Investigating the Effects of Debt Convergence of Companies on the Speed of Capital Structure Adjustment Considering the Time Horizon by Sayed Mojtaba Ahmadi, Mehdi Agha Beik Zadeh, Afsaneh Soroushyar

“…This was likely because adjusting the capital structure incurred costs and given the significant gap between actual and target leverage in the early adjustment years, the companies tended to adjust their leverage more slowly during this phase. …”
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The Influence of Structural Design on the Hydrodynamics of Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Platforms by Nilotpal Dhar, Charlie J. Lloyd, John Walker, Robert M. Dorrell

“…An investigation of the effect of these members on loads is essential to optimise the design of FOWT platforms, mooring systems, and protective coatings, leading to a reduction in construction and maintenance costs. This paper numerically investigates the effect of structural members on the forces acting on a static semi-submersible platform in a unidirectional current flow of Reynolds number (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi><mi>e</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>) ranging from 2000 to 200,000, based on structural diameter and tidal velocity. …”
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THE NEED FOR JOINT PLANNING OF ORTHOPEDIC DENTAL CARE IN COMPLEX TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH DEFECTS OF MAXILLOFACIAL LOCALIZATION by L.I. Voloshyna, M.G. Skikevych, D.S. Avetikov, V.V. Bondarenko, N.A. Sokolova, V.D. Ahmerov

“….); • absence of a rational scheme of the sequence of stages of dental care of patients with defects SLL of different genesis and continuity in the provision of all types of dental care; • presence of regional differences in the management of patients with defects SLL; • lack of norms of time and norms of material and labor costs for treatment of these patients; • lack of specialists in maxillofacial prosthetics in many medical institutions. …”
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Prediction of Soil Carbon Sequestration in Rangelands Regarding the Depth and Elevation of Sample Locations using Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) (Case Study: Lar Wat... by zeinab jafarian, zhila ghorbani

“…Since field operations include soil sampling from different places and depths to measure the amount of soil carbon sequestration, it is very time-consuming and costly., On the other hand, different soil characteristics may be measured and available in many rangeland areas for other purposes using modeling and prediction under various inputs, including soil properties such as texture, acidity, electrical conductivity, etc. …”
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Climate Change Risk, Performance, and Value Added in Agricultural Sector by Ramin Amani, Zanko Ghorbani, Zana Mozaffari

“…This, in turn, results in decreased production costs, increased investment returns, surplus domestic supply, and expanded agricultural product exports. …”
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Energy and the city by Francesco Martinico

“…</p><p>In addition, planning tools have to incorporate incentives aimed at favouring higher energy standards, both for new and existing buildings. The costs of these actions should be covered by planning normative tools. …”
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Temporal and Spatial Variation of Soil Salinity Variations in a 24-year Period in Abadan District Using Satellite Images by Mehdi Mumipour

“…However, these methods are time consuming and costly, because they need large amount of sampling to determine the spatial variation of soil salinity in an area. …”
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Progress on the Global Research Agenda for Antimicrobial Resistance in Human Health in Pakistan: Findings and Implications by Maryam S, Saleem Z, Haseeb A, Qamar MU, Amir A, Almarzoky Abuhussain SS, Imam MT, Afzal S, Meyer JC, Mudenda S, Godman B

“…The pathway forward in Pakistan includes leveraging global partnerships to share knowledge, resources, and strategies to enhance the use of Access antibiotics as well as reduce AMR to reach agreed United Nations’ goals.Plain Language Summary: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a substantial threat to public health, as it reduces the number of effective antibiotics to combat infections, as well as increasing costs and the number of deaths. Pakistan is a critical country, with high and growing rates of AMR. …”
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Investigating the Response of Rainfed Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) to Different Nitrogen Fertilizer Levels in Cold Regions by Yaser Azimzadeh, Arash Mohammadzadeh, Hamid Hasanian Khoshroo, Gholamreza Ghahramanian

“…Precise determination of starter N for rainfed chickpea is critical, as excessive application increases costs, risks environmental contamination, and suppresses yields, whereas insufficient doses compromise productivity. …”
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Visual Automatic Localization Method Based on Multi-level Video Transformer by Qiping ZOU, Botao LI, Saian CHEN, Xi GUO, Taohong ZHANG

“…The LWLA employs a deformable attention mechanism, an innovative replacement for global attention that calculates feature similarity more flexibly and efficiently, reducing computational costs and mitigating slow convergence issues commonly associated with traditional models.　…”
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Minimizing competition by removing elephants from a degraded Ngulia rhino sanctuary, Kenya by Benson Okita-Ouma, Dominic Mijele, Rajan Amin, Francis Gakuya, David Ndeereh, Isaac Lekolool, Patrick Omondi, Daniel Woodley, Moses Litoroh, Juma Bakari, Richard Kock

“…There were significant maintenance problems and costs associated with elephants digging up and breaking water pipes and fittings. …”
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Research on the Combined Load-Bearing Mechanism of Deeply Buried Pressure Pipelines Under High Internal Water Pressure by LIU Yijie, ZHANG Xuhui, HUANG Bensheng, YANG Fengjie, YUAN Mingdao, XU Yunqian

