The Strategy of Young Citizens in the Field of Unanswered Demands: A Qualitative Study in Yazd City by Fezzeh Abolhasani, Mahnaz Farahmand, Hossein Afrasiabi, Seyed Reza Javadian

“…Conversely, ignoring citizens' demands can lead to disruptions in the citizenship process, destructive actions by citizens, and unnecessary social costs, ultimately perpetuating underdevelopment. …”
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Intersecting factors of disadvantage and discrimination and their effect on daily life during the coronavirus pandemic: the CICADA-ME mixed-methods study by Carol Rivas, Amanda P Moore, Alison Thomson, Kusha Anand, Zainab Zuzer Lal, Alison Fang-Wei Wu, Ozan Aksoy

“…These issues, combined in 2022 with the cost-of-living crisis, left participants pessimistic about the future. …”
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flexZhouse by Mohd Zairul

“…In this research, the transcription process was facilitated by the Post-it note intervention. …”
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The Impact of Audit Quality on Organizational Capital and Financing Capacity by Somaye Fathi, Mahdi Bahar Moghadam, Kazem Shamsadini

“…To address audit quality measurement complexities, we employed the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), administering a pairwise comparison matrix to 15 auditing scholars and practitioners. …”
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Designing the outsourcing model in central government organizations by Mahnaz Moradi, Morteza Ghasemi, Maryam Majidi, Gholamreza Amjadi

“…Theoretical Framework Outsourcing Outsourcing can be defined as outside management from the inside, and the transfer of non-strategic processes to the outside of the organization and focusing on the basic processes within the organization, or outsourcing can be defined as the act of finding services from an external source (Gambal et al, 2022). …”
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Co-designing and testing the learn together guidance to support patient and family involvement in patient safety investigations: a mixed-methods study by Jane O’Hara, Lauren Ramsey, Siobhan McHugh, Joseph Langley, Justin Waring, Ruth Simms-Ellis, Gemma Louch, Jenni Murray, Carl Macrae, John Baker, Rebecca Lawton, Daisy Halligan, Olivia Rogerson, Penny Phillips, Debra Hazeldine, Sarah Seddon, Joanne Hughes, Rebecca Partridge, Katherine Ludwin, Laura Sheard

“…The proposed research programme aimed to address these gaps, with the following overall aim: To co-design processes and resources to guide the role of patients/families in incident investigations at a national and local level, and to test these processes to understand their impact upon experience, learning and likelihood of seeking legal recourse. …”
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Integrating Palliative Care and Heart Failure: the PalliatHeartSynthesis realist synthesis by Tracey McConnell, Carolyn Blair, Geoff Wong, Claire Duddy, Clare Howie, Loreena Hill, Joanne Reid

“…Develop service delivery models that provide continuity of care for patients with HF including: reconfigured services to promote a multidisciplinary team (MDT) working between specialties and settings (including primary care) processes to monitor and address gaps in provision and caseloads processes to show the benefits (e.g. reduction in the need for inpatient care and cost-savings) of integrated PC and HF resources for all settings (e.g. primary and secondary care) and all audiences involved (e.g. patients, carers and clinicians) with clear and consistent messages about PC and HF. …”
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Designing a model of the role of social media in crisis management and digital supply chain resilience by Farhad Jahangiri, Abolfazl Danaei, Mahsa Akbari, Younos Vakil Alroaia

“…This work aimed to minimize financial and time costs while enhancing productivity in the production process until the final delivery of goods and services to customers (Azer & Khorrami, 2021). …”
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Unveiling the third dimension of glass by Faidra Oikonomopoulou

“…Discouraging factors such as the lengthy annealing process required, the to-date non-standardized production and the corresponding high manufacturing costs, have limited cast glass to only a few realized architectural applications. …”
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multi-objective mathematical model for optimizing the collection and recycling of urban waste under conditions of uncertainty(The subject of study : Karaj city) by Mohsen Bijanpoor, Reza Ehtesham Rasi, Davood Gharakhany

