Key performance indicators of hospital supply chain: a systematic review by Meysam Fallahnezhad, Mostafa Langarizadeh, Afshin Vahabzadeh

“…Abstract Background Performance measurement is vital for hospitals to become service-oriented, operate efficiently, attract customers, increase revenue, and improve both clinical and non-clinical outcomes, enabling them to succeed in the competitive healthcare sector. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) play a crucial role in monitoring, assessing, and enhancing care quality and service delivery. …”
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Thompson Sampling for Non-Stationary Bandit Problems by Han Qi, Fei Guo, Li Zhu

“…Empirical comparisons with other non-stationary bandit algorithms highlight the competitive performance of our proposed methods.…”
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The Effect of Monetary Rewards on the Performance of Employees in an Organisation: A Case Study of Kabale District Local Government. by Nayebare, Gaston

“…They would make a significant contribution towards their improvement of reward strategies in order to enhance their competitive edge.…”
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The Role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Transforming Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs): by Mugisha, Justin, Francis Adyanga, Akena, Ocan, Johnson

“…The study demonstrates how AI enables SMEs to improve competitiveness, streamline operations, and conform to sustainability objectives by tackling particular issues such as scarce resources, operational inefficiencies, and cyber threats. …”
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A Regression Model to Enhance the Profitability of Local Construction Contractors in Uganda by Buhamizo, Isaac, Muhwezi, Lawrence, Sengonzi, Ruth

“…The results also indicate that the profitability of LCCs is significantly affected by the timeliness of payments, cost of f inance, competitive bidding environment, project delays, price fluctuations and corruption tendencies, in that order. …”
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Dual spatial region flexible chlorine based ionic hypercrosslinked polymer synergistically adsorb formaldehyde and carbon dioxide by Wang Ruimeng, Xie Yawei, Zhao Zhongxing, Zhao Zhenxia

“…Different adsorption regions exhibited varying adsorption affinities for formaldehyde and CO2 molecules on three sites, thereby weakening their competitive adsorption and achieving high adsorption for both. …”
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Development of an Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Based on a Monoclonal Antibody for the Rapid Detection of Citrinin in Wine by Xingdong Yang, Yang Qu, Chenchen Wang, Lihua Wu, Xiaofei Hu

“…The reaction conditions for the indirect competitive ELISA (<i>ic</i>-ELISA) were optimised, and an <i>ic</i>-ELISA method for detecting CIT was preliminarily established. …”
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Extracting Skeleton of the Global Terrorism Network Based on m-Modified Topology Potential by Shuliang Wang, Kanokwan Malang, Hanning Yuan, Aniwat Phaphuangwittayakul, Yuanyuan Lv, Matthew David Lowdermilk, Jing Geng

“…The results verify that our proposed TPKS-skeleton outperforms other competitive methods in particular node-equivalence by Spearman rank correlation and high network structural-equivalence defined by quadratic assignment procedure. …”
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GFA-Net: Geometry-Focused Attention Network for Six Degrees of Freedom Object Pose Estimation by Shuai Lin, Junhui Yu, Peng Su, Weitao Xue, Yang Qin, Lina Fu, Jing Wen, Hong Huang

“…Experimental results on the LINEMOD and Occlusion LINEMOD datasets indicate that our proposed method is highly competitive with state-of-the-art approaches, achieving 96.54% and 49.35% accuracy, respectively, utilizing the ADD-S metric with a 0.10d threshold.…”
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Organic positioning strategies and digital consumer behavior: A study in Peru’s real estate sector by Socrates Deza-De-Souza-Ferreyra, Maria Jeanett Ramos-Cavero, Franklin Cordova-Buiza

“…This highlights the importance of incorporating targeted SEO techniques to strengthen brand presence and drive consumer engagement in an increasingly competitive market.…”
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DEMOGRAPHIC AND SOCIAL TRENDS IN THE RUSSIAN ARCTIC by Pavel M. Dashkevich, Natalia A. Flud, Irina I. Eliseeva

“…Key measures to stabilize and grow the population in the Arctic include comprehensive support for families with children, poverty reduction initiatives, retention of local youth and attraction of young professionals from other regions, economic diversification, and the establishment of competitive services to meet residents’ needs in healthcare, general and vocational education, infrastructure, and other essential aspects of quality of life in northern latitudes.…”

