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Abstract Electrification of distillation offers a promising route to reducing scope‐1 emissions from one of the chemical industry's most energy‐intensive unit operations. However, conventional adiabatic columns are dynamically inflexible: Long, energy‐intensive start‐ups make shutdown and restart impractical under variable electricity prices and ...
Samuel Mercer, Michael Baldea
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Survey of Different Approaches to Health System Financing in the Selected Countries during the Period 1998-2004 and Introducing New Financing Mechanisms for Iran [PDF]
Health Systems aim to improve health by delivering health care services. But sometimes in low-income countries, people become poor when they use these services.
Ali Maher +2 more
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Growing up: The Social and Economic Implications of an Aging Population [PDF]
The Canadian population is aging more rapidly than ever before, and that trend has widespread implications for a number of different aspects of Canada's society.
Amar Goomar, Rock Lefebvre
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Large Language Model in Materials Science: Roles, Challenges, and Strategic Outlook
Large language models (LLMs) are reshaping materials science. Acting as Oracle, Surrogate, Quant, and Arbiter, they now extract knowledge, predict properties, gauge risk, and steer decisions within a traceable loop. Overcoming data heterogeneity, hallucinations, and poor interpretability demands domain‐adapted models, cross‐modal data standards, and ...
Jinglan Zhang +4 more
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Income Distribution and the Public-Private Mix in Health Care Provision: The Latin American Case [PDF]
Recent literature on Latin American countries shows that private expenses as a share of the total expenditures in health tend to be higher the lower the nation`s level of economic development.
Daniel Maceira
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Context Awareness and Human–Robot Interaction Optimization for Museum Intelligent Guide Robot
This study presents a context‐aware human–robot interaction framework designed for intelligent museum guide robots. The system features a three‐layer architecture—perception, understanding, and behavior execution—that enables adaptive and meaningful interactions with museum visitors.
Anna Zou, Yue Meng, Shijing Tong
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This paper examines the relationship between insurance development, population, economic growth, and health expenditures for a panel of 31 OECD countries over the period 1995–2021.
Moheddine Younsi +2 more
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Private expenditures on healthcare: determinants, patterns and progressivity aspects
Background The mixture of public vs. private financing of the healthcare system has important fiscal and economic welfare implications. The consequences of this mixture for access to health services and for equity have become highly debated policy issues.
Leah Achdut
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Public health and education spending in Ghana in 1992-98 : issues of equity and efficiency [PDF]
Using primary data from the health and education ministries, and household survey data from the Ghana Statistical Service, the authors analyze equity, and efficiency issues in public spending on health, and education in Ghana in the 1990s.
Canagarajah, Sudharshan, Xiao Ye
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Four decades of retinal vessel segmentation research (1982–2025) are synthesized, spanning classical image processing, machine learning, and deep learning paradigms. A meta‐analysis of 428 studies establishes a unified taxonomy and highlights performance trends, generalization capabilities, and clinical relevance.
Avinash Bansal +6 more
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