ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION: THE EXAMPLE OF THE BALKAN COUNTRIES by Ognjen Erić, Slaviša Kovačević, Jelena Bjelić, Dejan Molnar

“…Economic growth is influenced by various economic factors, with education being one of the most important, which undeniably boosts productivity, competitiveness, and growth. Among the first, this topic was elaborated by Solow. …”
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Hybridizing Technology Management and Knowledge Management to Spur Innovation: A System Dynamics Approach by Reddy MRS Suryanarayana, Muddangala Naresh Babu, Gundraju Yamuna, Thaya Madhavi, Cristina Claudia Bizon, Nicu Bizon, Phatiphat Thounthong

“…The theoretical implication of the study is in the form of a model which can be used by innovative companies to identify the critical factors that influence innovativeness, and the practical implications are in the form of suggestions to the managers of the furniture manufacturing company to enhance their innovativeness so as to gain competitive advantage in business. …”
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A Review of Stall Detection in Subsonic Axial Compressors by Kellie N. Wilson, Golam Gause Jaman, Anish Thapa, Amirthavarshini Vivekananda, Mitchell Lowe, Zachary Grima, Marco P. Schoen

“…As such, development of algorithms along with active control could lower cost, reduce emissions, improve safety, and increase market competitiveness. To gain an understanding of these stall phenomena, past and current research has focused on modeling axial compressors as dynamic systems, with a focus on obtaining descriptive formulations of the physical aspects of stall. …”
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Female athletes explicitly gesture in emotional situations by Y. Adams, M. Augenstein, P. Furley, A. Krieg, P. Born, I. Helmich, I. Helmich

“…Because there may be a female advantage in the inhibition and self-regulation of emotions, we hypothesized that female but not male athletes regulate emotions during sports through explicit nonverbal behaviors.MethodsAll nonverbal hand movement behavior of right-handed female and male tennis athletes was recorded during competitive matches. All immediate nonverbal expressions after point losses and wins were coded by two independent blind raters applying the NEUROpsychological GESture (NEUROGES®) system.ResultsNo gender differences were found for overall hand movement activity. …”
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Additive Manufacturing Technologies: An Overview about 3D Printing Methods and Future Prospects by Mariano Jiménez, Luis Romero, Iris A. Domínguez, María del Mar Espinosa, Manuel Domínguez

“…Additive manufacturing techniques provide major competitive advantages due to the fact that they adapt to the geometrical complexity and customised design of the part to be manufactured. …”
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Does 5-minute training improve VO2max and agility? A study of situational game training in futsal by Agus Himawan, Haryo Mukti Widodo, Heni Yuli Handayani, Fajar Hidayatullah, Khoirul Anwar, Septyaningrum Putri Purwoto, Tutur Jatmiko, I Dewa Made Aryananda Wijaya Kusuma, Muhamad Syamsul Taufik

“…The implications of this research suggest that integrating this training method can be an effective strategy to enhance aerobic capacity and motor response of futsal players, better preparing them for the physical and tactical demands of actual competitions. …”
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Improving the Performance of Whale Optimization Algorithm through OpenCL-Based FPGA Accelerator by Qiangqiang Jiang, Yuanjun Guo, Zhile Yang, Zheng Wang, Dongsheng Yang, Xianyu Zhou

“…Meanwhile, other two classic algorithms including particle swarm optimization (PSO) and competitive swarm optimizer (CSO) are adopted for comparison. …”
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Run-Time Value Chain Analysis and Cost Accounting via Microservices in Agile Manufacturing by Salman Javed, Cristina Paniagua, Imran Javed, Jan van Deventer, Jerker Delsing

“…The results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in providing detailed insights into costs and production times, enhancing the efficiency and competitiveness of agile manufacturers.…”
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Protein-ligand binding affinity prediction using multi-instance learning with docking structures by Hyojin Kim, Heesung Shim, Aditya Ranganath, Stewart He, Garrett Stevenson, Jonathan E. Allen

“…The results demonstrate that our method leveraging docking poses is competitive with other state-of-the-art inference models that depend on co-crystal structures.DiscussionThis method offers binding affinity prediction without requiring co-crystal structures, thereby increasing its applicability to protein targets lacking such data.…”
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Study of thermal management system for battery box for formula student electric racing car by Yawen Han, Yuxing Bai, Weixin Zhang, Song Cui, Liguo Zang, Liguo Zang, Hongshan Ding

“…In Formula Student Electric (FSE) racing competitions, battery overheating is a common challenge due to inadequate thermal dissipation at high discharge rates, negatively impacting the performance of the racing vehicle. …”
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Development of a Gluten Standard from Relevant Sources of Wheat and Investigation into Gluten Content of Supplemental Enzymes Generated During Fermentation by Pyeongsug Kim, Natasha Kim Leeuwendaal, Jonathon Niño Charari, Joan Colom, John Deaton, Kieran Rea

