Minimal presynaptic protein machinery governing diverse kinetics of calcium-evoked neurotransmitter release by Dipayan Bose, Manindra Bera, Christopher A. Norman, Yulia Timofeeva, Kirill E. Volynski, Shyam S. Krishnakumar

“…Upon calcium activation, Synaptotagmin-1 induces rapid vesicle fusion, while Synaptotagmin-7 mediates delayed fusion. Competitive binding of Synaptotagmin-1 and Synaptotagmin-7 to the same SNAREs, coupled with differential rates of calcium-triggered fusion clamp reversal, govern the overall kinetics of vesicular fusion. …”
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Stability, efficiency and financial risks of islamic banks in conditions of instability of global financial system by Tatyana Mazurina, Shukrullokhon Sharipov

“…It has been concluded that the Islamic financial system is becoming one of the most important components of the international financial system, and Islamic banks within the global financial system are becoming more recognized and competitive, as they demonstrate a sufficiently high efficiency and stability of activity, a positive trend of development. …”
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Evolution of West Pomerania Towards a Green Region by Izabela Bludnik, Paulina Dąbrosz-Drewnowska, Hanna Pondel

“…In addition, the increase in environmental awareness, technological progress and the requirements of competitiveness of the market economy have led to increasing investment in economic transformation based on green ventures. …”
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SMME readiness framework for smart manufacturing adoption using critical realism: Knowledge and construction phase by Lucas Gumbi, Hossana Twinomurinzi

“…Smart manufacturing (SM) has emerged as a viable solution for small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) to remain sustainable and globally competitive. However, many SMMEs are not ready for SM and the existing frameworks for SM adoption are unsuitable for supporting SMMEs, as they do not address context-specific preconditions. …”
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PRC’s Public Diplomacy Practice in Central Asia: Current Situation, Challenges and Prospects by Yufei Wang

“…The author argues that the competitiveness and effectiveness of China’s public diplomacy could be increased through expanding cooperation in the humanitarian sphere, implementation of digital technologies and media 2.0, as well as by increased engagement of non-governmental commercial and non-profit actors in interaction with the regional public. …”
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Oppositions and Antinomies of Modern Educational Reality by V. P. Ignatiev

“…In the study, based on the identified oppositions in the organization of the educational process at the University - standardization and unification of education, the conclusions were made about the need for thorough and comprehensive analysis of the existing management system of higher education and suggestions for its improvement and bringing into line not only with the requirements of legislative and normative documents regulating activity of the Russian universities, but also taking into account the interests of all the stakeholders interested in the learning outcomes and the preparation of competitive specialists.…”
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Effect of Post Handling Practices on the Quality of Coffee Produced in Kihihi Sub-County Kanungu District. by Byabazeire, Tobias

“…The study concluded that addressing the identified challenges through investment in modern processing equipment, enhancing drying facilities, providing financial support, and offering continuous training could significantly improve coffee quality and market competitiveness. Recommendations emphasized the need for improved infrastructure, adoption of quality standards, and ongoing capacity building to sustain quality improvements and meet consumer expectations.…”
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Accounting as a performance measurement tool: A case study of Restaurants in Musanze Town/Rwanda. by Elisee, Kaberuka

“…It was concluded that accounting was an indispensable tool in this competitive World and was very effective for measuring business performance and is also a tool for future planning. …”
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Bamboo Growing and Poverty Reduction in Musanze and Burera Districts, Rwanda. by Eric, Hitimana

“…It is then that more land can be allocated to bamboo growing; increase vocational training for the community members so that they acquire the right skills to produce competitive products on the market hence increased income thus reduced poverty around the VNP.…”
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Shaping interaction among improved cowpea’s farming: Do Institutions have a role to play? A case of Oyam district in Uganda by Tobby, Akecha, Prossy, Isubikalu, Losira, N. Sanya, Narisi, Mubangizi, Jacob, Agea G, Eton, Marus

“…The study recommends that the district local government should put in place the formal institutions that would ensure other actors understands the incentives and disincentives so as to re-align individual interests, create actors’ inter-dependence in a bid to improve on the competitiveness of improved cowpea. The concerned agencies should strengthen the registration of actors engaged in the development and promotion of innovation at the lower local government and ensure traceability of input used by farmers to stream line actors’ roles.…”
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Shaping interaction among improved cowpea’s farming: Do Institutions have a role to play? A case of Oyam district in Uganda by Tobby, Akecha, Prossy, Isubikalu, Losira, N. Sanya, Narisi, Mubangizi, Jacob, G Agea, Eton, Marus

