The Burden of the Broken Grid: Modelling power-sector reliability to support low carbon development in Nigeria by Sarah Golobish, Rudolf Yeganyan, Naomi Tan, Carla Cannone, Mark Howells

“…Modelling which includes reliability improvements nearly halves total system costs and emissions versus business-as-usual. Further, Nigeria is unable to meet its 2021 Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) without such improvements, indicating that increasing plant availability and reducing diesel generator use must be prioritized in policy to support national implementation of these targets.…”
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An Environmental-Economic Dispatch Method for Smart Microgrids Using VSS_QGA by Wenxia Liu, Yuying Zhang, Bo Zeng, Shuya Niu, Jianhua Zhang, Yong Xiao

“…In this paper, a comprehensive environmental-economic dispatch method for smart microgrids is proposed, with the objective for minimizing the summation of generation and emission costs in the system. As the proposed model belongs to a large-scale nonlinear and nonconvex programming problem, a hybrid heuristic algorithm, named variable step-size chaotic fuzzy quantum genetic algorithm (VSS_QGA), is developed. …”
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Stroke mimics: incidence, aetiology, clinical features and treatment by Brian H. Buck, Naveed Akhtar, Anas Alrohimi, Khurshid Khan, Ashfaq Shuaib

“…While many underlying conditions can be recognized rapidly by careful assessment, a significant proportion of patients unfortunately still receive thrombolysis and admission to a high-intensity stroke unit with inherent risks and unnecessary costs. Accurate diagnosis is important as recurrent presentations may be common in many disorders. …”
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Optimizing of Integrated Energy Systems With CCHP‐P2G on FTS Operation Strategy Using a Matrix Modeling Approach by Hui Lu, Hongzhi Lu, Zhuojia Xu, Wendong Huang, Heng Wu, Huiwen Zhang, Aoli Wang, Yufang Chang

“…The results demonstrate that the proposed model using CCHP‐P2G and FTS operation strategy can improve the utilization of renewable energy, and reduce carbon emissions and thus achieve reductions in total operation costs and carbon emissions.…”
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USE OF COCONUT HUSKS TO FACILITATE THE REMOVAL OF H2S FROM BIOGAS by Minza I. SELELE, Shaaban M. MGANA

“…The study investigates the potential of coconut husks in purifying biogas, a common issue in the use of biogas due to the high costs and environmental impact of expensive purification technologies. …”
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Energy Literacy and Energy-related Financial Literacy in Iran: Case of Northwestern Academic Community by Davoud Hamidi Razi, Reza Ranjpour, Mohammad Ali Motafakker Azad

“…According to the results of Logit model, economic and financial literacy had a significant and positive effect on energy literacy index (selection of heating systems A and B) and energy awareness (energy bills or costs awareness) and the result was confirmed in all the estimation models for three carriers. …”
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Application of the cyberinfrastructure production function model to R1 institutions by Preston M. Smith, Jill Gemmill, David Y. Hancock, Brian W. O'Shea, Brian W. O'Shea, Brian W. O'Shea, Brian W. O'Shea, Winona Snapp-Childs, Winona Snapp-Childs, James Wilgenbusch

“…A critical piece of infrastructure with which to secure funding, attract and retain faculty, and teach students, supercomputers come with high capital and operating costs that must be considered against other competing priorities. …”
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On the use of recycled polyethylene terephthalate fiber in one-part geopolymer stabilized soft soil: Tensile performance and sustainability analysis by Zihan Zhou, Shuo Li, Guo Hu, Jun Wu, Chuanqin Yao, Fujun Niu

“…Life cycle assessment indicated that OPG-stabilized soil reduced carbon emissions, energy consumption, and costs by 78%, 58%, and 50% compared to ordinary Portland cement (OPC)-stabilized soil. …”
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Recurrent C. difficile in a Patient with IgG Deficiency by Asad Jehangir, Kyle Bennett, Shoaib Bilal Fareedy, Andrew Rettew, Bilal Shaikh, Anam Qureshi, Qasim Jehangir, Richard Alweis

“…Our case report suggests that the patients who have underlying IgG deficiency may benefit from immunoglobulin, as this can significantly reduce the incidence of recurrent infections and hence save the healthcare costs.…”
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Production and yield response factor of sunflower under different irrigation depths by Benito M. de Azevedo, Denise V. Vasconcelos, Guilherme V. do Bomfim, Thales V. de A. Viana, Joaquim R. do Nascimento Neto, Kárcia M. A. S. de Oliveira

