Drone-Aided Networking with Massive Connectivity and High Spectral Efficiency Enabled by Li Bing, Lanke Hu, Yating Gu, Yue Yin

“…However, challenges arise due to massive connectivity requests as well as limited power budgets. To this end, this paper focuses on the design of drone-aided IoT networking, where a drone access point serves a large number of devices for efficient data transmission, collection, and remote sensing. …”
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Techno−Economic Analysis and Multi‐Objective Optimization of Cross‐Flow Wind Turbines for Smart Building Energy Systems by Zahra Sefidgar, Ali Ashrafizadeh, Ahmad Arabkoohsar

“…For economic assessment, the Capital Budgeting Analysis method is used with four indicators, namely, payback period (PP), net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR), and profitability index (PI). …”
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Long- and Short-Term Strategies for Estimation of Hydraulic Fracturing Cost Using Fuzzy Logic by Hyunjun Im, Hyongdoo Jang, Erkan Topal, Micah Nehring

“…The result of this study also illustrated that systematic fuzzy cost engineering could help estimate the initial stage of budgeting. In addition, through solving the uncertainty of fuzzy calculation values, the project schedule identification is presented by recognising the dependence on each scenario’s common characteristic of the cavability parameter and cost contingency rate.…”
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Comparing the efficiency of Iran's national innovation system with selected countries with emphasis on opening the black box of innovation and a historical look at the situation of... by Shohreh Nasri, Hamid Kazemi, Arman Khaledi

“…In today's global economy, innovation plays an important role in economic growth and has been supported as a policy priority in many countries through national strategies and large budgets. One of the prerequisites for setting the right innovation policy is to evaluate the efficiency of the innovation process, which has been considered in various approaches so far. …”
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Improvement of Mechanical Properties for a Novel Zr–Ti–V Alloy via Hot-Rolling and Annealing Treatment by Yiwei Liu, Kai Chen, Tianshuo Song, Bohan Chen, Qiang Li, Chaoqun Xia

“…The phase composition of the Zr–Ti–8V alloy was sensitive to the applied annealing temperature, while a series of changes in the phase composition of the alloy were induced by enforcing bigger thermal budgets. Implementing a temperature value of 450 °C led to a higher α-phase content, in striking contrast with the case where a lower annealing temperature of 400 °C was applied. …”
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Project Governance in State-Owned Enterprises: The Case of Major Public Projects’ Governance Arrangements and Quality Assurance Schemes by Anne Strand Alfredsen Larsen, Gro Holst Volden, Bjørn Andersen

“…The arrangements are compared with the more established “State Project Model”, a governance arrangement set up by the Ministry of Finance in 2000, including major public projects with budgets exceeding USD 110 million. Through case studies, comprising documents and interviews, and using the State Project Model as a reference frame, differences in the studied arrangements’ comprehensiveness were found. …”
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Drug therapy for obesity in the Russian Federation: pharmacoepidemiological study by V. V. Strizheletsky, Yu. М. Gomon, Е. А. Spichakova, А. S. Kolbin, А. А. Kalyapin, S. А. Makarov, А. B. Lomiya, F. М. Sultanova

“…From IQVIA database, the information was selected on retail sales and procurement of the specified drugs at the expense of the federal and regional budgets in the period of 2011–2021. The consumed volumes of each drug were recalculated into the number of defined daily doses (DDDs) for each international nonproprietary name in accordance with the World Health Organization methodology.Results. …”
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Exploring on the Eco-Climatic Effects of Land Use Changes in the Influence Area of the Yellow River Basin from 2000 to 2015 by Qian Chi, Shenghui Zhou, Lijun Wang, Mengyao Zhu, Dandan Liu, Weichao Tang, Yaoping Cui, Jay Lee

“…This study emphasizes the difference in energy budgets of different land use types under the influence of human activities. …”
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Dolphin Watching and Compliance to Guidelines Affect Spinner Dolphins’ (<i>Stenella longirostris</i>) Behaviour in Reunion Island by Belén Quintana Martín-Montalvo, Ludovic Hoarau, Ophélie Deffes, Sylvain Delaspre, Fabienne Delfour, Anne-Emmanuelle Landes

“…Additionally, activity budgets for resting and socialising decreased simultaneously with increased travelling and milling. …”
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‘Hot cities’ and their experiences and planning for rapid growth: An analysis of strategic planning documents by Robert Hammarberg, Linda Highfield, Gretchen Walton, Paige Wermuth, Ann Bowman

