Lean production management system and sustainability of lean transformations by N. S. Davydova, N. V. Grashchenkova

“…Its implementation ensures a constant increase in the efficiency of processes due to identifying and elim- inating losses, achieving the proper state of an enterprise according to standardized indicators in the SQDCLME areas: (S (safety), Q (quality), D (delivery), C (costs), L (labor), M (corporate culture), E (environment). …”
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Insurance Crisis, Legal Environment, and the Sustainability of Professional Liability Insurance Market in the Construction Industry: Based on the US Market by Yiguang Pan, Xiaomei Deng, Rashid Maqbool, Weirui Niu

“…In an equilibrium state, competitive markets can eliminate individuals with high accident rates and companies with high operating costs. Moreover, these findings will also set a base for future researches to investigate the role of insurance market and legal environment in depth while providing the intensive critical factors towards sustainable construction industry.…”
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Factors of Financial Imbalance in the Compulsory Pension Insurance System: the Case of Russia by A. l. Safonov, Yu. V. Dolzhenkova

“…The authors estimated the financial consequences of the pension valorization in the Soviet period and the pension indexation policy in Russia resulted in the rising costs of the Pension Fund of Russia. The conclusion is that the current procedure for determining insurance contributions to the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, which provides for a large number of benefits, does not correspond to generally accepted world practice and creates major risks for the financial balance of the pension system. …”
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Intraoperative frozen section analysis can be omitted in early breast cancer without significantly elevating reoperation rates by Ferit Aydin, Mahmut Onur Kulturoglu, Fatih Aslan, Lutfi Dogan

“…Given the associated factors, such as costs, operational time, and workload, we believe that permanent section analysis should be introduced into routine implementation. …”
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Computer-Aided Quantum Algorithms for Real-Time Energy Market Trading by Jinghui Wu, Wenjun Zhu, Yun Xu, Kangan Shu, Wei Yang

“…The integration of QA with PPO led to a 25% increase in total return, a 15% enhancement in Sharpe ratio, a 10% reduction in maximum drawdown, and a 20% decrease in transaction costs. These results highlight the effectiveness of combining quantum optimization techniques with reinforcement learning for superior trading strategy development. …”
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The Consequence of the Siege of Temeşvar: Analysis and Evaluation of the Submission Letter of the Castellan Mustafa Pasha (1716) by Bekir Gökpınar

“…It was both difficult and costly for the Ottomans to hold the region and a significant part of the region, which remained under Ottoman rule for about 150 years, was lost in the "Holy League" wars. …”
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Extended Reality in Applied Sciences Education: A Systematic Review by Tien-Chi Huang, Hsin-Ping Tseng

“…Despite persistent challenges—including high equipment costs, spatial and temporal constraints, small sample sizes, and insufficient longitudinal evidence—these findings underscore the transformative potential of XR technologies in applied sciences education.…”
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Bio-2FA-IoD: A Biometric-Enhanced Two-Factor Authentication Protocol for Secure Internet of Drones Operations by Hyunseok Kim, Seunghyun Park

“…Furthermore, a comprehensive performance evaluation conducted using the Contiki OS and Cooja simulator illustrates Bio-2FA-IoD’s superior efficiency in computational and communication costs, alongside very low latency, high packet delivery rate, and minimal energy consumption. …”
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Unlocking the Potential of Pomelo Albedo: A Novel Substrate for Alpha-Amylase Production Using <i>Bacillus licheniformis</i> by Thi Ngoc Tran, Si-Chun Chen, Chien Thang Doan, San-Lang Wang

“…The bioprocessing of agricultural wastes to produce microbial enzymes has become significant due to its benefits in reducing enzyme production costs and improving waste management. In this study, various substrates, including spent coffee grounds, coffee husks, coffee pulp, rice husks, rice bran, pomelo albedo, pomelo flavedo, orange peel, banana peel, sugarcane bagasse, and starch, were used as organic nutrient sources for α-amylase biosynthesis by <i>B. licheniformis</i> TKU004. …”
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A Metallurgically Informed Multiscale Integrated Computational Framework for Metal Forming Processes by Vasilis Loukadakis, Spyros Papaefthymiou

