Refusal of pharmacological treatment: prevalence and clinical importance by S. Yu. Martsevich, N. P. Kutishenko, E. P. Kalaydzhyan, Yu. V. Lukina, A. V. Zagrebelnyy, V. V. Tsaregorodtseva, O. S. Afonina, N. P. Zolotareva, M. L. Ginzburg, O. M. Drapkina

“…The main reasons for the complete discontinuation of medication included satisfactory health status, reluctance to engage in prolonged medication use, and high costs associated with treatment. It is demonstrated that complete discontinuation of therapy may have a negative impact on disease outcomes. …”
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Autonomous water sampling and quality monitoring in remote locations: A novel approach using a remote-controlled boat by Ashish Shukla, Robert Ross, Bishakh Bhattacharya, Alex Stumpf

“…Traditional water monitoring approaches often come with high costs, limited time fidelity, and the absence of territorial dimensionality (often at fixed points). …”
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Effects of fiber content on the mechanical properties of rice straw/carbon/glass fiber reinforced epoxy composites: Experimental and numerical analysis by Md Shawkatul Islam Siam, S M Kalbin Salim Turjo, Md Naimur Rahman Antu, Mohammad Salman Haque, Md Al-Amin Bhuiyan Shuvo, Pranto Karua

“…Rice straw, often considered waste, has the potential to accelerate research on composite materials, offering eco-friendly alternatives and reduced manufacturing costs through collaborative production using synthetic fiber. …”
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Optimization Design Method of Pipe-Insulating Joints Based on Surrogate Model and Genetic Algorithm by Chen Guo, Zheng Yang, Jianbo Dong, Yanchao Yue, Linjun Tian, Ping Ma

“…To ensure safety, they are often designed too conservatively, resulting in large dimensions, high self-weight, and substantial costs. This study analyzed an insulating joint under the most unfavorable conditions to identify the component of the maximum stress in the insulating joint, which is the right flange. …”
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Stacked Encapsulation Structure for Discretely Distributed Quantum Dot Array by Jing Cai, Jianyao Lin, Yu Chen, Sheng Xu, Yun Ye, Enguo Chen, Tailiang Guo

“…This method also has potential to widely used for discrete structures in other device applications due to its easy fabrication process, high reliability, and low manufacturing costs.…”
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MECOPE: Multifocal excitation compressive-sensing photoacoustic endomicroscopy through a multimode fibre by Tianrui Zhao, Edward Zhang, Paul C. Beard, Wenfeng Xia

“…Compared to conventional endomicroscopes based on multi-core fibre bundles, multimode fibres-based endoscopes offer significantly higher spatial resolution, smaller diameters, and lower costs. However, current implementations of multimode fibre imaging, whether using raster-scan or speckle compressive sensing imaging, are hindered by limitations in frame rate or signal-to-noise ratio. …”
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Implementation of fruit plucking robot in apple harvesting: A review by Tallat Noreen, Ahsan Ali, Saeed Anwar, Shahzaib Farooq, Wael A. Altabey, Sallam A Kouritem, Mohammad Noori

“…Robotic apple harvesting has several advantages, particularly in reducing labor costs and shortage, improving efficiency, real-time data collection, and monitoring. …”
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Defect Prediction in CWDM Optical Modules Using Multimodal Learning by Kyu-Jeong Choi, Jia Yang, Botambu Collins, Sung-Geun Kim, Do-Jin Lim, Jin-Taek Seong

“…These results demonstrate the effectiveness of multimodal learning in improving defect prediction accuracy, reducing reliance on repetitive testing, and lowering overall inspection costs. The proposed approach represents a scalable and efficient solution for automated quality control in optical module manufacturing, with potential applications in optical network maintenance and defect detection for other photonic components.…”
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Development of an intranasal, universal influenza vaccine in an EU-funded public-private partnership: the FLUniversal consortium by Victor M. Cnossen, Paula C. Leao Moreira, Othmar G. Engelhardt, Jerzy Samolej, Geert H. Groeneveld, Geert H. Groeneveld, Simon P. Jochems, Wesley Huisman, Gabriel K. Pedersen, Katharina Wørzner, Lukas Recek, Giulia Piccini, Claudia M. Trombetta, Claudia M. Trombetta, Amy Aspelund, Alaura Hoag, Manfred Reiter, Carrie Wick, Thomas Muster, Ingrid Maria Catharina Kamerling, Ingrid Maria Catharina Kamerling

