A Model for the Evaluation of Brazilian Road Transport: A Sustainable Perspective by Mariana Gonçalves de Carvalho Wolff, Marco Antonio Farah Caldas

“…Freight transportation in Brazil is heavily based on the road mode bringing heavy dependence of this mode to the country and some consequences such as high operating costs and high air emissions. For these reasons, it was considered the necessity of evaluating new investments made in this mode from a sustainable perspective, taking into account not only economic but also social and environmental concepts. …”
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The Russian science: current challenges and how to overcome them by Yevgeny Yasin

“…The share of expenditure on research and development in the country's GDP takes 30th place in the world, R&D costs per scientist is about 19 thousand dollars a year compared to 100 thousand dollars in China, 131 thousand dollars in Germany and 147 thousand dollars in Korea. …”
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Impression formation stimuli: A corpus of behavior statements rated on morality, competence, informativeness, and believability. by Amy Mickelberg, Bradley Walker, Ullrich K H Ecker, Piers Howe, Andrew Perfors, Nicolas Fay

“…However, a corpus of behavior statements is costly to generate, and pre-existing corpora may be outdated and might not measure the dimension(s) of interest. …”
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Nitrogen Cycling and Management for Romaine and Crisphead Lettuce Grown on Organic Soils by Luis Santos, Alan L. Wright, Yigang Luo, Huangjun Lu, Dennis Calvin Odero

“…A good N fertilization scheme should reduce costs, conserve natural resources, and minimize negative environmental impacts. …”
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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN SMALL AND MEDIUM TOURIST HOTEL INDUSTRY FROM PIERIA (GREECE) AND TAIWAN by Anestis K. Fotiadis, Chris Vassiliadis

“…For Greeks high investment costs are the most important reason for not implementing the adoption of sustainable development. …”
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Automatic Test Environment of Speech Recognition Software for Intelligent Display by ZHONG Li, LIU Buqi, YANG Ying

“…Software test of smart display speech recognition software involves a combination of multiple external environmental noise, speed of speech, and intonation of instruction voice, which causes a large number of test case combinations and high execution costs.This paper proposed a test environment which uses a script to automatically create and simultaneously play instruction voices with various types of elements combination, record and judge the recognition results. …”
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Organization of Sustainable Corporate Interaction in Business-Ecosystems by V. A. Kirillova

“…Topicality of the subject is stipulated by the necessity of working-out algorithms to identify stakeholders and channels of communication with them, which could help cut costs and control risks present in the process in general and within the frames of business-ecosystems in particular. …”
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Les monnaies athéniennes aux ve-ive siècles av. n. è., des mines du Laurion au marché de la Cité by Christophe Flament

“…First we shall attempt to define the lower threshold of profitability of the mining sector from an estimation of the various costs associated with mineworking. Second, we shall seek to clarify the relationships between mining activity and monetary production by means of a thoroughgoing examination of a number of epigraphic documents dealing with coin manufacture, not only at Athens but also at Delphi. …”
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Nonlinear stochastic and quantum motion from Coulomb forces by Luca Ornigotti, Darren W. Moore, Radim Filip

“…They are typically difficult and costly to engineer for bespoke purposes. However controllable nonlinearities may have always been in reach via the natural and fundamental forces between quantum particles. …”
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¿Nuevas tecnologías en la justicia penal? Solo si en un proceso con todas las garantías by Perfecto Andrés Ibánez

“… En medios, generalmente oficiales, relacionados con la justicia penal, reina cierto entusiasmo por la aplicación de la inteligencia artificial al tratamiento de las causas penales, como medio de agilizar y asegurar la igualdad de su tratamiento y de abaratar sus costes. Pero lo cierto es que, como diversos autores e instancias han hecho observar, la aplicación de aquella, fundada en el tratamiento estandarizado y masivo de datos, no exentos de sesgos, presenta graves riesgos para los derechos de los afectados. …”
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PROBLEM ISSUES OF ACCOUNTING AND VALUATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE by T. Rogulenko

“…Suggestions are given on how relatively accurate identification of costs, expenses, income, assets, liabilities in the total array of economic life facts recorded in the accounting system, the development of the practice of formation of accounting policies used and the optimization methods of analytical accounts for the accounting and valuation of environmental damage in accordance with the needs of the business management system.…”
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Imputed Dreams: Dreaming and Knowing in Tudor England by Mary Baine Campbell

“…Here on the border of modernity, the two writers help us see the psychological and political stakes of crediting or rejecting dream – costly either way.…”
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CSR and Sustainable Development: Multinationals are they Socially Responsible in Sub-Saharan Africa? The case of Areva in Niger by Youssoufou Hamadou Daouda

“…On one hand, MNCs should take into account external costs of their activities and participate in projects that improve social and economic welfare. …”
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Nitrogen Cycling and Management for Romaine and Crisphead Lettuce Grown on Organic Soils by Luis Santos, Alan L. Wright, Yigang Luo, Huangjun Lu, Dennis Calvin Odero

“…A good N fertilization scheme should reduce costs, conserve natural resources, and minimize negative environmental impacts. …”
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Data Storage Scheme Supporting for Multidimensional Query by Keji Mao, Xiaomin Zhao, Qike Shao, Wenxiu He, Yanqiang Ou, Qingzhang Chen

“…The existing storage scheme for one-dimensional data is not suitable for the multidimensional data or costs too much energy. We proposed a kind of data storage scheme supporting multidimensional query inspired by K-D tree. …”
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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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Stray Voltages In Dairies by Jonathan A. Watson, Ray A. Bucklin, D. R. Bray

“…Lost milk production and the costs for treatment of the cow's health problems can lead to substantial economic losses. …”
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Screening Methods for Southern Chinch Bug Resistance in St. Augustinegrass by Huangjun Lu, Ronald Cherry

“… Relying on insecticides for southern chinch bug control raises turfgrass maintenance costs, increases the risk that insects will develop resistance to insecticides, and may damage the environment. …”
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Optimization of selective laser sintering process conditions using stable sintering region approach by F. Lupone, E. Padovano, M. Pietroluongo, S. Giudice, O. Ostrovskaya, C. Badini

“…This approach is time consuming, costly, and it ignores the properties of starting powders. …”
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A Mobile Science Laboratory: Architectural Design For Secondary Schools In Uganda by Conrad M., Mubaraka, Eunice, Ndyareeba

“…The study thus recommended that schools can adopt this architecture to not only cut costs but also allow self-directed learning of the students.…”
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