Exploring Bare Ownership Supply of Housing in Urban Environments by Maria Rosaria Guarini, Alejandro Segura-de-la-Cal, Francesco Sica, Yilsy Núñez-Guerrero

“…Europe faces a situation where housing represents the main savings for most of the population, while the majority of homeowners are seniors aged over 65. …”
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Selecting Candidates for Liver Transplantation: A Medical Ethics Perspective on the Microallocation of a Scarce and Rationed Resource by Eric M Yoshida

“…In particular, the contrasting viewpoints of bioethicists Nicholas Rescher and James Childress, with respect to nonmedical and social criteria in the selection of patients for scarce, life-saving therapies, are explored. Lastly, some alternative ethical models for patient selection are reviewed.…”
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Distributionally Robust Self-Scheduling Optimization with CO2 Emissions Constraints under Uncertainty of Prices by Minru Bai, Zhupei Yang

“…As a major energy-saving industry, power industry has implemented energy-saving generation dispatching. …”
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An Efficient Approximate Multiplier with Encoded Partial Products and Inexact Counter for Joint Photographic Experts Group Compression by Elham Esmaeili, Nabiollah Shiri

“…Looking at the normalized mean error distance (NMED), the multiplier has a 51.33% power–delay product (PDP) saving and acceptable accuracy. Besides, the multiplier which is configured by the counter and PPG accomplishes a 28.31% savings in the PDP × NMED in comparison with other approximate Booth multipliers. …”
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Energy Efficient Relay Communication Technology：Overviewand Prospects by Huan Yu, Yunzhou Li, Xin Su, Jing Wang

“…In recent years, with the growth of the g1oba1 energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, the energy saving prob1em has aroused c1ose attention of the who1e wor1d.In the fie1d of wire1ess communications, the industry as we11 as the academia has paid increasing attention to the energy efficient communications.In the wire1ess communication systems, re1ayed transmission has become an effective way to increase the coverage, throughput and transmission re1iabi1ity of the networks.Meanwhi1e, a 1ong transmission distance can be divided into two or more short pieces by re1ay, which can 1arge1y reduce the transmission power consumption; as a resu1t, re1ayed transmission has the natura1 energy-saving potentia1.Energy-efficient re1ay communication techno1ogy was introduced, inc1uding the power consumption mode1 of the re1ay network, energy efficient re1ay 1ink and energy efficient re1ay network.…”
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Optimizing Healthcare Expenditure for Spinal Cord Stimulation in Italy: The Value of Battery Longevity Improvement and a Direct-to-Implant Approach by Federica Tito, Gianfranco Sindaco, Simon Eggington, Elisa Tacconi, Francesca Borghetti, Mara Corbo, Gilberto Pari

“…Compared with Devices A and B, Device C offered savings of €4227 and €2712, respectively; similar savings were predicted with a 2-step implant approach. …”
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A century of Azolla filiculoides biocontrol: the economic value of Stenopelmus rufinasus to Great Britain by Corin F. Pratt, Kate Constantine, Suzy V. Wood

“…Additional augmentative releases of the weevil provide further net cost savings, tackling A. filiculoides outbreaks and bolstering naturalised populations. …”
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Cost-effectiveness of Chloride-liberal versus Chloriderestrictive Intravenous Fluids among Patients Hospitalized in the United States by Louise Perrault, Dilip Makhija, Idal Beer, Suzanne Laplante, Sergio Iannazzo, Karthik Raghunathan

“…Higher costs of chloride-restrictive crystalloids were offset by savings from avoided renal adverse events. Chloride-liberal crystalloids were dominant over chloride-restrictive crystalloids, gaining 93.5 life-years and 81.4 QALYs while saving $298 576 over the cohort lifespan. …”
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Modelling the potential clinical and economic impact of universal antenatal hepatitis C (HCV) screening and providing treatment for pregnant women with HCV and their infants in Egy... by Giuseppe Indolfi, Diana M Gibb, Aya Mostafa, Sarah Pett, Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Sylvie Deuffic-Burban, Anthony E Ades, Karen Scott, Ali Judd, Nadia Hachicha-Maalej, Clotilde Lepers, Intira Jeannie Collins, Manal H El Sayed

