Carbon risk and corporate bankruptcy pressure: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment based on the Paris agreement by Jingxing Liu, Zihang Liao, Tianqi Liu, Yuan Geng

“…Finally, it was found through the heterogeneity analysis that the negative correlation between carbon risk and bankruptcy pressure was more pronounced for non-state-owned enterprises, small-scale corporations, and companies located in highly competitive industries.…”
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Community Detection with Self-Adapting Switching Based on Affinity by Ning-Ning Wang, Zhen Jin, Xiao-Long Peng

“…Compared with some state-of-the-art algorithms, the algorithm has a competitive accuracy and its time complexity is near linear. …”
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Effective anti-adhesives of uropathogenic Escherichia coli by Ribić Rosana, Meštrović Tomislav, Neuberg Marijana, Kozina Goran

“…Design of receptor analogues that competitively bind to UPEC surface adhesins placed at the top of pili organelles led to the development of anti-adhesive drugs that are increasingly recognized as important and promising alternatives to antibiotic treatment of UTIs.…”
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Implementation of the Lisbon Strategy Targets at the Regional Level in the EU and Slovenia by Aleksander Aristovnik, Andrej Pungartnik

“…In 2000, the European Union set itself a target in the Lisbon Strategy to become the most dynamic, competitive and knowledge-based economy in the world in ten years, whereas during the mid-term review, which was held five years later, it redefined its two main objectives: creation of new and better jobs and achievement of stronger, lasting economic growth. …”
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Parallel Rayleigh Quotient Optimization with FSAI-Based Preconditioning by Luca Bergamaschi, Angeles Martínez, Giorgio Pini

“…Results onto matrices of large size arising from finite element discretization of geomechanical models reveal that DACG accelerated by these type of preconditioners is competitive with respect to the available public parallel hypre package, especially in the computation of a few of the leftmost eigenpairs. …”
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MULTI-CRITERIA OPTIMIZATION OF SPECIAL-PURPOSE GEODETIC NETWORK USING THE VIKOR METHOD by Tamara Kecojević, Filip Mileski

“…During the research preparation, six competitive alternatives were established. The ranking of these alternatives was carried out based on four different preference approaches. …”
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A Novel Hybrid Bat Algorithm with Harmony Search for Global Numerical Optimization by Gaige Wang, Lihong Guo

“…Fourteen standard benchmark functions are applied to verify the effects of these improvements, and it is demonstrated that, in most situations, the performance of this hybrid metaheuristic method (HS/BA) is superior to, or at least highly competitive with, the standard BA and other population-based optimization methods, such as ACO, BA, BBO, DE, ES, GA, HS, PSO, and SGA. …”
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Higher Education as a Means of Achieving Economic Growth and Development – A Comparative Analysis of Selected EU and former Soviet Union Countries by Maja Grdinić

“…According to the endogenous growth theory, higher education and thereby accumulation of human capital is considered to be the main driver of economic competitiveness in the growing global economy founded on knowledge. …”
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A Critical Overview on Organizational Entrepreneurship with Focus on Identifying Components and Obstacles by Farzad Ziviar, Abolfazli Farahani, Loghman Keshavarz

“…So, new organizations consider organizational entrepreneurship as a key element which boosts competitive advantages in organization. This paper aims to criticize and identify the organizational entrepreneurship’s barriers in Ministry of Sport & Youth. …”
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The effect of IT governance on business resilience with intellectual capital as mediating variable by Ira Hapsari, Agung Praptapa, Puji Lestari, Eliada Herwiyanti

“…Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) must continue to adapt in today's rapidly changing digital business climate to become resilient organizations and maintain their competitive advantage. This study examines the relationship between IT governance (ITG), intellectual capital (IC), and business resilience (BR). …”
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Solving Multiobjective Optimization Problems Using Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm by Wenping Zou, Yunlong Zhu, Hanning Chen, Beiwei Zhang

“…The proposed algorithm is validated using the standard test problems, and simulation results show that the proposed approach is highly competitive and can be considered a viable alternative to solve multi-objective optimization problems.…”
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Genes for editing to improve economic traits in aquaculture fish species by Zituo Yang, Guihong Fu, May Lee, Shadame Yeo, Gen Hua Yue

“…By modifying key genes in fish, it is expected to rapidly enhance growth rate, disease resistance, and other economically important traits, leading to increased profitability, sustainability, and competitiveness of the industry. This review navigates the complex landscape of genes for important traits, gene editing in aquaculture, exploring successes, challenges, and prospects for improved productivity, sustainability, and resilience. …”
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Small-Scale Juicing of Florida-Grown 'UFSun' Peaches by Savanna J. Curtis, Ali Sarkhosh, Paul J. Sarnoski, Charles A. Sims, Andrew J. MacIntosh

“…UF/IFAS has bred peach cultivars that grow commercially in tropical and subtropical climates such as Florida’s and are harvest-ready two months before the rest of the United States, offering competitive advantages. Unfortunately, their small size renders them less profitable in fresh markets compared to larger non-Florida cultivars. …”
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Ensuring the Health and Safety of Indonesian School Children: Legal Protections in Snack Consumption by Iif Taufiq El Haque, Sarsintorini Putra, Suparno Suparno, Afif Noor

“…With strong regulations and effective law enforcement, we can ensure that schoolchildren in Indonesia consume healthy and safe snacks and support their proper growth and development for a healthier and more competitive young generation for the betterment of the nation. …”
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Classification of the optimal rebalancing frequency for pairs trading using machine learning techniques by Mahmut Bağcı, Pınar Kaya Soylu

“…Accuracy scores show that random forest, logistic regression, and support vector classifiers perform competitively for the ORF range classification in both short- and long-term applications. …”
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Tools of information and communication technologies in the knowledge management system by I. G. Gorina, N. M. Fomenko

“…The implementation of knowledge management system provides an increase in competitiveness, has a favorable effect on the intellectual potential of the organization, human resource management and innovations’ development. …”
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Use of end-of-life tires for the production of a waterproofing agent as a strategy to promote the circular economy by Valentina Salcedo-Mojica, Jaime Arturo-Calvache, Cristina Ramírez-Meneses

“…The results support the competitiveness of the product and confirm the effective use of recycled tires in waterproofing, offering a favorable and functional approach to construction. …”
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Video Denoising Based on a Spatiotemporal Kalman-Bilateral Mixture Model by Chenglin Zuo, Yu Liu, Xin Tan, Wei Wang, Maojun Zhang

“…Experimental results show that the performance of our proposed method is competitive when compared with state-of-the-art video denoising algorithms based on both peak signal-to-noise-ratio and structural similarity evaluations.…”
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Audiogmenter: a MATLAB toolbox for audio data augmentation by Gianluca Maguolo, Michelangelo Paci, Loris Nanni, Ludovico Bonan

“…Findings – The authors prove that the library is efficient using a competitive dataset. The authors try multiple data augmentation approaches proposed by them and show that they improve the performance. …”
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Essentialities that Should Typify the Improvement of Health Management Processes from Science and Innovation by Yoleysi Arteaga Cuéllar, José Aurelio Díaz Quiñones, María Lina Valdés Gómez

“…To contribute to the improvement of health management, innovation is undeniable as a strategy that facilitates the generation of added value, productivity and organizational competitiveness in health systems and services.…”
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