Twenty years of applied experimental research on wood-plastic composites. An Italian case study by Sara Lanzoni, Luca Guardigli, Pietro Pizzardi

“…It summarises, in a critical manner, the activity that led to the optimisation of the product according to a series of criteria such as durability, physical–mechanical characteristics, production costs, processability and reduction of environmental impact. …”
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Framework for experimental evaluation of software solutions in a virtual environment by D. Ilin

“…The developed domain-specific software framework addresses shortcomings of existing tools to reduce labor costs when conducting experiments to evaluate information technology solutions. …”
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Home telework, travel behavior, and land-use patterns: A path analysis of British single-worker households by João de Abreu e Silva, Patricia C. Melo

“…The results suggest that home-based teleworking is a strategy used by people to cope with long and costly commutes. Workers living in less transit accessible areas and with longer commutes tend to work from home more frequently. …”
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Conceptual framework of value creation through CSR in separate member of value creation chain by Jonikas Donatas

“…Such practical model should help to determine which CSR action might bring maximized value outcome with lowest costs. The main attention in this paper is concentrated only on a single company as a member of value creation chain (VCC). …”
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An Evolutionary Game Analysis of Decision-Making and Interaction Mechanisms of Chinese Energy Enterprises, the Public, and the Government in Low-Carbon Development Based on Prospec... by Xiao Liu, Qingjin Wang, Zhengrui Li, Shan Jiang

“…Accordingly, the government should actively promote LCD strategies to mitigate transformation risks for energy enterprises while concurrently optimizing regulatory frameworks to reduce public supervision costs and amplify incentive benefits, thereby fostering active public participation in LCD.…”
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Self-Supervised WiFi-Based Identity Recognition in Multi-User Smart Environments by Hamada Rizk, Ahmed Elmogy

“…Traditional vision-based solutions, while effective in capturing spatial and contextual information, often face challenges related to high deployment costs, privacy concerns, and susceptibility to environmental variations. …”
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PARAMETRIC INSURANCE COVER FOR NATURAL CATASTROPHE RISKS by Serghei Margulescu, Elena Margulescu

“…With economic losses of over USD 370 bn caused by 325 catastrophic events, 2011 ranks as the worst ever year in terms of costs to society due to natural catastrophes and man-made disasters. …”
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Presenting an Attack-Resistant Communication Model for Secure Routing in Underwater Sensor Networks by Tayebeh Nourali Ahari, Mehdi Sadeghzadeh

“…The proposed scheme demonstrated higher success rates compared to the basic approach and lower mobility energy costs, achieving comparable success performance.</p>…”
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRITICALE PRODUCTION IN TURKEY: THE CASE OF CORUM PROVINCE by Bahri KARLI, Arif ÖZUYGUR, Mevlüt GÜL, Bektas KADAKOGLU

“…It was determined that the most important problems of the farms having problems in triticale production; were high input costs, proper credit and fertiliser supply, low triticale sales price, cooperation and organisation between farmers, quality seed supply, water and irrigation problems. …”
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Spatial-dispersioned nonlocal metasurfaces with angular interrogation: An efficient alternative to surface plasmon resonances for the characterization of bio-molecule interactions by Yujiao Bi, Yuechun Shi, Zhanghua Han

“…This method simplifies the detection process, using a simple continuous wave laser, thus eliminating the need for costly optical spectroscopy setups. Our experimental validation, conducted using a dimerized-hole photonic crystal slab, demonstrates effective characterization of the streptavidin–biotin binding interaction with remarkable sensitivity, detecting streptavidin with a threshold of less than 0.1 nM. …”
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Tide and skew surge independence: New insights for flood risk by Joanne Williams, Kevin J. Horsburgh, Jane A. Williams, Robert N. F. Proctor

“…Abstract Storm surges are a significant hazard to coastal communities around the world, putting lives at risk and costing billions of dollars in damage. Understanding how storm surges and high tides interact is crucial for estimating extreme water levels so that we can protect coastal communities. …”
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Carotenoid Yeasts and Their Application Potential by Ewa Kulczyk-Małysa, Elżbieta Bogusławska-Wąs

“…The extraction of carotenoids from plants is an inefficient method and generates additional production costs. On the other hand, the carotenoid potential of microorganisms, especially among yeasts, has not been fully exploited. …”
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CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS PADA HUBUNGAN FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI PENDAPATAN PETANI KOPI PAGARALAM by Irmeilyana Irmeilyana, Ngudiantoro Ngudiantoro, Desty Rodiah

“…In general, the factor that must be considered in coffee farming is land productivity which is also related to production costs in land processing and crop production, as well as external factors regarding the market price of coffee.…”
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Creating and balancing the paths of arbiter-based physically unclonable functions on FPGA by A. Yu. Shamyna, A. A. Ivaniuk

“…An improvement in the characteristics of APUF constructed according to the proposed method, as well as a reduction in hardware costs during their implementation compared to classical APUF schemes, is experimentally confirmed. …”
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Italy’s Reorganization of Public Investment Appraisal: Findings and Perspectives for Large Projects and Cohesion Policy by Stefano Maiolo, Pasquale Lucio Scandizzo

“…There is a common perception that large projects are not only difficult to implement, but often unsuccessful, not generating the expected benefits, compared to the costs actually incurred. If from a side, large projects succeed, fail or the impact is reduced compared to expectations in terms of positive externalities on the territory and on the economy in general, on the other hand it becomes very interesting to investigate the ways in which these effects are generated. …”
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Machine learning approaches for forecasting compressive strength of high-strength concrete by Mohammed Shaaban, Mohamed Amin, S. Selim, Islam M. Riad

“…Concrete compressive strength is determined by using laboratory experiments, which are costly and time-consuming. Artificial intelligence (AI) methods reduce time and money. …”
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Cross-language priming effects in bilingual novel metaphor processing by Katarzyna Jankowiak, Anna B. Cieślicka

“…In the Late Positive Complex window, related primes imposed higher processing costs, reflecting their incorporation into sentence interpretation, while unrelated primes were dismissed earlier, reducing later-stage cognitive effort. …”
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Web-Based Ration Balancing Tool by M Radivojević, A Miletić, V Rajičić

“…While some available applications account for certain procurement costs, more affordable options usually come with limited functionality. …”
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Glaucoma screening in Kazakhstan by Malika Urazhanova, Elvira Kadraliyeva, Zhibek Dautbayeva, Yuliya Semenova

“…The budget allocated for glaucoma screening is not specified in official documents, as glaucoma screening is integrated into the routine activities of healthcare facilities. The highest costs are incurred when Maklakov tonometry is applied alone, reaching 7,557,679,411 Kazakhstani Tenge in 2023. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF A PROBLEM BASED LEARNING ORIENTED PHYSICS E-MODULE TO IMPROVE THE SCIENTIFIC LITERACY OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS by Bella Pertiwi, Andik Purwanto, Iwan Setiawan

“…However, this research was carried out limited to only the Development stage because limited research time, research costs, and adjustments to the needs of development research. …”
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