Integration of Remote Sensing and GIS for Urban Sprawl Monitoring in European Cities by Stavros Kalogiannidis, Konstantinos Spinthiropoulos, Dimitrios Kalfas, Fotios Chatzitheodoridis, Fani Tziampazi

“…Also, an increase in traffic congestion (36%) and housing costs (28%) were other socio-economic issues. The tested decision support framework proved efficient for scenario modeling and predictive spatial analysis for sustainable urban growth. …”
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Upcycling waste glass bottles as a binder within engineered cementitious composites (ECCs): Experimental investigation and environmental impact assessment by Avik Kumar Das, Jiacheng Xiao

“…GP-ECC and SBM-GP-ECC mixes achieved notable reductions in CO2 (∼8–10 %) emission and costs other ecological impacts, but such effects is a function of the location outperforming normal concrete and GP-concrete by up to 100x in tensile and durability properties. …”
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Super-Resolution for Renewable Energy Resource Data with Wind from Reanalysis Data and Application to Ukraine by Brandon N. Benton, Grant Buster, Pavlo Pinchuk, Andrew Glaws, Ryan N. King, Galen Maclaurin, Ilya Chernyakhovskiy

“…This GAN-based downscaling method additionally reduces computational costs over dynamical downscaling by two orders of magnitude. …”
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Evaluation of the user experience for a point of care molecular test for causes of vaginitis by Barbara Van Der Pol, Rebecca Lillis, Irving Nachamkin, Stephen Young, LaShonda Crane, Jacqueline Brown, R. Lamar Parker, Alice Weissfeld, Xiaohong Liu, Christina Huang, Aarthi Raman

“…Abstract Background Vaginitis is a major cause of healthcare visits in the US, costing over $1.2 billion annually. Point-of-care (POC) nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) could improve accuracy of diagnosis and treatment during initial visit for vaginitis compared to send-out NAATs. …”
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Prostate specific antigen — brief update on its clinical use by Christiaan F. Heyns, André van der Merwe

“…Doctors run the risk of litigation for failure to diagnose cancer at a curable stage, while patients run the risk of being diagnosed with non-significant cancer, incurring costs and possible complications without any survival benefit. …”
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The Relationship Between Lower Limb Biomechanics and Muscle Strength With Non-Specific Low Back Pain by Kotryna Žaltauskaitė, Vilma Juodžbalienė

“…The rising incidence of low back pain (LBP) poses a challenge in terms of pain-related healthcare costs and reduced work capacity. The main researched causes of LBP are such sociocultural and demographic aspects as sedentary work and age. …”
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Machine learning enables legal risk assessment in internet healthcare using HIPAA data by Shixian Liu, Hailing Liu, Siyu Fan, Leming Song, Zeyu Wang

“…Firstly, the data are sourced from the HIPAA database, encompassing various data types, such as medical records, patient personal information, and treatment costs. Secondly, to address missing values and noise in the data, preprocessing methods such as denoising, normalization, and feature extraction are employed to ensure data quality and model accuracy. …”
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FIREWOOD QUALITY OF Eucalyptus spp. CLONES FOR AGROINDUSTRY SUPPLY IN MATO GROSSO, BRAZIL by Vinicius Trombini Jambers, Camila Nunes Amorim, Camila Mendes Campos, Leonardo Lopes da Rocha, Angélica de Cassia Oliveira Carneiro, Ana Márcia Macedo Ladeira Carvalho, Aylson Costa Oliveira, Bárbara Luísa Corradi Pereira

“…Additionally, a case study was conducted considering firewood consumption and costs for drying corn and soybeans. The bark percentage ranged from 5.00 to 11.04%. …”
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Comparative Validation of Laser Scanning and Traditional Measurement Methods for Tunnel Convergence by HU Guojin, XIA Caichu, NI Shihao, WU Ting, LI Hangtian

“…［Objective］ Although traditional single-point measurement methods offer high accuracy in metro tunnel monitoring, their high labor, material, and financial costs limit economic benefit maximization, difficult to meet the monitoring needs of modern metro tunnels. …”
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Current Non-Invasive Imaging Techniques Used in the Diagnosis of Adenomyosis by Vlăduț Săsăran, Claudiu Mărginean, Lucian Pușcașiu

“…Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examination presents higher diagnostic specificity and sensitivity, can assess the endometrial and myometrial layers in detail, but its use has been shadowed by costs and significantly longer examination time. …”
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Integrated development of LNG import and new power systems in China by Xuguang XIE

