CLINICAL AND ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF LACOSAMIDE IN PATIENTS WITH PARTIAL EPILEPSY by E. A. Pyadushkina, M. Yu. Frolov

“…The Model allows calculation of the direct medical costs (for the drugs and medical services) and direct non-medical costs (payment of temporary and permanent disability allowances) from the point of view of healthcare and social security system of a constituent member of the Russian Federation. …”
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Maternal and neonatal outcomes following preterm birth: a retrospective cohort study by James Li, Matthew Davis, Kara M Rood, Vanessa Perez Patel, Eric Zuk, Damien Croft, Hyagriv N Simhan

“…Background Preterm births (PTBs) and associated costs in the USA are a public health concern. This study evaluated maternal and neonatal hospital-based outcomes, resource use and costs during delivery and up to 30 days postdischarge following PTB.Methods This study was conducted in the USA among individuals who delivered at ≥23 weeks gestation (1 January 2016–30 September 2021) captured in the Premier AI Healthcare Database. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 infection on social care use in people over 50 years of age: a matched cohort study in North-West London by Jennifer K Quint, Rachel Russell, Benjamin Bray, SIMON CHEN, Alejandra Castanon, Elizabeth Adesanya, Rebecca Butfield

“…Adults with COVID-19 had over four times higher social care costs than matched comparators (£1276 per person per year (pppy) vs £276 pppy; mean difference +£1000, 95% CI £947 to £1054, p<0.0001), with most of the costs due to care home admissions. …”
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Infrastructure Lifecycle Corrosion Management Using AI Analytics and Digital Twins by Bilal Ayyub, Karl Stambaugh

“…Corrosion in infrastructure creates high-risk scenarios, and mitigation strategies are expensive, with significant annual costs globally. This paper advances the discourse of corrosion monitoring and tracking in infrastructure, emphasizing the importance of data analytics, AI, and Digital Twins (DT) for managing the infrastructure lifecycle while reducing risk and costs associated with corrosion. …”
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Model for Evaluating Outsourcing Logistics Companies in the COVID-19 Pandemic by Cheng-An Tsai, Tien-Hwa Ho, Jyh-Shyan Lin, Chien-Chih Tu, Che-Wei Chang

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected the world’s manufacturing industry, particularly in terms of the continued increase in logistics costs that has led to an increase in business operating costs. …”
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Systematic Prioritization of Sensor Improvements in an Industrial Gas Supply Network by Onur Babat, Ali Esmaili, Joshua D. Isom, Camilo Mancilla, Luis F. Zuluaga

“…The paper analyzes the impact of the sensor reading errors on parameters that affect the production costs of a leading US industrial gas supply company. …”
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SYSTEM OF EMPLOYMENT OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN THE LIGHT OF THE CONCEPTS BY ARTHUR PIGOU AND RONALD COASE by Marcin Garbat

“…In 1960, Economist Ronald Coase published the article entitled „The Problem of Social Costs”, which is still one of the most frequently cited economic texts raising heated discussions. …”
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Fuzzy clustering based scheduling algorithm for minimizing the tasks completion time in cloud computing environment by Nawaf R. Alharbe

“…The goal is to make better use of resources while cutting down on scheduling costs. By categorizing resources based on their characteristics, this method aims to lower search costs during project planning and speed up the resource selection process. …”
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INNOVATIVE FACTORS AS THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMPETITIVENESS OF REGIONS OF THE SIBERIAN FEDERAL DISTRICT by S. Yakovlev

“…The dependence of the gross regional product per capita of some of the factors influencing the innovative development of the region: internal costs of research and development, the current internal development costs, the number of patents granted. …”
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APPROACH TO OPTIMISING AND MANAGING WAREHOUSE STOCKS IN A CAR SERVICE by Ivan Beloev, Dimitar Grozev

“…The objective of the proposed model is to minimise the total inventory costs, including purchasing, holding, and potential shortage costs, by applying integer linear programming techniques. …”
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ECONOMIC BURDEN OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN 2016 by A. N. Kontsevaya, O. M. Drapkina, Yu. A. Balanova, A. E. Imaeva, E. I. Suvorova, M. B. Khudyakov

