Performance superiority of a novel polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell with inclined membrane electrode assembly by Seyedeh Parisa Mirmoshtaghi, Shabnam Faghihabdollahi, Javad Mahmoudimehr

“…An economic evaluation reveals that, compared to the straight and tapered designs, the financial benefit from the increased electricity output of the inclined configuration is about 24.2 and 6.18 times greater, respectively, than the additional cost associated with the larger MEA surface area.…”
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CLASSIFICATION MODELS FOR DETERMINING THE QUALITY OF WINE BY ITS CHEMICAL COMPOSITION by Vladimir S. Repkin, Artemy V. Li, Grigory Yu. Semenov, Nikita I. Sermavkin, Alexander S. Kovalenko, Nikolai S. Egoshin

“…Unscrupulous producers prioritize cost reduction over product quality, which negatively affects the overall consumer experience and undermines the reputation of more conscientious wine producers. …”
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A flexible and lightweight signcryption scheme for underwater wireless sensor networks by Sabir Shah, Nadeem Sarwar, Abdu Salam, Farhan Amin, Faizan Ullah, Asfandyar Khan, Isabel de la Torre, Mónica Gracia Villar, Helena Garay

“…In addition, the experimental results revealed that the proposed scheme had a 40% less computational cost, 30% less energy consumption, and 25% less communication overhead than the state-of-the-art methods. …”
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Identifying challenges and enabling factors in utilizing health care services by undocumented immigrant women: a scoping review of qualitative research by Manal Etemadi, Saeed Shahabi, Maryam Hedayati, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, Masoud Behzadifar, Neda Defaee Rad

“…Facilitators include strong social networks, community support, free or low-cost clinics, outreach programs, and policies ensuring confidentiality and non-discrimination. …”
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The Factor of Production Efficiency and the Company’s Reputational Capital Valuing by V. A. Chernov

“…These approaches are used to explain the qualitative characteristics of cost-based management. To assess reputational capital, we used the methods of gross rent multiplier, direct capitalization, and discounting. …”
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Digital Twin-Based Framework for Real-Time Monitoring and Analysis of Urban Mobile-Source Emissions by Peter Zhivkov, Stefka Fidanova, Ivan Dimov

“…By boosting <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mi>R</mi><mn>2</mn></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula> values from 0.29 to 0.87–0.95, our two-step calibration method increased the accuracy of low-cost PM sensors, showing the possibility of growing monitoring networks without sacrificing measurement accuracy. …”
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CAFNet: Cross-Modal Adaptive Fusion Network With Attention and Gated Weighting for RGB-T Semantic Segmentation by Meili Fu, Huanliang Sun, Zhihan Chen, Lulin Wei

“…The experimental results show that CAFNet achieves a 60.1% mIoU on the MFNet dataset, which is 1.2% higher than that of EAEFNet (58.9% mIoU), and the computational cost (110.61G FLOPs) and parameter count (68.13 M) are also reduced by 25% and 66.1%, respectively. …”
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Process optimization of silica encapsulation technique as a unique remediation technology for the treatment of crude oil contaminated soil by Vincent O. Akpoveta

“…The environmental friendliness, cost effectiveness and merits associated with this technique gives it a unique advantage over other conventional methods; as such presents promising alternative route for remediation experts in addressing the challenges associated with hydrocarbon and metals pollution on soil. …”
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Wound Healing and Acute Dermal Toxicity Studies of Ludwigia octovalvis (Jacq.) P. H. Raven (Onagraceae) in Sprague–Dawley Rats by Martin Boadi, Stephen Yao Gbedema, Yaw Duah Boakye, Marcel Tunkumgnen Bayor, Eugene Agyei Aboagye

“…The incidence of wounds, their associated complications, and the cost of wound care are on the increase globally, therefore, the need to develop alternative wound care agents. …”
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High catalytic activity of iron and cobalt-iron oxide nanoparticles synthesized via a green method for the oxygen-evolution reaction by Freshteh Gheybi, Majid Rashidi-Huyeh, Mohammad Reza Mohammadi

“…Developing efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally benign OER catalysts is therefore critical for advancing green energy technologies. …”
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Herbify: an ensemble deep learning framework integrating convolutional neural networks and vision transformers for precise herb identification by Farhan Sheth, Ishika Chatter, Manvendra Jasra, Gireesh Kumar, Richa Sharma

