Deep learning-based automated detection and multiclass classification of soil-transmitted helminths and Schistosoma mansoni eggs in fecal smear images by Prosper Oyibo, Brice Meulah, Tope Agbana, Lisette van Lieshout, Wellington Oyibo, Gleb Vdovin, Jan-Carel Diehl

“…These images were acquired using Schistoscope—a cost-effective automated digital microscope. After annotating the STH and S. mansoni eggs, we employed a transfer learning approach to train an EfficientDet deep learning model, using 70% of the dataset for training, 20% for validation, and 10% for testing. …”
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Methane reductions with gypsum and SOP® lagoon additives in liquid manure by Chelsea Sauvé, Chelsea Sauvé, Hambaliou Baldé, Rajinikanth Rajagopal, Andrew VanderZaag

“…This is an indication that farmers can confidently use locally sourced gypsum, a low-cost alternative to the commercial additive, without affecting the overall mitigation potential.…”
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Developing a near-infrared spectroscopy calibration algorithm for soil organic carbon content in South Africa by Willie Herman Cloete, Gerhard du Preez, George Munnik Van Zijl

“…Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy has emerged as an easy, rapid and cost-effective alternative for soil organic carbon (SOC) analysis and the accounting of carbon credits. …”
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A Review of the Evaluation, Simulation, and Control of the Air Conditioning System in a Nuclear Power Plant by Seyed Majid Bigonah Ghalehsari, Jiaming Wang, Tianyi Zhao

“…This work highlights the priorities in the next generation of nuclear power plants, which should actively pursue seamless integration of out-of-system technologies into existing NPP infrastructures, enabling scalable, cost-effective, and resilient solutions.…”
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Oral Lipid Nanoparticles for Improving the Efficiency of Drug Delivery Systems in Ulcerative Colitis: Recent Advances and Future Prospects by Siyu Zhu, Zhenlin Yang, Yulong Liu, Lan Cheng, Dingpei Long, Fangyin Dai

“…Oral administration, as a preferred treatment approach for UC, offers benefits such as convenience, cost-effectiveness, and better patient compliance. …”
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Influence of mood disorders on outcomes of polycystic ovarian syndrome - A national inpatient sample study - 2016–2020 by Bob Weng, Reid Morrissey, Jenna Lehn, Mustafa Beidas, Tauseef Abubakar, Mohsin Mirza

“…Existing literature is limited but suggests comorbid mood derangements increase the severity of PCOS symptoms and comprise a significant portion of healthcare costs in the U.S. Our study aims to further examine the impact of PCOS on the hospitalization course and costs. …”
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History Matching of a Channelized Reservoir Using a Serial Denoising Autoencoder Integrated with ES-MDA by Sungil Kim, Baehyun Min, Seoyoon Kwon, Min-gon Chu

“…The results of this study imply that a well-trained SDAE has the potential to be a reliable auxiliary method for enhancing the performance of data assimilation algorithms if the computational cost required for machine learning is affordable.…”
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A comprehensive review on Mg-based materials as filler in mixed matrix membranes for CO2 separation by Payam Veisi, Alireza Askari, Arash Fattah-alhosseini

“…Abstracts: The crisis of excessive increase in CO2 emissions has quickly become a serious issue and requires low-cost and bio-compatible solutions. The employee of membrane technology for CO2 gas separation has garnered significant interest among researchers. …”
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Growth and optical caracteristics of the CsI:Li scintillator crystal for use as radiation detector by Maria da Conceição Costa Pereira, Tufic Madi Filho, Lucas Faustino Tomaz, José Roberto Berretta

“…The study of the CsI:Li crystal is convenient considering the natural abundance of the lithium element with 7.5%, besides the interest in having a low cost national scintillator material with an opportunity to search the response of a detector for different types of radiation. …”
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Exploring Seed Priming as a Strategy for Enhancing Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Cereal Crops by Iman Janah, Abdelhadi Elhasnaoui, Raja Ben Laouane, Mohamed Ait-El-Mokhtar, Mohamed Anli

“…Seed resilience and performance are foundational to sustainable agriculture, making the development of efficient, low-cost, and environmentally friendly strategies to enhance seed vigor and stress tolerance a critical priority. …”
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Etiological characteristics and practical lessons of a major outbreak of acute intestinal infection among migrant workers by A. A. Yakovlev, M. N. Pogromskaya, I. P. Fedunyak, V. B. Musatov, V. N. Kutuzov, I. V. Gorbova, L. A. Kaftyreva, Yu. N. Korzhaev, L. V. Petrova

