The impact of BIM on project time and cost: insights from case studies by Karan Das, Salman Khursheed, Virendra Kumar Paul

“…Abstract Building Information Modelling (BIM) has emerged as a transformative tool in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industries, offering significant potential to improve project efficiency and outcomes. This study explores the impact of BIM implementation on project time and cost by analyzing critical factors such as design errors, unbudgeted changes, Requests for Information (RFIs), labour dynamics, and scheduling across multiple case studies. …”
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New high-tech biocomplex for the correction of metabolism disorders at diabetes by M. I. Kalimullin, S. S. Sady, A. N. Austrievskikh, V. M. Poznyakovsky

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Public health services: implementation of healthcare technologies by Andrii Shipko, Serhii Shklyar, Oleksii Demikhov, Henryk Dzwigol

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Effective supply chain management as a way to improve production process productivity by Harrak Yosef, Butko Galina

“…The relevance of this research is due to the increasing role of effective Supply Chain Management (SCM) in improving the productivity of production processes of enterprises, especially in the context of economic instability. Efficient SCM significantly impacts the competitiveness, resilience and sustainable development of industrial enterprises, necessitating deep theoretical and empirical research in this area. …”
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STANDARDIZATION OF UNCERTAINTY SITUATIONS IN TRAINING MODULES by Sergey A. Safontsev, Natalya Yu. Safontseva

“…The methods of education standardization including the determination of the validity, reliability and efficiency have achieved further development.Practical significance. …”
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Improving transparency in malaria programme funds: A business case for connected diagnostics in Kenya by Charlotte M. Dieteren, Emmanuel Milimo, Angela Siteyi, Shannen van Duijn, Leon Stijvers, Lilyana Dayo, Gregory Ganda, Tobias F. Rinke de Wit

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The influence of herbicide protection on the yield of annual sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) in the conditions of Western Forest Steppe by I. Mostoviak, I. Krykunov, A. Shuvar, I. Senyk, H. Sydoruk

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ANALYSIS OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FLEXIBLE WORK ARRANGEMENTS, WORK LIFE BALANCE AND EMPLOYEES’ EFFICIENCY: EVIDENCE FROM BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA’S (BiH) IT SECTOR by Ognjen Riđić, Adnan Avdibegović, Senad Bušatlić

“…This growth is most visible in the IT industry. Efficiency, together with work-life balance, is found to be one of the most important factors of success at workplace. …”
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LOGISTICS INTEGRATION INFORMATION SYSTEM ENABLERS INFLUENCE ON OPERATIONS EFFICIENCY THROUGH SUPPLY CHAIN RISK MANAGEMENT: THE MODERATING ROLE OF SUPPLY CHAIN COMPLEXITY by Mohammed A. Al Doghan, Sanjar Mirzaliev

“…Further operations logistics integration and supply chain risk management also positively and significantly impact on operational efficiency.  The indirect mediating effect showed that supply chain risk management was not significantly mediated between operations logistics integration and operational efficiency. …”
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Features of distribution and efficiency of saury fishery in dependence on oceanographic conditions in the South-Kuril Region on data of satellite observations in August-November of... by Yury V. Novikov, Eugene V. Samko

“…The SST spatial distribution patterns are compared between the years with high and low landings of saury and the catch efficiency, taking such parameters as the distance of the South Kuril anticyclone eddy from Shikotan Island and the northern Subarctic Front (NSAF) position as quantitative measures of oceanographic conditions. …”
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ScaleViM-PDD: Multi-Scale EfficientViM with Physical Decoupling and Dual-Domain Fusion for Remote Sensing Image Dehazing by Hao Zhou, Yalun Wang, Wanting Peng, Xin Guan, Tao Tao

“…State-space models (SSMs) have recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for vision tasks, showing great promise due to their computational efficiency and robust capacity to model global dependencies. …”
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A novel approach integrating the method of characteristics with large time-step scheme (MOC-LTS) for efficient transient flow simulation in liquid pipelines by Shengyuan Wei, Shangfei Song, Bohui Shi, Jing Gong

