Hs-CRP levels in patients with periodontitis- a cross sectional study by M A Shah, B K Shah, B B Modi, E B Shah, D H Dave

“…Background: During the last century, cardiovascular disease (CVD) has common occurrence in most of the population and the great attendant mortality, loss of independence, impaired quality life and social and economic costs forming a compelling reason for public health concern. …”
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Innovations, Sustainable Growth and Energetics: Is Leap of Civilization Possible? by Vladimir Milovidov

“…Often, technologies that are designed to reduce the wasteful consumption of fossil fuels lead to additional costs. The author suggests that one objectively analyze the risks of implementing the concept of sustainable development and also warns against unfounded illusions and delusions that can plunge society into a prolonged state of stagnation and regression. …”
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Climate-resilient railway networks: a resource-aware framework by Anibal Tafur, Sotirios A. Argyroudis, Stergios A. Mitoulis, Jamie E. Padgett

“…Applied to the railway network in Mobile and Baldwin Counties, Alabama, the framework estimates damage states, restoration costs and times, modeling drop and recovery of network functionality. …”
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The Establishment of Diplomatic Relations Between the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Portugal by D. N. Ermolovich

“…In the 18th century, the costs of such dependence outweighed the potential benefits. …”
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Ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia in cosmetic plastic surgeries of the breasts by Leandro Dário Faustino, Laís Martins Lucas Oliveira

“…Regional anesthesia for plastic surgery is part of a multimodal analgesia strategy that can reduce costs, reduce hospitalization, and pain in the postoperative period. …”
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Stability Evaluation of Slope Based on Global Sensitivity Analysis by Zhaoxia Xu, Xiuzhen Wang, Lu Guo, Teng Yu

“…However, traditional sensitivity analysis method costs much computation time. When calculating the sensitivity index of one parameter, all other parameters are taken as fixed values, and the uncertainty of all parameters cannot be considered simultaneously. …”
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Exploring Factors Impeding the Implementation of Health and Safety Control Measures in the South African Construction Industry by Ndaleni Phinias Rantsatsi

“…The study uncovered eight main barriers (lack of management support and commitment, implementation costs, lack of training and education, language and cultural differences, time pressure, prioritisation of production over H&S issues, lack of worker involvement and participation and lack of communication) to the implementation of H&S control measures. …”
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Nomogram predicting overall survival in hospitalized cervical cancer patients in Mato Grosso, Brazil by Sancho Pedro Xavier, Audêncio Victor, Noemi Dreyer Galvão, Ageo Mario Cândido da Silva

“…The most significant predictors included the type of medical procedure performed, the need for ICU admission, and hospital costs. The calibration curve demonstrated good agreement between actual and predicted 30-day survival probabilities. …”
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Biomedical and environmental applications via nanobiocatalysts and enzyme immobilization by Yosri A. Fahim, Waleed Mahmoud Ragab, Ibrahim W. Hasani, Ahmed M. El-Khawaga

“…By immobilizing enzymes onto nanostructured materials, these systems overcome major limitations, such as poor enzyme stability, limited reusability, and high production costs. There are many immobilization techniques such as adsorption, covalent bonding, encapsulation, entrapment, and cross linking with a focus on their biomedical relevance. …”
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Elementos de flexibilidade em contratos de terceirização logística: o caso de uma empresa de telecomunicações Flexibility elements in contracts of logistic outsourcing: the case of... by Renata Albergaria de Mello Bandeira, Luiz Carlos Brasil de Brito Mello, Antonio Carlos Gastaud Maçada

“…Initially, the importance of contracts for outsourcing is analyzed according to the perspective of the transaction costs economics theory. The possible causes of imperfections in the contracting process are analyzed, and the steps to avoid the repetition of these mistakes in similar implementations are suggested. …”
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MODERN CONCEPT OF DIGITAL IDENTIFICATION OF AIR PASSENGERS by N. M. Tyukalova, A. A. Razuvakin

“…It is summarized that the introduction of secure biometric identification of passengers at the airport will reduce the time and financial costs associated with the inspection and going through the passport and customs control. …”
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Identifikasi Mission Drift Pada Keadilan Jender dan Inklusi Sosial di Lembaga Keuangan Mikro Syariah by Faiqul Hazmi, Cahyaning Budi Utami

“…The research results show that the forms of mission drift that occur include: (1) Differences in the accessibility of financial services based on gender; (2) Changes in IMFIs customer priorities; (3) Product changes that prioritize bankable customers; (4) Increasing of Margin, Ujroh profit sharing portion and costs; (5) Changing the focus of financing to be more profit-oriented. …”
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DIAGNOSING METHOD OF SPECIFIC FAULTS’ IDENTIFYING OF GASOLINE ENGINES WITH FUEL INJECTION by G. G. Musayelyants, E. A. Pavlenko, D. K. Sysoyev

“…Accordingly, it is proposed to calculate the integral indicator of failure based on the entered ternary system of measurements and, subsequently, to determine the specific fault of engine and its systems by its numerical value, as the result, providing the labor costs’ lowering for defects’ searching.…”
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Research on Cold Chain Logistics Joint Distribution Vehicle Routing Optimization Based on Uncertainty Entropy and Time-Varying Network by Huaixia Shi, Yu Hong, Qinglei Zhang, Jiyun Qin

“…The results show a reduction in logistics costs by 18.3%, carbon emissions by 15.8%, and fleet size by 12.5%. …”
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AMaze: an intuitive benchmark generator for fast prototyping of generalizable agents by Kevin Godin-Dubois, Karine Miras, Anna V. Kononova

“…In practice, such collections result mainly from costly human-designed processes or the liberal use of random number generators. …”
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Electrification of Steam and Thermal Oil Boilers in the Textile Industry: Techno-Economic Analysis for China, Japan, and Taiwan by Ali Hasanbeigi, M. Jibran S. Zuberi

“…The economic analysis shows that switching from combustion boilers to electric boilers may result in higher energy costs primarily because the average electricity prices in all three economies are substantially higher than fossil fuel prices. …”
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Strategic Decision-Making in SMEs: A Review of Heuristics and Machine Learning for Multi-Objective Optimization by Gines Molina-Abril, Laura Calvet, Angel A. Juan, Daniel Riera

“…Despite the potential benefits of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and optimization techniques, SMEs often struggle to adopt these tools due to high costs, limited training, and restricted hardware access. …”
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Development of Artificial Intelligence Chips in China by Jiaqing Wu, Dapeng Ren

“…The development of these chips also encounters challenges such as high costs and long cycles, requiring stable financing channels and the accumulation of development experiences. …”
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Trust-Based Consensus and ABAC for Blockchain Using Deep Learning to Secure Internet of Things by Arunkumar Muniswamy, R. Rathi

“…Our proposed scheme ABAC-TDBC-D3P enhances throughput and security and reduces total computing costs. The simulation results demonstrate that the suggested ABAC-TDCB-D3P scheme has a percentage of 86% for Collusive Rumour Attack (CRA) and 91% for Naive Malicious Attack (NMA). …”
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"You do need each member of the team to bring that next piece of the puzzle": Allied health professionals' experience of interprofessional complex care in hospital settings. by Felice Borghmans, Venesser Fernandes, Stella Laletas, Harvey Newnham

“…Furthermore, growth in these models coincides with a heightened focus on health system efficiency due to rising healthcare costs, resource constraints, and health workforce shortfalls. …”
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