Why Am I Less Than the Others? A Biographical Study of First Generation Students' Vulnerability in Portuguese Higher Education by Ana Sofia Ribeiro

“…The economic crisis that hit Portugal in 2010, and the consequent International Monetary Fund intervention have called for austerity measures that affect the country's welfare state and required severe cuts in higher education funding, which are shifting higher education costs from public to private. While such cuts affect all students, first generation students from working class backgrounds raise greater concern. …”
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Unveiling the Defenses: A Current and Comprehensive Review of Coleoptera Carabidae Strategies by Teresa Bonacci

“…The defensive strategies of carabids are classified into passive and active systems, each with varying energetic costs. Chemical substances (e.g., Formic acid, Methacrylic acid, Tiglic acid, Ethacrilic acid, Isovaleric acid, Salicylaldehyde, 1,4-Benzoquinone, Toluquinone, 13-2Kt tridecan-2-one, Undecane, Tridecane, Pentadecane, M-cresol) are particularly important, as they serve to deter predators and combat pathogens like bacteria and fungi. …”
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Evaluation relationship occupational stress with shift work in the agency drivers in Yazd by Z Mohammadi, GH Halvani, S Khalighi, AH Mehrparvar, R Soltani gerdfaramarzi

“…Background: nowadays, the role of occupational stressors in the creation of problems, diseases, physical and mental disabilities, and its costs especially in high standard and safety- sensitive jobs is obvious. …”
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On joint efficiency of composite anisotropic plate rigidly fixed along outside edges by A. G. Akopyan

“…It can contribute to a significant increase in their reliability, durability, and to reduction of the production and operation costs. Materials and Methods. The work objective is to study the boundary state of stress of anisotropic composite plates in the framework of the classical theory of plate bending. …”
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A Survey of Machine Learning Methods for Time Series Prediction by Timothy Hall, Khaled Rasheed

“…Additionally, this study investigates potential biases in model development and weighs the trade-offs between the computational costs and performance. A detailed analysis of the most used error metrics and hyperparameter tuning methods in the reviewed papers is included. …”
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Achievements and Consequences of the Fourth Industrial Revolution by A. V. Butov

“…However, consequences of introducing its achievements look dubious: they can cause both a drop in prices on goods and services, a growth in consumption, mobility and information degree of people, a reduction in costs and increase in labour productivity in commercial enterprises and state-owned structures and a cut in personnel demand, falling incomes, social guarantees and deterioration of working conditions, a drop in social programs, rising inequality, withdrawal of capital to off-shore zones, growing credit burden of the population, companies and states and the general decrease in economic growth rate. …”
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Quantum Machine Learning: Recent Advances, Challenges, and Perspectives by Pradeep Lamichhane, Danda B. Rawat

“…In this work, we identify important trends such as the strong potential of hybrid quantum-classical models for near-term applications and the significant challenges in the quantum domain due to quantum noise, limited qubit scalability, and costly qRAM implementations. Furthermore, we discuss solutions that emphasize advances in hardware, quantum error correction, and algorithmic innovations to address these challenges. …”
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A multimodal deep reinforcement learning approach for IoT-driven adaptive scheduling and robustness optimization in global logistics networks by Yao Lu

“…Comprehensive experiments conducted on real-world logistics datasets demonstrate that our approach outperforms traditional methods with an 18.7% reduction in operational costs, 12.4% improvement in service levels, and significantly enhanced robustness under various disruption scenarios. …”
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Urban Renewal Decision - Making in China by Taozhi Zhuang

“…In the third step, transaction costs theory is adopted to improve the understanding of urban renewal decision-making process in China. …”
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Expo ’58 and “the car as king” by Michel Hubert

“…Such a policy cannot be waged without thinking about road traffic and parking conditions, the external costs of travelling by car, and the latter’s contribution to financing public transport. …”
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL HAPPINESS IN TRANSDISCIPLINARY ASPECT by P. I. Munin, B. I. Kochurov

“…The "rectangular" community has the maximum diversity of a given population. Since the resource costs to meet the needs of community members by tangible matter and energy is determined by its number, then for an equal number of members, the attractive should be recognized as the most effective. …”
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CNN-based remote dental diagnosis model for caries detection with grad-CAM by Donghyeok Kim, Jangkyum Kim, Seong Gon Choi

“…However, access to traditional dental care can be limited due to high costs, availability, and patient discomfort. To address these limitations, this study introduced a remote caries detection model using a ResBlock-AutoEncoder that generates domain-specific pre-trained weights. …”
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Estimating contagion dynamics models on networks via data assimilation by Yinchong Wang, Wenlian Lu

“…The results indicate that the proposed assimilation framework can reliably estimate network-based contagion dynamics from macro-level observations, obviating the need for costly node-level monitoring and offering a practical tool for real-time epidemic analysis and forecasting.…”
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Does homeownership impair employment? Evidence from migrant data in transitional China by Guangjie Ning, Wei-Chiao Huang, Junlong Ma

“…Furthermore, purchase costs associated with homeownership may also lower household disposable income, making it harder to venture into self-employment business. …”
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Health implications of safe drinking water act violations: a county-level analysis by Fahad Alzahrani, Khalid Alhussain

“…Our findings indicate that a single health-based violation in an average county incurs yearly medical costs of approximately $3.48 million for physical health and $4.85 million for mental health. …”
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PROBLEMS OF COMMERCIAL BANK ATM NETWORK FORMATION by J. V. Domashova

“…The paper describes the ATM network performance indicators and specifies the prime costs. Qualitative indicators showing the bank’s image growth through an extensive ATM network available are described. …”
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Theoretical Aspectrs of Integrating Non-Finance Information in Corporate Accounting by L. M. Korchagina

“…The article studies possible reasons, why companies provide voluntary non-finance information, in spite of potential costs and strategic after-effects. The problem is very important as serious efforts are taken to identify and generalize various theories, which specify corporate accountability making by companies. …”
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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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Modeling and application of production metering for electric pump wells without downhole pressure measurement devices. by Yongcang Ren, Da Guo, Yizhen Sun, Bao Zhang, Jianxin Shen, Yingbin Liu, Yinglin Zhang, Guoxiang Zhang, Jinsong Yao, Xueling Du

“…To address the issues of low frequency and high costs associated with the current manual production measurement for ESP wells in the Tarim Oilfield, a study was conducted to develop a digital production measurement method for ESP wells. …”
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THE DEVELOPMENTAL STATE MODEL IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION by Vladislav Dmitriyevich Nayman

“…However, we focus on economic structure of South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia showing big share of high tech production and research and development costs, that shows willingness and ability of these countries to successfully integrate in modern economy in the 21st century, or this model is outdated and is not viable in modern realities. …”
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