Automatic Irrigation Based on Soil Moisture for Vegetable Crops by Rafael Muñoz-Carpena, Michael D. Dukes

“… Improving irrigation efficiency can contribute greatly to reducing production costs of vegetables, making the industry more competitive and sustainable. …”
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Advancements in Coded Computation: Integrating Encoding Matrices with Data Shuffling for Enhanced Data Transmission Efficiency by Yuan Shijie

“…Encoding matrices enhance data reliability, fault tolerance, and security, reducing transmission and storage costs. Data shuffling techniques, by reordering data, decrease communication overhead and computational burden, thereby optimizing the coding computation process. …”
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Relationship Fintech Development and the Performance of Financial Industry by Faiza Nur Azelia, Chaikal Nuryakin

“…This effect is attributed to the high initial costs incurred from technology investments for financial firms to remain competitive.…”
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Research on Cascaded Three-phase quasi-Z Source Inverter by ZHANG Weiwei

“…Voltage boost is added in the improved DC side network, where 180 V input voltage of each module can realize 380 V direct grid-connection without transformer. Costs and switch frequency are decreased, and harmonic content of grid current is merely 1.84%.…”
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Political Uncertainty Cycles and the Impact of Oil Shocks on Supply Chain Pressures by Corey Williams

“…While previous research has focused on the direct macroeconomic impacts of oil price shocks, particularly on firm costs and consumer prices, this study highlights the effects of these shocks on supply chain disruption as a whole. …”
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THE BENCHMARK ANALYSIS OF TOURISM IN ROMANIA AND JAPAN by Georgiana BADICU, Iancu DORIN

“…In the last decades, the tourism developed a lot, especially due to technological advances and access to an ever-increasing range of means of transport that allow convenient and fast travel over long distances and their increasingly affordable costs. Tourism is an important factor in both promoting countries and cultures, as well as in the economy. …”
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Corruption distance and equity strategies in cross-border M&As: The moderating roles of political connections. by Xiaoyuan Li

“…This is because a greater corruption distance prompts Chinese acquirers to prefer a higher equity percentage, aimed at mitigating transaction costs and securing control over the target firm. …”
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Improving the Precision of Blueberry Frost Protection Irrigation by Tatiana Borisova, Tori Bradley, Mercy Olmstead, Jeffrey Williamson

“…This 9-page article by Tatiana Borisova, Tori Bradley, Mercy Olmstead, and Jeffrey Williamson describes a UF/IFAS study comparing precision cold protection irrigation to uniform cold protection irrigation to estimate the potential savings in diesel costs and water withdrawal volumes associated with the two practices and help protect Florida’s valuable and vulnerable blueberry harvest. …”
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Creating Wildflower Habitats in Golf Course Out-Of-Play Areas by Rebecca Nestle, Grace Cope, Nicole Benda, Adam G. Dale

“…Dale and published by the UF/IFAS Entomology and Nematology Department is intended to provide guidelines for Florida golf course superintendents to aid in their efforts to conserve important wildlife while reducing maintenance inputs and associated costs. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/in1316 …”
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ORGANIZATIONAL ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT MECHANISM AND DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR THE CHEMICAL AND PETROCHEMICAL SECTOR OF NIGERIA by T. T. Titus, T. Titus

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Positive-Strand RNA Viruses Infecting the Red Imported Fire Ant, Solenopsis invicta by Steven M. Valles

“…Their introduction has had significant economic consequences with costs associated with damage and control efforts estimated at 6 billion dollars annually in the USA. …”
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Structural Behaviors of Reinforced Concrete Piers Rehabilitated with FRP Wraps by Junsuk Kang

“…The use of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) wraps to retrofit and strengthen existing structures such as reinforced concrete piers is becoming popular due to the higher tensile strength, durability, and flexibility gained and the method’s ease of handling and low installation and maintenance costs. As yet, however, few guidelines have been developed for determining the optimum thicknesses of the FRP wraps applied to external surfaces of concrete or masonry structures. …”
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Profitability of Dairy Industry in Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia by Saša Muminović, Vladan Pavlović

“…The profitability of dairy industry in Serbia is a consequence of high prices, lower production costs and lack of EU legislative regarding competition and free market. …”
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1:10000 scale mapping with GPS and free GIS tools – comparison with topographic map by Andor Rábay

“…The main concept is to keep the costs of the survey as low as possible, therefore free GIS applications and databases were used with navigation purpose GPS receivers. …”
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Penser l’impôt au XIXe siècle. Controverses fiscales et contributions saint-simoniennes dans la France des années 1830 by Clément Coste

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CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS: TO TEACH IMPOSSIBLE TO REGULATE by M. A. LUKASHENKO

“…The author gives specific regulations that can optimize time costs of communications, minimize reputational risk, normalize business processes. …”
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ACADEMY OF SCIENCES IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE DECAY OF THE USSR by E. V. Bodrova

“…The decision to transform into the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Presidium's course to preserve it at all costs despite the very complex relations with the new government, which are now causing ambiguous assessments, allowed, in the author's opinion, to ensure the survival of the core of fundamental science in the 1990s in the conditions of deindustrialization and demodernization of the country.…”
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Improving the Precision of Blueberry Frost Protection Irrigation by Tatiana Borisova, Tori Bradley, Mercy Olmstead, Jeffrey Williamson

“…This 9-page article by Tatiana Borisova, Tori Bradley, Mercy Olmstead, and Jeffrey Williamson describes a UF/IFAS study comparing precision cold protection irrigation to uniform cold protection irrigation to estimate the potential savings in diesel costs and water withdrawal volumes associated with the two practices and help protect Florida’s valuable and vulnerable blueberry harvest. …”
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Din ve Modernlik Tartışmaları Çerçevesinde 1979 İran Devrimi by Hüdayi Sayın, Ahmet Çırakoğlu

“…Furthermore, the segments of society exploited by the costs of development projects, have united and overthrown political power. …”
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The Role of Subregions in Modelling Regional Competitiveness — a Case Study of the West Subregion in Śląskie Voivodship by Tomasz Pilewicz

“…With relatively small operational costs the subregions’ role in providing information, lobbying for development issues, stimulation of local engagement and providing training, strategic management and cooperation development, is an example of modelling regional competitiveness based on the model of the region acting as an entrepreneurial organization. …”
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