Non-communicable disease risk factors and prevalence within Thaha, Makwanpur, Nepal: a cross-sectional study by Andrew Schlabach, Bimsagar Guragain, Ben Marx, Deb Espesete, Beth Shirilla, Jessica Warbrick, Tameka Lim

“… # Conclusions This study demonstrates the feasibility of a cost-efficient population survey establishing NCD baseline prevalence in the Makwanpur District of Nepal. …”
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Synthesis of ZnSe thin films by solution-processed spin coating method for photonic integration applications by Tanzina Rahman, Md. Alamin Hossain Pappu, Bipanko Kumar Mondal, Syeda Samiha Nushin, Jaker Hossain

“…The thiol-amine co-solvent system efficiently dissolves several metal and metal chalcogenide precursors, facilitating cost-effective, and low-temperature solution-based deposition compatible with flexible substrates. …”
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Evaluation of Three Human-Use Glucometers for Blood Glucose Measurement in Dogs by Matheus Albuquerque Basilio dos Santos, Alesssandra Martins Vargas, Paula Nunes Rosato, Carolina Gomes Andrade, Camila Marinelli Martins, Giuliana Petri

“…Glucometers or portable sensors are used to quickly measure blood glucose at low cost. They are used in veterinary practice and by guardians to monitor diseases that require, as in diabetes mellitus. …”
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Transcriptomic and physiological biochemical analysis reveals the impact of polystyrene nanoplastics on the quality of nuts by Weijie Chen, Xiao Liu, Xuanzi Zhang, Ying Zhang, Xinyi Ma, Jiasheng Wu

“…Plastic, celebrated for its lightweight, durability, and cost-effectiveness, is widely used across industries, yet it also presents a significant risk to food safety. …”
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Effective inactivation of fungi in grain using atmospheric pressure cold plasma by Mohammad Naghi Eshtiaghi, Nithima Nakthong, Bahram Hosseinzadeh Samani, Kimia Taki, Soontorn Tuntithavornwat

“…Conventional decontamination methods have limitations, creating a demand for rapid, cost-effective alternatives without toxic by-products. …”
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Feasibility study of coke combustion and energy exergy analysis in the De-Coke process of cracking furnaces in olefin unit by Mostafa Moshtagh, Ahmad Azari, Marziyeh Hoseinpour, Rouhollah Fatehi, Farhad Ghadyanlou, Rahim Karami, Mohammad Rasul, Mohammad Akrami

“…Although energy and exergy distributions reveal similar trends for both conventional and burning-coke De-Coke processes at the coil, the burning-coke method offers increased destruction exergy and enhanced heat transfer, albeit at the cost of efficiency in energy and exergy transfer to the coil compared to conventional methods.…”
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Thermal performance evaluation of water-based gel packs and insulating covers: A case study on raw milk preservation for local transport by Nattawut Chaomuang, Onrawee Laguerre, Denis Flick, Steven Duret

“…This study proposes a cost-effective cooling system utilizing water-based phase change material (PCM) gel packs and UV-reflective covers. …”
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Comparative effectiveness and safety of insulin reference biologics versus biosimilars for types 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus: Protocol for a systematic review of real-world studies. by Martin K H Ho, Araniy Santhireswaran, Tara Gomes, Muhammad Mamdani, Mina Tadrous

“…Biosimilar insulins are cost-saving alternatives to reference products that may improve access for patients and sustainability for healthcare systems. …”
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Are Your kidneys ok? Detect early to protect kidney health by Joseph A. Vassalotti, Anna Francis, Augusto Cesar Soares Dos Santos Jr, Ricardo Correa-Rotter, Dina Abdellatif, Li-Li Hsiao, Stefanos Roumeliotis, Agnes Haris, Latha A. Kumaraswami, Siu-Fai Lui, Alessandro Balducci, Vassilios Liakopoulos

“…Early-stage CKD is asymptomatic, simple to test for, and recent paradigm shifting CKD treatments such as sodium glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors dramatically improve outcomes and favor the cost-benefit analysis for screening or case-finding programs. …”
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Spectrophotometric methods for determination of naringin, amlodipine, and nifedipine using chemometric techniques by Vishala Rani Baraily, Jithendar Reddy Mandhadi, Bhupendra Shrestha

“…The development of chemometrics methods demonstrated efficiency and precision in pharmaceutical analysis while also offering cost-effectiveness for quality control and formulation development.…”
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Comparative Evaluation of Photovoltaic and Solar Thermal Installations for Water Heating at Hotel Casa Del Árbol Galerías in San Pedro Sula by Davila J. Cruz, Parada María, Arriaga-Gutierrez A.