“…Prophylactic treatment at birth for infants born to HCV RNA-positive mothers would also be similarly cost saving, even with treatment uptake as low as 15% (US$218.6, 46.3525 and 0.0359 years). …”
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Comparative Evaluation of Biomass Power Generation Systems in China Using Hybrid Life Cycle Inventory Analysis by Huacai Liu, Xiuli Yin, Chuangzhi Wu

“…Results show that requirements of fossil energy savings, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions, as well as emission reductions of SO2 and NOx, can be best met by the BPG systems. …”
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Development and Validation of Near-Infrared Methods for the Quantitation of Caffeine, Epigallocatechin-3-gallate, and Moisture in Green Tea Production by Shengsheng Zhang, Yamin Zuo, Qing Wu, Jiao Wang, Lin Ban, Huili Yang, Zhiwen Bai

“…However, the production process is now controlled by people's experience, making its quality significantly different. NIRS is a time-saving, cost-saving, and nondestructive method. Therefore, it is necessary to introduce NIRS technology into the quality control of the tea production process. …”
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Unstash the Cash! Corporate Governance Reform in Japan by Chie Aoyagi, Giovanni Ganelli

“…Japan’s high corporate savings might be holding back growth, by preventing a more effi cient use of resources. …”
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Discrete event simulation–based energy efficient path determination scheme for probabilistic voting–based filtering scheme in sensor networks by Su Man Nam, Tae Ho Cho

“…Several en-route filtering schemes mainly focus on saving energy through early detection of false data within a short distance against these attacks; however, they cannot immediately block the false data injected by compromised nodes. …”
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Hopeful News for Physicians Who Involved in the Treatment of Critical Aluminum Phosphide (Rice Pill) Poisoning Patients by Fatemeh Vafapour, Moslem Sedaghattalab

“…GIK is suggested as a potential life saving treatment for critical rice tablet poisoning patients with symptoms and signs of shock.…”
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Understanding energy cultures of space heating in Aotearoa New Zealand: a desktop review of slow ground source heat pump uptake by Analiese Barr, Smrithi Talwar

“…Using the Energy Cultures Framework, this paper conducts a scoping literature review to analyse the dominant socio-economic barriers to GSHP uptake including energy hardship, prioritisation of immediate savings over long-term cost-saving benefits, low public awareness and financial risk aversion towards new sustainable energy solutions. …”
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Is product diversification the Ultimate Quid Pro Quo for Gender sensitive Poverty Alleviation? Adverse Social Externalities from Combined Microfinance in Latin America and the Cari... by ROSSEL-CAMBIER, Koen

“…However, the findings suggest that, in the case of combining credit with savings, this is leading to a relatively lower participation of poor and female clients («depth» of poverty outreach). …”
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Economic Impact of Changes in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Ventilation Strategies with the Advent of New Noninvasive Ventilation Techniques: A Review and Proposed Assessment Framew... by Jan B. Pietzsch, Abigail M. Garner, Michael McQueen

“…**Results:** The constructed model projected expected cost savings of $2,317 for the HFT strategy for the base case. …”
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Spatio-temporal correlation based fast inter mode decision for HEVC by Wei ZHU, Xun-hua ZHANG, Cai-sheng WANG, Hua2 ZHANG

“…When compared to HM with fast mode decision algorithms enabled, the proposed algorithm further saves about 30% encoding time.…”
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Public Service Broadcasting in the Age of Information Capitalism by Ruth Elizabeth Tomaselli

“…The crux of the paper is the question whether the ideal of public service broadcasting can survive the new technological and economic arrangements Impinging on broadcasting; and secondly, whether the public service ethos is worth saving, In view of all the shortcomings and Inherent contradictions within the system. …”
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High Costs of Dialysis Transportation in the United States: Exploring Approaches to a More Cost-effective Delivery System by J. Mark Stephens, Samuel Brotherton, Stephan C. Dunning, Larry C. Emerson, David T. Gilbertson, Matthew Gitlin, Ann C. McClellan, William M. McClellan, Sanatan Shreay

“…Research has suggested that substantial cost savings could be achieved if medically appropriate transport was made available and covered by Medicare. …”
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