Cancer in English prisons: a mixed-methods study of diagnosis, treatment, care costs and patient and staff experiences by Elizabeth A Davies, Margreet Lüchtenborg, Rachael Maree Hunter, Renske Visser, Jennie Huynh, Ross Pow, Emma Plugge, Rachel M Taylor, Jo Armes

“…They also had fewer but slightly longer emergency hospital admissions, lower outpatient costs and fewer planned inpatient stays. While secondary care costs were lower for patients in prison, when security escorts costs were added, emergency care and total costs were higher. …”
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Unmanned aerial vehicle image stitching based on multi‐region segmentation by Weidong Pan, Anhu Li, Xingsheng Liu, Zhaojun Deng

“…Then, the fast density peaks clustering based on K‐nearest neighbours is applied to automatically determine the clustering centres and the number of clusters. By constructing a cost function, an energy map is generated in the overlapping regions between UAV images. …”
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Integrando técnicas e procedimentos de gestão de operações: uma aplicação em um banco comercial Brasileiro de grande porte Integrating operations management techniques and procedur... by Ualison Rebula de Oliveira, Fernando Augusto Silva Marins, Dagoberto Alves de Almeida

“…The proposed approach integrates process mapping techniques, capacity management, Theory of Constraints and Empowerment and was applied to a credit concession process of a major Brazilian bank. …”
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A Comprehensive Review of Crop Chlorophyll Mapping Using Remote Sensing Approaches: Achievements, Limitations, and Future Perspectives by Xuan Li, Bingxue Zhu, Sijia Li, Lushi Liu, Kaishan Song, Jiping Liu

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Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) applied in a chemotherapy department of a public reference oncology hospital by Amanda Oliveira Serra-Campos, Camila Campos Valério, Liliane Rosa Alves Manaças, Marina Magnago Cruz, Rodrigo Saar da Costa

“…ABSTRACT Objective: To identify the costs pertaining to the preparation and administration process of each chemotherapy treatment session in a public oncology hospital belonging to the Brazilian Unified Health System. …”
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AUTOMATION OF THE PROCESS OF ENSURING THE CONFORMITY OF THE OBJECT TO THE “GREEN” CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS by R. A. Zherugov, M. H. Kangezova, A. A. Lapidus

“…Full implementation of the algorithm will make it possible to reduce the time and cost of designing buildings and structures, increase the accuracy of drawing details and structural elements, improve the quality and technical and economic level of the design results, and minimize the costs of manual modeling and testing.…”
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Prehospital telemedicine support for urban stroke care: Analysis of current state of care and conceptualization by Daniel Weiss, Christian Rubbert, Marius Kaschner, Gregory Gordon Greiner, Nadja Kairies-Schwarz, Markus Vomhof, Andrea Icks, Linea Weitz, Hanna Hollenberg, Robin Jansen, Til Menge, Rüdiger J. Seitz, Sebastian Jander, Michael Bernhard, John-Ih Lee, Tobias Ruck, Sven Guenther Meuth, Bernd Turowski, Julian Caspers, Michael Gliem

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Trait-focused low-cost and stereo-based 3D plant modeling for phenotyping via deep neural detection by M. Wattad, S. Filin

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A bibliometric review on in silico drug repurposing: Performance analysis, science mapping and text mining (2000–2023) by Alejandro I. Trejo-Castro, Emmanuel Martinez-Ledesma, Antonio Martinez-Torteya

“…Drug repositioning is a technique to investigate whether a drug already approved for one disease will function for another disease not included in the original design. This process has attracted much interest in the last two decades because it is less time-consuming and more cost-efficient than traditional drug discovery. …”
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3D indoor modeling with low-cost RGB-D camera and iPad Pro: A Comparative Study by I. Rached, B. E. Ouzougarh, H. Radoine, R. Hajji, R. Haffadi

“…The rapid advancement in indoor 3D building modeling has led to increased interest in low-cost solutions for 3D data acquisition. While Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) and Mobile Mapping Systems (MMS) produce detailed 3D models, their high cost and complex workflows make them impractical for many applications. …”
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Method for Automatic Determination of a 3D Trajectory of Vehicles in a Video Image by I. G. Zubov, N. A. Obukhova

