Assessing the effectiveness of time-of-use pricing design: Provincial evidence from China by Gang Lu, Bo Yuan, Shibo Zhou, Lanyi Wei, Zhaoyuan Wu

“…With the expansion of renewable energy and evolving electricity consumption patterns, time-of-use (TOU) pricing has become a crucial mechanism for cost transmission and demand-side management. …”
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FPGA-accelerated SpeckleNN with SNL for real-time X-ray single-particle imaging by Abhilasha Dave, Cong Wang, James Russell, Ryan Herbst, Jana Thayer

“…In comparison, running the same inference on an NVIDIA A100 GPU resulted in an average power consumption of ~73W and an image processing latency of around 400 microseconds. …”
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Maternal home meal replacement use and attitudes, and young children’s preferences by usage frequency in meals for young children: a cross-sectional study by Bo-Yeon Kim, Mi-Hyun Kim, Jee-Young Yeon

“…The questionnaire assessed mothers’ perceptions of HMR, consumption patterns, and their children’s preferences for HMR. …”
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Assessing climate change impacts on water footprint of crop production and crop yield: a case study of the Wu River basin, Taiwan by Guan-Zhou Lin, Li-Chi Chiang

“…Variation in rainfall patterns impact blue-green water consumption and directly affect crop yields, with projected reductions averaging 18% for rice, 41% for sweet potatoes, and 45% for oranges. …”
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3D-Printed recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) sandwich structures – Influence of infill design and density on tensile, dynamic mechanical, and creep response by Ans Al Rashid, Muammer Koç

“…The mechanical properties of the concentric pattern at 50% infill (C50) stand out as the best among all infill types and patterns, exhibiting an average tensile strength of 34.65 MPa, failure strain of 0.067, Young's modulus of 464.32 MPa, and strength-to-weight ratio of 8.56 (S/W). …”
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Sex disparities in premature adult mortality in Estonia 1995–2016: a national register-based study by Hajo Zeeb, Kaja Rahu, Mati Rahu

“…The prevalence of tobacco smoking and harmful alcohol consumption among men exceeded that among women by factors of two and six, respectively.Conclusions Even though premature adult mortality has markedly decreased over time, there has been no success in diminishing the large sex differences in the mortality patterns, mostly associated with smoking and excessive alcohol consumption, both more prevalent among men. …”
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Harvesting energy’s worth: an economic assessment of energy at wheat farms by Hamed Rafiee, Omid Karami, Atabak Kazempour Kahriz, Reza Shakeri Bostanabad, Alireza Kermani

“…Energy use optimization necessitates a careful study of the patterns of energy and resource consumption in agriculture. …”
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The impact of labor market trends on consumer and savings behavior of the population by M. Yu. Akimov

“…As indicators that allow us to identify patterns of formation of consumer and savings behavior of the population, such indicators as employment, unemployment, labor productivity, labor price, average unemployment period, the participation rate of women, men, youth, pensioners, migrants in the workforce, education level, place of residence (city, countryside) can be used, region of the country), consumer spending and savings.The article identifies the main current trends in the Russian labor market that shape the labor behavior of the population and determine the personnel policy of employers. …”
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Analysis of air pollutants concentration variations and human impact by remote sensing: Implications for sustainable urban air quality management by Chengzhi Xiang, Ruizhe Li, Ailin Liang, Jiarun Wang

“…With the acceleration of global urbanization, massive energy consumption has led to increased atmospheric emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and polluting gases, exacerbating pollution problems. …”
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Climatic consequences of adopting drought‐tolerant vegetation over Los Angeles as a response to California drought by P. Vahmani, G. Ban‐Weiss

“…A more aggressive implementation, assuming all urban vegetation was replaced with drought‐tolerant vegetation, resulted in an average daytime cooling of 0.2°C, largely due to strengthened sea breeze patterns, highlighting the important role of land surface roughness in this coastal megacity.…”
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Korelasi aktivitas fisik dan asupan kalium terhadap tekanan darah lansia by Devi Wahyuni, Anisa Sekar Widhi

