Le développement collaboratif d’un nouveau concept pour une activité 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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Un militantisme aux allures de mission impossible : l’exemple du lobby républicain pro-choice, la Republican Majority for Choice by Françoise Coste

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OMALIZUMAB FOR CHILDREN WITH BRONCHIAL ASTHMA: INDICATIONS TO APPLICATION by T.V. Kulichenko

“…High omalizumab assisted treatment costs, as well as the need in the monthly visits to the doctor for the omalizumab injections are justified for the patients, requiring repeat hospitalizations, emergency medical aid, using high doses of the inhalation and/or systemic glucocorticosteroids. …”
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THE APPLICATION OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPORTING STANDARDS IN ROMANIA: ADVANTAGES AND MAIN PROBLEMS by Diana-Andreea, TRAISTARU

“…The most important features of International Financial Reporting Standards implementation are the costs, which seem to be rather high, the missing of instructions for the adoption, and its complex characteristics. …”
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Cleansing the world of the germ of laziness: hygiene, sanitation, and the Javanese population in Suriname by Rosemarijn Hoefte

“…Moreover, authorities and planters objected to the construction of latrines because of the costs and their belief that the Javanese were “unhygienic”. …”
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How water stress affects the growth, development, and gene expression of yellow mealworm by O. Kosewska, S. Przemieniecki, P. Białoskórski, M.J. Stolarski, M. Krzyżaniak

“…In the case of mealworm farming, a controlled reduction of the applied water rate can bring economic benefits by reducing the costs associated with maintaining the farm. The study aimed to assess the effect of different water rates on the development and survival of mealworm larvae (Tenebrio molitor L.) while searching for genes whose expression may indicate disruptions in development caused by water deficiency. …”
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Reconciling Bergmann's rule throughout the annual cycle in two congeneric large-bodied migratory waterbirds by Dehai Gu, Yanbo Xie, Tetsuo Shimada, Hiroyoshi Higuchi, Diana Solovyeva, Inga Bysykatova-Harmey, Yanlei Liu, Junjian Zhang, Qingshan Zhao, Lei Cao, Anthony D. Fox

“…Bergmann's rule predicts that the larger of two homeotherm species differing only in size would occur at higher latitudes, or in cooler climates than the smaller, because of relative thermoregulatory costs in relation to body mass/surface area ratio. …”
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Chinese population may require further venetoclax dose reduction beyond guidelines when combined with voriconazole: real-world evidence from China by Rongrong Wang, Yanfen Li, Ran Zhang, Yuan Ren, Yifan Liu, Tianlin Wang, Jin Wu, Xiangjin Zheng, Shu Li, Yu Jing

“…This increase in the plasma concentration of VEN may result in a longer duration of days to white blood cell (WBC) > 2000 cells/mm3 (25 vs. 13, p < 0.05) and a higher likelihood of increased hospitalization costs (140,469 vs. 73,513, p = 0.068) compared to VEN 400 mg alone.ConclusionChinese population may require further dose reduction of VEN beyond guideline recommendations when combined with VOR.…”
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Association of frailty with clinical and financial outcomes of hospitalization for non-operative trauma by Zeyu Liu, BS, Saad Mallick, MD, Nam Yong Cho, BS, Esteban Aguayo, MD, Mahima Chillakanti, BS, Giselle Porter, BS, Konmal Ali, Joseph Song, BS, Areti Tillou, MD, Peyman Benharash, MD

“…Furthermore, IF patients experienced an incremental increase in LOS of 1.3 days (95%CI, 1.2–1.4 days) and costs of $3200 (95 % CI, $3100–$3400) while HF patients had a prolonged LOS by 5.1 days (95 % CI, 4.8–5.2 days) and higher costs by $11,300 (95 % CI, $11,000-11,600). …”
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Spatio-Temporal Data Augmentation Method for Network Traffic Prediction by Sung Oh, Myeong-Jun Oh, Jong-Kyung Im, Ji-Yeon Park, Joung-Sik Kim, Na-Rae Yi, Myung-Ho Kim, Sung-Ho Bae

“…However, collecting large-scale network traffic data is costly, making data augmentation a practical alternative for improving model performance without additional data acquisition costs. …”
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Treatments and outcomes of neonatal disseminated intravascular coagulation with and without neonatal asphyxia: A retrospective study using nationwide data in Japan by Hiroki Kitaoka, Takaaki Konishi, Yoshihiko Shitara, Atsushi Ito, Kohei Kashima, Yohei Hashimoto, Hiroki Matsui, Motohiro Kato, Naoto Takahashi, Hideo Yasunaga