“…The PT3 calibrant, a hydrolyzed version of the Complete Gluten Mix, was found to be the most suitable, as it contained <50 kDa gluten peptides and gave similar absorbance readings to the majority of ELISA kit standards tested, and overlaid the GlutenTox^® Competitive G12 antibody calibration curve, which was designed against the 33-mer immunogenic peptide from wheat. …”
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Electrocatalytic and Photocatalytic N₂ Fixation Using Carbon Catalysts by Changchun Xu, Hongli Su, Shuaifei Zhao, Azadeh Nilghaz, Kunning Tang, Luxiang Ma, Zhuo Zou

“…The primary challenges for NF are the natural inertia of nitrogenous molecules and the competitive hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Recently, carbon-based materials have made significant progress due to their tunable electronic structure and ease of defect formation. …”
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Targeting AI-2 quorum sensing: harnessing natural products against Streptococcus suis biofilm infection by Shuji Gao, Shuo Yuan, Yingying Quan, Wenjie Jin, Yamin Shen, Rishun Li, Baobao Liu, Yuxin Wang, Li Yi, Shaohui Wang, Xiaogai Hou, Yang Wang

“…SAA and RH inhibit AI-2 synthesis through noncompetitive and competitive binding to S-ribosylhomocysteinase (LuxS). …”
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Effects of fatigue on ground reactions forces-related variables: A systematic review in long-distance runners by Mayara Silva, José Afonso, Rodrigo Ramirez-Campillo, Ricardo J. Fernandes, Filipe Conceição

“…Eligibility criteria included healthy competitive or recreational long-distance runners, performing before and after an exercise-based fatigue-inducing protocol, and assessing GRF-related variables on a treadmill or overground using a force plate (the gold standard for kinetic performance analysis). 14 studies (345 participants, 193 females) were included. …”
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Selective Herbicides for Cultivation of Eucalyptus urograndis Clones by Patrick J. Minogue, Anna Osiecka

“…Competition control is essential for successful eucalyptus plantation establishment, yet few selective herbicides have been identified. …”
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Sensory characterization of the Ethiopian germplasm of Coffea arabica L. conserved in the Colombian Coffee Collection by Juan Carlos Arias-Suárez, Luisa Fernanda López-Monsalve, Rubén Darío Medina-Rivera, Claudia Patricia Flórez-Ramos

“…The sensory quality of coffee (Coffea arabica L.) has become increasingly important and is considered the best way to increase the competitiveness and profitability of the sector. Given the narrow genetic base cultivated, the use of its genetic resources conserved in germplasm banks is particularly relevant, especially for germplasm collected in Ethiopia, the country from which coffee originated and the center of its diversity of profiles. …”
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Fluorescence Polarization Immunoassay for Rapid, Sensitive Detection of the Herbicide 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid in Juice and Water Samples by Liliya I. Mukhametova, Marya K. Kolokolova, Ivan A. Shevchenko, Boris S. Tupertsev, Anatoly V. Zherdev, Chuanlai Xu, Sergei A. Eremin

“…The optimized FPIA in a competitive format was characterized by the LODs of 2,4-D 8 and 0.4 ng/mL and the working ranges 30–3000 ng/mL and 3–300 ng/mL for juice and water, respectively. …”
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Expected profitability, independence, and risk assessment of small farmers in the wave of GM crop collectivization——evidence from Xinjiang and Guangdong by Yu Pang, Helin Zou, Chunchun Jia, Chao Gu

“…Despite governments’ efforts to promote collective cultivation of GM crops through top-down policies aimed at enhancing small farmers’ production efficiency and market competitiveness, actual participation rates among small farmers in many developing countries remain low. …”
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Ecophysiological aspects of some sweet cherry cultivars from the North-East of Romania by Iulia Mineata, Ionel Perju, Sorina Sîrbu, Iuliana Elena Golache, Ionut Vasile Ungureanu, Stefanica Ostaci, Carmen Doina Jitareanu

“…The physiological performance, growth and competitive ability of fruit trees are increasingly affected by the effects of global climate change, very different at a regional level, which mainly causes considerable changes in water availability. …”
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Explainable machine learning framework for cataracts recognition using visual features by Xiao Wu, Lingxi Hu, Zunjie Xiao, Xiaoqing Zhang, Risa Higashita, Jiang Liu

“…Experiments on a clinical AS-OCT-NC dataset demonstrate that the proposed framework not only achieves competitive performance through comparisons with DNNs, but also has a good explanation ability, meeting the requirements of clinical diagnostic practice.…”
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