Microstructural optimization and functional enhancement of Ag-Si and Ag-Si-SiC nanocomposite coatings: a comparative study with Ag-Ge coatings by Faranak Bakhtiarifard, Nasim Nayebpashaee

“…Abstract This work explores the creation of silver-silicon (Ag-Si) and silver-silicon-silicon carbide (Ag-Si-SiC) nanocomposite ceramic coatings as cost-effective alternatives to silver-germanium (Ag-Ge) coatings for industrial applications. …”
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Green synthesis of Ba(Fe1/2Nb1/2)O3 ceramics with high dielectric constant by Jha Anal K., Prasad Kamal

“…In this work, a novel green, reproducible and cost-effective synthetic method for the fabrication of dielectric Ba(Fe1/2Nb1/2)O3 (abbreviated as n-BFN) nanopowder mediated by waste lemon peel is presented. …”
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A Multi-Strategy Improved Horned Lizard Optimization Algorithm and Its Application in Engineering Optimization by Yancang Li, Jinfan Zhang, Zidong Jin, Weitao Qiao

“…In the engineering optimization example, the average cost of the pressure vessel problem was reduced by 55.6%, while the optimal value with the lowest standard deviation verified its stability in terms of solution accuracy, convergence speed, and stability. …”
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Detection of Malicious Office Open Documents (OOXML) Using Large Language Models: A Static Analysis Approach by Jonas Heß , Kalman Graffi

“…We demonstrate that Claude 3.5 Sonnet by Anthropic, provided with a substantial quantity of raw data, equivalent to several hundred pages, can identify individual malicious indicators within an average of five to nine seconds and generate a comprehensive static analysis report, with an average cost of USD 0.19 per request and an F1-score of 0.929.…”
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Research on an efficient prediction for deformations of thread connections based on deep transfer learning by Zhao Liu, Zeyu Qi, Hao Lu, Yan Liu, Jintao Fan, Xuefeng Wang, Caishan Liu

“…Experimental results demonstrate that this method reduces computational costs and accurately simulates nonlinear deformations. …”
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Highly sensitive scanning of gene mutations: TaqMan probes as blocking agents by I. V. Botezatu, I. O. Panchuk, A. M. Stroganova, A. I. Senderovich, V. N. Kondratova, V. P. Shelepov, A. V. Liсhtenshtein

“…DNA Melting Analysis is very effective in clinical DNA diagnostics: it is simple to perform, high throughput, labor-, time- and cost-effective and is implemented in the “closed tube” format minimizing the risk of samples cross-contamination. …”
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PORK MARKET CRISIS IN ROMANIA: PIG LIVESTOCK, PORK PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION, IMPORT, EXPORT, TRADE BALANCE AND PRICE by Agatha POPESCU

“…The ASF impact is seen in the growth of farm inputs price, production cost, and farm gate price, which since April 2019 increased from Lei 5.61 to Lei 8 per kg live weight in the month of December, that is by 42.6%, and the massive imports of pigs and carcasses practiced by the processors affecting the local breeders. …”
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Clarification of Clove Basil Extract Using Spinel Hollow Fiber Membranes by Kristopher Rodrigues Dorneles, Guilherme Guimarães Ascendino, Vicelma Luiz Cardoso, Miria Hespanhol Miranda Reis

“…The results highlight the potential of spinel-based hollow fiber membranes as a cost-effective and efficient solution for clarifying bioactive plant extracts, offering enhanced mechanical properties and lower sintering temperatures compared to conventional alumina membranes.…”
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Application of PTFE composite catalytic filter material in synergistic purification of multiple pollutants in waste incineration flue gas by Chen Songxuan, Wang Hao, Yao Liang, Sun Zhi, Cao Hongbin

“…The findings have important implications for enhancing the efficiency and environmental benefits of waste incineration flue gas purification, representing a significant step toward more cost-effective, efficient, and environmentally friendly flue gas treatment solutions.…”
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Prognosis of air quality index and air pollution using machine learning techniques by Mostafa M. Abdelmalek, Hatem Mahmoud, Hassan Shokry

“…To streamline the time and cost consumed in measuring and analyzing these pollutants, the five ML models were employed to predict the AQI using only these three essential features. …”
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Video swin-CLSTM transformer: Enhancing human action recognition with optical flow and long-term dependencies. by Jun Qin, Shenwei Chen, Zheng Ye, Jing Liu, Zhou Liu

