Development and field evaluation of a UWB-IMU navigated autonomous spraying robot for papaya greenhouses by Cong-Chuan Pham, Wei-Chih Lin

“…Autonomous vehicles for greenhouse environments offer solutions to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve farmer safety by minimising pesticide exposure. …”
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Hybrid recommendation–based quality of service prediction for sensor services by Meiyu Wang, Leilei Shi, Lu Liu, Mariwan Ahmed, John Panneerselvan

“…Large service repositories comprising more services and functionalities usually impose new challenges to users while identifying their preferred services and may incur higher costs. Thereby, service recommendation systems have become important and integral tools of service models to provide personalized products for consumers. …”
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Big Data Analytics in Library Services With AI: Personalized Content Recommendations and Catalog Optimization by Pinjia Hu, Yichi Zhang

“…For catalog optimization, the Adam optimizer with Lookahead stabilizes convergence and refines inventory selection, leading to more efficient resource allocation and reduced costs. Experimental results from a large-scale dataset demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms traditional methods, achieving significant improvements in recommendation accuracy and user engagement. …”
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Exploring the Role of Refugee Entrepreneurs in South Africa: A Quantitative Study on Networks, Bulk Buying, and Profitability by Awonke Geqeza, Anthony Kambi Masha

“…Additionally, bulk buying strategies reduce operational costs and enhance profitability. The study’s results also highlight the role of refugee businesses in filling gaps in underserved markets, as well as fostering collaboration with South African businesses, leading to the creation of jobs for local citizens. …”
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Lightweight multilayer interactive attention network for aspect-based sentiment analysis by Wenjun Zheng, Shunxiang Zhang, Cheng Yang, Peng Hu

“…This allows the model to learn complex sentiment features with lower memory costs. Finally, LMIAN conducts instance validation on six publicly available sentiment analysis datasets. …”
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Fuzzy structural risk of default for banks in Southern Africa by Ephraim Matanda, Eriyoti Chikodza, Farai Kwenda

“…The problem investigated here specifically proposes a new Kealhofer–Merton–Vasicek (KMV)-type model for estimation of the risk of default for banks extended for both market friction represented by transaction costs and uncertainty modelled by fuzziness. The novel risk of default model is then validated using cross-sectional financial data of eight commercial banks drawn from several emerging economies in Southern Africa. …”
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Review of Prevention and Management Strategies for Pressure Sores and Ulcers in Immobilized Orthopedic Patients by Ramya Mathew, Asha Cynthia D'sa, Nishitha Marina Machado, Chaithra Nayak

“…Healthcare providers can enhance patient outcomes improve the quality of care and lower healthcare costs related to pressure ulcer management by implementing these strategies.…”
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Use of unmanned aerial vehicles in agriculture: modern technologies and prospects by Aleksandr V. Krukhmalev

“…Purpose – increasing the efficiency of agricultural enterprise management by using unmanned aerial vehicles for the tasks of agro-industrial complexes, significantly reducing the costs of agricultural production. Materials and methods. …”
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Digital divide or digital opportunities: interrogating online news consumption pattern of Ghanaian tertiary students by Mohammed Faisal Amadu

“…The study suggest that Ghanaian students recognise the informative value of quality journalism online, but faced frustrations around connectivity, costs, skills gaps and questionable content. Findings also demonstrates Ghana’s ‘digital natives’ are actively navigating complex digital spaces to serve academic and civic needs, and not just entertainment. …”
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Research on a virtual-real fusion experimental system for the cutting part of a boom-type roadheader. by Jianzhuo Zhang, Ce Chen, Xiaoyu Ding, Tao Wang, Chuanxu Wan, Wenliang Li

“…Aiming at the problems of high safety risks, economic costs, and inefficiency in experimental research on boom-type roadheaders, this study proposes a virtual-real fusion experimental system for the cutting module. …”
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Caring for people with dementia in rural Uganda: qualitative study of caregiving burden experienced by informal and formal caregivers by Herbert E Ainamani, Paul E Alele, Godfrey Z Rukundo, Samuel Maling, Edith K Wakida, Celestino Obua, Alexander C Tsai

“…Psychosocial and economic aspects of caregiving burden included financial costs, family conflicts, anxiety, stigma, and substance misuse…”
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Experience in designing the supply- and-exhaust ventilation systems on the example of the premises of the office center in Tobolsk by T. S. Zhilina, S. D. Vyatkina, Yu. S. Ulyanova

“…Designs with a heat recovery eliminate unnecessary costs for heating the outside air. Due to the constant increase in tariffs for basic energy resources, air recovery becomes necessary and uses in the design of ventilation systems.…”
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Economic growth and monetary policy in Russia by Sergey Yu. Glazyev, Oleg S. Sukharev

“…Simultaneously with the effect of demand restraint, the effect of supply “degradation” occurred, provoking a large amount of costs and inflationary pressure. The established difference in the impact of monetary and budgetary policy instruments on the sectoral structure and components of GDP confirms the need to change the content of these types of policies.…”
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Impact Assessment of Interlocking Systems on Single-Track Railway Lines as a Measure Leading to Resilient Railway System by Michael Bažant, Josef Bulíček

“…On the other hand, the installation of these interlocking systems is a complex and time-consuming and costly task. For this reason, it is necessary to recognize the impact of potentially installed system with capacity, stability of timetable, quality, and other associated effects. …”
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Application of Water Allocation System Model to the Palestinian - Israeli Water Conflict by Anan Jayyousi

“…The questions answered in this paper are related to the distribution of water in the region, the production of additional water to cover the growing demand, the provisions for dry years, the allocation of costs and benefits and price charge to the consumers of water. …”
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Sovereign Credit Risk Rating: Examining the Relations between Domestic Economy Data and the Probability of Default by Merve Kırkıl

“…Sovereign credit ratings affect countries’ borrowing costs. Additionally, ıt affects the decisions of foreign investors and investment funds, to invest in the related country. …”
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Lobbying of Qatar's Interests in the United States and the Qatar Diplomatic Crisis by D. B. Grafov

“…Although Qatar is not as powerful as its rivals, but it uses the “defensive realism” strategy, that allows it to disrupt aggressive efforts and increase the costs of the Saudi coalition.…”
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Environmental Information Disclosure and Firms’ Green Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from New Ambient Air Quality Standards in China by Jiemei Hu, De Xiao, Baoxi Li, Lv Peng

“…Mechanism analyses show that environmental information disclosure promotes GTFP by increasing total corporate costs, alleviating corporate financing constraints, and promoting green technological innovation. …”
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Application of IoT technology on control system and monitoring for Cucumis Melo L. grown in greenhouse by Lam Minh Dung, Quoc Bao Truong, Hoang Dung Nguyen, Van Vu Lam

“…The moisture content of the soil was maintained appropriately for Cucumis Melo L. growth, reducing costs and increasing agricultural productivity. Moreover, this work represents improvements to agriculture through digital innovation. …”
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Improving Reinforcement Learning Experiments in Unity through Waypoint Utilization by Caleb Koresh, Volkan Ustun, Rajay Kumar, Tim Aris

“…These early exploratory results point out the potential of waypoint-based navigation for reducing the computational costs of developing and training MARL models in complex environments. …”
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