“…Correlation between physical activity and potassium intake with blood pressure in the elderly Background: Setabelan Health Center, Banjarsari District, Surakarta City, recorded 59% higher cases of hypertension than other health centers (average below 45%). The high cases of hypertension in the elderly are influenced by lifestyle and food consumption patterns. …”
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Social Interactions for Sustainable Food Choices: Meeting the Target for Meat Intake in the United Kingdom by Angela Fontan, Rosemary Green, Karl H Johansson, Patricia Eustachio Colombo

“…Methods: We considered the problem of influencing the opinions of a group of agents (representing the UK population) connected in a social network over a sequence of campaigns to achieve convergence to 2 different targets: achieving the UK Climate Change Committee’s goal of 35% and 50% average reduction in meat consumption by 2030 and 2050, respectively. …”
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Temporal trends in disability adjusted life year and mortality for colorectal cancer attributable to a high red meat diet in China from 1990 to 2021: an analysis of the global burd... by Yuxin Liu, Chaofu Zhu, Haonan Song, Mengqi Che, Beijia Xu, Baiping An

“…Abstract Background High red meat consumption is a main modifiable risk factor for colorectal cancer mortality (CRC), but its attributable disease burden remains unclear in China. …”
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POVERTY IN RUSSIA: KEY APPROACHES TO ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT by M. V. Bikeeva

“…The use of statistical data of the Federal State Statistics Service revealed the reduction of poverty by 2,1 times (from 29% to 13,5%) for the period from 2000 to 2016 and the excess of the average per capita income and average monthly wage of the subsistence minimum by more than 3,0 times. …”
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Optimized energy management and small cell activation in ultra-dense networks through a data-driven approach by Amna Shabbir, Safdar Rizvi, Muhammad Mansoor Alam, Mazliham Mohd Su’ud

“…Leveraging data-driven methodologies, operators can optimize small cell deployment locations and configurations based on real-time traffic patterns and environmental conditions, thereby maximizing network performance while minimizing energy consumption. …”
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Enhancing On-Device DNN Inference Performance With a Reduced Retention-Time MRAM-Based Memory Architecture by Munhyung Lee, Taehan Lee, Junwon Yeo, Hyukjun Lee

“…As applications using deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed on mobile devices, researchers are exploring various methods to achieve low energy consumption and high performance. Recently, advances in STT-MRAM have shown promise in offering non-volatility, high performance, and low energy consumption when used to replace DRAM in main memory. …”
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Analysis of environmental health risks from exposure to polyethylene terephthalate microplastics in refilled drinking water by S. Kasim, A. Daud, A.B. Birawida, A. Mallongi, A.I. Arundana, A. Rasul, M. Hatta

“…If they build up in the body, microplastics may have harmful consequences, including organ inflammation, internal or external damage, and chemical alteration of plastics that have already entered the body.CONCLUSION: Some measures of risk management that can be performed are to reduce the concentration of risk agents if the pattern and timing of consumption cannot be changed, reduce the consumption pattern (intake rate) if the concentration of risk agents and the time of consumption cannot be changed, and reduce the contact time if the risk agent concentration and consumption pattern cannot be changed.…”
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FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS FROM A SOCIAL WELFARE PERSPECTIVE - A COMPARATIVE STUDY ROMANIA-MOLDOVA by Monica-Laura ZLATI (SORICI), Svetlana MIHAILA, Veronica GROSU

“…Thus, in the opinion of the authors, the financial performance can be quantified according to the capacity of the resources to satisfy the financial needs, in an equitable measure, based on the allowed access, in the presence of protection against financial risk and through the sustainable consumption of resources. We propose to develop a model for assessing financial performance under uncertainty based on the consumption vector represented by the average monthly cost felt by the employer. …”
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Autonomous scheduling mechanism based on energy awareness for improving resource allocation in serverless IoT edge by Mohsen Ghorbian, Mostafa Ghobaei-Arani, Leila Esmaeili

“…The efficiency of the proposed approach was evaluated utilizing three separate load distribution patterns (exponential, Poisson, and exponential-Poisson), and the results indicate the prevention of energy waste and an average reduction of 1.66% in energy consumption. …”
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Deep Learning for Telecom Self-Optimized Networks: Benefits and Implications by Farah Alhaqui, Iyad Lahsen-Cherif, Mariam Elkhechafi, Ahmed Elkhadimi

“…These high-precision forecasts significantly improved network awareness, enabling the deployment of energy optimization strategies that reduced energy consumption across 1,100 base stations by an average of 11% per station.…”
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