“…Therefore, a slight improvement in this process causes a significant reduction in the costs of municipalities (Babaei et al., 2017). …”
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Addressing Communication Challenges: Implementation of an Enhanced EHR System with Patient Portal at a Vancouver Hospital by Anutej Sarode, Anurag Johri, Ankit Shreshtha, Clement Vadakkan

“…The new era of information and communications technology can greatly help the healthcare community, including suppliers, patients, staff and the top-level Management to bridge the gap of communication that is very important in the healthcare process. …”
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Key characteristics and role of lead users in medical device innovations: An exploratory study by Béla Venesz, Tibor Dőry

“…Developing medical device innovations is a lengthy and costly endeavor, so engaging the right participants early in the process is crucial. …”
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An optimisation approach for capacity planning: modelling insights and empirical findings from a tactical perspective by Andréa Nunes Carvalho, Luiz Felipe Scavarda, Fabricio Oliveira

“…The topics presented include the modelling of objectives, the representation of the production process and the costing approach, as well as findings regarding managerial decisions and the scope of action considered. …”
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Material requirements planning with a novel lot sizing method and a new algorithm for production scheduling by Seyed Mahdi Javadi, Seyed Jafar Sadjadi, Ebrahim Teimoury, Ahmad Makui

“…Abstract Material Requirements Planning is an intelligent information system and a decision maker that determines the type of raw materials, the quantity of them, and their supplying time in order to realize production schedule of products and work-in-process items in a manufacturing system. In each manufacturing system, if we split production costs into material, labor, and overhead costs, we will observe that over 60% of total production costs are related to material. …”
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Economic evaluation framework for Industrial Symbiosis through network lenses: a systematic literature review by Maurizio Cisi, Roberta Napoli

“…Although the economic aspect is often considered as of paramount importance, IS costs and benefits proved to be scarcely identified and properly quantified in the existing literature. …”
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Economic and environmental sustainability dimensions of a fashion supply chain: A quantitative model by Eleonora Bottani, Letizia Tebaldi, Isabella Lazzari, Giorgia Casella

“…Research method The fashion supply chain has been divided into five processes. Hence, an analytic model was developed by considering the total costs incurring in each process (economic evaluation), and the annual kilograms of CO2 emitted (environmental perspective). …”
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The role of compound retrieval in modulating task-switching performance and training effects by Fangyuan Zhou, Zhongjin Tian, Xiangqian Li

“…When participants use stipulated task rules in task-switching paradigms, task-switching costs reflect task-set control processes. However, when the number of target stimuli is limited, participants could be induced to adopt a compound retrieval approach—directly retrieving stimulus–response associations from memory. …”
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Tabu Search Algorithm for Solving a Location-Routing-Inventory Problem by Nova Indah Saragih, Peri Turnip

“…Inventory control decisions, such as order lot size and order frequency, affect both inventory and transportation costs. Failure to take inventory and transportation costs into consideration when determining location decisions can lead to suboptimality since they have a large impact on inventory and transportation costs.  …”
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SCHEDULING PLANNING SOYBEAN COMMODITY DISTRIBUTION ACTIVITIES AT CV XYZ USING DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT PLANNING (DRP) METHOD by Jilan Amarla Diwani, Iphov Kumala Sriwana, Nia Novitasari

“…Additionally, total distribution costs were successfully minimized, decreasing from Rp 593,980,120 to Rp 551,934,498, resulting in a saving of Rp 42,045,622 or approximately 7% of the previous total distribution costs.…”
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Métodos de geração de colunas para problemas de atribuição Column generation methods for assignment problems by Edson Luiz França Senne, Luiz Antonio Nogueira Lorena, Silvely Nogueira de Almeida Salomão

“…PACS consists of determining a cell assignment pattern which minimizes cabling costs between a cell and a switch and transfer costs between cells assigned to different switches, while respecting certain constraints, especially those related to limited switch's capacity. …”
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