Pastures and Forage Crops for Horses by Marcelo Osorio Wallau, Edward L. Johnson, João Mauricio Buen Vendramini, Carissa Wickens, Caitlin Bainum

“… Florida's unique climatic characteristics allow for forage production most of the year with a large variety of possible forage choices. …”
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Key factors in the successful implementation of enterprise resource planning system by Farajollah Rahnavard, Nahid Bozorgkhou

“…ERP implementation is costly and time-consuming and makes fundamental change in the process, if not implemented correctly it will cause challenges in most parts of the organization and will certainly fail. …”
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Optimization of Organizational Structure as Tool to Raise Labour Productivity by R. A. Dolzhenko

“…The elaborated methodological recommendations show opportunities to use one of the most ordinary tools of optimization that does not require investment and serious labour costs and as a rule is linked with elimination of extra levels of management and managerial positions and covers a small number of employees.…”
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PHARMACOECONOMIC EVALUATION OF RUFINAMIDE USE FOR THE LENNOX-GASTAUT SYNDROME TREATMENT by N. K. Mazina, P. V. Mazin, Yu. V. Kislitsin, E. M. Markova

“…Among epileptic encephalopathies, the Lennox–Gastaut syndrome is considered to be one of the most severe. It is a childhood-onset disease that leads to early disability and mental retardation and is associated with significant costs of medical care and patient nursing. …”
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Adaptation Strategies to Climate Variability Among Maize Farmers in Oyo State, Nigeria by Mercy Matthew, Enan Timothy, Elizabeth Olorunshola

“…Findings revealed that the most significant constraints were limited access to credit (85.5% strongly agreed), high labour costs (89.3%), and rising input prices (55.1%). …”
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Integration of energy communities in distribution grids: Development paths for local energy coordination by Henning Taxt, Sigurd Bjarghov, Magnus Askeland, Pedro Crespo del Granado, Andrei Morch, Merkebu Z. Degefa, Rubi Rana

“…The scenario were active distribution system management and decentralisation of coordination responsibility are combined (Participatory scenario) is likely to bring most benefits. However, it is also the most complex and requires comprehensive and costly developments at both DSO and ECs. …”
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Progress in integrated and fiber optics for time-bin based quantum information processing by Nicola Montaut, Agnes George, Monika Monika, Monika Monika, Farzam Nosrati, Farzam Nosrati, Hao Yu, Hao Yu, Stefania Sciara, Benjamin Crockett, Ulf Peschel, Zhiming Wang, Rosario Lo Franco, Mario Chemnitz, Mario Chemnitz, Mario Chemnitz, William J. Munro, William J. Munro, David J. Moss, José Azaña, Roberto Morandotti

“…These innovations, relying on readily available, telecom-based fiber-optic components, provide practical, scalable, and cost-effective solutions for advancing quantum photonic technologies. …”
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Towards universal voluntary HIV testing and counselling: a systematic review and meta-analysis of community-based approaches. by Amitabh B Suthar, Nathan Ford, Pamela J Bachanas, Vincent J Wong, Jay S Rajan, Alex K Saltzman, Olawale Ajose, Ade O Fakoya, Reuben M Granich, Eyerusalem K Negussie, Rachel C Baggaley

“…In low- and middle-income countries, the cost per person tested ranged from US$2-US$126. At the population level, community-based HTC increased HTC coverage (RR 7.07, 95% CI 3.52-14.22) and reduced HIV incidence (RR 0.86, 95% CI 0.73-1.02), although the incidence reduction lacked statistical significance. …”
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Aided Greenway Design Approach Based on Internet Big Data and AIGC Fine-Tuning Model by Yifan WU, Lu MENG, Liang LI

“…In future research, new technological tools should be combined to gradually improve approach performance and continuously reduce the cost of approach deployment. However, the approach also shows potential for adaptation in landscape design, which is mainly reflected in two aspects: relevance and extensibility. …”
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Nutritional priorities to support GLP-1 therapy for obesity: A joint advisory from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, the American Society for Nutrition, the Obesity Medic... by Dariush Mozaffarian, Monica Agarwal, Monica Aggarwal, Lydia Alexander, Caroline M. Apovian, Shagun Bindlish, Jonathan Bonnet, W. Scott Butsch, Sandra Christensen, Eugenia Gianos, Mahima Gulati, Alka Gupta, Debbie Horn, Ryan M. Kane, Jasdeep Saluja, Deepa Sannidhi, Fatima Cody Stanford, Emily A. Callahan

