An enhanced genetic-based multi-objective mathematical model for industrial supply chain network. by Yanchun Li

“…The multi-objective supply chain needs a full look at enterprise costs, coordinated delivery of different products, and more fluidity and efficiency within the network of the supply chain. …”
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Truss structure optimization of heavy-duty escalators via finite element analysis. by Zimin Tang, Ning Li, Xuan Zhao, Suixian Lin, Zheng Yin, Mingming Yan

“…This work can serve as a guide for the design of heavy-duty escalator truss structures, helping to enhance the rationality and reliability of truss structures, reduce development costs, and improve economic benefits.…”
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Signalling strategies and opportunistic behaviour: Insights from dark-net markets. by Filippo Andrei, Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri

“…The study provides empirical support for signalling theory, by showing that costly signals are more difficult to fake or manipulate and can reduce fraud. …”
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Punishment and waste by Else Marie Knudsen

“…Families’ experiences of the limited options, poor quality, and high costs of food echo those of the prisoners living in the institution. …”
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Why collective behaviours self-organize to criticality: a primer on information-theoretic and thermodynamic utility measures by Qianyang Chen, Mikhail Prokopenko

“…In particular, we highlight that thermodynamic efficiency—measuring the ratio of predictability gained by the system to its energy costs—reaches its maximum at the critical regime. …”
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REENCUENTROS EN MARRUECOS DE LOS INMIGRADOS MARROQUÍES EN ANDALUCÍA by Alberto Capote

“…La inmigración marroquí en España, y en concreto en Andalucía, presenta una característica específica en relación con la que reside en otros países: la distancia, la rapidez y el coste juegan a favor de los marroquíes que viven en España a la hora de realizar las visitas a Marruecos. …”
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Cooperation is not rewarded by friendship, but generous and selfish students repel each other in social networks. by Flóra Samu, Simone Piras, Simone Righi, Marco Setti, Károly Takács

“…Humans cooperate across various contexts, despite the individual costs involved. Cooperation and prosocial behavior may persist because these costs are offset by reputation and other social benefits. …”
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Recycling Model Suggestion for Sustainable Urban Green Areas in Konya by Filiz Çelik

“…For this purpose, a model for composting and replacing fertilizer from organic wastes emerged in green areas of Konya was proposed. Thus, the costs of green areas with very high design, implementation and maintenance expenses will be reduced and they will be sustainable within themselves. …”
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EL ABASTECIMIENTO DE SEVILLA Y SU ZONA DE INFLUENCIA: INERCIAS DE LA POLÍTICA DE OFERTA Y DEBILIDADES DE LA GESTIÓN DE LA DEMANDA by Leandro del Moral Ituarte

“…Al final, se avanzan las condiciones que, en opinión de autor, un programa de gestión de la demanda, basado en la planificación al mínimo coste, habría de cumplir.…”
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Optimization of the rolling stock service life at transport enterprises by A. V. Bazanov, N. O. Sapozhenkov, R. B. Alykov, A. I. Kozhederov

“…This makes it possible to assess the operating costs with a high degree of reliability, reasonably form preferences in vehicle configuration and rationally determine the period of effective use, taking into account the type of fuel and the dynamics of changes in the secondary market residual value.…”
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Evaluating blockchain adoption barriers in China’s IP trade and protection internationally by Qiang Li, XiaoLong Wen, Zijing Wu

“…Technological barriers, including infrastructure limitations (0.198) and high implementation costs (0.132), are also significant. Economic and sociocultural barriers, such as awareness gaps and trust deficits, are less critical but still relevant. …”
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Co-evolutionary dynamics of collective action with signaling for a quorum. by Jorge M Pacheco, Vítor V Vasconcelos, Francisco C Santos, Brian Skyrms

“…Parameter settings allow for loners and cheaters, and for costly or costless signals. We find a rich dynamics, showing how natural selection, operating on a population of individuals endowed with the simplest strategies, is able to evolve a costly signaling system that allows individuals to respond appropriately to different states of Nature. …”
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2010 Florida Land Value Survey: Farmland Prices Still Down by Rodney L. Clouser, Charles Moss, Ronald Muraro, Laila Racevskis, Robert A. Morris

“…Other factors such as rising energy related costs, additional costs for disease control for some commodities, and returns to farmland statewide also help explain the decline in the 2010 farmland values. …”
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State-Aware Energy Management Strategy for Marine Multi-Stack Hybrid Energy Storage Systems Considering Fuel Cell Health by Pan Geng, Jingxuan Xu

“…The experimental results demonstrate that compared with the Frequency Decoupling (FD) method, the GA-PSO strategy reduces hydrogen consumption by 7.03 g and operational costs by 4.78%; compared with the traditional Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm, it reduces hydrogen consumption by 3.61 g per operational cycle and decreases operational costs by 2.66%. …”
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Study of the Relationship between Social Cohesion and Sustainable Human Development in Deprived Areas (Case Study: Khash, Saravan and Sarbaz of Sistan and Baluchestan Province) by mehdi bigdeloo

“…Sustainable development as one of the most complete and Most consistent forms of development When human agency in its center gives more functionality to facilitate human life becomes  But to achieve this sustainable human development requires high costs and if the internal capabilities of human While reducing development costs, for which it will be more continuity This article examines the relationship between social cohesion by case basis in the cities of Khash, Saravan and Sarbaz with development. …”
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Estimating Investment Project Revenue and Expenditure in Telecommunication Sector by P. D. Sysoev

“…The author proposes to include costs of the network development not only of the access level but also of the level of aggregation and network core; to extend the horizon of planning network quality indices for the whole period of the project; to take into account costs of the future extension of network capacity during project implementation; to carry out modernization of the equipment in case of its technical support termination and output of components. …”
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Port green investment strategy under government subsidization and regulation policy by Fengjue Xie, Zhongyin Zhou

“…Subsidies, as a proactive tool, reduce ports’ green investment costs, driving both investment and output—especially in initial stages with high subsidy rates (0.3-0.5) covering over 50% of costs. …”
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Causal attributions of vineyard executives â A mental model study of vineyard managementâ by Martin FG Schaffernicht

“…This article contributes a reference of causal attributions made by vineyard executives in Chile, where increasing costs and stagnating prices challenge the vineyardsâ profits. …”
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Method of calculating the amount of leakage of compressed air from the systems based on the analysis of transient processes by G. V. Gogrichiani

“…The article suggests an engineering method to determine the value of leakage in any technical complexes per unit of time and the possibility to estimate costs needed to eliminate this process which might be harmful to production. …”
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Multithreaded Convolution Implementation Based on Block Methods by A. V. Sharamet

“…This allows to achieve a good compromise between computational complexity, system architecture, and time costs.…”
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