“…To this end, a detailed analysis was conducted on the installation and operational costs of both systems, as well as their environmental impact, measured in terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction. …”
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Leveraging SPI-DMA for PROFINET Isochronous IRT Cyclic Communication by Oguz Ciloglu, Ihsan Gokhun Onel, Omer Korcak

“…This approach not only reduces hardware and software complexity but also enables the use of cost-effective MCUs as host controllers alongside PROFINET ASICs, thereby enhancing the scalability and affordability of industrial automation solutions.…”
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Integrated Silicon Photonics Remote Radio Frontend (RRF) for Single-Sideband (SSB) Millimeter-Wave Radio-Over-Fiber (ROF) Systems by Yeyu Tong, Chi-Wai Chow, Guan-Hong Chen, Ching-Wei Peng, Chien-Hung Yeh, Hon Ki Tsang

“…The RRF is fabricated using SiPh platform and could be potentially low cost. High split-ratios can be potentially achieved. …”
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CONSIDERATIONS ON CONTACTLESS ELECTROMAGNETIC MEASUREMENT OF HUMIDITY IN PEDOLOGY by Tudor BURLAN-ROTAR, Gabriel Dumitru, Alina Ioana PRELIPCEANU

“…At the basis of any interpretation are the lateral or vertical variations of re sistivity. The high cost of resistivity maps execution generally means that fewer measurements are made than desirable, with the result that, either (i) the explored area is not large enough to establish a reasonable background, against which the anomaly areas are to be delineated, or (ii) the anomaly areas are obscure and lack definition. …”
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Conducting a registry-based randomised trial (REDOX) in chronic respiratory failure: experiences and advice by Josefin Sundh, Magnus Ekström

“…Important strengths are high generalisability, low cost, feasibility for consecutive recruitment in clinical practice, and high completeness of follow-up. …”
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Exploring the potential of lightweight large language models for AI-based mental health counselling task: a novel comparative study by Ritesh Maurya, Nikhil Rajput, M. G. Diviit, Satyajit Mahapatra, Manish Kumar Ojha

“…Considering the large size of these LLMs makes it difficult to deploy these automated counselors on low cost/resource devices such as edge devices. Therefore, the motivation of the present study to analyze the effectiveness of lightweight LLMs in the development of automated mental health counseling systems. …”
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The effectiveness of monetary incentives in improving viral suppression, treatment adherence, and retention in care among the general population of people living with HIV: a system... by Zhihong Zhu, Liangyou Guo, Maoxian Yang, Junya Cheng

“…Further research is needed to assess the long-term sustainability and cost-effectiveness of such interventions.…”
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Feasibility Validation on Healthy Adults of a Novel Active Vibrational Sensing Based Ankle Band for Ankle Flexion Angle Estimation by Peiqi Kang, Shuo Jiang, Peter B. Shull, Benny Lo

“…<italic>Goal:</italic> In this paper, we introduced a novel ankle band with a vibrational sensor that can achieve low-cost ankle flexion angle estimation, which can be potentially used for automated ankle flexion angle estimation in home-based foot drop rehabilitation scenarios. …”
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User Handover Aware Hierarchical Federated Learning for Open RAN-Based Next-Generation Mobile Networks by Amardip Kumar Singh, Kim Khoa Nguyen

“…To address these challenges, we propose MHORANFed, a novel optimization algorithm tailored to minimize learning time and resource usage costs while preserving model performance within a mobility-aware hierarchical FL framework for O-RAN. …”
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Evaluation of plant extracts for the management of citrus leafminer, Phyllocnistis citrella (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) by Muhammad Arshad, Muhammad Irfan Ullah, Muhammad Afzal, Samina Khalid, Abu Bakar Muhamamd Raza, Yasir Iftikhar

“…It would not only reduce the input cost of the growers, but also help to reduce negative impacts of the synthetic chemical insecticides.…”
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