Unlocking Sustainable Financing Practices for Energy Efficiency Projects: A Multi-Country Analysis by Charikleia Karakosta, Alice Corovessi, Isaak Vryzidis

“…By examining long-term, replicable initiatives, the paper identifies best practices that can be adapted across various EU Member States, despite differing regulatory frameworks. Key selection criteria include project scale, duration, results, and private financing attraction. …”
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Efficiency and productivity to social welfare: the case of the main forestry-producing micro-regions in Brazil by Jessica Suarez Campoli, Paulo Nocera Alves Junior, Tatiana Kimura Kodama, Marcelo Seido Nagano, Heloisa Lee Burnquist

“…The results show that the growth of the forestry sector was not accompanied by the Human Development Index (HDI) in most of the microregions, showing regional and state differences, with the microregions close to the sensitive environmental areas with the lowest HDI. …”
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Mechanism and spatial spillover effect of the digital economy on carbon emission efficiency in Chinese provinces by Yifen Xia, Yuanzhuo Wu, Yilin Qin, Chun Fu

“…Five findings are elicited: (1) Spatiotemporal distribution differences exist between digital economy level and carbon emission efficiency. (2) The digital economy effectively enhances carbon emission efficiency, a result that remains robust after endogenous and robustness tests. (3) Significant spatial spillover effects are observed, where improvements in the digital economy enhance carbon emission efficiency in neighboring areas. (4) The impact of the digital economy is more pronounced in eastern and high digital development regions but weaker in the northeastern and low digital development areas. (5) The main pathways through which the digital economy influences carbon emission efficiency are industrial structure upgrading, energy structure optimization, and green technological innovation. …”
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Integration of Building Information Modeling and Geographic Information Systems for Efficient Airport Construction Management by Alessandro Di Graziano, Eliana Ragusa, Giancarlo Guarrera

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Energy Efficiency Policies in Non-Residential Buildings: the Case of the University of Bari Aldo Moro by Vera Amicarelli, Christian Bux, Giovanni Lagioia, Teodoro Gallucci

“…First, to analyze the role of the building sector at a global and European level and its contribution to climate change, highlighting the main differences between residential and non-residential buildings. …”
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Improving the efficiency of visual navigation of an unmanned aerial vehicle by choosing the most informative route by N. V. Kim, D. S. Girenko

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EFFICIENCY OF ACID TREATMENT OF THE BOTTOM BOREHOLE ZONE OF THE WELL FOR SEDIMENTS WITH HARD-TO-REMOVE RESERVES by A. Kopytov, S. Levkovich, E. Levitina, I. Kovalev

“…The article discusses various methods of acidizing the bottomhole zone of wells operating deposits with hard-to-recover reserves The main criteria to be met by the acid composition used are given Results and Discussion The results of acid treatments in the wells of the Bazhenov and Tyumen deposits are presented For the Bazhenov deposits, in order to restore and improve the permeability of the bottomhole zone of formations composed of terrigenous reservoirs with high carbonate content, it is recommended to carry out acidizing at the stage of well development For the Tyumen deposits, the efficiency of treatment of the bottomhole zone of the well for individual fields differs significantly and depends on the treatment method and the concentration of reagents Conclusion For sediments of the Bazhenov formation at the Salym field, the success rate of operations is 20-30%, which is associated with the complex mineralogical composition of the rocks, and with low values of reservoir parameters, as well as temperature and pressure conditions of occurrence For the deposits of the Tyumen suite at the Lovinskoye field, the effectiveness of acid treatments varies from 30 to 100%, At the Russkinskoye field, the success of the measures is estimated at 95%.…”
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Optimized needle configuration for operational seed (ONCOSEED) efficiency and deployment for prostate seed implants by Siddhant Sen, Ethan Stolen, Jaehee Chun, Jin Sung Kim, James J. Sohn

“…Specifically, upon taking a second ultrasound on the day of treatment, the distribution of seeds and needles will differ drastically from the original plan. Clinics that employ this method must then spend time and resources to generate a workflow to manipulate the original configuration to the new configuration. …”
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Crowdfunding and Energy Efficiency Contracting: Exploring New Pathways for Private Investment in Building Renovations by Renan Magalhães, Federico Narracci, Jens Lowitzsch

