SCYLLA AND C HARYBDIS OF EDUCATION: SPECULATIONS ON THE PROBLEMS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING IN HIGHER SCHOOLS OF RUSSIA by Natalya K. Ivanova, Marina N. Mileeva

“…The paper considers some actual problems of the foreign languages teaching in the context of the new challenges faced by Russian higher school and demands for building its competitive scientific and educational image and for increasing international scientific ranking. …”
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Trunk Shaker Mechanical Harvesting Systems by Stephen H. Futch, Fritz M. Roka

“…Trunk shake systems are a viable mechanical harvesting system which growers should consider in an effort to lower harvesting costs, increase fruit returns, and remain competitive. This document is HS1005, one of a series of the Horticultural Sciences Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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Post-Election Climate Policy in Germany: Towards a New Green Industrial Policy by Barbara Praetorius, Wolfgang Dierker

“…Reconciling climate protection and competitiveness is a precondition for the success of such programme. …”
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DEVELOPMENT IN THE MANAGEMENT OF SOCIOECONOMIC SYSTEMS by S. Zainullin, N. Sorokin

“…In this regard, first of all, it should be noted features of its business model, which provides a strategy for the formation of strong competitive advantages in the industry market. The development of the company is provided by a high level of manufacturability, which is in priority. …”
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Comment approfondir la coopération entre rive nord et rive sud de la Méditerranée : Un renouveau économique tenant compte des effets de la rente sur le Sud de la Méditerranée... by Hartmut Elsenhans

“…Without an agricultural surplus, the Arab world cannot follow the East Asian strategy of massive devaluations to make manufactured exports competitive. The EU could address this lack of agricultural surplus by assigning its own agricultural surplus to the economic transformation of the Arab world, in this way promoting social and political stability on the basis of the comparative advantage that will appear when the Arab world has managed its industrialization. …”
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Florida 4-H Shotgun Record Book by Julie P. Dillard, Gerald Culen

“… This 11-page project book discusses goals of the National 4-H Shooting Sports Program and allows 4-H members to record goals and objectives for the year, 4-H Shooting Sports activities, learning experiences, community service, service, learning, and leadership, equipment inventory, finances related to their projects, practice sessions, competitions, and placings in order to help them document their growth, development, and progress. …”
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Research on characteristics of industrial IoT wireless channel by Yiqian LI, Liu LIU, Huiting LI, Kun ZHANG, Ze YUAN

“…Nowadays,the industrial IoT has become the key competitiveness of the country,and the intelligent manufacturing industry is accelerating.As the information transmission channel in the industrial IoT system,wireless technology plays a strong supporting role in the industrial field.Firstly,the wireless channel characteristics of industrial scene were introduced.Then the propagation characteristics in different frequency bands were analyzed and the main adjustment frequency bands for the initial deployment of industrial private networks were suggested.The causes,influencing factors and value ranges of the large-scale fading and small-scale fading were summarized,and corresponding parameters of the wireless channel characteristics of industrial IoT were summarized.…”
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Comparative analysis of export determinants in Italian and Polish firms: The moderating role of non-family management by Marco Pini, Grzegorz Tchorek

“…IMPLICATIONS: i) the role of corporate governance can differ between countries with reference to a firm’s competitiveness; ii) favoring management openness to external managers for family-owned firms; iii) small firms require greater support in encouraging exporting behavior; iv) the need to consider jointly the issues of innovation, internationalization and corporate governance modes (familynon-family management) in the agenda of the firm’s competitiveness. …”
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Odontogenic differentiation of dental pulp stem cells by glycogen synthase kinase-3β inhibitory peptides by Vidhyashree Rajasekar, Mohamed Mahmoud Abdalla, Mohammed S. Basbrain, Prasanna Neelakantan, Cynthia KY Yiu

“…Abstract Background To investigate the effects of peptide-based substrate competitive inhibitors of GSK-3β (GSK-3βi) on promoting odontogenic differentiation of human dental pulp stem cells (hDPSCs). …”
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Cannabis in cosmetics: regulatory and scientific insights into hemp seed extracts for skincare by Abhilash Aditya, Too Jae Min, Sornkanok Vimolmangkang, Namsoo P. Kim

