Design and Performance Analysis of a Dual Band Patch Antenna and its MIMO Implementation for Wi-Fi, Radar, and V2X Applications by P. P. Singh, S. K. Sharma, N. Gupta

“…The designed antenna resonates at two frequencies, 4.54 GHz and 5.8 GHz, with bandwidths of 340 and 360 MHz for each band, respectively. A low-cost FR-4 substrate with a dielectric constant of 4.4 and a thickness of 1.6 mm is used to simulate and fabricate the antenna. …”
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Coping Strategies of Women in Ilorin Metropolis and Asa Local Government Area of Nigeria During Period of Economic Challenges by Samuel Taiwo Toluyemi, Johnson Adebayo-Salami Olushola, Florence Ajoke Olaniyan

“…The study observed that 87%, 79%, 68%, 56%, 47%, and 41% of respondents adopted cost-cutting or reduction, debt or credit purchases, spiritual solutions, sales of landed and valuable properties, negative or illegal solutions, and more income-generating activities, including seeking assistance from friends and relations as coping strategies, respectively. …”
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Queueing modeling and optimization of hybrid electric vehicle infrastructures using evolutionary algorithms by Shreekant Varshney, Manthan Shah, Bhasuru Abhinaya Srinivas, Mayank Gupta, Kaibalya Prasad Panda

“…The novelty of the proposed research is to formulate the cost optimization problem and demonstrate optimal converging outcomes through an in-depth comparative investigation of multiple evolutionary algorithms, including the particle swarm optimization (PSO), cuckoo search (CS), grey wolf (GW), and honey badger (HB) optimizers. …”
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Complete genome analysis of the cellulose producing strain Komagataeibacter sucrofermentans SMEG01 by Shuaijun Deng, Lei Wang, Guoqiang Chen, Qilong Qin, Sheng Dong, Haibo Zhang

“…Abstract Bacterial cellulose (BC) has been extensively utilized across various industries due to its unique properties, however, the high production cost remains a significant limiting factor for broader application. …”
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STATISTICAL MODELS OF PHYSIC-MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ROADS IN THE AREA OF CULVERTS by V. S. Vorobyov, E. L. Karelina, O. A. Bender, K. V. Katalymova

“…The application of physic-mechanical characteristics of the soil together with experimental studies makes it possible to reduce labor costs, time and cost of testing.…”
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Defect Detection of Gas Insulation Switch by Infrared Thermography Technology With an Improved Yolo Algorithm by Ma Tianci, Chen Xiangping, Li Bo, Bai Jie

“…However, conventional nondestructive detection methods like ultrasound and X-ray face the challenges in anti-interference capability, cost, and structural complexity. To address those issues, this study has proposed an infrared thermography-based defect detection method by combing with an enhanced YOLOv7 algorithm for accurate and efficient defect localization identification and depth estimation. …”
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Communication between government and business entities and challenges of creation of “digital government” by L. B. Boldyreva

“…With proper implementation, the digital government may decrease the cost of provision of public services and establish conditions for better contacts with citizens, especially in distant and less populated regions. …”
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RACIONALIZACIÓN DE LOS PROCESOS EN LA REVISIÓN FÍSICA DE INVENTARIOS EN EL ÁREA DE ALMACENAMIENTO DE PRODUCTOS TERMINADOS GARANTIZANDO LA SEGURIDAD Y SALUD EN EL TRABAJO by Angie Alejandra Linares Basabe, Yesica Lorena Aguirre Arias, Manuel Alfonso Mayorga Morato

“…As a result,it was determined that the drone and the zigzag method is the optimal solution for the physical review of inventory byreducing risks, costs and execution times.…”
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A novel application of nano-cellulose (coconut coir fibres) for the modification of mixed matrix membrane for CO2/CH4 separation by Ajay Gawali, Sapna Gawali, Snigdha Khuntia, Surendra Sasikumar Jampa, Manish Kumar Sinha

“…It was possible to fabricate a better membrane with low cost and good permeability (CO2) and selectivity (CO2/CH4). …”
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Corrosion challenges in petroleum refinery operations: Sources, mechanisms, mitigation, and future outlook by Aisha H. Al-Moubaraki, Ime Bassey Obot