“…The study recommends that the district local government should put in place the formal institutions that would ensure other actors understands the incentives and disincentives so as to re-align individual interests, create actors’ inter-dependence in a bid to improve on the competitiveness of improved cowpea. The concerned agencies should strengthen the registration of actors engaged in the development and promotion of innovation at the lower local government and ensure traceability of input used by farmers to stream line actors’ roles.…”
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Role of the Perceived Social Responsibility of the Company and the Psychological Mechanisms to Achieve the Employees' Creative Behavior (Case Study: Electro Kavir Company of Yazd) by Marziyeh Dehghanizadeh, Fatemeh Keshavarzi Hedesh

“…Since creativity is important for organizational innovation and increases competitiveness, many researches have investigated individual and structural factors that may stimulate creative ideas in the workplace (Ganjaei & Hazrati, 2017:3). …”
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DESTiny, an online farm-wide tool to estimate the net carbon emissions of a pasture-based dairy farms in South Africa by Riana Reinecke, Riana Reinecke, James N. Blignaut, James N. Blignaut, James N. Blignaut, Heinz H. Meissner, Pieter A. Swanepoel

“…The resulting online Dairy Environment Sustainability Tool (DESTiny) can help dairy farmers adopt sustainable practices, as well as improve competitiveness and financial sustainability while reducing the farm’s emissions profile, thereby building value-chain and consumer trust. …”
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Sports Nutrition Knowledge among Mid-Major Division I University Student-Athletes by Ashley Andrews, Janet R. Wojcik, Joni M. Boyd, Charles J. Bowers

“…Competitive athletes have goals to optimize performance and to maintain healthy body composition. …”
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Applying auxiliary supervised depth-assisted transformer and cross modal attention fusion in monocular 3D object detection by Zhijian Wang, Jie Liu, Yixiao Sun, Xiang Zhou, Boyan Sun, Dehong Kong, Jay Xu, Xiaoping Yue, Wenyu Zhang

“…Through multiple experimental validations, the Depth-DETR model has achieved highly competitive results in the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Toyota Technological Institute (KITTI) dataset, with an AP score of 17.49, representing its outstanding performance in 3D object detection.…”
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Gender differences in performance under different evaluation schemes and the leaky pipeline in economics by Fabiana Rocha, Paula Pereda, Maria Dolores Montoya Diaz, Bruna Borges, Gabriel Facundes Monteiro, Luiza Karpavicius, Liz Matsunaga, Clara Brenck

“…While we cannot identify the source of the performance gap, as the ANPEC exam and undergraduate grading system vary in terms of stakes, grading scheme, risk, and competitiveness (all of which can potentially affect women and men differently), we argue that our evidence suggests the need to reconsider admission exam designs to address the leaky pipeline in economics. …”
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Foreign experience in the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems and the possibility of its application in Russia by T. G. Antropova, M. V. Shatokhin, N. M. Suray

“…The goal is to, by understanding the nuances of each ecosystem, identify transferable best practices, promote cross-cultural collaboration, and contribute to a more sustainable and competitive domestic business environment. This review highlights the different characteristics of entrepreneurial ecosystems in India, the US and China to understand the intricacies that drive innovation and economic growth. …”
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Monitoring Soil Salinity in Arid Areas of Northern Xinjiang Using Multi-Source Satellite Data: A Trusted Deep Learning Framework by Mengli Zhang, Xianglong Fan, Pan Gao, Li Guo, Xuanrong Huang, Xiuwen Gao, Jinpeng Pang, Fei Tan

“…The study applied four types of feature selection algorithms: Random Forest (RF), Competitive Adaptive Reweighted Sampling (CARS), Uninformative Variable Elimination (UVE), and Successive Projections Algorithm (SPA). …”
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Enhancing Road Scene Segmentation With an Optimized DeepLabV3+ by Zhe Ren, Libao Wang, Tianming Song, Yihang Li, Jian Zhang, Fengfeng Zhao

“…First, the heavy Xception backbone is replaced with the lightweight MobileNetV2, significantly boosting real-time efficiency while maintaining competitive segmentation accuracy. Second, the Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP) module is optimized by introducing depthwise separable convolutions and a hierarchical feature fusion strategy, reducing computational complexity and mitigating the grid effect, a limitation in many current models. …”
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Estimation level of public welfare on the basis of methods of intellectual analysis by S. Kozlovskyi, L. Nikolenko, O. Peresada, O. Pokhyliuk, O. Yatchuk, N. Bolgarova, O. Kulhanik

“…Input factors of the model are international indices and indicators, such as Index of Economic Freedom, Global Peace Index, Democracy Index, Corruption Perceptions Index, Human Development Index, Prosperity Index, Global Competitiveness Index as well as an indicator that reflects the characteristic property of the Ukrainian economy, namely the minimum living wage. …”
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