Project quality, regulation quality by Elena Mussinelli

“…This makes bureaucratic formalities unnecessarily complex, overloads administrative action, and increases the regulatory and management costs for citizens, businesses and the public institutions themselves, including those dedicated to monitoring and control actions (which, in a context of shrinking public resources, are often the first to be lacking…). …”
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The role of Pakistan Medical & Dental Council in steering undergraduate medical curriculum reforms in Pakistan by Gohar Wajid, Lubna Baig, Syeda Kauser Ali, Usman Mahboob, Ahsan Sethi, Rehan Ahmed Khan

“…The curriculum reform process is time and cost intensive. There is no short-term panacea to curriculum reforms. …”
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Re-use of Building Products in the Netherlands by Loriane Icibaci

“…Economic In the economic context, direct costs involved in the process of reusing including transportation, storage, and workforce to deconstruct (associated with technology), as well as costs associated with processes to recondition used products for retail are critical parts of the economic equation. …”
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Pet Euthanasia and Human Euthanasia by Jason Chen

“…In essence, they argue that due to our rational nature, we can find meaning, draw insights, and even grow spiritually when faced with significant obstacles, whereas animals cannot have any of these goods given their limited natures.[11]  The argument of transcendence relates to well-being in the following way: Transcending our suffering amounts to attaining higher goods that result from our suffering, and attaining these higher goods means that suffering is not a net cost to our overall well-being. The transcendence claim is best understood as a challenge to proposition 2 (which is about weighing ill-being against well-being) in the case of humans. …”
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Ultra-Short-Term Forecasting-Based Optimization for Proactive Home Energy Management by Siqi Liu, Zhiyuan Xie, Zhengwei Hu, Kaisa Zhang, Weidong Gao, Xuewen Liu

“…With the increasing integration of renewable energy and smart technologies in residential energy systems, proactive household energy management (HEM) have become critical for reducing costs, enhancing grid stability, and achieving sustainability goals. …”
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Game Theory Based Energy-Aware Uplink Resource Allocation in OFDMA Femtocell Networks by Jun Zhao, Wei Zheng, Xiangming Wen, Xiaoli Chu, Haijun Zhang, Zhaoming Lu

“…We decompose the resource allocation problem into two subproblems, that is, a distributed subchannel allocation scheme and a distributed power control scheme to reduce costs and complexity. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can improve user utilities significantly, compared with existing power control and subchannel allocation algorithms.…”
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As Barreiras como instrumento econômico para o desenvolvimento da rede viária da Província de São Paulo (1835-1850) by José Rogério Beier

“…This paper takes the “Barriers” of the São Paulo Province as the main study object in order to analyze the role played by this fiscal posts in the development of the São Paulo road network between 1835, when the first Barreiras were installed, and 1850, when the coffee production definitively assumes the prominence, not only in terms of exported values, but also in exportation volume, demanding structural changes in the São Paulo transportation network, such as the installation of the railroads, aiming to reduce the costs of the production transportation to the port of Santos.…”
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Scrub-and-Learn: Category-Aware Weight Modification for Machine Unlearning by Jiali Wang, Hongxia Bie, Zhao Jing, Yichen Zhi

“…However, existing methods often struggle with high computational costs, such as estimating the inverse Hessian, or require access to the original training data, limiting their practicality. (2) Methods: In this work, we introduce Scrub-and-Learn, which is a category-aware weight modification framework designed to remove class-level knowledge efficiently. …”
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Spatiotemporal hybrid deep learning for estimating and analyzing carbon stocks: a case study in Jiangsu province, China by Lizhi Miao, Jvmin Wang, Kaiwen Wu, Heng Xu, Xiying Sun, Gang Lu, Mei-Po Kwan

“…Traditional models, reliant on extensive experimental data, are costly and impractical for large-scale applications. …”
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A Multi-Strategy Active Learning Framework for Enhanced Peripheral Blood Cell Image Detection by Yuheng Feng, Jiangtao He, Linjin Wang, Wuchen Yang, Sihan Deng, Lanlin Li, Xinwei Li

“…The framework reduces annotation costs and improves detection performance by combining uncertainty-based selection, diversity querying, and density-based querying to prioritize the most informative and diverse samples. …”
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Breaking Down the Barriers to Innovation Quality: The Impact of Digital Transformation by Mengmeng Meng, Siyao Fan, Jiasu Lei, Yinbo Feng