“…Experiments on the UCF-101 dataset demonstrate that our model achieves mean Top-1/Top-5 accuracies of 92.8% and 99.4%, which are 3.2% and 2.0% higher than those of the baseline model, while the computational cost is reduced by an average of 3.3% at peak performance compared to models without optical flow. …”
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Poor Abilities of Noninvasive Biomarkers to Assess Esophagogastric Varices and Portal Hypertensive Gastropathy by Kodjo Kunale Abassa, Xiaoning Guo, Shuyan Tan, Zhiling Liang, Siwei Tan

“…Background: Noninvasive and cost-effective markers are needed to replace esophagogastroduodenoscopy in the screening for severe esophagogastric varices (EGVs) and portal hypertensive gastropathy (PHG). …”
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Analysis of an Aqueous Extract from Turkish Galls Based on Multicomponent Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis Combined with Network Pharmacology and Chemometric Analysis by Ya Zeng, Lu Zhao, Meng Hao, Mirzat Maimaiti, Zhi Li, Minghui Zhang, Xuan Ma

“…This study determined a quality index for TG, providing a reference for quality evaluation and introducing a cost-effective and efficient quality control method. …”
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Fast Frequency-Domain Compressed Sensing Analysis for High-Density Super-Resolution Imaging Using Orthogonal Matching Pursuit by Saiwen Zhang, Jingjing Wu, Danni Chen, Siwei Li, Bin Yu, Junle Qu

“…However, the computational cost of this approach is extremely high, which limits its practical application. …”
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Possibilities of using the digital currency of the central bank in concessional lending to the agro-industrial complex by D. A. Korobeynikov

“…The main positive effects from the use of the Central Bank of Central Banks are associated with an increase in the transparency of payments and the possibility of automating the control of target, cost and procedural parameters of transactions, accelerating the procedures for passing loan applications, and increasing the diffusion of modern digital innovations into the agricultural sector of the economy. …”
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Cohort study to characterise surgical site infections after open surgery in the UK’s National Health Service by Julian F Guest, Graham W Fuller, Ben Griffiths

“…The total health service cost of surgical wound management following SSI onset was a mean of £3537 per wound ranging from £2542 for a low-risk patient who underwent an elective procedure to £4855 for a high-risk patient who underwent an emergency procedure.Conclusions This study provides important insights into several aspects of SSI management in clinical practice in the UK that have been difficult to ascertain from surveillance data. …”
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Contemporary problems of budget development of regional centers by M. A. Pechenskaya

“…It is shown that the risk of budget reduction in the social sphere and economy financing increased due to the growing cost of servicing municipal debt, which in the North-Western federal district regional centers increased 14 times in 2011-2018, while the average growth in Russia in that period was four-fold. …”
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Optimal intrusion detection for imbalanced data using Bagging method with deep neural network optimized by flower pollination algorithm by Hussein Ridha Sayegh, Wang Dong, Bahaa Hussein Taher, Muhanad Mohammed Kadum, Ali Mansour Al-madani

“…To handle the problem of imbalance class distribution in intrusion datasets, a roughly-balanced (RB) Bagging strategy is utilized, where DNN models trained by FPA on a cost-sensitive fitness function are used as base learners. …”
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Efficient Learning-Based Robotic Navigation Using Feature-Based RGB-D Pose Estimation and Topological Maps by Eder A. Rodríguez-Martínez, Jesús Elías Miranda-Vega, Farouk Achakir, Oleg Sergiyenko, Julio C. Rodríguez-Quiñonez, Daniel Hernández Balbuena, Wendy Flores-Fuentes

“…Robust indoor robot navigation typically demands either costly sensors or extensive training data. We propose a cost-effective RGB-D navigation pipeline that couples feature-based relative pose estimation with a lightweight multi-layer-perceptron (MLP) policy. …”
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Effect of Humidity on the Energy and CO₂ Separation Characteristics of Membranes in Direct Air Capture Technology by Kamil Niesporek, Grzegorz Wiciak, Janusz Kotowicz, Oliwia Baszczeńska

“…It is recommended to use gas drying systems and to develop membranes with low H₂O permeance in order to reduce the energy cost of the process. The potential location of m-DAC systems should preferably be in regions with low air humidity. …”
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