“…ABSTRACT Local information about irrigation depths for sunflower can be used in the design of projects and irrigation management to increase crop yield and to reduce costs. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of irrigation depths on sunflower and calculate its yield response factor. …”
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Application of Response Surface Methodology and Central Composite Inscribed Design for Modeling and Optimization of Marble Surface Quality by Sümeyra Cevheroğlu Çıra, Ahmet Dağ, Askeri Karakuş

“…Clarifying these factors for optimization of multivariate polishing process by trial and error method is difficult, time-consuming, and costly task. In this study, the empirical practices were carried out using an experimental design, specifically, a central composite inscribed (CCI) design. …”
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A Distributed Economic Power Dispatch Strategy Considering State of Charge for Microgrids by Kaicheng Lu, Shufeng Dong, Yonghua Song

“…Numerical experiments demonstrate that the proposed strategy can achieve SoC balance and have lower costs than traditional distributed economic power sharing strategy.…”
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Informed Neural Networks for Flood Forecasting With Limited Amount of Training Data by K. Komiya, H. Kiyotake, R. Nakada, M. Fujishima, K. Mori

“…Traditional methods often require extensive data and frequent updates, making them costly and challenging to maintain. INNs address these challenges by enabling accurate predictions under limited data conditions. …”
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Model of metabolism and gene expression predicts proteome allocation in Pseudomonas putida by Juan D. Tibocha-Bonilla, Vishant Gandhi, Chloe Lieng, Oriane Moyne, Rodrigo Santibáñez-Palominos, Karsten Zengler

“…Abstract The genome-scale model of metabolism and gene expression (ME-model) for Pseudomonas putida KT2440, iPpu1676-ME, provides a comprehensive representation of biosynthetic costs and proteome allocation. Compared to a metabolic-only model, iPpu1676-ME significantly expands on gene expression, macromolecular assembly, and cofactor utilization, enabling accurate growth predictions without additional constraints. …”
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ASSESSING THE NEED AND CONSEQUENCES OF TERRITORIAL TRANSFORMATION OF RURAL SETTLEMENTS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PROVIDING MUNICIPAL SERVICES by A. G. Ataeva, G. V. Zinnurova

“…It has been determined that the unification of rural settlements can to some extent solve the problem of reducing administrative costs and increasing the financing of other issues of local importance. …”
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A Method for Selecting the Appropriate Source Domain Buildings for Building Energy Prediction in Transfer Learning: Using the Euclidean Distance and Pearson Coefficient by Chuyi Luo, Liang Xia, Sung-Hugh Hong

“…The results showed the source building, selected via the method proposed by this research, could reduce 65% of computational costs, while the RMSE was approximately 6.5 kWh, and the R² was around 0.92. …”
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Semi-Automated Processing of Harmonized Accelerometer and GPS Data in R: <i>AGPSR</i> by Nathan Tintle, Jieqi Tu, Anna Luong, Shina Min, Kiarri N. Kershaw, Ulf G. Bronas

“…Other approaches are costly due to proprietary software, personnel time, and being prone to human errors. …”
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Contrastive learning for one-shot building shape recognition using vector polygon transformers by Longfei Cui, Haizhong Qian, Junkui Xu, Chao Li, Xinyu Niu

“…The adoption of this methodology reduces costs associated with manual operations and enhances the overall process of building recognition and classification.…”
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An Improved Integral Response Deformation Method for Seismic Response Analysis of Underground Structures Considering Far-Field Effects by Xin Bao, Shiwei Wang, Boyang Zhu, Dongyang Wang

“…In the seismic analysis of underground structures, the traditional integral response displacement method may misestimate far-field constraint effects because of the empirical placement of cutoff boundaries, leading to inaccuracies and a significant increase in computational costs. This study proposes a cutoff boundary distance criterion of three times the structural size, effectively eliminating boundary reflection errors. …”
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Rapid determination of chlorine in fertilizers by pressed pellet-wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry by Ze Yao, Xuyao Yao, Xing Tang, Jun Peng, Bin Deng, Zhao Liu, Lianwu Xie

“…Traditional methods such as chemical titration and ion chromatography have limitations including complex sample preparation, time consumption, and high costs. This study proposes a rapid determination method using pressed pellet-wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (WDXRF). …”
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