“…Furthermore, digital transformation breaks down the barriers to innovation quality by reducing financing costs and financing constraints. These findings have implications for firms’ digital strategy in emerging economies.…”
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Co-designing and testing the learn together guidance to support patient and family involvement in patient safety investigations: a mixed-methods study by Jane O’Hara, Lauren Ramsey, Siobhan McHugh, Joseph Langley, Justin Waring, Ruth Simms-Ellis, Gemma Louch, Jenni Murray, Carl Macrae, John Baker, Rebecca Lawton, Daisy Halligan, Olivia Rogerson, Penny Phillips, Debra Hazeldine, Sarah Seddon, Joanne Hughes, Rebecca Partridge, Katherine Ludwin, Laura Sheard

“…Background There are multiple reasons for involving patients and families in incident investigations. Fiscally, costs due to clinical negligence claims approximate £4 billion annually. …”
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Patient Voices in Dialysis Care: Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modeling Study of Social Media Discourse by Ravi Shankar, Qian Xu, Anjali Bundele

“…ResultsSentiment analysis revealed 49.2% (3711/7543) positive, 26.2% (1976/7543) negative, and 24.7% (1863/7543) neutral sentiment posts. Latent Dirichlet allocation topic modeling identified 8 key thematic clusters: medical procedures and outcomes (722/4059, 17.8% prevalence), daily life impact (666/4059, 16.4%), risks and complications (621/4059, 15.3%), patient education and support (544/4059, 13.4%), health care access and costs (499/4059, 12.3%), symptoms and side effects (442/4059, 10.9%), patient experiences and socioeconomic challenges (406/4059, 10%), and diet and fluid management (162/4059, 4%). …”
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Using social media listening to identify the real-world challenges faced by dog owners globally when administering oral medications by Georgina Tarrant, Taranpreet Rai, Taranpreet Rai, Andrea Wright, Travis Street, Kevin Wells, Kevin Wells

“…Only 7.6% of posts discussed soft/chewable medications, which showed positive sentiment and preference. …”
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Influence of production specialisation level on efficiency of technical service and safety of buses operation by A. S. Denisov, E. V. Feklin, A. V. Ignatov

“…The dependence of annual costs and profit of the current repair zone of ten posts on the level of specialisation is reflected. …”
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Panacea or Pandora’s box: diverse governance strategies for conspiracy theories and their consequences in China by Ming Ma, Feng Han, Chuyao Wang

“…Based on social network analysis, topic modeling, and qualitative analysis of 46,387 Weibo posts from 3 cases, we argue that the Chinese government’s manipulation of CTs is multifaceted and carries significant audience costs. …”
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Rehabilitation, repair, and maintenance of carbonated concrete members affected by corrosion of reinforcing steel by applying CP via a composite quantum anode by Schwarz Wolfgang, Katsumi Noriko, van den Hondel Hans, Van den Hondel Anthony, Esteves Hernani, Deharo Simon

“…Conventional repair by applying fresh mortar for realkalisation implies changes in the weight and dimensions of the structure and is costly. Soft realkalisation of the steel/concrete interface by applying cathodic protection (CP) via a conductive coating – Composite Anode System - was used for the corrosion protection of carbonated concrete structures in a parking deck of the central TV administration in Vienna/Austria in several installations from 2003–2008. …”
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A study on the dynamic optimization strategy of energy routers in zero-carbon ports based on digital twin technology by Shun Li, Xingda Fan, Zhaoyu Qi

“…A Tianjin Port case study showed 92.4% renewable utilization, 42.8% lower carbon intensity, and 29% reduced costs. Resilience was validated under extreme weather, maintaining 94.7% capacity in typhoons. …”
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Multi Stage Retrieval for Web Search During Crisis by Claudiu Constantin Tcaciuc, Daniele Rege Cambrin, Paolo Garza

“…During crisis events, digital information volume can increase by over 500% within hours, with social media platforms alone generating millions of crisis-related posts. This volume creates critical challenges for emergency responders who require timely access to the concise subset of accurate information they are interested in. …”
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ADDED VALUES OF SOCIAL CRM: THE EXAMINATION OF CUSTOMER PERSPECTIVE by Amila Pilav-Velic, Anes Hrnjić, Ljubica Milanović Glavan, Azra Hanić

“…On the other hand, companies prefer this type of direct and targeted communication considering its reasonably lower costs, greater ability to target specific categories of visitors, the speed of response, etc. …”
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