“…With annual corrosion cost estimated at billions of dollars, suitable corrosion mitigation approaches are required to prevent assets failure due to the menace of corrosion. …”
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The mechanism and heterogeneity of environmental regulations’ impact on the technological progress of dairy farming by Hao LIU, Hua PENG, Li-wang LI, Xiao-xia DONG

“…The U-type influence means moving from pollution control's high cost and low technology progress to the high profit and high innovation input generated by optimizing the breeding structure. …”
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Expanded roles of community health workers to sustain malaria services in the Asia-Pacific: A landscaping survey. by Monnaphat Jongdeepaisal, Massaya Sirimatayanant, Panarasri Khonputsa, Phone Si Hein, Laura Buback, Naomi Beyeler, Amita Chebbi, Richard J Maude

“…As the GMS approaches elimination, and funding declines, verifying the cost effectiveness of malaria CHW programmes will be vital to persuade donors and countries to invest in malaria CHWs to sustain malaria services, and strengthen community-based health care.…”
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A model-informed target product profile for population modification gene drives for malaria control. by Agastya Mondal, Héctor M Sánchez C, John M Marshall

“…Target outcomes are most influenced by the fitness cost associated with the gene drive allele and effector gene efficacy. …”
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Detecting olive oil counterfeiting by dilution with rapse and sunflower oils according to the triacyl glyceride profile using the method of gas chromatography by D. D. Zhdanov, E. A. Butina, I. A. Dubrovskaya, S. A. Ilyinova, A. Y. Shazzo

“…Olive oil is a valuable food product, a source of monounsaturated fatty acids, antioxidants, including polyphenolic nature, as well as terpenes and phytosterols. The high cost, along with the demand for special dietary properties, makes olive oils an attractive target for counterfeiting, most often done by diluting olive oil with cheaper sunflower and rapeseed oils. …”
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Realistic synthetic dataset generation for cyber-physical systems: a performance evaluation by Yaa Acquaah, Kaushik Roy

“…However, conducting data collection experiments on complex CPS are constrained by considerable cost, lack of expertise and time involved. Consequently, the availability of genuine CPS dataset is limited. …”
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Switched 32-Bit Fixed-Point Format for Laplacian-Distributed Data by Bojan Denić, Zoran Perić, Milan Dinčić, Sofija Perić, Nikola Simić, Marko Anđelković

“…., precision), making it unsuitable for real deployment, despite offering faster computations and reduced computational cost, which positively impacts energy efficiency. …”
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Real-Time Transformer Detection of Underwater Objects Based on Lightweight Gated Convolutional Network by Yuhui LI, Huixia CUI, Yaomin LI, Senping JIA

“…Additionally, for the token mixer, the structural reparameterization technique was introduced to significantly reduce the computational cost of the model during inference. The hybrid encoder conducted the intra-scale information exchange and multi-scale feature fusion of the three features extracted by the gated backbone network, thus realizing the high fusion of shallow high-frequency information and deep semantic spatial information. …”
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Multi-source data fusion-based knowledge transfer for unmanned aerial vehicle flight data anomaly detection and recovery by Lei Yang, Shaobo Li, Liya Yu, Caichao Zhu, Congbao Wang

“…However, in practice, it is inevitable to face the situation of limited data, such as the high cost of data acquisition and the difficulty of collecting data in special scenarios, resulting in the performance degradation of the traditional data-driven methods with limited samples. …”
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Factors influencing menstrual hygiene knowledge, attitudes, and practices among adolescent girls in African rural schools: scoping review by Mosotho Zenia Tshivule, Molatelo Melitah Rasweswe, Tebogo Maria Mothiba, Mamare Adelaide Bopape

“…There is also resource limitation, related to availability and cost of menstrual hygiene management supplies, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) infrastructure in rural schools. …”
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Current norms and practices in using a seizure diary for managing epilepsy: A scoping review by Chika K. Egenasi, Anandan A. Moodley, Wilhelm J. Steinberg, Anthonio O. Adefuye

“…The two forms of diaries in use are electronic and paper-based diaries. The high cost of data and the expensive devices required to access electronic diaries make it unsuitable in a resource-limited setting. …”
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