Evidence of successful methane mitigation in one of Europe's most important oil production region by G. Kuhlmann, F. Stavropoulou, F. Stavropoulou, S. Schwietzke, D. Zavala-Araiza, A. Thorpe, A. Hueni, L. Emmenegger, A. Calcan, A. Calcan, T. Röckmann, D. Brunner

“…<p>Reducing methane emissions from the oil and gas production infrastructure is a cost-effective way for limiting global warming. In 2019, a measurement campaign in southern Romania found emission rates from the oil and gas sector substantially higher than the nationally reported emissions, with a few high-emitting sources (“super-emitters”) contributing disproportionately to total emissions. …”
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Sustainable hybrid nanocomposites from agro-waste: Mechanical and thermal performance of WASP–BF–PALF blends by Sathish Thanikodi, R. Saravanan

“…Additionally, the use of agro-waste materials enhances sustainability and cost-effectiveness. The composites were produced by compression molding and were evaluated for their mechanical, thermal, and structural characteristics. …”
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Efficient coding in biophysically realistic excitatory-inhibitory spiking networks by Veronika Koren, Simone Blanco Malerba, Tilo Schwalger, Stefano Panzeri

“…The principle of efficient coding posits that sensory cortical networks are designed to encode maximal sensory information with minimal metabolic cost. Despite the major influence of efficient coding in neuroscience, it has remained unclear whether fundamental empirical properties of neural network activity can be explained solely based on this normative principle. …”
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OPTIMIZATION OF PHARMACEUTICAL CARE FOR JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL by A. A. Skripko, L. N. Geller, G. G. Radnaev, Т. V. Hadanova

“…It is irrational to start the GIBP treatment immediately because of possible side effects and their high cost. According to the content analysis of the reports of the regional Ministry of Health on preferential drug provision of handicapped children, both in hospital and at outpatient treatment stage, the pharmacotherapy schemes including Adalimumab, Abatacept, Infl iximab, Tocilizumab, Etanercept are most in demand.Conclusion. …”
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Factors influencing HIV testing choices among Chinese undergraduates: insights from a discrete choice experiment by Hangjing Zhang, Xuan Zhu, Yuting Zhang, Juyang Xiong

“…They were asked to make eight choices between two unlabeled alternatives that differed in five attributes (testing location, testing sample, additional services, testing cost, and minimum travel time). Data were analyzed using a mixed logit model. …”
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THE INFLUENCE OF PLATE CONFIGURATION AND CUO NANOFLUIDS ON HEAT TRANSFER AND PRESSURE DROP IN PLATE HEAT EXCHANGERS by Amina H. DhaefAlikhan, Hadi O. Mery, Sadiq Emad Sadiq, Osamah M. Mohammed

“…The problems of using nanofluids at high concentrations in plate heat exchangers such as sedimentation, blockage, and cost prompted researchers to try new techniques to improve the efficiency of heat exchangers by using low concentrations of nanofluids. …”
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Pertanggungjawaban Hukum Perbuatan Praktek Tukang Gigi by Imelda Ongkiwijaya, John Dirk Pasalbessy, Deassy Jacomina Anthoneta Hehanussa

“…Several cases indicate that it turns out that the practice of dental artisans has become one of the people's choices given the low cost and practicality in providing services, even though medically the consequences are often not considered, and if a victim arises, the legal issue is whether dental artisans can be held legally responsible, if so, what form? …”
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Demand side management with electric vehicles and optimal renewable resources integration under system uncertainties by Mohamed Mostafa Eissa, Rania Abdel Wahed Swief, Tarek Saad Abdel Salam

“…Moreover, shifting peak hours flattens the load profile, thereby reducing costs and power loss across the distribution network. …”
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A guideline study for optimal machine learning approaches to predict the off-design performance of sCO2-PCHEs by Xin Sui, Wenqi Wang, Chunyang Liu, Peixin Dong

“…As research increasingly focuses on predicting the off-design performance of PCHEs using machine learning (ML) approaches, there is a clear need to identify the most cost-effective method that offers optimal accuracy and generalization across a wide range of operating conditions in sCO2 power cycles. …”
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Forensic Discrimination of Lipstick Stains Using Attenuated Total Reflectance-Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and Pattern Recognition Techniques by Mohd Afiq Mohd Azis, Naji Arafat Mahat, Hasmerya Maarof, Sarah Aina Azman

“…Hence, such an approach to combine the non-destructive ATR-FTIR analysis with PCA and LDA is not only easy and cost-effective but also forensically relevant for enabling the data mining process for forensic intelligence.…”
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Lightweight and high performance nano-cellular poly(lactic acid)/poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-4-hydroxybutyrate) foams characterized by high volume expansion ratio by Yan Wang, Yibing Chai, Linyan Wang, Guijiang Zhang, Kesong Yu, Xiaoke Sun, Enle Ji

