Community-Based Home Energy Tune-Up/Audit Programs: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating and Implementing Energy Equity Programs in Your Community by Alane Humrich, Lee Hayes Byron, Jennison Kipp, Marianne Schmink, Kimberly Davis, Paul Monaghan

“… This new 5-page publication of the UF/IFAS Department of Agricultural Education and Communication is part of a series showing how Extension agents, community activists and sustainability educators can implement a program that reduces energy use and saves money on utility expenses for low-income households. …”
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Progress in the Study of Exercise Rehabilitation on Chronic Heart Failure by Qiang TANG, Xia YIN, Luwen ZHU, Hongyu LI, Jiyao ZHANG, Tingting ZHENG

“…Compared with drug treatment, exercise rehabilitation training has many advantages, such as high safety, low cost, high compliance with patients, and saving social resources. In this paper, assessments and precautions before exercise rehabilitation, development and implementation of exercise rehabilitation program and the nursing after exercise rehabilitation are summarized and concluded, in order to develop the clinical treatment of CHF.…”
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THE NEED FOR REVITALIZING ZAKAH REGULATION TOWARD PRODUCTIVE ZAKAH by M. Zidny Nafi' Hasbi

“…Likewise, if the zakah provisions have been reached (nisab and haul), the government must take zakah out from savings or deposits owned by Muslim communities in banks.…”
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Environment Parameters Control Based on Wireless Sensor Network in Livestock Buildings by Yu Zhang, Qiyu Chen, Guanting Liu, Weizheng Shen, Guanlin Wang

“…Compared with the traditional method, the high labor cost will be saved and energy consumption will be decreased. The experimental results show that this method can in real time monitor, effectively adjust, and control the environmental parameters in livestock buildings.…”
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Principles of implementation of the vertical greenery system (VGS) in architecture by Sandra Čekić, Tanja Trkulja, Ljiljana Došenović

“…Energy consumption in buildings is affected by the building envelope, and integration of the greenery with the building envelope will contribute in saving energy and increasing the buildings’ energy efficiency. …”
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How Much Does Bad Hay Cost a Beef Cattle Producer? by Matthew J. Hersom, Todd A. Thrift

“…Because hay is often sold on a large round-bale basis, savings from the good bargain can decrease substantially if there is a negative impact on the cow herd nutritional program. …”
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APPLICATION OF OPTICAL MARK RECOGNITION TECHNIQUES TO SURVEY ANSWER SHEETS AT DALAT UNIVERSITY by Thai Duy Quy, Phan Thi Thanh Nga, Nguyen Van Huy Dung

“…Moreover, this application is clearly a time-saving solution for administrative staff because the inputting process is now nine times faster than before.…”
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Energy-Aware Low-Power CMOS LNA with Process-Variations Management by Jorge Luis González, Robson Luiz Moreno, Juan Carlos Cruz, Diego Vázquez

“…The proposed design leads to significant power saving when a relaxed operation is acceptable. The LNA is implemented in a 130 nm 1.2 V CMOS technology for a 2.4 GHz IEEE-802.15.4 application. …”
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Sparse channel estimation for OFDM system weighted l_p norm by Jian-bin FU, Hua PENG, Zheng DONG

“…The new lp norm was introduced to substitute the l₀ and l₁ norm,as they met some problems when used to estimate sparse channel in LMS algorithm.By analyzing the l_p norm,the optimal value of p was obtained,it was 1/2.Then a most sparse solution could be gotten for channel estimation.And it both saved the cost for training sequence and solved the lack of data size by using data reusing method.Simulation results show that the l_p-LMS performs better than the existing methods,combining with data reusing when the training sequence is certain short.…”
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Link-first based quick coordinated virtual network embedding algorithm by Wen-cheng XIONG, Ying WANG, Xue-song QIU, Wen-jing LI

