Challenges and opportunities in enhanced recovery after surgery programs: An overview by Vijaya Gottumukkala, Girish P. Joshi

“…Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) programs were developed as evidence-based, multi-disciplinary interventions in all the perioperative phases to minimise the surgical stress response, reduce complications, and enhance outcomes. …”
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Systematic review meta-analysis protocol preparation and registration – A narrative review by Indubala Maurya, Rakesh Garg

“…Predefined research questions and methods minimise bias, thus increasing the reliability of the results. …”
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An Analytical Optimisation Framework for Airport Terminal Capacity Expansion by Sultan Alodhaibi, Robert L. Burdett, Prasad K. D. V. Yarlagadda

“…An optimization model was developed to determine where additional resources should be placed to minimise passenger waiting times. The objective function is stochastic and can only be evaluated using discrete event simulation. …”
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The Influence of Jam Density and Merging Cyclists on the Queue Discharge Rate by M. J. Wierbos, V. L. Knoop, B. Goñi-Ros, S. P. Hoogendoorn

“…The insights can be used to develop measures which minimise delay at intersections and to design efficient infrastructure for bicyclists.…”
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Development of a methodological approach to the procedure for assessing the quality and effectiveness of the management decision–making mechanism by V. V. Stroev, A. I. Tikhonov

“…Therefore, the choice or development of a competent methodology for the management decision-making process would help the decision-maker not only to choose the most effective management decision, but also to minimise possible financial, social and other risks. …”
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Methods of Developing User-Friendly Keys to Identify Green Sea Turtles (Chelonia mydas L.) from Photographs by Jane R. Lloyd, Miguel Á. Maldonado, Richard Stafford

“…We create three keys, which (a) minimise the length of the key, (b) present the most obvious differential characteristics first, and (c) remove the strict dichotomy from key b. …”
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Human-machine interactions with clinical phrase prediction system, aligning with Zipf's least effort principle? by Jamil Zaghir, Mina Bjelogrlic, Jean-Philippe Goldman, Julien Ehrsam, Christophe Gaudet-Blavignac, Christian Lovis

“…Our results suggest that users tailor their interactions to meet these specific forces to minimise the effort required to achieve their objective. …”
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Functional Cereal Products in the Diet for Type 2 Diabetes Patients by Ada Krawęcka, Aldona Sobota, Emilia Sykut-Domańska

“…The diet can exert prophylactic and therapeutic effects; changes in the diet in advanced disease can improve the quality of life of diabetic patients and minimise the risk of complications, which are the direct cause of diabetes-related death. …”
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Transformation of insurance from the aspect of the development of autonomous vehicles by Vojvodić-Miljković Nevenka, Mandić Dejan, Miloradović Milica

“…Self-driving vehicles offer great potential to improve road efficiency, reduce traffic accidents, increase productivity, and minimise our environmental impact. Looking ahead, electric vehicles are increasingly on the roads, while driverless cars and delivery drones are seemingly poised for more widespread adoption in the future. …”
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Tacrolimus Toxicity due to Biliary Obstruction in a Combined Kidney and Liver Transplant Recipient by Samuel Chan, Michael T. Burke, David W. Johnson, Ross S. Francis, David W. Mudge

“…The immunosuppressant tacrolimus has a narrow therapeutic window, necessitating therapeutic drug monitoring to maintain efficacy and minimise toxicity. There are very few reports examining the impact of impaired biliary excretion on tacrolimus blood levels or toxicity. …”
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The Management of Hysteroscopy Complications by Ayla Eser, İlknur İnegöl Gümüş, Ebru Yüce, Nilüfer Akgün, Müberra Namlı Kalem

“…Complications and the techniques and innovations that are used or are being developed to minimise and manage them are discussed in this literature review.…”
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Intelligent Buses in a Loop Service: Emergence of No-Boarding and Holding Strategies by Vee-Liem Saw, Luca Vismara, Lock Yue Chew

