Sustainable Decision-Making Model: Loyalty Points Through Email Communication With Real Option Valuation by GholamReza Zandi, Ridhuan Tony Lim Abdullah, Mochamad Ali Imron

“…Therefore, this study is investigating the study of investment as plays a critical role in an analytical activity to assess the benefits and costs of an investment and can be used as an investment justification. …”
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Knowledge, attitudes and practices of women regarding breast and cervical cancer screening: a qualitative study in India by Ananth Srinath, Milena Pavlova, Sanchitha Chandar, Shyam Vasudeva Rao, Frits van Merode

“…Most women were unaware of the screening procedure types and their costs, eligibility criteria, and frequency. None were aware of the link between cervical cancer and the human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. …”
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Methodology for dimensioning the hoisting shaft using mathematical and graphical methods by Popović Ognjen, Jovanović Saša M., Čolović Miloš, Crnogorac Luka, Tokalić Rade

“…Shaft construction is the most economically demanding process, so despite providing the fastest access to deep ore bodies, the high capital costs involved in construction mean that determining the cross-sectional dimensions of the shaft is a complex and very important step in the design of the shaft and the entire underground mine. …”
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Joint Lagrangian Relaxation and Dynamic Programming Approach for a Multi-Period Multi-Product Location-Inventory Problem by Claudio Araya-Sassi, German Paredes-Belmar, Gabriel Gutierrez-Jarpa, Ricardo Gatica Escobar

“…Additionally, it involves setting order sizes and reorder points to minimize system costs while meeting service level conditions. This problem is structured as a non-convex mixed integer nonlinear programming model. …”
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Smart Electric Vehicle Charging Algorithm to Reduce the Impact on Power Grids: A Reinforcement Learning Based Methodology by Federico Rossi, Cesar Diaz-Londono, Yang Li, Changfu Zou, Giambattista Gruosso

“…The proposed approach formulates the scheduling problem to minimize costs, maximize rewards from ancillary service delivery, and mitigate network overloads at specified grid nodes. …”
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An alignment effect of concentrated and family ownership on carbon emission performance: The case of Indonesia by Achsanul Qosasi, Hendra Susanto, Rusmin Rusmin, Emita W. Astami, Alistair Brown

“…Therefore, the results of this study suggest that considerable work is needed for all non-financial listing firms to specify emission reduction targets and target years, quantify emission reductions and associated costs or savings, and factor costs of future emissions into capital expenditure planning. …”
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WarehouseGame Training: A Gamified Logistics Training Platform Integrating ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Grok for Adaptive Learning by Juan José Romero Marras, Luis De la Torre, Dictino Chaos García

“…Training in logistics operations requires practical experience and the ability to adapt to real-world scenarios, which can result in high training costs. In this context, gamification and artificial intelligence emerge as innovative solutions to enhance training by increasing operator motivation, reducing learning time, and optimizing costs through personalized approaches. …”
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Sustainable strategies for preventive maintenance and replacement in photovoltaic power systems: Enhancing reliability, efficiency, and system economy by Bashar Mahmood Ali, Tariq J‏. Al‏-‏Musawi, Aymen Mohammed, Hassan Falah Fakhruldeen, Talib Munshid Hanoon, Azizbek Khurramov, Doaa H. Khalaf, Sameer Algburi

“…A flexible, non-periodic, and incomplete maintenance model is developed, optimizing maintenance cycles, pre-repair counts, and replacement schedules to balance maintenance costs and equipment availability. The model effectively mitigates the risks of over- or under-maintenance. …”
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Collaborative Optimization of Shore Power and Berth Allocation Based on Economic, Environmental, and Operational Efficiency by Zhiqiang Zhang, Yuhua Zhu, Jian Zhu, Daozheng Huang, Chuanzhong Yin, Jinyang Li

“…However, its widespread adoption is hindered by challenges such as high costs, compatibility issues, and connection complexity. …”
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High-efficiency patatin expression strategies in Komagataella phaffii (Pichia pastoris): Expression cassette toolbox and regulation of protein secretion by Yue Huang, Shao Jia, Ying Lin, Jialiang Wang, Luyuan Nong, Lei Ye, Shuli Liang

