Bioresource Rent Value of Mt. Malindang Range Natural Park, Philippines, for Access and Benefit Sharing Scheme by Grace V. Villanueva, Jersam C. Calago, Bobby B. Alaman, Joseph Glenn Laput, Emmarie F. Mapi-ot, Richard B. Parilla, Gemmalyn M. Trespalacio, Joan U. Ureta, J. Carl Ureta

“…Through these participatory methods, nine bioresources of significant economic importance have been identified, prioritized, and found to be collected, utilized, and traded by communities. These include five floral species: Dendrocnide sp., Calamus sp., Cinnamomum mercadoi, Agathis philippinensis, and Gymnostoma sumatranum, and four faunal species: Limnonectes sp., Apis sp., Apis cerana, and Sus philippensis. …”
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Simulating a travel-related origin of Candida auris in New York–New Jersey by Rita R. Verma, Edward Kiegle, Alexander C. Keyel, Sudha Chaturvedi, Vishnu Chaturvedi

“…The C. auris outbreak occurred during increasing travel and trade, and South Asia travel routes predict the distribution of early C. auris cases in NY-NJ. …”
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Multi-objective optimization of SUS430C steel turning process using hybrid machine learning and evolutionary algorithm approach by Nguyen Van-Canh, Nguyen Anh-Thang, Pham Ngoc-Linh, Nguyen Thuy-Duong

“…The results yielded 16 Pareto-optimal solutions that balance the trade-offs among Ra, MRR, and Vb. Notably, the study highlights the importance of feed rate (fz) and depth of cut (ap) in influencing Ra and Vb, while cutting speed (Vc) significantly impacts MRR. …”
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Health State Utility Values in Children and Adolescents with Disabilities: A Systematic Review by Lucy Kanya, PhD, Nana Anokye, PhD, Ahmad Hecham Alani, PharmD, Nandini Jayakumar, MSc, Jennifer M. Ryan, PhD

“…Only 2 studies used direct methods, such as time trade-off, visual analog scale, and standard gamble, whereas 29 employed generic measures (eg, EuroQol 5 Dimensions, Health Utilities Index 3) with diverse preference elicitation methods. …”
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Decoding the trajectory of antibiotic resistance genes in saline and alkaline soils: Insights from different fertilization regimes by Dandan Zhang, Jie Li, Guilong Zhang, Yan Xu

“…Indoor experiments demonstrated that there was a survival trade-off between the growth of resistant bacteria and the evolution of antibiotic resistance in salinity and alkalinity environments. …”
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An innovative approach to prioritizing soil conservation areas under diverse scenarios by leveraging the complementary roles of soil retention services and soil erosion indicators by Eshetu Shifaw, Jinming Sha, Xiaomei Li, Peng Zhao, Jianwan Ji, Hao Zhang, Ashenafi Yimam Kassaye, Shuhui Lai, Zhonglin Ji, Yusheng Yang

“…Among these, the 7th is recommended as the most optimal, balancing conservation efficiency, moderate trade-offs, and planners' optimism. Implementing conservation measures in high and very high priority classes under this scenario can retain 2097.03 t/ha/yr of soil and reduce sediment export by 20.03 t/ha/yr. …”
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Glazed Pottery Throughout the Middle and Modern Ages in Northern Spain by Ainhoa Alonso-Olazabal, Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo, Maria Cruz Zuluaga, Luis Ángel Ortega

“…The glazed pottery was mainly of local origin, but the identification of some non-local pottery at all sites suggests a pottery trade.…”
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Environmental innovations as factor of development of petrochemical industry in Russia by A. I. Shinkevich, S. S. Kudryavtseva, Yu. N. Khakimullin, M. I. Farakhov

“…Informational and analytical materials of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, Rosstat, the Oslo Guide, government programs are used as an information base for the study. …”
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Enhancing Campus Mobility: Simulated Multi-Objective Optimization of Electric Vehicle Sharing Systems Within an Intelligent Transportation System Frameworks by Omar S. Aba Hussen, Shaiful J. Hashim, Nasri Sulaiman Member, S.A.R. Alhaddad, Bassam Y. Ribbfors, Masanobu Umeda, Keiichi Katamine

“…A simulation model was developed in MATLAB, utilizing the Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA-II), a powerful multi-objective optimization technique that balances conflicting objectives to achieve the best trade-offs for operational efficiency. In addition to conventional decision variables, dynamic dual relocation thresholds and charge levels are introduced as decision variables to enhance optimization. …”
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Geographical Peer Matching for P2P Energy Sharing by Romaric Duvignau, Vincenzo Gulisano, Marina Papatriantafilou, Ralf Klasing