“…Global regulatory perspectives on cannabinoids affect competitiveness. Korea’s focus on hemp diversity lacks medical competitiveness and intellectual property protection but highlights cosmetic applications. …”
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Context aware machine learning techniques for brain tumor classification and detection – A review by Usman Amjad, Asif Raza, Muhammad Fahad, Doaa Farid, Adnan Akhunzada, Muhammad Abubakar, Hira Beenish

“…It identifies challenges in tumor classification, segmentation, datasets, and modalities, employing various neural network architectures. A competitive analysis assesses the performance of CNN. …”
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Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Are Inhibitors of the Intestinal Proton-Coupled Amino Acid Transporter (PAT1): Ibuprofen and Diclofenac Are Non-Translocated Inhibitors by Carsten Uhd Nielsen, Sebastian Jakobsen, Maria L. Pedersen

“…Ibuprofen acted as a non-competitive inhibitor of hPAT1-mediated proline transport. …”
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WHY DO VIETNAMESE FIRMS HOLD CASH? by Nguyễn Thanh Hồng Ân, Hoàng Mai Phương

“…Given that internal resources are vital to investments in research and development, which in turn contribute to firms’ future growth and competitiveness, the current low level cash holding is a bad sign for the future growth as well as the long-term competitiveness of Vietnamese firms.…”
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Removal of Ammonium from Aqueous Solutions Using Zeolite Synthesized from Electrolytic Manganese Residue by Changxin Li, Yuan Yu, Qingwu Zhang, Hong Zhong, Shuai Wang

“…The variables of pH, contact time, EMRZ (EMR-based zeolite) dosage, initial ammonium concentration, and competitive cations and anions on the ammonium uptake capacity were systematically investigated in an attempt to illustrate adsorption performance of EMRZ. …”
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Effectiveness of the barley cultivar ‘Bios 1’ as source material for breeding by N. A. Zhilin, I. Yu. Zaytseva, I. N. Shchennikova, S. A. Emelev

“…According to the results of laboratory experiments and competitive variety trials, 5 mutant forms of barley were identified as promising. …”
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The insurance services market in Ukraine: Problems and determinants of development in the conditions of digitization of the economy by Аnzhela Nikolaieva

“…The results of the study can be useful for Ukrainian insurance companies, which will allow them to increase their competitiveness in the market…”
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Providing effective innovative strategies in the development of cosmetics industry with emphasis on international entrepreneurship by Ali Khabaz, Jamshid Edalatian shahryari, Heydar Amiran

“…Innovation helps companies to gain a competitive advantage in an uncertain environment and dominate their opponents, and this has an important effect on the company's performance in the long term; and also, it is the innovation which is the main factor that causes businesses to grow. …”
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Farm gate profitability of organic and conventional farming systems in the tropics by Amritbir Riar, Eva Goldmann, David Bautze, Johanna Rüegg, Gurbir S. Bhullar, Noah Adamtey, Monika Schneider, Beate Huber, Laura Armengot

“…Systematic studies on the economic competitiveness of organic farming systems compared to conventional farming systems are particularly lacking in tropical environments. …”
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Sports behaviour and adherence to sports and exercise recommendations in patients with myocarditis by Matthias Wilhelm, Christoph Gräni, Catherine Gebhard, Jonathan Schütze, Benedikt Bernhard, Noah Greisser, Philippe Joss, Sarah Manser, Anselm W Stark, Isaac Shiri, Maryam Pavlicek

“…Women received fewer recommendations overall compared with men. While competitive athletes were counselled more frequently than recreational athletes, they were less likely to adhere to the recommendations.…”
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Association of albumin to non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio with mortality in peritoneal dialysis patients by Yongjie Xie, Xiaoran Feng, Youqun Gao, Xiaojiang Zhan, Fenfen Peng, Qian Zhou, Xianfeng Wu, Xiaoyang Wang, Na Tian, Qingdong Xu, Ning Su, Xingming Tang, Jianbo Liang, Jiao Li, Yueqiang Wen

“…Cox regression analysis was applied to assess the independent predictive value while adjusting for confounding factors. Competitive risk analysis was used to examine the effects of other outcomes on all-cause mortality prognosis.Results In the 33-month follow-up period, there were 538 all-cause deaths. …”
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