Video Certification and Mobile Laser Scanning Data Based Automation of Electronic Maps Generation for Use with Locomotive Safety Devices and Traffic Control Systems by V. I. Umansky, S. V. Dukhin, D. A. Yakushev

“…Its solution will lead to better traffic safety conditions and lesser electronic maps preparation costs. Railway infrastructure spatial data system (KSPD IZhT), containing coordinates of all the track objects in a high-precision coordinate system as obtained through processing of the mobile laser scanning outcomes, opens up new map generation opportunities. …”
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Better Safe than Sorry - Individual Risk-free Pension Schemes in the European Union by Marga Peeters

“…Second, they would pay minimal extra costs, and third, they would not be subject to the whims of governments or other pension fund managers after they retired. …”
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Provide a method to diagnose and optimize diabetes using data mining methods and firefly algorithm by Reza Molaee Fard

“…Diabetes is one of the most common, dangerous and costly diseases in the world today, which is increasing at an alarming rate. …”
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Climate Change Vulnerability and Key Adaptation Trajectory of the Regional Economic System by Pengbang Wei, Yufang Peng, Weidong Chen

“…The key adaptation trajectory in Tianjin is S40, S27, S25, S17, S12, S02, S21, S16, S09, S24, S29, S33, S19, S13, and S15 sector in order. The costs required by the key adaptation trajectory to adapt to climate change account for more than 90% of that required by the whole economic system. …”
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“Enzimsporin” Probiotic Effect on Milk Production by Kozina A.M., Toshkina E.A., Semkiv M.V., Yakovleva O.S.

“…By improving digestion and nutrient absorption, probiotics enable animals to extract more energy from the feed they consume, ultimately reducing feed costs. Additionally, the improved health status of animals resulting from probiotic supplementation leads to lower veterinary expenses and reduced need for therapeutic interventions. …”
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Valeur des bois-énergie, bois d’œuvre et de service dans les zones de mangroves des sites Ramsar 1017 et 1018 au Bénin by Elie Antoine Padonou, Symphorien Agbahoungba, Clément Sewadé, Sidol B.E. Houngbo, Idelphonse O. Saliou, Afio Zannou

“…The study suggests developing a policy of planting the species used for wood and promoting less costly sources of energy for households.…”
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Willingness to adopt green house gas mitigation measures: Agricultural land managers in the United Kingdom. by Asma Jebari, Zainab Oyetunde-Usman, Graham A McAuliffe, Charlotte-Anne Chivers, Adrian L Collins

“…Based on the farmers' qualitative feedback, other barriers to adoption include costs and concerns for profitability, lack of flexibility in land tenancy contracts, poor awareness and knowledge of the application of some GHG mitigation measures, perception about market demand e.g bioenergy crops, and scepticism about the future impacts of adopting varying GHG mitigation measures. …”
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A generative model-based coevolutionary training framework for noise-tolerant softsensors in wastewater treatment processes by Yu Peng, Erchao Li

“…Abstract Data-driven softsensors have gained widespread application in process monitoring and quality prediction, offering advantages over traditional measurement techniques by mitigating their limitations and costs. However, the effectiveness of softsensor models is often hindered by noise in data acquisition, posing significant challenges for model training. …”
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Gestão de resíduos sólidos urbanos na Região de Integração de Carajás, Pará: desafios e perspectivas by Sidnei Cerqueira dos Santos, Jorge Madeira Nogueira, Thanabi Bellenzier Calderan, Ana Cristina Viana Campos, Rafael Gonçalves Gumiero, Ulisses Brigatto Albino

“…These consortia enhance the scale of collection, separation, use and final disposal of MSW, with a simultaneous reduction in costs of the entire process. In this context, this work evaluated the challenges and potential of the public consortium for the management of urban solid waste, focusing on the Carajás Integration Region - RIC, Pará. …”
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A Quantum Framework for Combinatorial Optimization Problem over Graphs by Meng Shi, Sai Wu, Ying Li, Gongsheng Yuan, Chang Yao, Gang Chen

“…Abstract Combinatorial optimization problems over graphs, such as the traveling salesman problem, longest path problem, and maximum independent set problem, are well-known for being computationally costly, some even NP-hard problems. In this paper, we propose a general quantum algorithm framework searching for approximate solutions to combinatorial optimization problems with linear objective functions. …”
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The Real-Time Automated Monitoring System for Lateral Deflection of Underground Structures by Hang Chen, Huqing Liang, Mengxiong Tang, Sheng Jiang, Hesong Hu

“…To guarantee stable automation and lower the costs, a novel system based on strain measurement is proposed in this paper to achieve real-time automated monitoring of underground excavations. …”
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Struggle Against Private Entrepreneurship in Enterprises of Craft and Consumer Cooperatives of Bashkortostan (1946–1950) by A. V. Antoshkin

“…It is noted that residents of the republic frequently turned to private entrepreneurs due to the high production costs and low quality of goods produced by craft cooperatives. …”
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Predicting TF–Target Gene Association Using a Heterogeneous Network and Enhanced Negative Sampling by Thanh Tuoi Le, Xuan Tho Dang

“…Traditional biological experiments used to determine these interactions are often time-consuming, costly, and limited in scale. Current computational methods mainly predict binding sites rather than direct interactions. …”
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Grid integration aspects of wave energy—Overview and perspectives by Hafiz Ahsan Said, John V. Ringwood

“…Furthermore, specific attention is given to the combinational studies that use wave energy combined with other renewable resources due to their positive synergies in lowering the costs of energy produced and that hold an opportunity for future research. …”
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Investment Assessments in the Adoption of Accessible and Assistive Technologies Within Built Environments for Persons with Disabilities by Siny Joseph, Vinod Namboodiri

“…To this end, this paper presents a game-theoretic framework of market competition between two firms where one invests in accessibility (bearing additional upfront costs) and compares it with another one that does not. …”
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Hospital-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Epidemiology, Treatment and Control by Coleman Rotstein

“…Antimicrobial-resistant organisms are an expanding problem, resulting in increased morbidity and mortality, prolonged hospital stay, and heightened health care costs for care and antimicrobial management. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has emerged as a major hospital-acquired, antimicrobial-resistant pathogen. …”
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Study of occupational accidents occurred in one of the uranium mines in the central region of Iran during 2006-2010 by GH Halvani, M Ebrahimzadeh, R Nabi Meybodi, F Forooghi Nasab

“…The implementation of safety systems and education of personnel about safety rules is essential in order to prevent accidents, improve safety culture and reduce accident costs.…”
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Microfluidic Biosensors: Enabling Advanced Disease Detection by Siyue Wang, Xiaotian Guan, Shuqing Sun

“…Future microfluidic biosensor research will focus on enhancing detection throughput, lowering costs, innovating new recognition elements and signal transduction methods, integrating artificial intelligence, and broadening applications to include home health care, drug discovery, food safety, and so on.…”
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Le responsabilità e il ruolo degli agenti di destabilizzazione nella transizione verso la sostenibilità: un framework teorico by Marco Grasso, Filippo Randelli

“…Some agents involved in this transition shoulder significant costs and burdens: even if some agents can shoulder part of them, it is unlikely that all agents will spontaneously comply with the responsibi- lity that the sustainability transition imposes on them. …”
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The use of abbreviations by superscript letter in an early fifteenth-century manuscript of the Wycliffite Bible by Joanna Grzybowska

“… The use of scribal abbreviations in medieval manuscripts was mainly dictated by the need to save space and time as the creation of a medieval book was both extremely costly and time-consuming. One of the types of scribal abbreviations used in medieval manuscripts is abbreviation by superscript letter. …”
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