Potential advantages of molten salt reactor for merchant ship propulsion by Luiz Gonzaga de Freitas Neto, Luciano Ondir Freire, Adimir dos Santos, Delvonei Alves de Andrade

“…Operating costs of merchant ships, related to fuel costs, has led the naval industry to search alternatives to the current technologies of propulsion power. …”
Get full text

Korean Translation of the GRADE Series Published in the BMJ, ‘GRADE: Incorporating Considerations of Resources Use into Grading Recommendations’ (A Secondary Publication) by Hong Wook Kim, Jae Hung Jung, Do Kyung Kim, Ho Won Kang, Ja Yoon Ku, Hyun Jin Jung, Eu Chang Hwang

“…Clinical recommendations inevitably involve judgments about the allocation of resources use (costs). Although costs differ from typical healthcare outcomes, such as mortality, morbidity, and quality of life, costs are another potentially important outcome that differs across and within a jurisdiction. …”
Get full text

Socioeconomic burden of patients hospitalized for fecal impaction: a nationwide retrospective observational study by Hiromasa Hoshi, Akira Endo, Kiyohide Fushimi, Koji Morishita

“…Total annual healthcare costs exceeded 2700 million JPY and gradually increased over time. …”
Get full text

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF GREENHOUSE STRAWBERRY PRODUCTION: A CASE STUDY OF AYDIN PROVINCE, TURKEY by Vecdi DEMIRCAN, Asli DALGIC, Tugba GULSEVER, Bektas KADAKOGLU

“…Of the establishment costs, variable costs made up 65.57 % and fixed costs made up 34.43 % of the total. …”
Get full text

Optimizing the Service Provision time in the Emergency Department Using Mathematical Modeling and Simulation (Case Study: Imam Reza Hospital) by Mahdi Yousefi Nejad Atari, Ensiyeh Neyshabouri Jami, Akbar Sattari

“…Patient waiting time, the costs, and nurses’ job satisfaction level are important criteria in providing services in hospital.  …”
Get full text

METHODS OF CALCULATION OF ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY OF INVESTMENT PROJECTS OF TECHNICAL RE-EQUIPMENT by I. G. Fomina

“…Calculation of economic efficiency of a project for technical re-equipment requires information about the costs of maintenance and operation of each specific unit of process equipment, to be able to compare them with the costs of maintaining and operating of new pieces of equipment. …”
Get full text

La (in)seguridad interior a debate. Capitalismo de guerra y retos para la construcción de la paz (la experiencia mexicana) by María José Rodríguez Rejas

“…The objective is to invite debate by making visible the human costs of war capitalism that daily violates the security of thousands of people. …”
Get full text

OPTIMALITY IN AGRICULTURE: GENERATING OPTIMAL STRUCTURE OF CULTURES WITHIN A FARM USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS by Victor TIȚA, Doru Anastasiu POPESCU, Nicolae BOLD

“…The model takes into consideration several requirements related to cultures selling price, obtained production, direct costs and costs related to human workforce. The genetic algorithm uses basic structures (chromosomes, genes) and operations (mutation, crossover) to generate a repartition. …”
Get full text

Feeding Ensiled Citrus Pulp to Finishing Pigs by J. D. Crosswhite, N. B. Myers, Adegbola T. Adesogan, Joel H. Brendemuhl, Dwain D. Johnson, Chad C. Carr

“…For the past six years, feed costs have continually increased, and Florida has greater feed costs than the rest of the country because grain must be shipped here from where it was produced. …”
Get full text

Public Medical Appeals and Government Online Responses: Big Data Analysis Based on Chinese Digital Governance Platforms by Hebin Li, Zhihan Liu, Ziyan Zhang, Lu Ping, Wenxin Gu, Yuan Yao

“…Specifically, for textual features, taking the epidemic issue as the reference category in the appeal theme, the PPPPPPPPPPPP=..PPP<.PP ConclusionsPublic medical appeals exhibit 5 defining characteristics: urgency induced by pandemic conditions, connections to fertility policy reforms, tensions between the efficacy and costs of medical services, challenges related to cross-regional insurance coverage, and a predominance of negative sentiment. …”
Get full text

Uncertainty aware energy management in microgrids with integrated electric bicycle charging stations and green certificate market by Hossein Shayeghi, Iraj Faraji Davoudkhani

“…Case III, incorporating stochastic management, further lowers costs by 1.5% and by 19.8% relative to case I, but increases demand response costs by 7.5% and reduces GCM revenue by 38.9% due to renewable fluctuations. …”
Get full text

Addressing geographical challenges in locating strategic nickel industrial parks: a case study of Indonesia by Hasan Nur, Aadhaar Chaturvedi, Valery Pavlov

“…Sensitivity analyses examine transportation costs, setup costs, centralised versus decentralised strategies, and ore supply variability. …”
Get full text

Long short‐term memory‐based forecasting of uncertain parameters in an islanded hybrid microgrid and its energy management using improved grey wolf optimization algorithm by Raji Krishna, Hemamalini S

“…The objective of energy management in an islanded hybrid microgrid (HMG) is to minimize daily operating costs by considering load demand and the bidding costs of energy sources and storage devices. …”
Get full text

Industrial wastewater treatment and reuse: Heckman probit sample selection model by Urgessa Tilahun Bekabil, M.K. Jayamohan, Amsalu Bedemo Beyene

“…Results revealed that R&D costs, innovation practices, the availability of purpose-driven vehicles for waste transport, energy costs, and the scale of operations significantly affect the reuse of treated wastewater. …”
Get full text

When Rivals Are Absent: Male Aggression Towards Females in Bluefin Killifish by Ratna Karatgi, Rebecca C. Fuller

“…ABSTRACT The process of obtaining mates, mating, and (potentially) caring for offspring is costly. While there are inherent costs to reproduction, behavioral interactions among individuals are often the primary drivers of reproductive costs. …”
Get full text

Sustainability-driven optimization of np chart for enhanced process monitoring by Salah Haridy, Ridvan Aydin, Asma'a Omar, Zehra Araci, Mohammad Shamsuzzaman, Ahmed Maged

“…Sensitivity analysis further examines the impact of design parameters on total sustainability costs, providing practical insights for manufacturers aiming to reduce carbon emissions and inspection costs while maintaining high-quality production standards. …”
Get full text

Financial hardship among patients suffering from neglected tropical diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis of global literature. by Chanthawat Patikorn, Jeong-Yeon Cho, Joshua Higashi, Xiao Xian Huang, Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk

“…Costs of visceral leishmaniasis impoverished 20-26% of the 61 households investigated, depending on the costs captured. …”
Get full text

Association of triglyceride-glucose index with postoperative recovery-related factors in type II cesarean scar pregnancy treated by transvaginal surgery by Xiaoyan Li, Shuhua Liu, Dehong Liu

“…Results A significant correlation was found between TyG and hospitalization costs (β = −677.5, p = 0.02). Higher TyG levels were associated with shorter hospital stays and lower costs, while no significant associations were observed with other factors. …”
Get full text

Motives of Chinese foreign direct investment in Africa: With regulation effects of institutional quality. by Lilin Yuan, Peng Ji

“…Hence, when selecting investment locations, Chinese enterprises should prioritize the host country's (region's) market size, labor costs, and institutional quality. Additionally, they should utilize the moderating effect of institutional quality to mitigate the disadvantages associated with higher labor costs.…”
Get full text

Scientific toolkit for predictive efficiency management of railway transportation by D. A. Macheret, N. A. Valeev

“…The marginal coefficient of operating costs as a leading indicator of efficiency can become an indicative basis for such management. …”
Get full text