“…We define and analyze in this work a precise mathematical modeling of the geographical peer matching problem, and demonstrate the inherent intractability of the problem, highlighting its high computational cost and underscoring the critical need for scalable approaches that effectively balance performance trade-offs as system size grows. Furthermore, we propose and study analytically and empirically a spectrum of approaches to address it and perform a cost-efficient matching of peers in a computationally efficient fashion. …”
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How to transform cultivated land protection on the Northeast Tibetan Plateau？ A multifunctional path exploration by Rongrong Ma, Yuhan Huang, Wei Zhou, Jun Ren, Hongyu Wang, Zeyu Shi, Juan Wang

“…The findings indicate the following: (1) There were disparities between the supply and demand of production, life, and ecological functions in Qinghai Province from 2000 to 2020. (2) A trade-off relationship exists between the supply and demand of CL production and ecological functions. (3) The degree of coordination between CL functions decreases from east to west in Qinghai Province. (4) CL resources in Qinghai Province can be categorized into eight zones. …”
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Using spectrometric analysis for indirect estimation of 146S component concentration while measuring FMDV RNA amount by M. I. Doronin, D. V. Mikhalishin, N. Ye. Kamalova, A. V. Borisov

“…Foot and mouth disease has a negative impact on economy due to the high cost of eradication campaigns and stringent measures imposed on domestic and international trade in animal products. Prevention and control measures include mass vaccination of susceptible animals and control of post-vaccination immunity level. …”
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A Heterogeneously Integrated 256-Element 5G Phased Array: Design, Assembly, Test by Bodhisatwa Sadhu, Arun Paidimarri, Atom O. Watanabe, Duixian Liu, Xiaoxiong Gu, Christian W. Baks, Yujiro Tojo, Yoshiharu Fujisaku, Isabel De Sousa, Yo Yamaguichi, Ning Guan, Alberto Valdes-Garcia

“…The paper discusses the several challenges and system trade-offs for 5G mmWave phased arrays and illustrates the advantages of heterogeneous integration at the antenna-in-package level. …”
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Elicitation of Norwegian EQ-5D-5L values for hypothetical and experience-based health states based on the EuroQol Valuation Technology (EQ-VT) protocol by Knut Stavem, Tonya Moen Hansen, Ylva Helland, Liv Ariane Augestad, Kim Rand, Andrew Garratt

“…The most recent EQ-5D valuation protocol will be followed which includes computer assisted face-to-face, one-to-one interviews and use of composite time trade-off and discrete choice experiments.Ethics and dissemination The study has been reviewed and found to be outside of the scope of the ethics committee and thus not in need of ethical approval. …”
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Multijunction solar cell parameter estimation based on metaheuristic algorithms by Marwa M. Elzalabani, Doaa M. Atia, Aref Y. Eliwa, Belal A. Abou Zalam, Mahmoud S. AbouOmar

“…Several mathematical models exist for MJSC parameter estimation— Single Diode Model (SDM), Double Diode Model (DDM), and Triple Diode Model (TDM)—each offering a trade-off between complexity and accuracy, improved efficiency, and reliable operation. …”
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A Review on Frequency Compensation and Transient Enhancement Schemes of Flipped Voltage Follower LDO Regulators for SoC Applications by P. Manikandan, B. Bindu

“…Designing the LDO regulators for the desired performance parameters is challenging since it has design trade-offs. The power reduction is one main design challenge in the LDO to make it suitable for low-power, high-performance applications. …”
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De-offshorization as a Factor of Development of the National Economy by G. S. Panova, I. B. Turuev, I. Z. Yarygina

“…The analysis of the objectives and characteristics of the formation of offshore zones in the world and it is concluded that in general the offshore zone, favorable tax to optimize international economic cooperation, including trade and entrepreneurship. The article stresses that Russia currently has two approaches, the adherents of which have opposing views on combat offshore. …”
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International Dimension in Colonization of the North-West of America and California at the End of the 17-18 ^th Centuries by A. Y. Petrov, V. N. Kostornichenko, M. M. Koskina

“…The advance of Russia to the shores of America has economic reasons: Cossacks and merchants reached the Pacific Ocean pursuing the desire to profit from the fur trade. As the economic influence expanded, the state interests of annexing territories and bringing the local population into citizenship followed behind. …”
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Aukus (Australia-united kingdom-united states) threat to Indo-pacific security by Ismiyatun Ismiyatun, Ita Puji Lestari

“…CAUCUS can enhance economic cooperation and integration between participating countries and open new opportunities for trade, investment, and technology transfer in the Indo-Pacific region. …”
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Application of a theoretical simulator to the optimisation of risk-based invasive species surveillance by Thomas I. Gibson, Rebecca S. Millard, Isla MacMillan, Nick Taylor, Mark Thrush, Hannah Tidbury

“…It was found that NIS risk distribution influences the relative performance of different surveillance strategies and that risk- and heavy risk-based surveillance have lower times to detections and, generally, higher surveillance probabilities of detection compared to random surveillance at more skewed NIS risk distributions. However, there was a trade-off between short detection time and detection failure in risk-based and particularly heavy risk-based surveillance. …”
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