Number 1: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease by Norman L Jones

“…With the editorial staff of the Canadian Respiratory Journal, I extend our best wishes for the New Year, and heartfelt thanks to everyone who has helped the Journal establish itself in the competitive field of quality, peerreviewed publications in chest medicine. …”
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Preparing for a Career in Aquatic Animal Medicine by Ruth Francis-Floyd

“… If your goal is to be an aquatic animal veterinarian, then obviously the first step is to put together a competitive packet for admission to a college of veterinary medicine. …”
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Travestis brasileiras e exotismo sexual by Jorge Leite Jr

“…At the same time, this femininity is also able to tension many social difference markers (such as class, race/ethnicity and nationality) and to create for Brazilian trannies specific characteristics that are increasingly competitive in the transnational sex market.…”
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Decarbonization of space heating in the Italian Alpine context: Thermo-economic assessment of the levelized energy cost of heating under alternative renewable scenarios by Lorenzo Menin, Gregorio Borelli, Alessandro Prada, Giovanni Pernigotto, Andrea Gasparella, Marco Baratieri

“…However, scenario (1) exhibits the highest competitiveness under recent subsidization policies, with a weighted average levelized energy cost of heat of 104 €/MWh, in line with the cost of standalone natural gas combustion in condensing boilers. …”
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Toward Integrating ChatGPT Into Satellite Image Annotation Workflows: A Comparison of Label Quality and Costs of Human and Automated Annotators by Jacob Beck, Lukas Malte Kemeter, Konrad Durrbeck, Mohamed Hesham Ibrahim Abdalla, Frauke Kreuter

“…We discuss implications regarding the economic competitiveness of annotation strategies, prompt engineering, and the task-specificity of expertise.…”
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Distributed teams: challenges and opportunities by M. V. Orlova, I. Yu. Aleksandrova

“…Distributed work requires operational flexibility from companies, which is characterised by  greater susceptibility to changes in their markets, to new emerging customer requirements and new competitive threats. The article is devoted to the identification of factors contributing to the transition of companies to the distributed workforce, the advantages of this type of work, and the difficulties that companies will face.…”
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A New Implementable Prediction-Correction Method for Monotone Variational Inequalities with Separable Structure by Feng Ma, Mingfang Ni, Zhanke Yu

“…Preliminary numerical results show that the new method can be competitive with Chen's proximal-based decomposition method in Chen and Teboulle (1994).…”
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METALLURGICAL EDUCATION IN CDIO IDEOLOGY by Natalya V. Gafurova, Svetlana I. Osipova

“…The article discusses modernization of vocational education course “Metallurgy”, which aims at improving the competitiveness of a graduate in case of innovative variants of the Russian economy development. …”
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Les sujets-textes d’examen en breton. Présentation et analyse exploratoire d’un corpus textuel d’évaluation en langue bretonne by Fabrice David

“…What texts are used in Breton exams and competitions? How are they chosen? How do they relate to written production in Breton? …”
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Microwave NDT/NDE Through Differential Bayesian Compressive Sensing by Marco Salucci, Lorenzo Poli, Giorgio Gottardi, Giacomo Oliveri, Luca Tosi, Andrea Massa

“…Selected numerical and experimental results are provided to assess the effectiveness of the proposed imaging method also in comparison with competitive state-of-the-art alternatives.…”
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Theory and practice of quality of experience in video services by Tiantian HE, Yankai LIU, Li SONG

“…As videos becoming the major sources of acquiring information in current era,consumers have raised their expectations for video quality experience,which has become the most critical competitiveness for video service providers.A thorough review of quality of experience (QoE) was presented,and then detailed analysis of video QoE and relevant no reference assessment methods were provided.Further,the standardization process of video QoE in China and the evaluation results of Chinese video services quality were introduced.Last but not the least,the characteristics of Chinese video services was summarized and advices of improvement were presented.…”
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CONTROLLING AS A CORPORATE GOVERNANCE TOOL by T. Rogulenko

“…According to the results of the research it is concluded that con-trolling is one of the modern algorithmic and automated tools of the corporate governance system of the economic development strategy in a highly competitive environment and un-predictability of the behavior of economic entities in the market of goods, works, services, currency, securities and etc., which integrates with other management systems in the mode of their parallel automation.…”
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LTE FDD and TD-LTE sea area coverage test by Li YU, Xusong ZHAO, Xugang ZHENG, Weiming YE, Zhenzhe WU

“…With the development of national economy,marine fishery and marine tourism grow rapidly.The demand for data communication in sea area is increasing in recent years.It is an opportunity for mobile operators to build a high quality sea area coverage network,so as to develop market and enhance brand competitiveness.According to the on-site test results and the configuration parameters,together with the technical features of LTE FDD and TD-LTE,the coverage capability of LTE FDD and TD-LTE in sea area was analyzed.The analysis of the test results may also provide guidance for LTE network planning and design in sea area.…”
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STRATEGY OF HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT AS ONE OF THE PRIORITIES DIRECTION OF MODERN GOVERNANCE by P. Galkin, I. Svetlov

“…Reviewed data reports allow to identify key areas for government attention in the context of strategic development of national human capital, thereby ensuring long-term foundation for the competitiveness of national economy of the Russian Federation.…”
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Preparing for a Career in Aquatic Animal Medicine by Ruth Francis-Floyd

“… If your goal is to be an aquatic animal veterinarian, then obviously the first step is to put together a competitive packet for admission to a college of veterinary medicine. …”
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Strategic Management of Agribusiness: Determinants and Trends by Chao-Chien Chen, Hsiu-Ping Yueh, Chaoyun Liang

“…Intense changes have arisen in global agriculture, yielding a new market reality that is more complex and competitive than before. To confront these changes, a renewed perspective on the practice of agribusiness management is necessary. …”
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PRIORITIES AND PERSPECTIVES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY by Anatoly A. Tashkinov, Vasily Yu. Petrov, Vladimir I. Makarevich

“…The university develops its activities based on the unity of educational, scientific and innovational processes, participates in formation of a global education and research space, provides training for a new generation specialists adapted to socio-cultural conditions of Russia and first-rate countries, contributes to the success of its graduates in competitive environments.…”
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HUMAN DEFICIENCY IN THE AGRO-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX OF THE REPUBLIC OF SAKHA (YAKUTIA): WAYS TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS by K. Togonokhov

“…Recommendations are proposed for the elimination of the personnel shortage and the formation of competitive personnel in the agro-industrial complex.…”
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Design and Implementation of an Integrated Network Management System Based on Principal Component Analysis by Xiangyun Kong, Tienan Chu

“…In the big data era, efficient using of data has become an important factor in determining the competitiveness of operators. Currently the main method for network operators in data analysis is OLAP based on data warehouse. …”
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Differences in Ethical Judgment Based on the Presence or Absence of Buddhist Altars: An Application of the Bennett Method by Kosei TOGASHI, Nobumichi WATAHIKI, Luiza GATAN, Takatomo ITOI, Cristian VLAD

“…While seeking to illustrate the impact of collectivism on organizational behaviour, this research sheds light on culture and the concept of shame in Japanese society, connecting this to the collective nature of people working in Japanese companies and how this specific behaviour evolved into competitive advantage over the years. Nevertheless, in regard to the focal points of employee interest, this research indicated that there was no evidence of collectivism, as it is usually described by Japanese business managers. …”
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