“…Traditional, solely experimental approaches, though effective, are inefficient as they are resource-intensive, requiring extensive laboratory testing and the iterative calibration of processing conditions. These costs can be avoided through computational/virtual experiments based on a multiscale hierarchical framework that integrates macroscopic approaches, mesoscale modelling as well as atomic level and advanced thermodynamical simulations to study and predict the mechanical response of metallic systems. …”
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Model for selective vehicle problem considering mixed fleet with capacitated electric vehicles by Jiacheng Li, Masato Noto, Yang Zhang, Jia Guo

“…Finally, using a medium-sized example with 250 demands and 10 vehicles, the impact of parameters such as the proportion of oil to electric vehicles and expired compensation prices on delivery completion and delivery costs is explored. The study reveals that the advantages of energy conservation and emission reduction can only be fully realized when the proportion of electric vehicles reaches 80%. …”
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Assessing public support for commercial fishing in the ocean twilight zone considering climate trade-offs and ocean literacy by Michael J. Weir, Maya Lozinsky, Di Jin

“…While our results suggest significant social benefits to be gained from expanding OTZ fishery production, back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that rapid development of OTZ fishing would likely induce social costs more than 10× that of any benefits experienced. …”
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SWMD-YOLO: A Lightweight Model for Tomato Detection in Greenhouse Environments by Quan Wang, Ye Hua, Qiongdan Lou, Xi Kan

“…The accurate detection of occluded tomatoes in complex greenhouse environments remains challenging due to the limited feature representation ability and high computational costs of existing models. This study proposes SWMD-YOLO, a lightweight multi-scale detection network optimized for greenhouse scenarios. …”
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A Contrastive Representation Learning Method for Event Classification in Φ-OTDR Systems by Tong Zhang, Xinjie Peng, Yifan Liu, Kaiyang Yin, Pengfei Li

“…These findings highlight the effectiveness of CLWTNet in extracting discriminative representations without relying on labeled data, thereby enhancing data efficiency and reducing the costs and effort involved in extensive data labeling in practical Φ-OTDR system applications.…”
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Spatial relations of American bison (Bison bison) and domestic cattle in a montane environment by D. H. Van Vuren

“…La vaca mostró clara orientación a pacer principalmente alrededor del agua y siguió una estrategia de obtención de sus necesidades energéticas con el mínimo coste. En contraste, el bisonte se mostró maximizador de energía, efectuando frecuentes desplazamientos en función de la disponibilidad de pastos. …”
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A DEMATEL-based analysis of logistics determinants in online retail by Nicollas Luiz Schweitzer de Souza Schweitzer, Marina Bouzon, Diego de Castro Fettermann, Enzo Morosini Frazzon

“…This may involve renegotiating contracts with shipping providers, investing in warehouse automation technology, or optimizing transportation routes to reduce costs and improve overall operational efficiency. …”
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Private Sector Hospitals' Response to Changes in Demand for Health Insurance in Arab Countries by Vivian Nasiruddin

“…# Background Health insurance (HI) plays a vital role in providing health services, as it covers relevant healthcare costs to improve health outcomes. # Objectives The study aimed to analyze the extent to which private sector hospitals respond to changes in demand for HI in 3 Arab countries between 2006 and 2022…”
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A Review and Future Prospects of Bounded Rational Behavior in Power Consumers by GAN Lei, ZHANG Peng, ZHU Lin, YANG Tianyu, CHEN Xingying, HUA Haochen, YU Kun

“…This will deepen the fundamental understanding of user energy behaviors， thereby enabling the dual achievement of enhanced system regulation capacity and reduced user energy costs under the “Dual Carbon” goals.…”
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Estimation of hydraulic conductivity using gradation information through larsen fuzzy logic hybrid wavelet artificial neural network and combined artificial intelligence models by Ramin Vafaei Poursorkhabi, Alireza Naseri, Ata Allah Nadiri, Mohammad Khalili-Maleki

“…Abstract Hydraulic conductivity is a critical parameter in geotechnical studies, though determining it with field and laboratory methods is remarkably costly and time-consuming and suffers from innate uncertainty. …”
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Improvement of agrotechnology of production of high-quality sunflower seeds by N. I. Mamsirov, K. K. Khatkov, L. N. Thakushinova

“…The largest share among the total production costs in the cultivation of sunflower falls on tillage. …”
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