Choosing an optimum sand control method by Ehsan Khamehchi, Omid Ameri, Ali Alizadeh

“…Global oil price, duration of sand control project and costs of necessary equipment for each method as economic and politic conditions and well productivity index as reservoir parameter are the main parameters studied in this paper.…”
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THE CAUSES, EXTENT AND EFFECTS OF MEDICO-LEGAL CLAIMS ON HEALTHCARE DELIVERY IN SOUTH AFRICA by Nduduzo NDEBELE

“…South Africa's healthcare system is on the cusp of a perfect storm that has the potential to paralyze service delivery, due to the increasing costs of providing healthcare services and the increase in medical malpractice litigations. …”
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Anecdotal Observations of Socially Learned Vocalizations in Harbor Seals by Diandra Duengen, Martin Polotzek, Eoin P. O’Sullivan, Andrea Ravignani

“…We propose that, in this case, social learning acted as a shortcut to acquiring food rewards compared to the comparatively costly asocial learning.…”
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Collaborative development of a new concept for an activity by Jaakko Virkkunen

“…Each technological revolution profoundly changes the conditions of balancing these contradictory demands by enabling the creation of new kinds of use values, the reduction of costs, and a broadened exchange. The culturally available forms of activity can be seen as different concepts of balancing contradictory demands. …”
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Keeping Food Safe: Preparing and Cooking by Claudia Peñuela, Amarat Simonne

“…Well-prepared meals can save money and meet nutritional needs, and making safe and healthy meals a part of your lifestyle can contribute to lower healthcare costs. But many people with busy schedules find it difficult to make time to cook meals. …”
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Genome‐scale engineering for systems and synthetic biology by Kevin M Esvelt, Harris H Wang

“…The handful of methods capable of targetedgene editing suffered from low efficiencies, significant labor costs, or both. Recent advances have dramatically expanded our ability to engineer cells in a directed and combinatorial manner. …”
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Optimizing Irrigation and Young Tree Management by Davie Kadyampakeni, Sandra Guzman

“…Poor irrigation practices, such as infrequent irrigation or irrigating without using irrigation scheduling tools, could be costly. Besides excessive loss of water and nutrients, the growth of young trees might be impacted by an excess or deficit of water. …”
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DATA STORAGES FOR V. LEONTIEV'S MODEL OF GLOBAL ECONOMY by Nikolay A. Gerasimov

“…The global model of world economy built on macro-economic indicators according to the scheme 'costs - output' gives an opportunity to design different scenarios of economic development. …”
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What is the Value of an Existing Forest Stand? by Andres Susaeta, Chris Demers

“… Traditionally, the land expectation value (LEV) formula, the present value of perpetual cash inflows of timber revenues minus the present value of cash outflows of costs, has been employed as the main indicator of the value of a forest investment. …”
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Additional nutritional considerations for preconditioning beef calves. by Philipe Moriel

“…However, a gradual reduction of frequency of supplementation is a supplementation strategy that can overcome these negative effects on growth and immunity, and allows producers to save on feeding and labor costs without producing lighter calves that have weaker immune responses.   …”
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Generous Attitudes and Online Participation by Floor Fiers, Aaron Shaw, Eszter Hargittai

“…Contributing in such ways constitutes a type of generous behavior, as it costs time and energy while benefiting others. This study examines the relationship between contributions to a variety of online information resources and an experimental measure of generosity, the dictator game. …”
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Weed Management in Rice by Dennis C. Odero, Curtis Rainbolt

“…Weed infestations can also interfere with combine operation at harvest and can significantly increase harvesting and drying costs. Weed seed contamination of rice grain lowers grain quality and may lower the cash value of the crop. …”
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Regular Detection and Intelligent Monitoring Technology of Atmospheric Storage Tank Based on Acoustic Emission and Internet of Things by Jiehui Xie, Xueying Lu

“…Through the integration of intelligent acoustic wave (acoustic emission) collector, networking communication, cloud platform/server and customer terminal, the long-term online monitoring of storage tanks is realized, the detection efficiency and accuracy are improved, and the manual intervention and maintenance costs are reduced. …”
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Economic Problems of European Union Caused by the Demographic Ageing by Iulia-Alexandra Percă

“…Economic consequences of this social trend, such as increased expenditures on pensions, extended health care costs and the employment problems, are also discussed in order to define the best policy option available.…”
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Botryosphaeria Stem Blight on Southern Highbush Blueberry in Florida by Norma C. Flor, Douglas A. Phillips, Philip F. Harmon

“…Advanced stages of this disease may cause premature plant death, which results in significant replanting costs for growers. Biotic or abiotic stresses from a variety of sources can make plants more susceptible to infection by stem blight pathogens. …”
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Le jeu de la parodie dans Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her de Susan Griffin by Marion Coste

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Results of a Survey Offering Clinical Insights into Speech-Language Pathology Telepractice Methods by Elizabeth U. Grillo

“…The survey explored demographics of clients and clinicians, costs and equipment, learning opportunities, use of the client’s environment and caregivers/e-helpers, and method adaptations in telepractice.  …”
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Analysis of Production Process Performance Using Computer by Pawlak Szymon, Fornalczyk Agnieszka

“…Planning a production process in terms of correctly defining its efficiency, duration and the level of generated costs is a difficult task. Manufacturing processes are characterized by a high level of complexity and are exposed to a large number of external factors that are difficult to predict. …”
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The Long Shadow of Doctoral Candidate Status. Case Study - Poland by Krystian Szadkowski

“…The aim of this article is to provide an empirical and theoretical background in support of the thesis that in contemporary Polish public higher education institutions, especially in the massified sector of teaching-oriented disciplines, one of the side effects of the growing enrolment (between 2004-2012) in doctoral programmes has been a decrease in the internal labour costs of institutions. The instrumentalization of these enrolments by public institutions has clearly had negative effect on the lives and career paths of doctoral candidates, understood here as a deprivation of their capabilities for work and for having a voice, mediated through their ambiguous "in-between" status. …”
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Behind the Myth: The Representation of the Crimean War in Nineteenth-century British Newspapers, Government Archives & Contemporary Records by Tri Tran

“…In the end prominent historians consider the Crimean war was in many aspects useless and costly; the argument of this paper is that painful historical truth came to be hidden in the depth of Britain’s national consciousness, behind a few comforting Victorian myths.…”
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