Economic effect of carbon storage due to forest management intensification: analysis and forecast for the Republic of Karelia by A. A. Vysokikh-Al-Yasiri

“…This effect can reach an average of 23 million rubles per year from 2023 to 2034 and an average of 42 million rubles per year from 2023 to 2050, excluding the capital costs of logging and preparation, validation, verification and registration of the climate project, and field observations to ensure monitoring. …”
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Characterization and Effects of Floor Impact Sound in Residential Buildings: A Systematic Review by Yuying Zou, Mengjin Liu, Hui Ma

“…Though different soundproofing measures significantly improve the sound insulation of impact sound, they are still not widely applied due to materials, construction techniques, and time and economic costs. This study provides a reference for research on residential impact sound in China and offers an outlook for future research directions.…”
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Development Process of TGDI SI Engine Combustion Simulation Model Using Ethanol–Gasoline Blends as Fuel by Bence Zsoldos, András L. Nagy, Máté Zöldy

“…The investigation is conducted using three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (3D CFD) simulations to minimize development time and costs. This paper details the model development process and presents the initial results. …”
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Estimating the impact of interventions against COVID-19: From lockdown to vaccination. by James Thompson, Stephen Wattam

“…Lockdowns are very effective although costly, while the impact of an 11pm-6am curfew is relatively small. …”
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Technologies of Brand Development and Positioning by S. B. Baurina

“…Successful branding gives an opportunity to get a trusted audience and retain it even in unstable economic conditions and it can prepare the ground for business extension and cut costs in new product and service promotion. Brand development can have a positive impact on investors’ loyalty, financial quarters, workers and mass media, that is why the brand is often perceived as a valuable asset of the company. …”
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Measurement of the Poisson expansion effect on crack openings in self-sensing concrete by Xueying Wang, Lee Scott Cunningham, Michele Win Tai Mak, Janet Lees, Abir Al-Tabbaa, Stuart Kenneth Haigh

“…Existing approaches such as developing self-sensing concrete by adding electrically conductive fillers to the cement matrix often suffer from high costs and complex manufacturing processes for casting the concrete from fresh. …”
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Empowering China’s cross-border e-commerce: high-quality development explored through fsQCA by Shuhua Li, Guoxiong Chen, Jiaqi Zhu, Qiuping Xie, Jingdong Jiang, Caisheng Liao

“…However, this expansion is accompanied by persistent challenges, including inefficient marketing, costly cross-border communication, and limited financial support. …”
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Risk factors for respiratory complications in patients in the perioperative period by D. P. Kotova, V. S. Shemenkova

“…Diseases of the respiratory system (both acute and exacerbations of chronic ones) remain the most frequent non-surgical complications after surgical interventions of various sizes, increasing the duration of the patient»s hospital stay, increasing economic costs and the percentage of deaths. It was shown that respiratory complications developed after abdominal operations increased the risk of 30-day mortality by 10 times. …”
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The Development of Special Interactive Teaching Computer Programs for the Training of the Specialists of Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defence Troops by K. P. Kuznetsova, S. N. Solnyshkov

“…The complexity and costliness of their adaptation require the increase of the intensity of personnel training with the simultaneous reduction of material and financial costs. In this connection, it is an urgent task to arrange the conditions for the mass training of military specialists by the elaboration of the training facilities system that allow the trainees to acquire proper skills of the maintenance and combat employment of the weapons and the equipment of radiological, chemical and biological (RChB) defence in an accelerated manner. …”
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Navegant pel delta del Nil: apunts geomorfològics de la guia d’Isambert (1878) by Francesca Segura Beltrán

“…La reducció de les albuferes i marjals, l’erosió de la costa i la destrucció dels sistemes dunars continentals i litorals son aclaparadores, encara que semblants a les que han patit de forma generalitzada els deltes i les costes mediterrànies. …”
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Pension provision of the Russian Federation: stages of development, achievements and shortcomings, directions of improvement by the example of the Department of the Social Fund of... by A. B. Urusova

