Water Stress Promotes Secondary Sexual Dimorphism in Ecophysiological Traits of Papaya Seedlings by Ingrid Trancoso, Guilherme A. R. de Souza, João Vitor Paravidini de Souza, Rosana Maria dos Santos Nani de Miranda, Diesily de Andrade Neves, Miroslava Rakocevic, Eliemar Campostrini

“…Plant genders could express different functional strategies to compensate for different reproductive costs, as females have an additional role in fruit and seed production. …”
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Am I attached? A patient-partnered approach to creating infographics about attachment to primary care in Ontario, Canada by Maggie MacNeil, Aya Tagami, Peter Sheffield, Vivian R. Ramsden, Joan Barker, Jennifer Boyle, Clare Cruickshank, Eliot Frymire, Richard H. Glazier, Anita Gombos Hill, Michael E. Green, Mary Huang, Marijke Jurriaans, Caron Leid, Melissa McCallum, Sarah Precious, Jo-Ann Stans, Julie Vizza, Murray Walz, Sue Wilkins, Rebecca Ganann

“…Abstract Background Having a primary care provider is associated with better care experiences and lower care costs. In 2021, INSPIRE-PHC released Primary Care Data Reports - publicly available summaries of administrative billing data about how populations in each of Ontario’s 60 health teams use primary care services. …”
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We Need to Talk About Quality of Life with Cancer Patients: Primum Non Nocere in Oncology by Vlad Bogin

“…By integrating geriatric and palliative assessments, improving shared decision making, and moving away from a default treatment-at-all-costs mindset, clinicians can better align care with what truly matters to patients. …”
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Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Associated Uveitis. Current Status: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, and Clinical Issues by Alexandr A. Yakovlev, Tatiana N. Nikitina, Mikhail M. Kostik

“…This pathology reduces patients’ quality of life and can lead to significant social and economic losses, both due to direct health costs and due to disability (total loss of sight). …”
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Performance Analysis of WSS-Based ROADM With Shared-Per-Group Tunable Wavelength Converters by Li Zhao, Liping Zhang

“…Thus, the proposed SPG architecture may produce better blocking performance than the conventional shared-per-link, shared-per-wavelength architectures consuming lower costs. Meanwhile, analytical model is proposed to evaluate the SPG blocking probability by means of the self-constrained iteration method. …”
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Development of Criteria for the Effectiveness of Implementation of Value- Based Approach Using the Concept of Quality of Life by E. V. Smirnova

“…In order to optimally balance subjective and objective characteristics of effectiveness, it is crucial to incorporate the indicators of patient's quality of life and health—as one of the most important components—and the indicators of volume of financial costs to achieve good health, that fully reflect the outcomes of value-based healthcare measures.Purpose. …”
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Typhoid fever in sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges of diagnosis and management of infections by Samuel Kariuki

“…Typhi strains having multiple resistance to nearly all commonly available drugs in most developing countries has been a major challenge to health care systems, reducing the effective treatment options for the disease, increasing treatment costs and increasing the risk of complications and death. …”
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Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Traditional Accounting - An Overview of Opportunities and Challenges by Tang Xiaogeng

“…These innovations enable businesses to reduce operational costs and help more educated and appropriate decision-making. …”
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THE FINANCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF FAMILY MEMBERS BEFORE MOVING TO A NURSING HOME by Yonatan Elgabsy

“…Employers also face significant costs due to absenteeism, reduced productivity, and workforce attrition. …”
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Economic Perspective in the Production of Copper Nanowire using Amino Acids as Capping Agent by Puspa Sari Dewi, Asep BayuDani Nandiyanto

“…Furthermore, the evaluation is done by estimating the ideal situation and several other state assumptions such as changes in raw material prices, labor costs, and also income tax. From the results of this study, Glycine is known as the most profitable amino acid to be used in this process. …”
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OpenEdgeComputeFramework. A Framework for Seamless Edge-Cloud Computing by Andrei-Robert CAZACU

