Modeling sustainable development pathways by Leonardo Schultz, Chris Cosner, José Maria Cardoso da Silva

“…Critically, increasing education investment to 8 % of GDP eliminates the economic costs associated with conservation policies. This study demonstrates that apparent trade-offs between environmental protection and socioeconomic development can be resolved through strategic policy integration. …”
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TRENDS IN THE MILLING AND BAKING INDUSTRY IN THE EU-28 AND ROMANIA IN THE PERIOD 2015-2019 by Agatha POPESCU, Toma Adrian DINU, Elena STOIAN, Valentin SERBAN

“…The milling and bakery industry has to continue to modernize infrastructure, to look for healthier ingredients in the recipes, to diversify production, to keep under control production costs reducing energy expenses, to increase product quality and assure a good ratio between product quality and price.…”
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column:Mid-Term Optimal Scheduling of Hydro-Wind-Solar Systems Addressing Extreme Drought and Renewable Energy Forecast Error by CHEN Cong, LIU Benxi, WANG Haidong, WANG Wenbin

“…On this basis, a mid-term complementary scheduling model for hydro-wind-solar systems was developed with the objective of minimizing total operational costs. The original model was transformed into a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model through the linearization of both objective functions and constraints. …”
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Linearized MILP Model With Improved Soft Actor-Critic Algorithm for Dynamic and Efficient Active Distribution Network Planning by Jinlin Liao, Guilian Wu, Jia Lin

“…Furthermore, ISAC exhibits outstanding performance in dynamic scenarios, reducing total costs by 20.63% and 15.25% compared to Deep Q-Network (DQN) and Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG), respectively.…”
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Review Review Review: Protein Subunit and DNA Vaccines Key Research, Development & Future Directions by Hafiz Mirza Muhammad Shahab

“…Scaling up manufacturing and high production costs are challenges. The advantages of DNA vaccines include improved efficacy because of developments in delivery technologies, such as lipid nanoparticles, and rapid development and economical manufacture (e.g., ZyCoV-D). …”
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Use of sugarcane industrial by-products for improving sugarcane productivity and soil health by M. L. Dotaniya, S. C. Datta, D. R. Biswas, C. K. Dotaniya, B. L. Meena, S. Rajendiran, K. L. Regar, Manju Lata

“…If all the press mud is recycled through agriculture about 32,464, 28,077, 14,038, 3434, 393, 1030, and 240 tonnes (t) of N, P, K, Fe, Zn, Mn, and Cu, respectively, can be available and that helps in saving of costly chemical fertilizers. Conclusions Application of sugarcane industries by-products reduces the recommended dose of fertilizers and improves organic matter of soil during the crop production. …”
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TRIDENT: Text-Free Data Augmentation Using Image Embedding Decomposition for Domain Generalization by Yoonyoung Choi, Geunhyeok Yu, Hyoseok Hwang

“…However, these methods rely on domain-specific textual inputs and require costly fine-tuning, which limits their scalability. …”
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Organo-mineral fertilizers for sustainable agriculture by Katarzyna Chojnacka, Jonas Baltrusaitis

“…Precise nutrient management reduces input costs, improves yields, and reduces chemical residues in crops. …”
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Inefficiencies and Patient Burdens in the Development of the Targeted Cancer Drug Sorafenib: A Systematic Review. by James Mattina, Benjamin Carlisle, Yasmina Hachem, Dean Fergusson, Jonathan Kimmelman

“…Our evaluation of sorafenib development suggests many opportunities for reducing costs and unnecessary patient burden in cancer drug development.…”
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Resource-Efficient Personalization in Federated Learning With Closed-Form Classifiers by Eros Fani, Raffaello Camoriano, Barbara Caputo, Marco Ciccone

“…Our empirical evaluation on real-world cross-device datasets shows that <monospace>Fed3R</monospace>, combined with <monospace>OLL</monospace>, significantly improves performance and reduces training costs in heterogeneous FL and PFL scenarios.…”
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Dual-Alignment CLIP: Task-Specific Alignment of Text and Visual Features for Few-Shot Remote Sensing Scene Classification by Dongmei Deng, Ping Yao

“…However, labeling of large annotated remote sensing datasets is costly and time consuming, which limits the applicability of CNNs for real-world. …”
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Classification of regimes determining ultrasonic cavitation erosion in aqueous solutions containing dissolved air by Dingkang Xia, Jianhua Wu, Kunpeng Su

“…However, cavitation erosion of acoustic horn tips poses a significant challenge due to reduced treatment efficiency and increased operational costs. Since the air dissolved in liquids not only affects sonochemical yields but also complicates ultrasonic cavitation erosion, the quantitative analysis of dissolved air affecting cavitation erosion is required. …”
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Enhancing Engineering and STEM Education With Vision and Multimodal Large Language Models to Predict Student Attention by Luis Marquez-Carpintero, Diego Viejo, Miguel Cazorla

“…The research is structured into two phases: the first phase optimizes image frequency and computational costs using MLLMs, while the second phase trains VLMs on classroom data to identify visual cues, including gaze direction and head movement. …”
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Antimicrobial resistance in foodborne pathogens: consequences for public health and future approaches by Pooja Chavan, Rahul Vashishth

“…Longer hospital stays, higher medical costs, and an increase in death rates are the results of this. …”
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Public Attention Index of Air Pollution Exposure from PM2.5 in Thailand by Pailin Suntigul, Sittidaj Pongkijvorasin

“…The findings indicate a statistically significant positive relationship between public attention, PM2.5 pollution levels, willingness to pay for PM2.5 reduction, and economic and social costs associated with PM2.5. The PAI_PM2.5 index serves as a valuable tool for policymakers, offering a data-driven method to align public perceptions with the true severity of pollution issues. …”
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An Effective Feature Extraction Method for Tomato Leafminer - Tuta Absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) Classification by Tahsin Uygun, Serhat Kiliçarslan, Cemil Közkurt, Mehmet Metin Ozguven

“…While excessive use of insecticides harms human health and environmental pollution, it also increases production costs, causes changes in the genetic structures of pests, causing them to become more resistant, and makes agricultural control difficult. …”
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Biomechanical risk factors for rotator cuff syndrome in high-risk occupations: A prospective study protocol. by Angelica E Lang, Kenzie B Friesen, Josh Lawson, Prosanta Mondal, Niels Koehncke, Soo Y Kim, Philip Chilibeck

“…RCS negatively impacts quality of life and comes with high costs to the individual and society through time loss of work or healthcare usage. …”
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Shared Operation of a Barrage Jammer and Reference Signal Sources for Determining Ground-Based Radio Transmitters Operating via Geostationary Relay Satellites by R. D. Gall

“…The method proposed in this paper makes it possible to achieve a relatively high accuracy when determining the geolocation of ground-based radio emission sources in the Earth’s regions of interest, at the same time as involving no organizational and financial costs for the installation of a large number of reference stations.…”
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ON THE ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF THE COORDINATION BODY FOR THE EXTERNAL FINANCIAL CONTROL OF MEGA PROJECTS WITH MIXED PARTICIPATION by A. M. Korolev

“…The so-called mega-projects characterized by high investment costs and providing a long-term multiplier effect on the socio-economic sphere require the biggest efforts and as such are of great significance. …”
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Impact of Aggregate Characteristics on Frictional Performance of Asphalt-Based High Friction Surface Treatments by Alireza Roshan, Magdy Abdelrahman

“…While Epoxy-based HFSTs are widely applied, they present limitations such as compatibility issues with existing pavements, high installation and removal costs, and durability concerns tied to substrate quality. …”
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