Politicians' email communication with voters: A field experiment for the 2021 Bundestag elections. by Ekkehard A Köhler, Marius D May

“…Introducing a theoretical framework based on the single-policy task model and supplementing it with costly persuasion, we are able to disentangle and test for partisanship and opportunism. …”
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ETHICS AND COMMERCIAL COMMUNICATION by Flaviu MEGHIŞAN

“…Everyday, all around the world, regular people are affected by the costs of ethical issues. The profit and social responsibility do not exclude reciprocally. …”
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Spontaneous ash tree reforestation in the Central Pyrenees: a future local energy source? by Bernard Elyakime, Laurent Larrieu, Alain Cabanettes, Laurent Burnel

“…In this way, owners could thus recuperate a maximum unit value estimated at 11.2 to 22.3 € per stere (1 cubic metre), or an average value of 16.8 € per stere after deduction of all costs. An economy based on wood energy, using wood from spontaneously generated forest growth on private land, is therefore possible. …”
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HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT: INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE by M.V. Avksent'eva, O.M. Omel'yanovskii

“…It is convincingly shown that the evaluation of new technologies before their widespread introduction into practice not only contributes to increasing the availability of the effective approaches to diagnosis and treatment of various diseases, but it is also regarded as an element of the state costs reduction to the health.Key words: health technology assessment, agency for the evaluation of medical technologies, evidence-based medicine, clinical and economic analysis, economic evaluation.…”
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Optimal Convergecast Scheduling Limits for Clustered Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks by Xiaoling Zhang, Wei Liang, Haibin Yu, Xisheng Feng

“…Increased mobility coupled with a possible reduction of cabling costs and deployment time makes wireless communication an attractive alternative for the industrial process monitoring and control. …”
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Citrus Herbicide Boom Sprayer Calibration by Stephen H. Futch, Masoud Salyani

“…Incorrect application rates may result in increased weed control costs as a result of over application of herbicide material or the need to repeat application due to poor weed control. …”
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Prediction of vaccination coverage levels in populations with increasing levels of heterogeneity by Fan Bai

“…We consider two sources of heterogeneity in this paper: the different activity levels and the different relative vaccination costs. It is interesting to observe that, if both sources of heterogeneity are considered, there exist a finite number of Nash equilibria for the vaccination game. …”
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Improving Cow Fertility Through Fish Meal Supplementation by Charles R. Staples, Ricardo Mattos, Carlos S. Risco, William W. Thatcher

“…If the negative energy state is severe or prolonged, the number of days open can be excessive and costly. This document is DS-95, one of a series of the Animal Sciences Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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ANA-Negative Hydralazine-Induced Pericardial Effusion by Vicken Zeitjian, Azar Mehdizadeh

“…It is typically common to screen for DILE with the serum ANA test prior to proceeding to more costly and specific tests (i.e., anti-histone antibody). …”
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Fine-grained access control method for private data in android system by Gang Liu, Guofang Zhang, Quan Wang, Shaomin Ji, Lizhi Zhang

“…The framework is implemented in TaintDroid and experiments indicate that the improvement is effective in achieving fine-grained access control to sensitive information and does not adversely affect the system overhead costs.…”
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Analysis of calls to the Mobile First-Aid Medical Services in a Brazilian capital city by Marilene Nonnemacher Luchtemberg, Denise Elvira Pires de Pires, Soraia Dornelles Schoeller, Fabricio Pagani Possamai

“…The results indicate the need of investment in health education activities, reducing costs and increasing effectiveness. It is also necessary to improve communication between Mobile First-Aid Medical Services and the other services (Military Police and Fire Brigade) reducing the number of assistance.…”
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Implementation of green harvesting in the Sicilian wine industry: Effects on the cooperative system by Antonino Galati, Valeria Borsellino, Maria Crescimanno, Gaetano Pisano, Emanuele Schimmenti

“…However, an increase in operating costs as well as difficulties in the planning activities of the cooperatives has been recorded.…”
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Current status and challenges of CAR-T cell therapy in the treatment of haematological cancer by Yu Mengqi

“…Despite its potential, the path to broader application is fraught with challenges including cytokine release syndrome (CRS), immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS), drug-resistant relapses, side effects, and the high costs associated with manufacturing. These issues have constrained the wider adoption of CAR-T cell therapy. …”
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Revisiting Caresharing in the Context of Changes in a Florida Retirement Community by Eleanor Krassen Covan

“…In consequence of bolstering strength, the oldest residents are able to diminish the costs of help while augmenting opportunities for personal autonomy, thereby extending their period of residence within their ‘independent’ living community. …”
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN LANGUAGE EDUCATION IN TÜRKİYE: POTENTIAL CHALLENGES by S. Doğruer, Y. Tuğlu

“…RESULTS: Technological infrastructure limitations, high costs, reduced human interaction, and data security concerns could hinder the effective and secure use of AI-supported language learning applications. …”
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Tiberius’ Germania Strategy by Gökhan Tekir

“…Instead of extending the Roman borders, he chose to protect the Roman frontiers as the new conquests were both costly and dangerous beyond the Rhine. Therefore, he removed his cousin and possible successor Germanicus, who pursued an expansionist and adventurous policy. …”
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Transport factor in defining regional boundaries by I. V. Anokhov

“…It is identified that at the latter stage of the establishment of boundaries of an economic region, the key limiting factor is the amount of transport costs and the purchase price of the transported product. …”
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Optimizing Robotic Arm Learning: Curiosity-Driven Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient by Liu Jiarun

“…However, collecting the large- scale real-world data is costly and impractical, making simulation environments essential for optimization. …”
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Germany’s Migration Policy Challenges: From Restraint to Openness by A. P. Sokolov, A. D. Davydov

“…The researchers believe that the problems of German migration policy are primarily related to the political costs that accompany the German leadership’s eff orts to form a balanced migration policy. …”
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FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE IN THE CROP PRODUCTION SECTOR IN THE ERA OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION by Dimitrina STOYANCHEVA, Dora DONCHEVA

“…This paper analyses the financial performance of crop production enterprises related to the costs associated with their innovation activity. …”
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