“…One such solution is edge-computing, first making its appearance in the 1990s when Akamai launched its content delivery network [1], moving the content source closer to the user to minimize latency and transmission costs. Today, this concept evolved into a computing paradigm [2], which supports deploying applications on nearby devices with near zero down-time. …”
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The influence of sample preparation quality on the results of spectral analysis by M. V. Lagoyskaya

“…These include additional cash costs for the purchase of adapters, the need for additional standardization procedures, the availability of special reference samples. …”
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Sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures and their implications for international agricultural trade: challenges and opportunities; comprehensive review by Gezani Piet Mabunda, Ndivho Nemukondeni, Letlhogonolo Selaledi

“…However, compliance with the rules imposes excessive costs on exporters and importers and limits market access. …”
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The role of oligopolies and economic groups in accelerating inflation in recent Argentina by Pablo Manzanelli, Leandro Amoretti

“…This, among other possible factors, has allowed those branches to increase their profit margins as their prices rose in excess of the prices of imported inputs and the rest of wholesale prices, and of their wage costs. This evidence not only connects with the international debate about the characteristics of inflationary processes in core countries but it is also a contribution, albeit a preliminary one, that addresses the stickiness of the Argentine economy when it comes to decelerating the rise in prices after an “initial impetus”.…”
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Reduction of Climate Risk as a Key to Business Performance – Framework for Sustainable Corporate Treasury Management (CTM) by Grzegorz Michalski

“…Results: Effective management of climate risk through sustainable policies and financial instruments raises treasury levels and strengthens corporate competitiveness by reducing unexpected losses and the costs of maintaining high liquidity reserves. …”
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Simulating Environmental Innovation Behavior of Private Enterprise with Innovation Subsidies by Hongjun Guan, Zhen Zhang, Aiwu Zhao, Shuang Guan

“…By reducing innovation costs, innovation subsidies can help private enterprises convert their production modes to green production. …”
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Comparing Unique Title Coverage of Web of Science and Scopus in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. by Philip Barnett, Claudia Lascar

“…Most of the earth and atmospheric sciences doctoral-granting institutions in the United States subscribe to Web of Science rather than Scopus, while some institutions apparently consider these databases complementary, and subscribe to both of them, in spite of their high subscription costs. Our method of comparing large numbers of titles among different databases needs only a word processor and is readily applicable to any subject area or applicable even to the entire lists of journals in any set of databases. …”
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A REVIEW OF RAILWAY TRACKS MAINTENANCE OPTIMIZATION THROUGH RAMS METHOD by Rasyadani Luthfan Hadi, Satrio Wicaksono, I Wayan Suweca

“…The implementation of RAMS on railway tracks can be used as a reference to improve the performance of railway track assets and provide long-term benefits by minimizing costs due to accidents or catastrophic failures for the Indonesian railway industry.…”
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A fiber-optic traffic monitoring network trained with video inputs by Khen Cohen, Liav Hen, Ariel Lellouch

“…Our approach highlights the potential of combining fiber-optic sensors and cameras, focusing on practicality and scalability, protecting privacy, and minimizing infrastructure costs. To encourage future research, we share our datasets.…”
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PRIORITY IMPROVEMENT OF SEA TRANSPORTATION SERVICES KMP DHARMA RUCITRA VII ROUTE SURABAYA – LABUAN BAJO by Nika Devi Permata Wijaya, Zaid Dzulkarnain Zubizaretta, Yoseph Kalasanso

“…By using the AHP method, an analysis related to the prioritization of the 6 selected stakeholders is obtained as follows: service improvement criteria which include Safety, Security, Comfort, Convenience, and Regularity obtained the highest priority value on Departure Schedule Improvement of 34% by improving service related to the accuracy of the departure schedule by giving repeated socialization of information or pasting information as clearly as possible, then followed by an increase in Compliance and Passenger Safety Standards of 19%, Shipping Frequency of 17%, Load Factor of 11%, Shipping Costs of 10%, and finally Law Enforcement of 9%. …”
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