“…To evaluate the economic burden of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in the Russian Federation (RF) in 2016, including the direct costs and the economic losses caused by reduced productivity.Material and methods. …”
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Spatial Model for Determining the Optimum Placement of Logistics Centers in a Predefined Economic Area by Ramona Iulia Țarțavulea (Dieaconescu), Mihaela Gabriela Belu, Dorel Mihai Paraschiv, Ioan Popa

“…The output data of the model are the precise placement of one up to ten logistics centers, in terms of minimum operational costs for delivery from the optimum locations to consumer points. …”
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Directions of the Energy Transition in District Heating: Case Study of Poland by Marian Kampik, Krzysztof Konopka, Damian Gonscz, Wiesław Domański

“…Arguments “for” and “against” both transformation paths are provided. Analyses of the costs of transforming district heating systems along both trajectories are conducted. …”
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The Ambulatory and Home Care Record: A Methodological Framework for Economic Analyses in End-of-Life Care by Denise N. Guerriere, Peter C. Coyte

“…This paper addresses the methods used to measure end-of-life care costs. The existing empirical literature will be reviewed in order to assess care costs with areas neglected in this body of literature to be identified. …”
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LINEAR FILTRATION OF RANDOM SEQUENCES USING A LEAST SQUARE METHOD WITH REGULARIZATION by V. M. Artemiev, A. O. Naumov, L. L. Kokhan

“…At high problem dimension the Kalman filter becomes difficult to realize in real time due to the high computational costs. Alternatively, a technique of filter synthesis on the basis of the extended least square method with extended square discrepancy is given. …”
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Cross-docking in retail: Sustainable EOQ-based models for multi-item inventory systems with imperfect quality and stockouts under carbon cap-and-trade by Makoena Sebatjane, Amir Hossein Nobil, Erfan Nobil

“…This strategy reduces the costs of managing inventory in retail operations by streamlining the supply chain from the point of origin to the point of sale. …”
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Cryoballoon Ablation With the POLARx FIT or the Arctic Front Advance Pro for Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation: A Health Economic Analysis by Luigi Pannone, Steffen Uffenorde, Antonia Bosworth Smith, Domenico Giovanni Della Rocca, Pasquale Vergara, Ioannis Doundoulakis, Antonio Sorgente, Alvise Del Monte, Giacomo Talevi, Ingrid Overeinder, Gezim Bala, Alexandre Almorad, Erwin Ströker, Juan Sieira, Ali Gharaviri, Mark La Meir, Pedro Brugada, Andrea Sarkozy, Gian Battista Chierchia, Carlo de Asmundis

“…Compared with the Arctic Front Advance Pro, the POLARx FIT™ CB-A was associated with lower procedural costs (€2069.7 ± €165.2 vs €2239.5 ±  €366.0; _P_ =.009)…”
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Distributed Robust Low-Carbon Economic Dispatch of Power Systems Considering Extreme Scenarios by HU Heng, QIN Jianru, LI Haibo, LIU Jiefeng

“…A two-stage distributionally robust optimization （DRO） model is proposed， minimizing day-ahead operational costs and intraday costs including carbon trading， rescheduling expenses， and risk penalties. …”
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Efficacy of Hospital at Home in Patients with Heart Failure: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. by Amro Qaddoura, Payam Yazdan-Ashoori, Conrad Kabali, Lehana Thabane, R Brian Haynes, Stuart J Connolly, Harriette Gillian Christine Van Spall

“…Compared to routine hospitalization (RH), hospital at home (HaH)--substitutive hospital-level care in the patient's home--improves outcomes and reduces costs in patients with general medical conditions. …”
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Introduction of an Auxiliary Breaker into the Generator-Transformer Block for Energy Saving in Open Switchgear Circuits of Power Plants by A. S. Barukin, M. Ya. Kletsel, A. Zh. Dinmukhanbetova, D. A. Amirbek

“…Also, equations are given for calculation of a decrease in UE, damage due to it during reconstruction, and costs for the construction of a power plant (the costs are assumed to be the same in all options). …”
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