Cinema and city placement of Porto: from Manoel de Oliveira to Gabe Klinger by Xosé Somoza Medina

“… The adoption by local governments of neoliberal theories and strategic planning, which promotes the use of competitiveness scales and business marketing criteria in urban management, generated a series of changes in cities with the aim of reversing the closure of factories and shops and attracting new businesses, residents and tourists. …”
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Dynamic Weighted Symbiotic Organisms Search Algorithm for Global Optimization Problems by Pengjun Zhao, Sanyang Liu

“…All the obtained results further indicate that the two proposed algorithms are competitive and provide better results when compared to a wide range of algorithms, including SOS and its five modified versions, as well as ten other meta-heuristic algorithms.…”
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Siamese comparative transformer-based network for unsupervised landmark detection. by Can Zhao, Tao Wu, Jianlin Zhang, Zhiyong Xu, Meihui Li, Dongxu Liu

“…Experiments on the CelebA, AFLW, and Cat Heads benchmarks demonstrate that our proposed method achieves competitive performance compared to existing unsupervised methods and even supervised methods.…”
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The Determinants of Brazilian Football Clubs’ Debt Ratios by Marke Geisy da Silva Dantas, Raimundo Marciano de Freitas Neto, Maria Alice Alves da Costa, Alexandro Barbosa

“…Our results suggest that debt ratios are more associated with their popularity or their participation in the highest division of its main championship rather than titles held, access to different competitions or relegation to lower levels. We believe that our findings may be useful for both practitioners, who might know the impact of their sports-related choices in their clubs’ debts, and policymakers, that could prepare differentiated policies for specific groups (e.g divisions).…”
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Early Alpine mountain bike events by Jean Saint-Martin, Frédéric Savre, Thierry Terret

“…Featuring among the vectors of its development, the first competitions and/or events played an essential role in establishing a special relationship between sport and tourism economy. …”
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Restructuring of the Electricity Industry and Environmental Issues: A California Research Program by Edward L. Vine

“…PIER includes the full range of research, development, and demonstration activities that will advance science or technology not adequately provided by competitive and regulated markets.� The PIER Program is comprised of six PIER Program funding areas, including the Energy-Related Environmental Research. …”
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Environmental Activism in the Architectural Culture of Socialist Yugoslavia: The Case of the Center for Urban Development Planning (CEP) by Jasna Galjer

“…The research is based on a comparative analysis of documents and period sources about the activities, which ranged from self-organized exhibitions to architecture and urban-design competitions. Thus, the article examines how these strategies of environmental mobilization contributed to shifts in the highly formalized politics of urban planning prevalent at that time. …”
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IFCD: Inverted feature extraction for enhancing curling stone detection by Qian Xiao, Zongmin Li, Guanlin Li, Chaozhi Yang, Yun Bai

“…However, in real-life curling competitions, the curling volume is limited and easy to be occluded, and the venue background illumination is complicated. …”
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Realising the Potential of the Internet in Business by Katarína Kleinová, Zuzana Lušňáková

“…Own company website is not uncommon today and it is almost a necessity if a business wants to succeed in the fierce competitive environment. With well-designed page that includes the psychological elements, enterprise can use the Internet network as its advantage. …”
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Classifying the CP properties of the ggH coupling in H + 2j production by Henning Bahl, Elina Fuchs, Marc Hannig, Marco Menen

“…Assuming the absence of $\mathcal{CP}$-violating Higgs interactions with coloured beyond-the-Standard-Model states, our projected limits on a $\mathcal{CP}$-violating top-Yukawa coupling are competitive with more direct probes like top-associated Higgs production and limits from a global fit.…”
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Port Logistics Function Evaluation Model Based on Entropy Weight TOPSIS Method by Zeyun Chen

“…It is of great significance to study the capacity and efficiency of port logistics for improving the core competitiveness of port enterprises and driving the sustainable economic development of surrounding areas.…”
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Aerial Wanderings and Mountain Territorialities: Geographical Reflections on Cross-Country Paragliding by Camille Girault

“…Moreover, the conflict between the sport’s recreational and contemplative dimensions and its performance and competitive dimensions, combined with the intangible factors (air conditions, rules governing airspace) that constrain pilots’ liberty of movement, mean that paragliding is not quite as synonymous with freedom as one might think. …”
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A New Probability Heavy-Tail Model for Stochastic Modeling under Engineering Data by M. El-Morshedy, M. S. Eliwa, Afrah Al-Bossly, Haitham M. Yousof

“…Three engineering and medical real-life data sets are considered for measuring the applicability flexibility of the new model and to compare the competitive models under uncensored scheme. Two engineering real-life data of them are also used to compare the classical methods. …”
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A DE-Based Scatter Search for Global Optimization Problems by Kun Li, Huixin Tian

“…Computational experiments on benchmark problems show that the proposed SSDE is competitive or superior to some state-of-the-art algorithms in the literature.…”
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Comparative analysis of extensive form zero sum game algorithms for Poker like games by Behbod Keshavarzi, Hamidreza Navidi

“…This work advances the field by enhancing algorithmic understanding, refining evaluation methodologies, and offering valuable insights into the relative efficiency of strategies in multi-agent competitive environments.…”
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Core idea、technical architecture and strategic significance of “5G⁺” system by Kang CAI, Xiaohong LIAO, Hua TAN

“…Based on the investigation of digital native evolution and case analysis,the concept framework of “5G⁺native” was put forward to describe the application scenarios and enterprises highly dependent on 5G high-performance network connection,its core idea was discussed,including link as a service,5G network and digital capability aggregation,embedded 5G,5G network platformization,etc,and the technical system was designed composed of layers:native access capability,native network capability,native service capability and native application scenario,then its strategic significance was described.The main conclusion is that “5G<sup>+</sup>native” is an important way for 5G to empower the social and economic development deeply.It is a strategic choice for operators to adapt to customer needs for digital transformation,to establish differentiated competitive advantages,and to build a new convergent ecosystem.Therefore,the construction of the technical and business system should be speed up correspondingly.…”
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La plateforme numérique de MaaS HVV switch à Hambourg : un nouvel instrument de gouvernance de la mobilité ? by Manon Eskenazi, Thomas Quillerier

“…However, the public sector's lack of human and financial resources, coupled with the neo-liberal interests of private operators in a freely competitive market, has led to the privatisation of Hamburg's public space through MaaS, and calls into question its social effects.…”
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Political and Economic Implications of Hayekian Criticism of ‘Regulation’ by Fatih Duman, İsmail Seyrek

“…The second section handles the concept of spontaneously generated order with respect to the relation between state/government and competitive market order. The last section includes the criticism of regulation in the context of Hayekian arguments. …”
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On the issue of the formation and development of science as a social institution by E. S. Nesterenko

“…The relevance of scientific research on the specifics of the institutional environment for the development of the Institute of Science in the Russian Federation is associated with the rapid development of the digital economy, in which the development of science is becoming the most important factor in ensuring Russia's competitiveness on the world stage. The author conducted a comprehensive study of the specifics of the institutional environment of the development of the Institute of Science in the Russian Federation. …”
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Le don/contre-don à l’épreuve d’un dispositif tutoral : des conséquences dans le domaine de la pédagogie universitaire ? by Alain Baudrit

“…These appearances may be misleading given the competitive environment of medical education and given the fact that archaic societies and modern societies are not the same thing. …”
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