Impact of Delays on Business Start-Up: A Case Study of SC and ST Women Entrepreneurs in Mysuru Division by Nikhilavathi S, Bharath V

“…Key factors include shortages of raw materials, high costs, legal disputes, administrative hurdles, and difficulties in arranging finance. …”
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Dummy Location Generation Algorithm for User Density by LI Menghan, FANG Wei, LI Lihong

“…This algorithm not only effectively controls the area of anonymous regions and reduces algorithm costs but also protects user location privacy. It demonstrates practicality and feasibility.…”
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A Radiological Evaluation of Using NORM Residue in Building Materials by Barbara Paci Mazzilli, Fernanda Yuri Muta, Lara Vitória Santos Couto, Antonio Luis Silva Costa, Vilmar Pedreira Oliveira, André Luiz Batista Cabral

“…This long-term storage incurs significant maintenance and safety costs, alongside environmental impacts. This residue is enriched in the natural radionuclides of the uranium and thorium series and is classified as a NORM (Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material) residue. …”
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Geopolitical risk and the rate of return of banks listed on the Vietnamese stock market by Phan Hồng Hải, Trần Trọng Huỳnh

“…The regression analysis results indicate that an increase in GPR is expected to decrease bank profits due to investor withdrawals and increased financial costs. Moreover, the impact of GPR on bank returns is lower compared to the effectssof market factors. …”
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Toward High-Accuracy 3D Creation of Aviation Tools via Analysis-by-Synthesis by Gundu Mohamed Hassan, Yoo Sung Kim, Geun Sik Jo

“…This persistence is largely due to the inherent complexity, scale, and high costs associated with aviation equipment, making digital transformation particularly challenging. …”
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Transcriptome analysis of archived tumors by Visium, GeoMx DSP, and Chromium reveals patient heterogeneity by Yixing Dong, Chiara Saglietti, Quentin Bayard, Almudena Espin Perez, Sabrina Carpentier, Daria Buszta, Stephanie Tissot, Rémy Dubois, Atanas Kamburov, Senbai Kang, Carla Haignere, Rita Sarkis, Sylvie Andre, Marina Alexandre Gaveta, Silvia Lopez Lastra, Nathalie Piazzon, Rita Santos, Katharina von Loga, Caroline Hoffmann, George Coukos, Solange Peters, Vassili Soumelis, Eric Yves Durand, Laurence de Leval, Raphael Gottardo, Krisztian Homicsko, Elo Madissoon

“…However, these methods can be labor-intensive and costly, requiring informed selection based on research objectives. …”
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Additive Manufacturing of Copper—A Survey on Current Needs and Challenges by Moritz Benedikt Schäfle, Michel Fett, Julian Gärtner, Eckhard Kirchner

“…This study reveals that the most relevant technical limitation for users is the reduced surface quality of parts, while overall processes need to become less costly and more reliable to find broader use. Answers given hint to a higher degree of automation, the possibility of multi-material processing, and the upscaling of machine and part sizes as relevant future trends in the copper AM sector.…”
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Research on the Development of an Abdominal Massage Robot: Diversified Manipulation Strategies and Improved Force Interaction Performance by Xinyi Tang, Ping Shi, Hongliu Yu, Sujiao Li, Xin Xing, Zhenjie Luo, Junjie Fu

“…Abdominal massage for constipation has problems such as high labor costs, insufficient standardization, and large differences in efficacy. …”
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Deploying Liquefied Natural Gas-Powered Ships in Response to the Maritime Emission Trading System: From the Perspective of Shipping Alliances by Yulong Sun, Jianfeng Zheng, Xin He, Zhihao Zhao, Di Cui

“…In response to climate change caused by shipping, the maritime emission trading system (METS) is used to reduce ship carbon emissions, and the METS also imposes additional costs on shipping carriers through emission permit trading. …”
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Neglected tropical diseases in East Africa on the example of Madagascar by Wanesa Wilczyńska, Joanna Szafran-Dobrowolska, Krzysztof Korzeniewski

