. by Giorgia Tiozzo, Adrianne M de Roo, Gabriel S Gurgel do Amaral, Hinko Hofstra, Gerard T Vondeling, Maarten J Postma

“…Indirect costs, mainly attributed to absenteeism, constituted a substantial portion of the total economic burden. …”
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Evaluation of the conventional and synchrotron X-ray tomography applied to heterogeneous oil reservoir rocks by Guilherme José Ramos, Paula Campos de Oliveira, Rodrigo Surmas, Leandro de Paulo Ferreira, Henning Markötter, Nikolay Kardjilov, Ingo Manke, Luciano Andrey Montoro, Augusta Isaac

“…Although SXCT offers significant advantages over XCT, the latter gains in cost of operation, accessibility and user-friendliness.…”
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Leaf Area Estimation in High-Wire Tomato Cultivation Using Plant Body Scanning by Hiroki Naito, Tokihiro Fukatsu, Kota Shimomoto, Fumiki Hosoi, Tomohiko Ota

“…Compared with prior 3D-based methods, the proposed 2D approach achieved comparable accuracy while maintaining low cost and a labor-efficient design. However, the system has not been tested in real production, and its generalizability across cultivars, environments, and growth stages remains unverified. …”
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Tactical Helicopter Transportation Planning for Offshore Personnel on the Norwegian Continental Shelf by Irina Gribkovskaia, Gaute Øiestad Slettemark

“…<i>Methods:</i> We present a developed two-step solution method sequentially generating possible flights and solving a flight-based integer programming model, and an iterative algorithm based on the decomposition of the flight-based model for the construction of cost-optimal weekly flight programs. <i>Results:</i> The developed algorithms were validated on the real instances from Equinor, the largest NCS energy operator. …”
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Remote Work and Telemigrants: The New Face of Offshoring and Its Effects on Industrial Relations by Serpil Çiğdem Yücel

“…Remote work allows employees to perform their tasks through digital tools without physically attending a workplace, while offshoring enables employers to access labour in low-cost countries. As traditional business models give way to new forms of work such as telemigration, it has been found that this shift presents both significant challenges and opportunities for industrial relations. …”
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Advances in Nanocellulose-Based Composites for Sustainable Food Packaging by Baoying Shi, Di Wu, Yu Lin, Xinyu Xu, Siqi Xie, Guiyuan Zhao, Yufeng Wang

“…Future research should prioritize scalable, low-cost production technologies and expanded applications in smart and active packaging systems. …”
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Research on the Optimal Scheduling of Multi-Microgrid Double-Layer Game Considering Fair Carbon Trading Strategy in the Green Certificate Trading Market by Shuaibo Zhang, Fei He, Baofeng Li

“…However, the cost of the heat supply network increases by 4318 yuan. …”
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Micro-Actuators with Light and Magnetism Dual-Control for Maneuverable Movements by Yang Zhang, Tenglong Fu, Erming Tian, Jing Yi

“…The fabrication process demonstrates cost-effective, scalable, and environmentally sustainable characteristics, requiring neither complex equipment nor organic solvents. …”
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Does Percutaneous Kyphoplasty Have Better Functional Outcome Than Vertebroplasty in Single Level Osteoporotic Compression Fractures? A Comparative Prospective Study by F. Omidi-Kashani, F. Samini, E. G. Hasankhani, A. R. Kachooei, K. Z. Toosi, F. Golhasani-Keshtan

“…In considering the high cost of KP relative to VP in the developing countries like Iran, there is no logical reason to use KP in a single level refractory OCF in these regions.…”
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Inventory Management Practices and Challenges: An Exploratory Study by Abdelrahim Alsoussi, Khaldoun Tahboub

“…The common challenges of inventory management were also identified and found to include the lack of formal cost calculation methods, limited technological adoption, supply chain disruptions, and reliance on managerial intuition over data-driven decision-making. …”
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Diagnostic utility of an automated fundus-OCT camera in the emergency department: a retrospective review by Samyuktha Guttha, Andrew M. Huang, Kiran Malhotra, Andrea L. Blitzer

“…Automated fundus-OCT cameras are emerging as a rapid, user-friendly and cost-effective tool in the ED. Methods Fundus and OCT images were taken by residents as needed for patients undergoing ophthalmology consultation in an academic ED in 2023. …”
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A high-resolution, nanopore-based artificial intelligence assay for DNA replication stress in human cancer cells by Mathew J. K. Jones, Subash Kumar Rai, Pauline L. Pfuderer, Alexis Bonfim-Melo, Julia K. Pagan, Paul R. Clarke, Francis Isidore Garcia Totañes, Catherine J. Merrick, Sarah E. McClelland, Michael A. Boemo

“…This method requires sequencing on only one nanopore flow cell per sample, and the cost-effectiveness enables functional screens to determine how human cancers respond to replication-targeted therapies.…”
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Virtual Reality and Digital Twins for Catastrophic Failure Prevention in Industry 4.0 by Vicente Rojas Catalán, José Luis Valín, Felipe Muñoz-La Rivera, Julio Ortega, Nicolás Norambuena, Emanuel Ramirez, Cristóbal Ignacio Galleguillos Ketterer

“…This work proposes a low-cost simulation platform, based on virtual reality and real-time digital twins, designed to support training and capacity building in industrial environments. …”
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Fast Identification and Detection Algorithm for Maneuverable Unmanned Aircraft Based on Multimodal Data Fusion by Tian Luan, Shixiong Zhou, Yicheng Zhang, Weijun Pan

“…This integrated solution provides cost-effective, high-precision drone surveillance for resource-constrained airports.…”
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Emergency Resource Dispatch Scheme for Ice Disasters Based on Pre-Disaster Prediction and Dynamic Scheduling by Runyi Pi, Yuxuan Liu, Nuoxi Huang, Jianyu Lian, Xin Chen, Chao Yang

“…These improvements significantly reduce the cost of community energy self-sustainability, enhance the satisfaction of community residents, and ensure system stability across various disaster scenarios.…”
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Modification of accelerated thermal stabilization of polyacrylonitrile fibers by creating an oxygen concentration gradient in the production of carbon fiber by E. A. Trofimenko, T. V. Bukharkina, S. V. Verzhichinskaya

“…The resulting technology regime is promising for the production of high strength (4.5 GPa, 4.9 GPa) PAN fibers at a reduced cost. While maintaining the total thermal stabilization time of PAN at the level of 30 min, which is three times less than the industrial processes used, it was possible to reduce the formation of a heterophase structure, as well as lowering the final processing temperature and reducing the temperature difference between the stabilization zones. …”
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