“…Using a stepwise backward regression model, the study found significant differences between traditional investors in EE and those who would use the FinSESCo platform. …”
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Analysis of the Efficiency of Slope Evacuation for Dense Crowds in Urban Street-Type Public Spaces by Kailing Li, Tiantian Yao, Xue Lin, Xiaoye Lin, Xiaogang You

“…The number and location of obstacles should be reasonably arranged under the condition of satisfying the safety of pedestrians’ passage. The differences in the ability of evacuees should be taken into account to improve evacuation system deficiencies and ensure that everyone can evacuate safely. …”
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Economic Efficiency of Sustainable Public Transport: A Literature Review on Electric and Diesel Buses by Aleksander Jagiełło

“…RQ4—How do key economic variables differ across various studies? RQ5—What are the main methodological and empirical limitations in economic efficiency analyses of urban buses? …”
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Tactical and statistical analysis of spiking efficiency by type, zone and set phase in women's volleyball by Kiattisak Sitti, K. Ravivuth Rangubhet

“…Key performance indicators included kill rate, error rate, and efficiency index (EI). Comparative statistics were used to assess performance differences across match outcomes, spike types, zones, and phases.ResultsBlock-out spikes achieved the highest overall efficiency (EI = 0.79). …”
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Sparse connectivity enables efficient information processing in cortex-like artificial neural networks by Rieke Fruengel, Rieke Fruengel, Marcel Oberlaender, Marcel Oberlaender

“…Although ANNs were originally inspired by the brain, conventional ANNs differ substantially in their structural network architecture from cortical networks. …”
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Assessing the Efficiency of Fully Two-Dimensional Hydraulic HEC-RAS Models in Rivers of Cyprus by Georgia Siakara, Nikolaos Gourgouletis, Evangelos Baltas

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Integrated Physical–Mechanical Characterization of Fruits for Enhancing Post-Harvest Quality and Handling Efficiency by Mohamed Ghonimy, Raed Alayouni, Garsa Alshehry, Hassan Barakat, Mohamed M. Ibrahim

“…The results indicated significant differences among the various categories of fruits; apples and pears were most suitable for mechanical harvesting and long storage periods, whereas cherries and apricots were least resistant and susceptible to injury. …”
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Spatial temporal trends and inequality in agricultural eco-efficiency under carbon constraints in China by Shuaibang Fan, Hongyu Lin, Na Luo, Herbert Sima, Yanping Liu

“…The key findings include (1) The Songhua River Basin shows significantly higher eco-efficiency (mean: 0.718) than the Yellow River (mean: 0.559) and Yangtze River Basins (mean: 0.587), with distinct evolutionary patterns; (2) Long-term evolution reflects a bipolar pattern with spatial agglomeration disparities; (3) Positive spatial spillover effects are evident in regions with efficiency levels between 0.4 and 0.9, with inter-regional differences and super-variable density as significant spatial variation sources. …”
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STUDY OF THE EFFICIENCY OF THE SOFTWARE SECURITY IMPROVING METHOD AND SUBSTANTIATION OF PRACTICAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ITS USE by Weiling Cao, Viktor Кosenko, Serhii Semenov

“…A way for evaluating the effectiveness of a method for improving software security has been developed, which differs from the known ones by taking into account the scaling factor of the software development process by introducing security testing specialists. …”
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Estimating Performance Efficiency of Mining and Extracting Sectors Using DEA Models: The Case of Jordan by Jamil J. Jaber, Fatiha Beldjilali, Ali A. Shehadeh, Nawaf N. Hamadneh, Mohammad Saleh, Muhammad Tahir, S. Al Wadi

“…This study also examined the effect of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth and Return on Assets (ROA) on performance efficiency scores for BCC models. In the results, we found that there are differences in performance efficiency across time series in each company based on dynamic BCC models. …”
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Efficiency of dexamethasone in reducing the incidence of headaches after spinal anesthesia during caesarean section by Noor Sabri Ali,  Sajidah Al-Rubaai, Tishreen Sabri Ali

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Agrobacterium tumefaciens-Mediated Transformation of Valsa mali: An Efficient Tool for Random Insertion Mutagenesis by Caixia Wang, Xiangnan Guan, Hanyan Wang, Guifang Li, Xiangli Dong, Guoping Wang, Baohua Li

“…Compared with wild-type strain, those transformants exhibited various differences in morphology, conidia production, and conidia germination ability. …”
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