“…Most NTDs are chronic and debilitating illnesses whose treatment generates huge costs and puts a strain on individual and national budgets, especially in developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. …”
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ASSESSING THE MULTIPLYING EFFECT OF TARGET FINANCE EXPENSES OF HOUSEHOLDS by Valeriy I. Antipov, Igor B. Kolmakov

“…P1-4 model showed that additional costs of the consolidated budget at the end of 2017 would cover initial expenses for ration cards by 48%. …”
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Multifeatures Fusion and Nonlinear Dimension Reduction for Intelligent Bearing Condition Monitoring by Liang Guo, Hongli Gao, Haifeng Huang, Xiang He, ShiChao Li

“…Condition-based maintenance is critical to reduce the costs of maintenance and improve the production efficiency. …”
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Adherence and barriers to Mediterranean diet in Tunisian patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease by Ayadi Shema, Trad Nouha, Krifa Nesrine, Mensi Asma, Belhadj Mabrouk Emna, Mouelhi Leila, Dabbeche Radhouene

“…Poor adherence tied to diet-induced higher costs (p = 0.021) and difficulty to new-diet adoption (p = 0.026). …”
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Construction and Optical Testing of Inflatable Membrane Mirror Using Structured Light Technique by Felipe Patiño-Jiménez, Yuri Nahmad-Molinari, Víctor Iván Moreno-Oliva, Fátima De Los Santos-García, Agustin Santiago-Alvarado

“…Concentration ratio achieved for a focal length of 5068 mm was of 25.1 suns, making a promising approach for lowering initial investment costs in applications such as hot-water, parabolic dish with Stirling engines, or concentrated photovoltaic electricity generation.…”
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Coevolutionary history of predation constrains the evolvability of antibiotic resistance in prey bacteria by Saheli Saha, Sneha Sureshkumar, Vaibhav Sharma, Samay Pande

“…Moreover, lower degree of resistance in the evolved strains also incurs reduced fitness costs while preserving their ancestral ability to resist predation. …”
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IMITATING NEUTRON IRRADIATION DAMAGE USING A COMBINATION OF ION BEAMS by Václav Šísl, Martin Ševeček

“…There is a strong motivation for using ion beams to imitate neutron irradiation damage, mainly in order to reduce costs and time demands linked to neutron irradiation experiments. …”
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Innovative System for Animal Waste Utilization Using Closed-Loop Material and Energy Cycles and Bioenergy: A Case Study by Zygmunt Kowalski, Agnieszka Makara

“…It estimates the integrated system’s investment costs and economic and environmental outcomes. The presented method allows for biogas production from the bio-fermentation of 160,000 t/y of animal waste; this would more than cover the heat requirements for obtaining 110,000 t/y of meat and bone meal using the hydrothermal method.…”
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Ribosome and transcript copy numbers, polysome occupancy and enzyme dynamics in Arabidopsis by Maria Piques, Waltraud X Schulze, Melanie Höhne, Björn Usadel, Yves Gibon, Johann Rohwer, Mark Stitt

“…Global translation rates are used to estimate the energy costs of protein synthesis and relate them to the plant carbon budget, in particular the rates of starch degradation and respiration at night.…”
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Survey on Anti-Drone Systems: Components, Designs, and Challenges by Seongjoon Park, Hyeong Tae Kim, Sangmin Lee, Hyeontae Joo, Hwangnam Kim

“…However, it is unaffordable to construct a military grade anti-drone system for every private or public facility due to installation and operation costs, and regulatory restrictions. We focus on analyzing anti-drone system that does not use military weapons, investigating a wide range of anti-drone technologies, and deriving proper system models for reliable drone defense. …”
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Design and Simulation of an Optimized Reliable Microgrid System for Kabale University Using Solar and Battery Storage. by Aturinde, Alban

“…The project highlights the potential of microgrids to enhance energy security, reduce costs, and promote environmental sustainability in educational institutions and similar settings facing energy challenges.…”
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