“…In addition to a universal influenza vaccine, listed as a top priority by the EU, FLUniversal seeks to deliver an enhanced vaccine manufacturing technology that is superior in terms of efficiency, production costs and production speed - especially critical in the face of a potential new pandemic. …”
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Mathematical Models and Algorithms of Optimal Load Management of Electricity Consumers by I. U. Rakhmonov, K. M. Reymov

“…Alignment load profile with a view to reducing costs can be implemented with the aid of consumers’ involvement by administrative and economic measures. …”
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DISCO: Efficient Diffusion Solver for large-scale Combinatorial Optimization problems by Hang Zhao, Kexiong Yu, Yuhang Huang, Renjiao Yi, Chenyang Zhu, Kai Xu

“…We apply DISCO to design 2D/3D TSP Art, enabling the generation of fluid stroke sequences at reduced path costs. By incorporating DISCO’s multi-modal property into a divide-and-conquer strategy, it can further generalize to solve unseen-scale instances out of the box.…”
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Market Research on Waste Biomass Material for Combined Energy Production in Bulgaria: A Path Toward Enhanced Energy Efficiency by Penka Zlateva, Angel Terziev, Mariana Murzova, Nevena Mileva, Momchil Vassilev

“…However, significant barriers remain, including high initial investment costs and uneven access to raw materials. The findings confirm that the developed system offers a technologically robust, environmentally efficient and market-relevant solution, aligned with the goals of energy independence, sustainability and the transition to a low-carbon economy.…”
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Analisis Penyajian, Pengungkapan, dan Pemanfaatan Dana Nonhalal pada BAZNAS Kabupaten Pekalongan Tahun 2018-2022 by Fitriana, Fitri Kurniawati

“…However, the use of bank tax and bank administration costs is still not in accordance with the fatwa because non-halal funds should not be channeled for institutional purposes.…”
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Modelling Consumers’ Preferences for Time-Slot Based Home Delivery of Goods Bought Online: An Empirical Study in Christchurch by Ashu Kedia, Dana Abudayyeh, Diana Kusumastuti, Alan Nicholson

“…<i>Conclusion</i>: It appeared that the off-peak delivery option is less likely to draw the desired consumer patronage and is thus less likely to assist in lowering the number of unsuccessful home deliveries, the transportation costs incurred by service providers, traffic congestion, and pollution in urban areas.…”
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Validation of Ecological Momentary Assessment With Reference to Accelerometer Data: Repeated-Measures Panel Study With Multilevel Modeling by Jung Min Noh, SongHyun Im, JooYong Park, Jae Myung Kim, Miyoung Lee, Ji-Yeob Choi

“…However, sensor-based measures often pose challenges for large-scale studies due to their associated costs, inability to capture contextual information, and restricted user populations. …”
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Business intelligence for decision-making in royalties project management by Juan Sebastián Sánchez Gómez, Edwin Andres Arevalo Herrera, Cristian Camilo Torres Puentes

“…These Microsoft tools are available to most national public servants and contractors, so generating the solution does not imply additional costs. The experience is well documented in the present work and provides a replicable model that can adapt to multiple contexts, promoting greater efficacy and efficiency in public administration. …”
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Right-of-way licensing ordinances: renewing city authority over energy utilities to facilitate climate policy by Christy Anderson Brekken, Roman Patchell, Julia Mycek

“…We compared city staffs' experiences and perceptions of each governance structure across three dimensions of institutional theory: legal relations, transaction costs, and social norms. We found that city staff overwhelmingly prefer licensing ordinances as a right-of-way governance structure and adoption seems to be growing. …”
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Speech-dependent data augmentation for own voice reconstruction with hearable microphones in noisy environments by Mattes Ohlenbusch, Christian Rollwage, Simon Doclo

“…Such training data can be collected by recording many utterances from different talkers wearing the hearable, which is costly, or generated by augmenting existing clean speech datasets. …”
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USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGIES FOR AUTOMATING THE CONDUCTING AND CHECKING OF DICTATIONS by Olena Piatykop, Yevhen Harin, Olha Pronina

“…The availability of web-oriented educational systems allows institutions to serve a large number of students simultaneously, expanding their audience without significant additional costs. This is also relevant for distance learning in cases of unexpected disruptions. …”
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Individual Antipredator Responses Are Positively Correlated Across Cue Types in Free‐Living Black‐Capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) by Emma L. C. Reid, Megan LaRocque, Josue David Arteaga‐Torres, Kimberley J. Mathot

“…On the other hand, social information, such as alarm calls, tends to be less costly to obtain but may also be less reliable if congeners assess risk differently from one another, or if the information quickly becomes outdated. …”
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