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Peer review of health research funding proposals: A systematic map and systematic review of innovations for effectiveness and efficiency. by Jonathan Shepherd, Geoff K Frampton, Karen Pickett, Jeremy C Wyatt

“…These studies showed that simplifying the process by shortening proposal forms, using smaller reviewer panels, or expediting processes can speed up the review process and reduce costs, but this might come at the expense of peer review quality, a key aspect that has not been assessed. …”
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A Systematic Mapping Study on Machine Learning Techniques Applied for Condition Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance in the Manufacturing Sector by Thuy Linh Jenny Phan, Ingolf Gehrhardt, David Heik, Fouad Bahrpeyma, Dirk Reichelt

“…Efficiency enables the company to maintain the required output while reducing production effort or costs. With the increasing interest in process automation and the Internet of things since Industry 4.0 was introduced, such shop floors are growing in complexity. …”
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UAV as a Bridge: Mapping Key Rice Growth Stage with Sentinel-2 Imagery and Novel Vegetation Indices by Jianping Zhang, Rundong Zhang, Qi Meng, Yanying Chen, Jie Deng, Bingtai Chen

“…Here, we propose utilizing UAVs as an alternative means to collect spatially continuous ground reference data across larger areas, thereby enhancing the efficiency and scalability of training and validation processes for rice growth stage mapping products. The UAV data collection involved the Nanchuan, Yongchuan, Tongnan, and Kaizhou districts of Chongqing City, encompassing a total area of 377.5 hectares. …”
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Health economics of virtual versus face-to-face glaucoma clinics: a time-driven activity-based costing study by Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Vishal Shah, Timothy L Jackson, Obeda Kailani, Joel Attlee

“…We used VBH costing methodology to quantify personnel costs of virtual and face-to-face (F2F) glaucoma clinics.Methods Virtual and F2F clinics were process-mapped to produce step-by-step pathways of patients in each setting. …”
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Video Certification and Mobile Laser Scanning Data Based Automation of Electronic Maps Generation for Use with Locomotive Safety Devices and Traffic Control Systems by V. I. Umansky, S. V. Dukhin, D. A. Yakushev

“…Its solution will lead to better traffic safety conditions and lesser electronic maps preparation costs. Railway infrastructure spatial data system (KSPD IZhT), containing coordinates of all the track objects in a high-precision coordinate system as obtained through processing of the mobile laser scanning outcomes, opens up new map generation opportunities. …”
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Human Brain-Inspired Network Using Transformer and Feedback Processing for Cell Image Segmentation by Hinako Mitsuoka, Kazuhiro Hotta

“…Hybrid models combining Transformers and CNNs have been proposed to address this issue, but they introduce high computational costs and architectural complexity. Therefore, to supplement or reinforce the missing information, we hypothesized that feedback processing in the visual cortex of the human brain could be highly effective. …”
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Subtidal seagrass and blue carbon mapping at the regional scale: a cloud-native multi-temporal Earth Observation approach by Mar Roca, Chengfa Benjamin Lee, Avi Putri Pertiwi, Alina Blume, Isabel Caballero, Gabriel Navarro, Dimosthenis Traganos

“…Our synoptic tool uses Sentinel-2 A/B satellite imagery at 10 m spatial resolution to generate a multi-temporal composite (2016–2022) of the Balearic Islands’ coastal waters within the Google Earth Engine cloud computing platform, optimizing image processing and highlighting the importance of a high-resolution bathymetric dataset to increase seagrass mapping accuracies. …”
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Mapping Nationwide Subfield Division Dynamics in Saudi Arabia Using Temporal Patterns of Sentinel-2 NDVI and Machine Learning by Ting Li, Oliver Miguel Lopez Valencia, Matthew F. McCabe

“…These parameters were applied to map the nationwide center-pivot subfield division dynamics across Saudi Arabia from 2019 to 2023. …”
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Resource allocation for hospitals (Reach): A time-driven activity-based costing study of chemotherapy regimens in a single institution by Evelyn Yi Ting Wong, Renne Phay, Gemma Diente Peralta, Sharon Keman Chee, Joanne Ngeow

“…Background Cancer care requires coordinated, multi-disciplinary teams and incurs rising costs. Time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) calculates the costs of healthcare resources consumed along the care process. …”
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