“…An efficient method was developed to fabricate nano-scale poly(lactic acid) (PLA) foams with high volume expansion ratio (VER) aiming at optimizing their properties and cost-effectiveness. The introduction of chain extender ADR (1 wt%) provided enhanced melt strength maintaining cell growth, which created conditions for high value of VER during foaming. …”
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Swin-ReshoUnet: A Seismic Profile Signal Reconstruction Method Integrating Hierarchical Convolution, ORCA Attention, and Residual Channel Attention Mechanism by Jie Rao, Mingju Chen, Xiaofei Song, Chen Xie, Xueyang Duan, Xiao Hu, Senyuan Li, Xingyue Zhang

“…The decoder replaces traditional self-attention with ORCA attention to enable global context modeling with lower computational cost. Skip connections integrate a residual channel attention module, mitigating gradient degradation via dual-pooling feature fusion and activation optimization, forming a full-link optimization from low-level feature enhancement to high-level semantic integration. …”
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Treatment of patients with malignant lymphoproliferative diseases in the Russian Federation: analysis of the data from 75 regions by G. R. Hachatryan, T. S. Teptsova, V. A. Lemeshko, N. Z. Musina

“…Among the malignant LPDs, the highest costs of drug therapy in 2016 pertained to lymphosarcoma, and in 2017 – to Hodgkin’s lymphoma. …”
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A Comprehensive Review of Unimodal and Multimodal Fingerprint Biometric Authentication Systems: Fusion, Attacks, and Template Protection by U. Sumalatha, K. Krishna Prakasha, Srikanth Prabhu, Vinod C. Nayak

“…This review highlights understanding the classification, types of biometric traits and their comparisons, fingerprint recognition stands out as a reliable and widely adopted method due to its simplicity and cost-effectiveness, accuracy and robustness compared to others. …”
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CFD-simulation of impact jet radiator for thermal testing of microprocessors by V. E. Trofimov, A. L. Pavlov, A. S. Storozhuk

“…It is shown that the use of combined dead-end cavities with extra finning is the best of the considered solutions and allows for a sharp (up to 44%) intensification of heat transfer in the radiator in comparison with cylindrical dead-end cavities, but at a cost - the loss of air pressure increases up to 20%. …”
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Privacy–preserving dementia classification from EEG via hybrid–fusion EEGNetv4 and federated learning by Muhammad Umair, Muhammad Shahbaz Khan, Muhammad Hanif, Wad Ghaban, Ibtehal Nafea, Sultan Noman Qasem, Sultan Noman Qasem, Faisal Saeed

“…Electroencephalography (EEG) based diagnosis presents a non-invasive, cost effective alternative for early detection, yet existing methods are challenged by data scarcity, inter-subject variability, and privacy concerns. …”
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Assessment of Reader Technologies for Over-the-Counter Diagnostic Testing by Mia Cirrincione, Maren Downing, Kevin Leite, Samuel Dolphin, Adam Samuta, Mack Schermer, Kimberly Noble, Brian Walsh

“…Readers were categorized by technology type and parameters including cost, detection method, multiplex capabilities, assay type, maturity, and use case were all assessed. …”
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An Investigation of Textbook Purchase and Usage Patterns among Undergraduate Students at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana by Michael Ato Essuman, Twene Ampofo, Harry Barton Essel, Francis Nimo Nunoo, Reuben Agbelengor Glover

“…The findings revealed that the cost of textbooks did not seem to affect students’ textbook purchasing intentions. …”
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Finger drawing on smartphone screens enables early Parkinson's disease detection through hybrid 1D-CNN and BiGRU deep learning architecture. by Zhaohui Zhu, E Wu, Pengfei Leng, Jiajun Sun, Mingming Ma, Zhigeng Pan

“…Furthermore, it facilitates cost-effective and convenient PD assessment in remote healthcare and patient monitoring, particularly in resource-limited settings.…”
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Reliability of remote self-administered digital cognitive assessments: preliminary validation study by Duong Huynh, Siao Ye, Reza Hosseini Ghomi, Reza Hosseini Ghomi, Mary Patterson, Bin Huang

“…Digital cognitive assessments (DCAs) with remote testing capabilities have emerged as an efficient and cost-effective solution. The aim of this study was to validate the reliability of BrainCheck, a platform for DCAs, when self-administered remotely.MethodsA total of 46 participants (60.9% female; age range 52–76) remotely completed a battery of six BrainCheck cognitive assessments twice on the same device (iPad = 8, iPhone = 5, laptop = 33): the participants self-administered in one session and were administered by a research coordinator (RC) in the other session. …”
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