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Barriers to promoting prefabricated construction in China : a cost-benefit analysis

, 2018
Prefabricated construction has attracted worldwide concern because of its significant role in the creation of sustainable urbanization. In Mainland China, the practice of applying prefabrication technology in the construction industry still lags behind ...
Jingke Hong, G. Shen, Zhengdao Li, Boyu Zhang, Wanqiu Zhang   +4 more
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Sealing versus Nonsealing: Cost-benefit analysis

Journal of Oral Research and Review, 2016
Dental caries still remains the second most prevalent disease after common cold, out of which occlusal caries is the most profound one. In India, more than 40% of children are found to be affected by dental caries. Occlusal surfaces of the teeth are most
Anshula N Deshpande, Rameshwari Yashpalsinh Raol, Urvashi Sudani, Neelam Joshi, Neha Pradhan   +4 more
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Cost Benefit Analysis: Bypass of Prešov city

MATEC Web of Conferences, 2017
The paper describes decision making process based on economic evaluation, i.e. Cost Benefit Analysis for motorway bypass of the Prešov city. Three variants were evaluated by means of the Highway Development and Management Tool (HDM-4).
Margorínová Martina, Trojanová Mária
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A cost-benefit analysis of climate-smart agriculture options in Southern Africa: Balancing gender and technology

Ecological Economics, 2019
Climate change and extreme weather events undermine smallholder household food and income security in southern Africa. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) technologies comprise a suite of interventions that aim to sustainably increase productivity whilst ...
M. Mutenje, C. Farnworth, C. Stirling, C. Thierfelder, W. Mupangwa, I. Nyagumbo   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Impact and cost–benefit analysis: a unifying approach

Journal of Economic Structures, 2021
This paper presents a methodology to integrate cost–benefit analysis and SAM-CGE-based impact evaluation. While the two types of analysis have developed in parallel and without a clear connection, there is growing consensus that the two approaches should
Pasquale Lucio Scandizzo
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Cost-benefit analysis of integrated energy system planning considering demand response

Energy, 2020
The power-gas-coupling can realize the cascade utilization of energy in the integrated energy system, which is conducive to improving the utilization of energy and reducing pollution gases emissions.
Yue Xiang, Hanhu Cai, Chenghong Gu, Xiaodong Shen   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Towards a ‘smart’ cost–benefit tool: using machine learning to predict the costs of criminal justice policy interventions

Crime Science, 2018
Background The Manning Cost–Benefit Tool (MCBT) was developed to assist criminal justice policymakers, policing organisations and crime prevention practitioners to assess the benefits of different interventions for reducing crime and to select those ...
Matthew Manning, Gabriel T. W. Wong, Timothy Graham, Thilina Ranbaduge, Peter Christen, Kerry Taylor, Richard Wortley, Toni Makkai, Pierre Skorich   +8 more
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Cost-benefit analysis of smoking in Latvia [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences, 2020
One of 3 persons in Latvia is a smoker. Smoking has been proved to be linked to different cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. The overall purpose of the study addresses smoking as a cost-benefit subject in Latvian state economy.
Kokarevica Anita, Ludzeniece Anastasija
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Benefit and Cost Analysis of Resource Sharing

International Journal of Librarianship
Libraries are not exempt from rising costs. The situation presented is how libraries can continue to provide services while also finding efficiencies in labor and operational expenditures.
Cherie Weible, Janelle Sander
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Tumor and germline testing with next generation sequencing in epithelial ovarian cancer: a prospective paired comparison using an 18‐gene panel

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Genetic testing in epithelial ovarian cancer includes both germline and tumor‐testing. This approach often duplicates resources. The current prospective study assessed the feasibility of tumor‐first multigene testing by comparing tumor tissue with germline testing of peripheral blood using an 18‐gene NGS panel in 106 patients.
Elisabeth Spenard, Cristina Mitric, Melanie Care, Tracy L. Stockley, Raymond H. Kim, Jeanna McCuaig, Blaise Clarke, Laura Ranich, Clare Sheen, Sarah E. Ferguson, Liat Hogen, Taymaa May, Marcus Q. Bernardini   +12 more
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