“…Objective China's LNG import sector is facing challenges arising from low reserve capacities, limited capabilities in balancing market supply and demand, and elevated import costs. Concurrently, the development of new power systems in China confronts the "dual-high" bottleneck, characterized by significant proportions of renewable energy sources and power electronic equipment.Consequently, this bottleneck leads to power supply setbacks, including intermittency, randomness, and a lack of sufficient moments of inertia. …”
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A novel approach of drowsiness levels detection using Vis-Net combined with facial emotion by Thuong-Cang Phan, Anh-Cang Phan, Ngoc-Hoang-Quyen Nguyen

“…Furthermore, to improve response time latency and reduce computational costs, our model integrates Mostafa’s emotion detection framework. …”
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Statistical model for assessing the reliability of non-destructive testing systems by solving inverse problems by A. E. Alexandrov, S. P. Borisov, L. V. Bunina, S. S. Bikovsky, I. V. Stepanova, A. P. Titov

“…Monitoring the state of the pipeline by direct inspection requires a considerable amount of labor, as well as, in some cases, the suspension of power plant operation. In order to reduce costs during monitoring measures, it is proposed to use mathematical modeling. …”
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Few-Shot Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Based on Refined Bi-Directional Prototypical Contrastive Learning for Cross-Scene Hyperspectral Image Classification by Xuebin Tang, Hanyi Shi, Chunchao Li, Cheng Jiang, Xiaoxiong Zhang, Lingbin Zeng, Xiaolei Zhou

“…Unsupervised domain adaptation has proven its effectiveness in tackling this issue, but it has a fatal limitation of intending to narrow the disparity between source and target domains by utilizing fully labeled source data and unlabeled target data. However, it is costly even to attain labels from source domains in many cases, rendering sufficient labeling as used in prior work impractical. …”
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El macro-modelat de la costa carbonàtica de Victòria (Austràlia): paral·lelismes i diferències amb les cales baleàriques by Lluís Gómez-Pujol

“…Els resultats posen de manifest que, de més a més del control estructural, les components fluvials i càrstiques o del retoc associat a l’erosió marina –tot incorporant les fluctuacions del nivell marí– hi ha altres factors que ajuden a explicar la diferència i el grau de maduresa en l’evolució morfològica del macro-meso modelat de les costes rocoses carbonatades. Resulta important considerar el paper dels heretatges geològics en el sentit que, esdeveniments de gran transcendència, com per exemple la crisi de salinitat del Messinià a la Mediterrània, poden deixar una empremta que condicioni i governi el desenvolupament i característiques de les cales i així es puguin explicar les diferències entre planells carbonàtics relativament semblants. …”
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Ship Target Detection in SAR Images Based on Multiple Attention Mechanism and Cross-Scale Feature Fusion by Yuwu Wang, Tieming Wu, Limin Guo, Yuhan Mo

“…This reduces the sensitivity of the CIoU loss function to positional offsets of small targets, with only a slight increase in computational and parameter costs, thereby further improving the detection accuracy of small targets. …”
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Modeling the impact of CDK4 / 6 inhibitors on reducing cancer mortality by N. A. Avxentyev, E. V. Bilan, A. Yu. Goryainova, Yu. V. Makarova, R. A. Murashko, A. V. Sobolev, S. V. Sharov, D. Yu. Yukalchuk

“…The model was used to estimate the number of lives saved and healthcare system costs when transitioning from current practice to the forecast one by 2030, considering the number of adult patients with HR+/HER2– ABC, who may start considered therapy annually in Russia.Results. …”
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Comparison of EfficientNet CNN models for multi-label chest X-ray disease diagnosis by Murat Ucan, Buket Kaya, Osman Aygun, Mehmet Kaya, Reda Alhajj

“…Previous studies on chest X-ray images focus on a single disease or have low success rates, and the architectures presented in previous studies have high computational costs. The novelty of this work is that it presents a hybrid lightweight, fast and attention-based architecture with high classification performance. …”
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Evaluating the implementation of inclisiran in primary care: process evaluation interim findings from interviews with key stakeholders by Peter Bower, Samantha Dixon, Paul Wilson, Amy Mathieson, Rebecca Elvey, Martin Gibson, Tracey Vell

“…Several barriers to implementation were highlighted, including concerns relating to general practice resources and costs.Trial registration number NCT04807400.…”
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Study on the two-phase flow behavior in batch transportation of liquid ammonia and product oil by Xin HUANG, Hongxiang SHI, Yilong LI, Weidong LI, Pengbo YIN, Zhenchao LI, Lin TENG, Lilong JIANG

“…Objective Batch transportation of liquid ammonia via product oil pipelines can expand transportation routes, reduce costs, and enhance pipeline efficiency to address the low throughput of existing product oil pipelines. …”
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