“…In the process of medical care when analysing the outbreak among migrants a number of requirements and problems was revealed; solving these problems will make it possible to stop similar epidemic situations during the shortest period and at the lowest cost.…”
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A Mobile Application to Reduce Time to Calculate Medication Dosage and Medication Administration Errors in Simulated Pediatric and Neonatal Settings: A Research Protocol for a Cros... by Somaye Norouzi, Zahra Sarkohi, Leila Alizadeh, Leila Ahmadian

“…If this application proves to be effective, it can be a very cost‐effective means of improving outcomes in the medication administration process, positively affecting many pediatrics and neonates' patients. …”
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Optimizing Large Railway Vision Models for Efficient In-Context Learning by Xuemei Zhan, Xubo Wu, Hua Ma

“…Additionally, we implement a multi-level feature concatenation technique to enhance transferability across different railway-related tasks and reduce the computation cost. Compared to existing LRVMs, our model demonstrates significant improvement in computational efficiency, achieving a 19-fold reduction in FLOPs. …”
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Recitation tasks revamped? Students’ perceptions of smartphone-based experimental and programming tasks in introductory mechanics by Simon Zacharias Lahme, Dominik Dorsel, Heidrun Heinke, Pascal Klein, Andreas Müller, Christoph Stampfer, Sebastian Staacks

“…Smartphones, combined with external sensor modules, serve as a gateway enabling students to conduct various low-cost and authentic physics experiments with first-hand data collection outside traditional lab settings. …”
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Modeling Fuzzy Moral Hazard in Credit Default Swap Pricing: A Reduced-Form Approach by Liang Wu, Hongtao Hua

“…This approach not only lowers credit management costs but also fosters the healthy development of financial markets.…”
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Biogas Production Using Flexible Biodigester to Foster Sustainable Livelihood Improvement in Rural Households by Charles David, Venkata Krishna Kishore Kolli, Karpagaraj Anbalagan

“…By designing and developing balloon-type anaerobic biodigesters, this initiative provides a robust, cost-effective, and scalable method to convert farm waste into biogas for household cooking. …”
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Nanometer-Ranged Interfacial Interactions of the VRFB-Cell Electrolyte Species: An Implication of Molecular Dynamics Simulation by Anant Babu Marahatta

“…In the large-scale energy storage technological sectors and many other state-of-the-art renewable energy subsidy policies, the vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) stands as a low variable cost yet promising electrochemical assembly applicable to convert “all-vanadium” electrolyte stored chemical energy into electrical energy. …”
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NeuralPDR: neural differential equations as surrogate models for photodissociation regions by Gijs Vermariën, Thomas G Bisbas, Serena Viti, Yue Zhao, Xuefei Tang, Rahul Ravichandran

“…In the age of high-resolution telescopes such as JWST and ALMA, the substructure of many objects can be resolved, raising the need for astrochemical modeling at these smaller scales, meaning that the simulations of these objects need to include both the physics and chemistry to accurately model the observations. The computational cost of the simulations coupling both the three-dimensional hydrodynamics and chemistry is enormous, creating an opportunity for surrogate models that can effectively substitute the chemical solver. …”
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Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Herbal Treatments and Medicinal Plants: A Comprehensive Review by Kimia Goudarzi, Jahangir Kamalpour, Saghar Zekri, Raisa A. Aringazina, Ramazon Sharofiddin Safarzoda, Amin Tamadon, Nader Tanideh

“…Herbal remedies have been used for centuries across cultures to manage various disorders due to their cost efficiency, availability, and safe nature. Several studies have demonstrated the efficiency of herbal remedies in the treatment of female reproductive disorders, including PCOS. …”
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Exploring the Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations Behind Electric Motorcycle Adoption in Yogyakarta, Indonesia by Dimas B. E. Dharmowijoyo, Muhammad Zudhy Irawan, Nindyo C. Kresnanto, Sakinah F. Shalihati, Anugrah Illahi

“…Among policy measures, free battery replacement emerged as more influential than free annual vehicle tax, although range, maintenance cost, and charging time remained more critical determinants. …”
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