“…They include the formation of modern tools for the independent accumulation of funds by citizens to meet their needs after retirement, the use of automation and digitalization to  reduce the  overhead costs  of  the  pension  system,  as well  as  the  stimulation  of  migration flows  to  increase  the  number  of  employed citizens paying social contributions.…”
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Big data transfer service architecture for cloud data centers: problems, methods, applications, and future trends by Muhammad Umar Majigi, Ismaila Idris, Shafi’i Muhammad Abdulhamid, Richard A. Ikuesan

“…After thoroughly screening selected peer-reviewed articles, the primary open issues are: incorporating a data placement module in the data transfer service, providing end-to-end safeguards for packet delivery, improving data transfer time and speed, minimizing costs and implementation overhead, ensuring secure data transfer between servers in the cloud, demonstrating effective big data transfer architectures, considering topology-specific extensions to reduce the busty nature of data centers, and enhancing data transfer services using machine learning algorithms during upload and download operations. …”
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Metadata Extraction and Management in Data Lakes With GEMMS by Christoph Quix, Rihan Hai, Ivan Vatov

“…Data lakes should reduce the upfront integration costs and provide a more flexible way for data integration and analysis, as source data is loaded in its original structure to the data lake repository. …”
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Technological Progress Toward Peanut Disease Management: A Review by Muhammad Asif, Aleena Rayamajhi, Md Sultan Mahmud

“…Historically, crop disease scouting has been labor-intensive and costly. Recent innovations in computer vision, artificial intelligence (AI), and remote sensing have transformed disease identification and scouting, making the process more efficient and economical. …”
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Green supply chain strategy considering participant fairness concern and uncertainty of research and development by Haohao Song, Rong Wang, Xiangyu Mao, Jing Tao, Mengqi Zhang, Xiaobo Wang, Xiaojuan Sang

“…However, the change in the manufacturer’s profit is uncertain, which is also related to its fixed R&D costs and R&D efficiency. Under the manufacturer-dominated structure, fairness concern behavior can lead to a decrease in products’ pricing, greenness, demand, and profits for both the manufacturer and retailer; But under the retailer-dominated structure, the manufacturer’s fairness concern has no impact on products’ retail price, greenness, and demand. …”
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Criterion to foresee the affinity of various coatings/substrates to asphaltene deposition in oil wells by Sakineh Hadizadeh, M. Reza Malayeri

“…However, these methods are often associated with significant hazards, operational limitations, and costs. In light of these challenges, recent research has shifted towards preventive measures, particularly using surface coatings/substrates to inhibit asphaltene deposition. …”
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Evaluating the Economic Impact of Airborne Infectious Diseases on the Health System: A Cross-sectional Study Utilizing Disability-adjusted Life Years and Lost Productivity by Alireza Ghorbani, Hadi Lotfi, Ali Taj, Zahra Keyvanlo, Mohammad Hosseinzadehhesari, Mohammad Miri

“…Moreover, YLD was 5283 and 5086 in males and females, respectively. The total costs of productivity loss due to absenteeism (TPL) and due to COVID-19 premature mortality were about $4 and $8 million purchasing power parity for all working-age classes, respectively. …”
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Contrastive Learning Algorithm for Low-Resource Cryptographic Attack Event Detection by Peng Luo, Rangjia Cai, Yuanbo Guo

“…However, conventional event detection models depend on expert-annotated trigger words, which are costly to obtain and constrain the applicability of detection methods in cryptographic security. …”
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Methodology of Choosing the Most Eco-Friendly Waste Collection Truck by Ondrej STOPKA, Vladimir ĽUPTÁK, Maria STOPKOVÁ, Branislav ŠARKAN, Jaroslav MAŠEK

“…Currently, the city uses costly CNG-propelled trucks, which release a lot of harmful emissions. …”
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Optimizing maritime logistics for sustainable development in Kenya's Blue Economy by Conrad Ochego Mogaka

“…Results: The study finds that efficient maritime logistics enhance trade efficiency, reduce transportation costs, and support sustainable practices, thus maximizing the blue economy's potential. …”
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