“…It is remarkable that this emergent behaviour of intelligent buses turns out to minimise the average waiting time of commuters, in various setups where buses move with the same speed or different speeds, during busy as well as lull periods. …”
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Nature Capital. An ecological transition and open space transformation phenomena by Renzo Lecardane

“… As indicated by the UN 2030 Agenda and the new European goals for 2030, Ecological Transition is at the basis of the new development model to reduce polluting emissions, prevent and combat land disruption, minimise the impact of productive activities on the environment and improve the quality of life and environmental security for future generations: on the one hand, orienting an ecological transition towards equity and collective well-being means rethinking the system of relations between man and the natural and built environment and, on the other hand, referring to the construction of social and cultural communities starting from environmental issues and land resources. …”
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An Improved Bi-Switch Flyback Converter with Loss Analysis for Active Cell Balancing of the Lithium-Ion Battery String by Sugumaran G., Amutha Prabha N.

“…The bi-switch flyback converter eliminates the need for a separate buffer circuit to minimise leakage and electromagnetic inductance. Losses and energy efficiency were analysed at each end of the proposed topology. …”
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Experimental Investigation and Prediction of Compressive Strength of Ultra-High Performance Concrete Containing Supplementary Cementitious Materials by Jisong Zhang, Yinghua Zhao, Haijiang Li

“…The microstructure and pore volume of the UHPCs were also examined. Furthermore, to minimise the experimental workload of future studies, a prediction model is developed to predict the compressive strength of the UHPC using artificial neural networks (ANNs). …”
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Pluripotent Stem Cell Metabolism and Mitochondria: Beyond ATP by Jarmon G. Lees, David K. Gardner, Alexandra J. Harvey

“…Further, the preferential use of glucose and anaplerotic glutamine metabolism serves to not only support cell growth and proliferation but also minimise reactive oxygen species production. However, the perinuclear localisation of spherical, electron-poor mitochondria in ESC is proposed to sustain ESC nuclear-mitochondrial crosstalk and a mitochondrial-H2O2 presence, to facilitate signalling to support self-renewal through the stabilisation of HIFα, a process that may be favoured under physiological oxygen. …”
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Comparative study of quantum error correction strategies for the heavy-hexagonal lattice by César Benito, Esperanza López, Borja Peropadre, Alejandro Bermudez

“…In some platforms, however, the connectivities are kept even lower in order to minimise gate errors at the hardware level, which limits the error correcting codes that can be directly implemented on them. …”
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Cognitive Inference Device for Activity Supervision in the Elderly by Nilamadhab Mishra, Chung-Chih Lin, Hsien-Tsung Chang

“…To frame the CI-device, we propose a device design framework along with an inference algorithm and implement the designs through an artificial neural model with different configurations, mapping the CI-device’s functions to minimise the device’s prediction error. An analysis and discussion are then provided to validate the feasibility of CI-device implementation for activity supervision in the elderly.…”
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Vortex generators in heat sinks: Design, optimisation, applications and future trends by Mohammad Ismail, Abdullah Masoud Ali, Sol-Carolina Costa Pereira

“…Strategies such as nanofluids, dimples, Response Surface Methodology analysis and Artificial Neural Networks are crucial to improve VG designs to maximise thermal efficiency and minimise pressure loss. Additionally, the paper considers potential trends, such as the further miniaturisation of the VGs in terms of micro-level utilisation, more intricate VG shapes, together with the development of smart VGs that can alter their configuration depending on the current thermal conditions. …”
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Current Potential of Pantoprazole in Treatment and Prevention of Gastrointestinal Diseases by A. A. Sheptulin, S. S. Kardasheva, A. A. Kurbatova

“…The new coronaviral pandemic of COVID-19 urges the selection of PPIs that minimise the drug interference, such as pantoprazole, in therapy and prevention of acid-related upper gastrointestinal diseases. …”
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