“…Therefore, rapid and precise transient flow simulation is essential for efficiently developing scientific water hammer control strategies. …”
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Improved Efficiency of Cardiomyocyte-Like Cell Differentiation from Rat Adipose Tissue-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells with a Directed Differentiation Protocol by Blanca Rebeca Ibarra-Ibarra, Martha Franco, Araceli Paez, Elvira Varela López, Felipe Massó

“…The percentage of cardiac troponin T- (cTnT-) positive cells was evaluated by flow cytometry to assess the cardiomyocyte differentiation efficiency in a quantitative manner. ASCs treated with the directed cardiomyocyte differentiation protocol obtained a differentiation efficiency of up to 44.03% (39.96%±3.78) at day 15 without any enrichment step. …”
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Improving Safety, Efficiency, Cost, and Satisfaction Across a Musculoskeletal Pathway Using the Digital Assessment Routing Tool for Triage: Quality Improvement Study by Cabella Lowe, Laura Atherton, Peter Lloyd, Anna Waters, Dylan Morrissey

“…The primary safety outcome was measured by agreement between clinician judgment and safety incident surveillance. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used to measure secondary outcomes of efficiency, cost, and satisfaction. …”
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Probing the Pitfalls: Understanding SVD’s Shortcomings in Language Model Compression by Сергей Александрович Плетенев

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EFFICIENCY OF PROTECTIVE MEASURES TO REDUCE INTERNAL DOSE FROM CAESIUM RADIONUCLIDES FOR THE INHABITANTS OF RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION AREA IN THE FIRST YEARS AFTER THE CHERNOBYL AC... by I. G. Travnikova

“…It was found out that individual 137Cs contents in the body correlate with the rate of meat, dairy and natural food products consumption and with factors of protection from internal exposure. The efficiency of the protective measures to reduce the intake and the content of caesium radionuclides in the body of inhabitants, as well as the average effective dose in the first years after the accident has been quantitatively assessed.…”
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Targeted mutagenesis on PDGFRα-Fc identifies amino acid modifications that allow efficient inhibition of HCMV infection while abolishing PDGF sequestration. by Svenja Feldmann, Immanuel Grimm, Dagmar Stöhr, Chiara Antonini, Peter Lischka, Christian Sinzger, Cora Stegmann

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Pyridine–Quinoline and Biquinoline-Based Ruthenium <i>p</i>-Cymene Complexes as Efficient Catalysts for Transfer Hydrogenation Studies: Synthesis and Structural Characterization by Nikolaos Zacharopoulos, Gregor Schnakenburg, Eleni I. Panagopoulou, Nikolaos S. Thomaidis, Athanassios I. Philippopoulos

“…Searching for new and efficient transfer hydrogenation catalysts, a series of new organometallic ruthenium(II)-arene complexes of the formulae [Ru(η⁶-<i>p</i>-cymene)(L)Cl][PF₆] (<b>1</b>–<b>8</b>) and [Ru(η⁶-<i>p</i>-cymene)(L)Cl][Ru(η⁶-<i>p</i>-cymene)Cl₃] (<b>9</b>–<b>11</b>) were synthesized and fully characterized. …”
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Low-Resolution Quantized Precoding for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Dual-Functional Radar–Communication Systems Used for Target Sensing by Xiang Feng, Zhongqing Zhao, Jiongshi Wang, Jian Wang, Zhanfeng Zhao, Zhiquan Zhou

“…Furthermore, we propose a dynamic projection refinement algorithm within the alternating direction method of multiplier framework to efficiently solve these sub-problems. Numerical experiments demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms existing state-of-the-art techniques, particularly in terms of bit error rate in low signal-to-noise ratio scenarios.…”
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A Lightweight Semantic- and Graph-Guided Network for Advanced Optical Remote Sensing Image Salient Object Detection by Jie Liu, Jinpeng He, Huaixin Chen, Ruoyu Yang, Ying Huang

“…This module incorporates non-local operations under graph convolution domain to deeply explore high-order relationships between adjacent layers, while utilizing depth-wise separable convolution blocks to significantly reduce computational cost. Extensive quantitative and qualitative experiments demonstrate that the proposed model achieves excellent performance with only 2.70 M parameters and 1.38 G FLOPs, while delivering an impressive inference speed of 108 FPS, striking a balance between efficiency and accuracy to meet practical application needs.…”
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