“…Regardless of department, the areas least connected to rapid growth in the documents were budgeting and data; two topics indicated by the literature are important tools to address the effects of rapid population growth, signifying, among other things, the need to better utilize smart city initiatives such as real‐time data sharing.…”
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Does the expensive brain hypothesis apply to amphibians and reptiles? by Zitan Song, Michael Griesser, Caroline Schuppli, Carel P. van Schaik

“…Second, relative brain size is smaller among nocturnal species, which generally face less favorable energy budgets, especially when maintaining high body temperature. …”
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Exploring the Habitability of Venus: Conceptual Design of a Small Atmospheric Probe by Pol Ribes-Pleguezuelo, Bruno Delacourt, Mika K. G. Holmberg, Elisabetta Iorfida, Philipp Reiss, Guillermo Salinas, Agnieszka Suliga

“…This article is focused on the scientific instrumentation, as well as on the mass and power budgets required to realise the proposed mission.…”
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Differences in the Structure of Household Electricity Prices in EU Countries by Aleksandra Matuszewska-Janica, Dorota Żebrowska-Suchodolska, Mariola E. Zalewska, Urszula Ala-Karvia, Marta Hozer-Koćmiel

“…The cost of energy is one of the main components of household budgets; thus, the prices provided by energy carriers have a significant impact on energy consumption. …”
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Implementing the Water, HEat and Transport model in GEOframe (WHETGEO-1D v.1.0): algorithms, informatics, design patterns, open science features, and 1D deployment by N. Tubini, R. Rigon

“…<p>This paper presents WHETGEO and its 1D deployment: a new physically based model simulating the water and energy budgets in a soil column. The purpose of this contribution is twofold. …”
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Decision Making using Logical Decision Tree and Binary Decision Diagrams: A Real Case Study of Wind Turbine Manufacturing by Fausto Pedro García Márquez, Isaac Segovia Ramírez, Alberto Pliego Marugán

“…Finally, an optimization of budgets is employed based on importance measures. …”
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Stormtime dynamics of the global thermosphere and equatorial ionosphere by W. J. Burke, W. J. Burke, C. Y. Huang, R. D. Sharma

“…A new method is applied to estimate global thermospheric energy (<I>E</I>_th) budgets from orbit-averaged densities measured by accelerometers on polar-orbiting satellites. …”
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Investigating Heterogeneous Consumer Preference for Sustainable Sewerage Asset Management: The Case of South Korea by Hanseul Jo, Soyeong Park, Jungwoo Shin

“…Sewerage systems are essential infrastructure, but resource-intensive, and governments have faced challenges due to limited budgets and aging facilities. Most countries are still in the early stages of adopting consumer-centric approaches. …”
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Sailing Uncharted Waters with Old Boats? COVID-19 and the Digitalization and Professionalization of Presidential Campaigns in Portugal by José Santana-Pereira, Hugo Ferrinho Lopes, Susana Rogeiro Nina

“…Lastly, relative investment in professionalization was similar in 2016 and 2021, and the difference between the budgeted and the actual investment in 2021 cannot be attributed to the worsening of the pandemic situation or to the lockdown. …”
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Balancing Cost and Demand in Electricity Access Projects: Case Studies in Ecuador, Mexico and Peru by Rosa Galleguillos-Pozo, Bruno Domenech, Laia Ferrer-Martí, Rafael Pastor

“…Indeed, daily energy demand and peak power assessments are complex, since these values must be valid over the project’s lifetime, while tight budgets do not allow for the systems to be oversized. …”
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Evaluating the Water Cycle Over CONUS at the Watershed Scale for the Energy Exascale Earth System Model Version 1 (E3SMv1) Across Resolutions by Bryce E. Harrop, Karthik Balaguru, Jean‐Christophe Golaz, L. Ruby Leung, Salil Mahajan, Alan M. Rhoades, Paul A. Ullrich, Chengzhu Zhang, Xue Zheng, Tian Zhou, Peter M. Caldwell, Noel D. Keen, Azamat Mametjanov

“…In this study, the Energy Exascale Earth System Model version 1 (E3SMv1) is run with low‐resolution (roughly 110 km) and high‐resolution (roughly 25 km) configurations—as established by the High Resolution Model Intercomparison Project protocol—to evaluate the atmospheric and terrestrial water budgets over the conterminous United States (CONUS) at the large watershed scale. …”
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