Development of an Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Method for the Detection of Rhein in Rheum officinale by Min Chen, Tie-Gui Nan, Jie Xin, Li Cui, Bo Zhang, Xiao Wang, Bao-Min Wang

“…The aim of this study was to develop an indirect competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (icELISA) for rhein detection, which acts as a powerful tool for quality control and proper usage of Rheum officinale. …”
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Advanced control parameter optimization in DC motors and liquid level systems by Serdar Ekinci, Davut Izci, Mohammad H. Almomani, Kashif Saleem, Raed Abu Zitar, Aseel Smerat, Vaclav Snasel, Absalom E. Ezugwu, Laith Abualigah

“…Comparative assessments with competitive algorithms, such as the grey wolf optimizer and particle swarm optimization, reveal MGO’s superior performance. …”
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Adaptive High-Performance Optimization Tool for Real-Time Operation of Renewable-Based Virtual Power Plants by Oluwaseun Oladimeji, Alvaro Ortega, Lukas Sigrist, Bogdan Marinescu, Vinu Thomas

“…Aggregating RES units into RVPPs creates a more controllable and competitive entity for energy market participation. …”
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Charging Ahead: The Evolution and Reliability of Nickel‐Zinc Battery Solutions by Idris Temitope Bello, Hassan Raza, Alabi Tobi Michael, Madithedu Muneeswara, Neha Tewari, Wang Bingsen, Yin Nee Cheung, Zungsun Choi, Steven T. Boles

“…However, significant reliability challenges such as capacity fading, self‐discharge, thermal instability, and electrode degradation detract from their competitiveness in the market, hindering their widespread adoption. …”
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Targeting chromosomally unstable tumors with a selective KIF18A inhibitor by Aaron F. Phillips, Rumin Zhang, Mia Jaffe, Ryan Schulz, Marysol Chu Carty, Akanksha Verma, Tamar Y. Feinberg, Michael D. Arensman, Alan Chiu, Reka Letso, Nazario Bosco, Katelyn A. Queen, Allison R. Racela, Jason Stumpff, Celia Andreu-Agullo, Sarah E. Bettigole, Rafael S. Depetris, Scott Drutman, Shinsan M. Su, Derek A. Cogan, Christina H. Eng

“…Screening of a chemical library for inhibitors of KIF18A enzymatic activity identified a hit that was optimized to yield VLS-1272, which is orally bioavailable, potent, ATP non-competitive, microtubule-dependent, and highly selective for KIF18A versus other kinesins. …”
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Deep cascaded registration and weakly-supervised segmentation of fetal brain MRI by Valentin Comte, Mireia Alenya, Andrea Urru, Judith Recober, Ayako Nakaki, Francesca Crovetto, Oscar Camara, Eduard Gratacós, Elisenda Eixarch, Fatima Crispi, Gemma Piella, Mario Ceresa, Miguel A. González Ballester

“…Furthermore, we integrate our registration method into a multi-atlas segmentation pipeline and showcase its competitive performance compared to nnU-Net, achieved using only a small subset of annotated images as atlases. …”
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Comparing Cross-Subject Performance on Human Activities Recognition Using Learning Models by Zhe Yang, Mengjie Qu, Yun Pan, Ruohong Huan

“…A novel training strategy for decision-tree-based methods is also proposed in this paper, resulting in an improvement on the random forest model which achieves competitive performance at an average F1-score (accuracy) of 94.49&#x0025; (95.09&#x0025;), 91.64&#x0025; (92.21&#x0025;), and 92.70&#x0025; (93.29&#x0025;) on the three datasets, compared with state-of-the-art solutions for cross-subject HAR.…”
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Consumer Choice: Exploring Factors, Influences and Decisions by Tea Valishvili, Genelidze Lia

“…Technological advancements have significantly influenced consumer behavior, creating a dynamic environment where businesses must adapt to stay competitive. The primary goal of marketing isn’t traditional advertising; it now focuses on building connections between consumers and products. …”
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Recent Advances in Surface Functionalized 3D Electrocatalyst for Water Splitting by Nadira Meethale Palakkool, Mike P. C. Taverne, Owen Bell, Jonathan D. Mar, Vincent Barrioz, Yongtao Qu, Chung‐Che Huang, Ying‐Lung Daniel Ho

“…Future research directions include exploring new materials for 3D printing and alternative electrocatalysts alongside leveraging theoretical and machine‐learning approaches to accelerate the development of competitive materials for water electrolysis.…”
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