“…Simulation results show that, compared with the existing algorithms, this embedding algorithm saves link cost significantly, improves accep-tance rate of virtual network and revenue of the physical network, and can effectively shorten the running time.…”
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A Deadline-Constrained Scheduling Algorithm for Intensive-Instance Serviceflows in Cloud Environment by Wei Liu, Taoshen Li, Ruwei Huang

“…The experimental results in CloudSim show that the algorithm compared with others algorithm saves the execution cost with meeting the user-defined deadline, avoids the fierce competition of cheaper services and improves the success ratio of the scheduling.…”
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Cost Estimates for Producing Sargassum spp. Compost by Trent Blare, Afeefa A. Abdool-Ghany, Helena M. Solo-Gabriele

“…We found that Ft. Lauderdale saves at least $326,000 annually by operating its own composting facility. …”
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Event-Triggered Stability Analysis of Semi-Markovian Jump Networked Control System with Actuator Faults and Time-Varying Delay via Bessel–Legendre Inequalities by Hongqian Lu, Chaoqun Guo, Yue Hu, Wuneng Zhou

“…The system dynamic is optimized while the network resource is saved by introducing an improved static event-triggered mechanism. …”
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Le corps morcelé de Dionysos by Frédérique Ildefonse

“…They bring into play pars pro toto and its correlate, the fact that there is a missing part, be it lost or saved. The dismemberment of the infant, the dispersal of his body, the exception of one of its parts, are elements of a system that would seem to be aimed at celebrating his perpetual rebirth.…”
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Improving the Safety of Tolerance Induction: Chimerism and Cellular Co-Treatment Strategies Applied to Vascularized Composite Allografts by Wei-Chao Huang, Jeng-Yee Lin, Christopher Glenn Wallace, Fu-Chan Wei, Shuen-Kuei Liao

“…Advances such as this, which aim to improve the safety profile of tolerance induction, will help usher in an era of wider clinical VCA application for nonlife-saving reconstructions.…”
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Competing in the Global LED Industry: The Case of Taiwan by Yu-Shan Su

“…Light-emitting diode (LED) is a very essential application for energy-savings nowadays. The revenue of the Taiwan LED components industry is ranked top one in the world, followed by that of Japan and South Korea. …”
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FEATURES AND PROBLEMS OF MONETARY REGULATION IN RUSSIA by A. Berdyshev

“…It has been shown, that under the conditions of unjustified monetary policy rigidity, the efficiency of the banking system’s function of transforming savings into investments is reduced. Thus, the easing of the monetary policy by the Bank of Russia is considered as a necessary condition for the development of national production.…”
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Modeling and Optimization of Electric Loading of Using Equipment with Piece-Wise – Continuous Expenditure Characteristics at Various Electric Energy Tariffs by Y. N. Kolesnik, A. V. Ivaneychik, K. A. Vengine

“…Results of the optimization con-tribute to saving not only electric energy but money resources only due to re-distribution of volume of manufactured products.…”
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EFFECT OF THICKNESS ON THE BEARING STRENGTH AND SECONDARY BENDING OF COUNTERSUNK COMPOSITE JOINT by HAO MengJun, ZHANG Ming

“…The failure characteristics found in our study has direct implications when design of weight-saving of advanced composite structures.…”
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Application of PAUT Technology in Testing Radial Gate on the Right Bank of the Datengxia Water Conservancy Project by XIE Ji'an, PAN Hong, HE Qilian, CHEN Zhuangsheng, LIU Tao

“…Under the background of a tight construction schedule and heavy tasks,this paper applies PAUT technology to the radial gate on the right bank of the Datengxia water conservancy project,so as to ensure the welding quality of the radial gate of the Datengxia water conservancy project.In addition,the conventional ultrasonic testing technology and PAUT technology are used and compared in terms of the welds in the main parts of the gate.The experimental comparison results show that PAUT technology is superior to conventional ultrasonic testing technology in defect detection rate and graphic imaging.It is proved that the defect detection rate of PAUT technology is better than that of the conventional ultrasonic wave,and log files permanently saved can be obtained.…”
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