“…In addition, the growing dependence on synthetic pharmaceuticals has raised concerns regarding affordability, thereby fostering a renewed interest in herbal medicine as a cost-effective and holistic alternative. In response to this need, the current study introduces a computer vision framework for accurate herb identification. …”
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Do NSAIDs and ASA Cause More Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Elderly than Adults? by Hakan Kocoglu, Basak Oguz, Hakan Dogan, Yildiz Okuturlar, Mehmet Hursitoglu, Ozlem Harmankaya, Yuksel Altuntas, Abdulbaki Kumbasar

“…Not only should adding gastroprotective drugs to ASA or NSAID be based on their risk of UGIB, but the cost of hospitalization of ASA or NSAID-associated UGIB should be considered.…”
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A Novel Transformer-Based Multiscale Siamese Framework for High-Resolution Remote Sensing Change Detection by Liangjun Wang, Weitao Chen, Haoyi Wang, Zhengchao Chen

“…Notably, compared to that of five multiscale-based methods, our proposed TMSF achieves superior performance while requiring only half the number of parameters and computational cost. Thus, the proposed model demonstrates a marked advancement in remote sensing CD. …”
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“Green approach for corrosion inhibition for Fe-metal in acidic medium using Banaba leaves (Lagerstroemia speciosa) extract and ZnO nanoparticles” by Supriya Vykuntam, Nandhini R., Nandhini G., Anugraha J., Sakthisri R.

“…Banaba leaf extract may be considered as an appropriate environmentally friendly and cost-effective resource for corrosion protection with potential use in preservation of metals.…”
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Sales management. Methodology of Improving the efficiency of the company’s sales system by A.  I.  Nazarov

“…Such topics as improvement of business effciency and investment performance, validation of costs, enhancement of management quality and cost controls have been gaining in relevance. …”
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Agricultural sustainability under unpredicted atmospheric changes—strategies to enhance crop resilience and system efficiency: a narrative review by Ramandeep Kumar Sharma, Nkem Nwosu, Lovepreet Singh, Amanda Kramer, Hardeep Singh, Raju Bheemanahalli, Jagmandeep Dhillon

“…Therefore, lowering carbon emissions occupies a vital place in global budgeting, with its social cost ($29 ton− 1 of carbon) increasing at 2% year− 1. …”
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Nanoseconds low-polarization-sensitivity wideband 1 × 2 photonic integrated wavelength selective switch on 3-μm silicon platform by Yu Wang, Srivathsa Bhat, Timo Aalto, Nicola Calabretta

“…In addition, photonic integration of the WSS allows for a compact and low cost volume solution. In this work, we demonstrate a wideband photonic integrated low polarization dependent 1 × 2 WSS with S-band to L-band operations and nanosecond switching speed based on a 3-μm silicon photonic platform. …”
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Systematic Analysis of the Hydrogen Value Chain from Production to Utilization by Miguel Simão Coelho, Guilherme Gaspar, Elena Surra, Pedro Jorge Coelho, Ana Filipa Ferreira

“…Hydrogen produced from renewable sources has the potential to tackle various energy challenges, from allowing cost-effective transportation of renewable energy from production to consumption regions to decarbonizing intensive energy consumption industries. …”
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A new cut-off value of FRAX tools as an osteoporosis screening tool for Thai geriatric population by Apichat Asavamongkolkul, Nath Adulkasem, Ekasame Vanitcharoenkul, Chandhanarat Chandhanayingyong, Panai Laohaprasitiporn, Krabkaew Soparat, Pojchong Chotiyarnwong, Aasis Unnanuntana

“…While dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) remains the gold standard for diagnosing osteoporosis, its availability and cost for mass screening are limited. This study aims to determine an effective fracture risk assessment tool (FRAX) cut-off value for screening osteoporosis in the Thai geriatric population. …”
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Suppressing Colloidal Quantum Dot Multimer Fusion Leads to High‐Performance InSb Infrared Photodetectors by Lucheng Peng, Yongjie Wang, Carmelita Rodà, Aditya Malla, Miguel Dosil, Debranjan Mandal, Gerasimos Konstantatos

“…Abstract Environmentally friendly InSb colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) short‐wave infrared (SWIR) photodetectors feature characteristics of low‐cost, high‐volume scalability, CMOS integrability, and compliance with RoHS regulations, and hold great commercial potential. …”
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