“…Neonates with asphyxia had higher in-hospital mortality (17% vs. 10%; P < 0.001), severe bleeding (11% vs. 6.8%; P < 0.001), and hospitalization costs than those without asphyxia. Additionally, neonates with severe asphyxia were more likely to receive several DIC therapies (such as recombinant human soluble thrombomodulin [30% vs. 24%]) and had higher in-hospital mortality (19% vs. 11%) and hospitalization costs than those with mild asphyxia. …”
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The potential of biogas production and effects of alfalfa silage under the synergistic influence of Lactobacillus acidophilus and Rosa roxburghii pomace waste on the fermentation q... by Maoya Li, Jiachuhan Wang, Qiming Cheng, Zhongfu Long, Chao Chen, Yixiao Xie, Yao Lei, Yulian Chen, Yuanyuan Zhao, Xiangjiang He, Wei Yan, Zhijun Wang

“…Coinoculation improvements with RP and Lactobacillus acidophilus observed here are expected to reduce costs associated with CH4 conversion bioprocesses and increase CH4 production.…”
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Computational Analysis of Temperature Effects on Monocrystalline PV Module using MATLAB by Qasir Ali Memon, Abdul Majeed Shaikh, Shoaib Ahmed Shaikh, Muhammad Fawad Shaikh, Shakil Ahmed Jiskani

“…It is not necessary that renewable energy sources have always led to many advantages but have drawbacks like weather dependency, unreliability, storage problems, and upfront costs. This study focuses on one of the major types of RES solar PV systems. …”
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Perioperative safety evaluation of intersphincteric resection combined with rectal eversion and total extra-abdominal resection: a prospective randomized controlled trial by Zhanpeng Yang, Aizhen Wang, Hong Liang, Qingwen Fan, Shuaipeng Li, Fuqiang Yao, Mengzhe Li, Xi Wang, Chao Zhang

“…Outcomes included distal margin positivity, anal preservation rate, postoperative complications, hospital costs,30-day readmission rates and postoperative stay. …”
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Disparities in cancer care and outcomes by insurance membership type in Indonesia: a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of national health insurance claims, 2017–2022 by Dian Kusuma, Ede Surya Darmawan, Syarif Rahman Hasibuan, Vetty Yulianty Permanasari

“…Compared with the poorest group (PBI APBN), informal non-workers (BP) and informal workers (PBPU) had higher odds of receiving transfusions (adjusted OR (AOR): 1.43 and 1.26, respectively), while formal workers (PPU) had shorter hospital stays (−0.27 days) and higher claim costs. Interestingly, PBI APBN members had greater odds of receiving biopsies than PBI APBD (AOR: 0.62) and PPU (AOR: 0.77) members. …”
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ORANSight-2.0: Foundational LLMs for O-RAN by Pranshav Gajjar, Vijay K. Shah

“…We thoroughly evaluate the energy characteristics of ORANSight-2.0, demonstrating its efficiency in training, inference, and inference with RAG augmentation, ensuring optimal performance while maintaining low computational and energy costs. Additionally, the best ORANSight-2.0 configuration is compared against the available telecom LLMs, where our proposed model outperformed them with an average improvement of 27.96%.…”
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Exploring affordable and effective pandemic containment measures in lower-income countries with a spatial SEIR model: a case study in South Africa by Lingyu Fan, Wenzhong Shi, Qing Pei, Anshu Zhang

“…Abstract Background The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities of lower-income countries due to limited healthcare infrastructure and socioeconomic constraints, highlighting the need for effective containment measures that minimize socioeconomic costs and prepare for future pandemics alike, which are expected to become more frequent. …”
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Cloud-edge hybrid deep learning framework for scalable IoT resource optimization by Umesh Kumar Lilhore, Sarita Simaiya, Yogesh Kumar Sharma, Anjani Kumar Rai, S. M. Padmaja, Khan Vajid Nabilal, Vimal Kumar, Roobaea Alroobaea, Hamed Alsufyani

“…The hybrid algorithm's primary characteristic is its capacity to simultaneously fulfil multiple objectives, including reducing response times, enhancing resource efficiency, and decreasing operational costs. DQN facilitates the formulation of optimal resource allocation strategies in intricate and unpredictable environments. …”
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National E-Systems for Combating VAT Evasion and Intra-EU Trade. Hungary’s ‘EAKER’ and Romania’s ‘RO e-Transport’ by Szilárd Gáspár-Szilágyi, Vasile Ianovici

“…Practical challenges. – 5.1. Increased costs. – 5.2. Increased bureaucracy. – 5.3. User ‘friendliness’ and technical problems. – 5.4. …”
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Streamlined production of immobilized D-psicose 3-epimerase via secretion in Pichia pastoris: a new paradigm for industrial D-psicose production by Pimsiriya Srila, Phitsanu Pinmanee, Boontiwa Ninchan, Nisit Watthanasakphuban

“…This streamlined enzyme purification and immobilization, significantly reducing the DPEase production costs. The recombinant DPEase exhibited remarkable stability across a wide range of pH and temperature. …”
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