“…Conventional methods for patatin extraction are fraught with inefficiencies, elevated costs, and detrimental impacts on protein structural and functional integrity. …”
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Prediction for the Risk of Multiple Chronic Conditions Among Working Population in the United States With Machine Learning Models by Jingmei Yang, Xinglong Ju, Feng Liu, Onur Asan, Timothy Church, Jeff Smith

“…<italic>Objective:</italic> Chronic diseases have become the most prevalent and costly health conditions in the healthcare industry, deteriorating the quality of life, adversely affecting the work productivity, and costing astounding medical resources. …”
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A novel smart community: Combining a flexible heating system as electrical demand response to enhance local renewable energy integration by Yufei Xi, Yuguang Song, Meng Chen, Jiansheng Zhang, Lin Cheng, Zhe Chen

“…Meanwhile, a dual-objective scheduling model is formulated to minimize the operating costs and carbon emissions of the SC system, and its effectiveness is validated through case studies. …”
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Optimization of Electric Truck Routes for Performing Maintenance Services on the Electric Power Distribution Network by Ana Paula Oening, Tiago Lino Bello, Eduardo Casarin, Débora Cintia Marcilio, Signie Laureano França Santos, Pablo Lopes Macedo

“…However, current maintenance activities are executed using fossil fuel-powered trucks equipped with aerial baskets and without route planning, resulting in high travel costs. The advent of new technologies, such as electric trucks, raises questions about their feasibility in replacing fossil fuel-powered trucks. …”
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Antifungal Agents’ Trends of Utilization, Spending, and Prices in the US Medicaid Programs: 2009–2023 by Abdulrahman A. Alsuhibani, Norah A. Alobaid, Manar H. Alahmadi, Jood S. Alqannas, Wejdan S. Alfreaj, Rana F. Albadrani, Khalid A. Alamer, Yasser S. Almogbel, Ali Alhomaidan, Jeff J. Guo

“…<b>Background:</b> Fungal infections, particularly among immunocompromised individuals, present significant challenges due to rising incidence rates, treatment costs, and increasing resistance to antifungal agents. …”
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Mistaken identity for gastric carcinoma by Ajaz Nabi Koul, Aadil Rafeeq Rather

“…Due to inaccurate clinical diagnoses, most patients end up requiring surgical intervention,only after which is gastric tuberculosis diagnosed. we present a case where this dilemma between tuberculosis and malignancy costed the patient half of his stomach.…”
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Addressing the Paradox of Rest with Innovative Technologies by PIŠOT Rado, MARUŠIČ Uroš, ŠLOSAR Luka

“…Studies show nearly a third of adults worldwide were insufficiently active in 2022, with the economic costs of PI projected to reach INT$520 billion by 2030.…”
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Developing adapter for importing data from external sources by M. V. Sterjanov

“…Practical value is that UCMDB input costs go down because of using automated approach for data import from multiple external data sources preserving dependencies.…”
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THE USE OF LOGISTIC APPROACHES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THE WAREHOUSE OF TEMPORARY STORAGE by A. Andrianov, O. Kiseleva

“…A logistics approach to inventory optimization of materials handling is to conduct a minimum number of inventory actions, the reduced costs for processing one ton of cargo and absolute satisfaction of the customer order.…”
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Innovation activity as a condition for growing companied to improve their competitiveness by V. A. Barinova, S. P. Zemtsov, A. V. Sorokina

“…The authors demonstrated that the competitiveness of domestic companies depends on their expenditures on R&amp;D and technological innovation, the costs of staff training and other factors. Dataset for the study is based on the national ranking of fast-growing high-tech companies «TechUp 2013».…”
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Importance of clinical trials and contributions to contemporary medicine: commentary by Haofuzi Zhang, Xiaofan Jiang

“…They contribute to public health improvements, reduce healthcare costs, uncover new understandings of disease biology, and facilitate the development of therapies for rare conditions. …”
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