Numerical Simulation and Optimization of Outdoor Wind Environment in High-Rise Buildings Zone of Xuzhou City by Huanhuan Fang, Xiang Ji, Jiuxin Wang, Jijun Lu, Mengcheng Yang, Jiajun Li, Zhongcheng Duan

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Cost Analysis of Reclaimed Asphalt Concrete for Rigid Pavement Construction. by Ariho, Dan

“…A unit cost analysis for producing a m3 of RAP concrete and normal concrete showed that, utilization of RAP as aggregates in production of 1m3 of concrete will yield a cost saving of about 20% and 14% resulting from the use of RAP in production of concrete for mixes 1:3:6 and 1:2:4 respectively. …”
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The Effect of Poverty on Rural Livelihoods in Uganda: A Case Study of Katooke Sub-County Kyenjojo District. by Mukabazaire, Mary

“…The respondents argued that People living in poverty don't have the means to weather the storms of life so when there is a drought, or conflict, or illness, there is little money saved or assets on hand to help. In Kyenjojo District repeated cycles of drought have caused harvest after harvest to fail. causing a widespread hunger crisis. …”
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Assessing the Influence of High Population Growth Rate on Food Security in Nyamweru Subcounty Rubanda District. by Twinamasiko, Derrick

“…From the study findings, the role of the population growth rate towards food security in the Nyamweru sub-county Rubanda district promotes food production. encourages saving and investments, high population growth puts greater pressure on health and improves its quality, leads to a rapid increase in school-age population that calls for more investment in education, high population growth leads to an efficiency of developing countries and their political system and high population puts pressure on urban physical infrastructures leading to development, the study results also on challenges affecting population growth rate on food security in Nyamweru sub county Rubanda district, were inadequate capital for investment, shortage of enough land. poor infrastructure development, climatic changes, over-utilization of land, and political instability the study results also on how a high population growth rate promotes food security in the Nyanweru sub-county Rubanda district the findings were through the development of drought-resistant crops, investment in rural infrastructure, irrigation, improved storage facilities and investment in sustainable technologies. …”
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Experiences and Perceptions on Community Client-Led ART Delivery (CCLADS) Model of Antiretroviral (ART) Delivery: Patients’ and Providers’ Perspectives in South Western Uganda. by Kasande, Meble, Tusimiirwe, Happiness, Taremwa, Michael, Lamulatu, Kabiite, Amanyire, Mark, Nakidde, Gladys, Kabami, Jane

“…Benefits to ALHIV included: Longer refills, reduced transport costs, receiving drugs in time, and peer advice; to providers: time-saving, less tiresome, and reduced congestion at the facility. …”
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Effect of Household Income on Household Welfare in Kitumba Sub-County Kabale District. by Kakuru, Richard

“…The study recommended that there should be implementation of financial literacy programs to educate households on managing finances, saving for emergencies, and planning for healthcare needs. …”
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Marketing Cooperatives and sustainable Agricultural development in Rulindo District, Rwanda by Nkubito, Habyarimana Jean Pierre

“…The study recommends that collective savings action is encouraged because it strengthens members’ market position, bargaining power, lobbying power, meeting their household consumption needs and enhancing potential income generating capacity together with investing on own education and health care requirements.…”
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The Affirmative Action and Household Income Status of the Batwa Community Evicted From Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, Kanungu District, Uganda by Saulo, Katariko

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Composite microbial agent improves cotton yield and resource use efficiency under mild salt stress by optimizing plant resource allocation by Xiao Zhao, Panpan Guo, Xiong Wu, Meng Zhu, Shaozhong Kang, Taisheng Du, Jian Kang, Jinliang Chen, Ling Tong, Risheng Ding, Wanli Xu, Guangmu Tang

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A novel approach for target deconvolution from phenotype-based screening using knowledge graph by Xiaohong Wang, Meifang Zhang, Jianliang Xu, Xin Li, Jing Xiong, Haowei Cao, Fangkun Dou, Xue Zhai, Hua Sun

“…Analysis based on the PPIKG narrowed down candidate proteins from 1088 to 35, significantly saving time and cost. Subsequent molecular docking led us to pinpoint USP7 as a direct target for the p53 pathway activator UNBS5162. …”
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Microbial consortium culture and vermi-composting technologies for recycling on-farm wastes and food production by Girish Chander, Suhas P. Wani, S. Gopalakrishnan, Ankita Mahapatra, Swati Chaudhury, C. S. Pawar, Manoj Kaushal, A. V. R. Kesava Rao