“…Challenges include side effects, especially gastrointestinal; nutritional deficiencies due to calorie reduction; muscle and bone loss; low long-term adherence with subsequent weight regain; and high costs with resulting low cost-effectiveness. Numerous practice guidelines recommend multicomponent, evidence-based nutritional and behavioral therapy for adults with obesity, but use of such therapies with GLP-1s is not widespread. …”
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Rabies post-exposure treatment in metropolitan Sydney residents, 2013–2023: A retrospective case-series analysis by Alice Self, Troy McNeill, Andrew Ingleton, Thomas R. Browne, Leena Gupta

“…Overseas exposures were mostly due to bites from monkeys, and the majority occurred in Asia (92 %), specifically in Indonesia. …”
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The Relationship between Sparseness and Energy Consumption of Neural Networks by Guanzheng Wang, Rubin Wang, Wanzeng Kong, Jianhai Zhang

“…The ratio of signaling costs to fixed costs is between 1.3 and 2.1. We calculated the ratio of active neurons to all neurons in most energy-efficient neural networks. …”
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Minimization of Heat Losses in District Heating Networks by Optimizing their Configuration by Skochko V., Solonnikov V., Pohosov O., Haba K., Kulinko Ye., Koziachyna B.

“…The goal is achieved by solving the problems of modeling the coor-dinates of nodes and the lengths of sections of thermal networks using instrumental means to determine the most rational positions of the branching nodes in terms of their coordinates to identify economically viable directions for laying each fragment of the corresponding networks. …”
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Prevalence of Childhood Illnesses and Care-Seeking Practices in Rural Uganda by Anthony K. Mbonye

“…The results showed that the 300 women interviewed had 323 children of whom 37.9% had an episode of fever 2 weeks before the survey, 40.3% had diarrhea, 37.4% had URTI, and 26.8% were fully immunized. Most of the women, 82.7%, perceived fever as the most serious health problem to their children. …”
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Predicting large-scale spatial patterns of marine meiofauna: implications for environmental monitoring by Fabiane Gallucci, Gustavo Fonseca, Danilo C Vieira, Luciana Erika Yaginuma, Paula Foltran Gheller, Simone Brito, Thais Navajas Corbisier

“…Density of meiofauna and its most frequent taxa (Nematoda, Copepoda, Kinorhyncha, and Polychaeta), and taxa richness were used as descriptors for the models. …”
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Primary healthcare providers’ perspectives on six-month dispensing of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in South Africa: cross-sectional survey of views and preferences by Vinolia Ntjikelane, Amy Huber, Allison Morgan, Sophie Pascoe, Musa Manganye, Lufuno Malala, Sydney Rosen

“…Results A total of 182 providers were enrolled from four provinces (median age 44, 88% female). Most (>70%) respondents said that 3MMD offered multiple benefits for providers and patients, and most (64%) also said there were no challenges in implementing 3MMD. …”
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High share of renewables in energy system planning through integration of wind energy by Yeganeh Aliabadi, Younes Noorollahi, Omid Asgari, Mehrab Rezazadeh, Rahim Moltames

“…Twenty-one factors were analyzed to minimize costs and environmental impacts while maximizing power output. …”
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Causes and Associated Factors of Neonatal Readmission at Ayatollah Mousavi Hospital, Zanjan (2020–2023) by Nahid Jafari, azam maleki, aida ghaffari, mohammadmahdi talebi

“…Background and purpose: Neonatal readmissions incur significant costs to the healthcare system. Identifying the causes of neonatal readmissions is therefore crucial. …”
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A multi-criteria decision making model to locate the hub ports (case study: the maritime industry of Iran) by Amir Zabihi, Mohsen Gharehkhani

“…Hub location problem is one of the most popular issues in communications and, truck transportation, air transportation, and in particular, in marine transport in recent years. …”
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Healthcare Priorities for Surgical Care in Canada by Kaitlyn Squires, BSc, Mercedes Pilkington, MD, Louise Clément, MD, Mary E. Brindle, MD

“…Surgical disease is one of the most costly and morbid areas of health care and, perhaps, the most amenable to improvement through well-designed and well-implemented tools. …”
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