“…Therefore, in engineering design, if the surrounding rock was structurally sound, stable, and the quality of concrete filling can be assured, the thickness of the steel lining may be appropriately reduced to optimize construction costs. 2) When cracks developed in the concrete layer, leading to the loss of its circumferential load-bearing capacity, the corresponding internal water pressure was redistributed between the steel lining and surrounding rock according to their respective stiffness characteristics. …”
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The study of Effective and Efficient Organizational Change Processes with an Emphasis on Islamic Management by Fazel Hajizadeh Ebrahimi, Hamid Moakedi

“…Ignoring a changing trend can be very costly. The Supreme Leader's emphasis on the importance of change and transformation in the administrative and governance sectors of the country and the lack of trust in Western versions is also a sign that this issue should be studied and investigated by relying on Islamic management at the organizational level. …”
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Validación de una encuesta de opinión sobre la eficacia de la simulación para participantes by Aida Camps-Gómez, Anna González-Fernández, Jennifer Morata-Serrano, Katherina M. Faundez-Inostroza, Carmen Gomar-Sancho, Marina Mateu-Capell

“…Simulation is an experiential and collaborative training methodology, generally multidimensional and costly, which requires reliable instruments to assess its effectiveness. …”
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Uncovering the Link Between Kynurenic Acid Pathway and Kidney Failure by Carolla El Chamieh, Sophie Liabeuf, Islam Amine Larabi, Natalia Alencar De Pinho, Margaux Costes-Albrespic, Luc Frimat, Céline Lange, Yves-Édouard Herpe, Jean-Charles Martin, Pierre Letourneau, Benoit Bérengère, Christophe Soulage, Stéphane Burtey, Jean-Claude Alvarez, Laetitia Koppe, Ziad A. Massy, Prs T. Hannedouche, B. Moulin, Dr A. Klein, Pr C. Combe, Dr J.P. Bourdenx, Dr A. Keller, Dr C. Delclaux, Dr B. Vendrely, Dr B. Deroure, Dr A. Lacraz, Dr T. Lobbedez, Dr I. Landru, Pr Z. Massy, Pr P. Lang, Dr X. Belenfant, Pr E. Thervet, Dr P. Urena, Dr M. Delahousse, Dr C. Vela, Pr M. Essig, Dr D. Clément, Dr H. Sekhri, Dr M. Smati, Dr M. Jamali, Dr B. Hacq, Dr V. Panescu, Dr M. Bellou, Pr Luc Frimat, Pr N. Kamar, Prs C. Noël et F. Glowacki, Dr N. Maisonneuve, Dr R. Azar, Dr M. Hoffmann, Pr M. Hourmant, Dr A. Testa, Dr D. Besnier, Pr G. Choukroun, Dr G. Lambrey, Pr S. Burtey, Dr G. Lebrun, Dr E. Magnant, Pr M. Laville, Pr D. Fouque, L. Juillard, Dr C. Chazot, Pr P. Zaoui, Dr F. Kuentz

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Monitoring Soil Salinity and Vegetation Using Multispectral Remote Sensing Data in Interceptor Drain of Salt Marsh in Qazvin Plain by Afshin Uossef Gomrokchi, Mehdi Akbari, Mehdi Akbari, Mahdi Younesi

“…Extended Abstract 1-Introduction One of the methods of salinity monitoring is ground-based data, which can be time-consuming and costly, especially if large-scale monitoring is performed over multiple time periods. …”
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Carbon Footprint Assessment in Shrimp Pond Farming of Penaeus vannamei Based on Life Cycle Assessment Methods by Yunfei WANG, Xinmeng WANG, Ying LI, Jinzhen YU, Jie KONG, Jihong ZHANG

“…The ongoing aquaculture boom incurs environmental costs, while providing protein to the fast-growing human population. …”
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On the Evaluation of the Reaction of Urban Managers Facing Flood as an Environmental Hazard with Emphasis on Resiliency (Case Study: Jiroft city) by Hossein Ghazanfarpour, 1 Marzieh Sedaghat Kish, Mogtaba Soleymani Damaneh, Yasser Sabahi Goraghani

“…In terms of occurrence, the flood is the highest and in terms of damage it is considered to be the most costly natural disaster in the world which has an impact on human societies. …”
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Expression characteristics and functional identification of PpD2 gene in peach (Prunus persica) by XIE Hefang, ZHANG Yajia, ZHANG Junjie, LIAN Xiaodong, ZHANG Haipeng, CHENG Jun, WANG Wei, HOU Nan, WANG Lei, ZHENG Xianbo, FENG Jiancan, WANG Xiaobei, TAN Bin

“…These traits significantly increase labor costs due to the need for extensive pruning and canopy management. …”
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Assessment of Microsatellite Genetic Diversity of Cultured Eriocheir sinensis Populations from Jiangsu and Anhui by Yuting HU, Jun LING, He JIANG, Huan WANG, Tingshuang PAN, Guoqing DUAN, Huaxing ZHOU, Min YANG, Tong LI

“…However, to reduce production costs, some breeding farms blindly introduce Chinese mitten crabs to one another, and do not perform germplasm detection during breeding, causing germplasm resources to be random and mixed, which directly affects the quality of juvenile crabs and results in the risk of germplasm decline. …”
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