“…Field evaluation of both composts showed yield benefit and saving of chemical fertilizers up to 25%. Conclusions Aerobic-composting (using microbial consortium culture), like vermi-composting, proved to be an effective technology with advantage of no requirement to maintain ambient living conditions in lean periods as is required for earthworms in vermi-composting, but needs more energy/labor for biomass turnings.…”
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Deficit Irrigation and an IoT-Based System for Improving Yield and Water Use Efficiency of Winter Wheat Grown Under Semi-Arid Conditions by Salah Belkher, Basma Latrech, Wifak Bekri, Felix Markwordt, Mohamed Abdur Rahim, Corentin Dupont, Mohamed Ali Ben Abdallah, Hedi Daghari, Mourad Rezig

“…In the context of water restriction, the adoption of innovative technology and water saving strategies is crucial to sustainable agriculture production. …”
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Distribution of air quality health benefits of medium and heavy-duty electrification policies in New York City by Brian Naess, Jonathan Buonocore, Veronica Southerland, Muskaan Khemani, Catherine Seppanen, Ananya Roy, Frederica Perera, Kaitlyn E Coomes, Rick Rykowski, Saravanan Arunachalam

“…We find that electrification of MHDVs would have substantial air pollution and health benefits for NYC, with full on-road electrification of MHDVs saving $2.4 billion in health costs in 2040, including the prevention of 248 deaths and 173 childhood asthma emergency departments visits. …”
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Optimizing Microwave-Assisted Extraction of Carbohydrate from Scenedesmus sp. Cultivated in Domestic Wastewater by Yeong Hwang Tan, Mee Kin Chai, Ling Shing Wong, Mei Yin Ong, Ranjithkumar Rajamani

“…To address the limitation, microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) has been shown as an efficient, energy-saving, low-environment impact, and rapid extraction method for plant materials. …”
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Rationale and design for Healthy Hearts in Manufacturing (HHM): A pragmatic single-arm hybrid effectiveness-implementation study for hypertension management and tobacco cessation by Hanzi Jiang, Yao Tian, Jennifer Bannon, Amy E. Krefman, Lawrence C. An, Dustin D. French, Claude R. Maechling, Jane Holl, Richard Chagnon, Theresa L. Walunas, Christopher Burch, Anthony Musci, Darce Latsis, Dawn Carey, Megan McHugh

“…We will conduct interviews to identify facilitators and barriers to implementation and budget impact analysis to estimate the financial impact of the HMM interventions and the potential healthcare savings to companies and Medicare. Results: Twelve WHCs were randomly selected to enroll in HHM. …”
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Development of Novel Oral Delivery Systems Using Additive Manufacturing Technologies to Overcome Biopharmaceutical Challenges for Future Targeted Drug Delivery by Micol Cirilli, Julius Krause, Andrea Gazzaniga, Werner Weitschies, Matteo Cerea, Christoph Rosenbaum

“…<b>Results:</b> The results demonstrated that the system remained in the space-saving configuration for two hours under acidic conditions. …”
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Predicting nonequilibrium Green’s function dynamics and photoemission spectra via nonlinear integral operator learning by Yuanran Zhu, Jia Yin, Cian C Reeves, Chao Yang, Vojtěch Vlček

“…By using the learned operators as a surrogate model in the KBE solver, we obtain a general machine-learning scheme for predicting the dynamics of nonequilibrium Green’s functions. Besides significant savings per each time step, the new methodology reduces the temporal computational complexity from $O(N_t^3)$ to $O(N_t)$ where N _t is the number of steps taken in a simulation, thereby making it possible to study large many-body problems which are currently infeasible with conventional KBE solvers. …”
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Heating water using the hot air of condensers and tubes-and-fins heat exchangers – Thermodynamic modeling and parametric study with economic and environmental insights by Ahmad Al Takash, Jalal Faraj, Sary Awad, Hicham El Hage, Mahmoud Khaled

“…Similarly, lowering the water inlet temperature from 35 °C to 15 °C increased the power output from 11.28 kW to 15 kW The study highlighted the notable savings with various COP and cooling load, particularly at low COP and a cooling load of 30 kW. …”
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Market participation and profitability of small scale garri processing in Edo, Ogun and Oyo States, Nigeria by Jelili Olaide Saka, Veronica Adeoti Obatolu, Bosede Olukemi Lawal, Ayodeji Babatunde Idowu, Chukwudi Peter Amadi, Johnson Adedayo Adetumbi, Taofik Oyedele Dauda

“…Market participation and profitability indicated potential for increased investment in cost- and labour-saving technologies to improve productivity in the garri processing industry.…”
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Nutrient availability in tropical soils fertilized with sewage sludge and natural phosphate by Rodinei Facco Pegoraro, Jefferson Rodrigo Teixeira Silva, Leidivan Almeida Frazão, Regynaldo Arruda Sampaio, Silvana Ferreira Bicalho, Verônica Aparecida Santos Ferreira Soares

“…Conclusion:These improvements imply savings with mineral fertilizers and contribute to adopting conservationist and sustainable practices. …”
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