Automatic Irrigation Based on Soil Moisture for Vegetable Crops by Rafael Muñoz-Carpena, Michael D. Dukes

“… Improving irrigation efficiency can contribute greatly to reducing production costs of vegetables, making the industry more competitive and sustainable. Through proper irrigation, average vegetable yields can be maintained (or increased) while minimizing environmental impacts caused by excess applied water and subsequent agrichemical leaching. …”
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Political Experience in Economic and Social Transformation by Christoph Bergner

“…The fall of the “Iron Curtain” gave the process of globalisation a considerable acceleration, which in turn made strengthening competitiveness a growing challenge for German politics.…”
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Internationalization strategy and foreign distribution channels: analysis of the brazilian cosmetics company Natura by Silvia Novaes Zilbe, Carlos Henrique Mora Júnior, Francisco Lourenço da Silva

“…This paper describes the internationalization process of the Brazilian company Natura Cosméticos S.A., whose competitive differential is the development of products based on the biodiversity of Brazilian flora. …”
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Dynamics of a Market Share Model for Enterprises with Coopetition Strategy by Mingxia Zhao

“…By some sensitivity analysis of R0 on parameters, we conclude that the size of the coopetition threshold R0 and coopetition equilibrium depended on the cooperation competitiveness of coopetition enterprises.…”
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La Lutte des classes face à l'internationalisme sportif. by Lorenzo Jalabert D'Amado

“…This important sporting event, scarcely studied by current historiography, is yet fundamental given its leading role in the establishment, during the interwar period, of world's biggests sports competitions.…”
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« Capitalismes dépendants » d’Europe centrale et orientale : pièges de la dépendance externe et instrumentalisations domestiques by Violaine Delteil

“…Focalizing on the case of Eastern Europe – compared to Central Europe -, the article exposes the domestic foundations of the external dependency, ie. the “Weak State”, the “low cost” competitiveness regime, as well as the domestic actor’s strategies instrumenting the supranational norms in order to discipline local practices (corruption, informality, ect.). …”
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Competencies and Interactions in Design Management by Cláudia de Souza Libânio, Fernando Gonçalves Amaral

“…The inclusion of design in corporate strategies has been a recurring research theme, and organizations are using it as strategic element for gaining competitive advantage in the long term. Thus, it becomes evident the need to manage design activities, making use of concepts related to competencies, learning, dynamic capabilities and other aspects. …”
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Enhanced zebra optimization algorithm and applications of power allocation in SDWN by LI Jiajia, DONG Ligang, JIANG Xian

“…Experimental results demonstrate that EZOA exhibits superior competitiveness compared to six other well-established algorithms on the IEEE CEC 2014 benchmark function set. …”
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Industrial heritage, a new tool for Olympic promotion? A comparative analysis. by Helena Roux

“…Presented as engines of transformations, they contribute to promotion of requalified and re-invested spaces that correspond better with the image of a competitive global city. The development of tourism strategies stems from this land promotion and appears as one of the economic outlets of the post-industrial transition. …”
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Inexact Exponential Penalty Function with the Augmented Lagrangian for Multiobjective Optimization Algorithms by Appolinaire Tougma, Kounhinir Some

“…A numerical analysis of the obtained solutions indicates that our method is competitive with regard to the test problems used for the comparison.…”
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Fish Oil in the Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis by C Ó'Moráin, A Tobin, T McColl, Y Suzuki

“…Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) competitively inhibits the cyclo-oxgenase pathway and reduces the formation of cyclo-oxygenase pathway products. …”
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Eco-Innovation in Global Hotel Chains: Designs, Barriers, Incentives and Motivations by Vanessa de Oliveira Menezes, Sieglinde Kindl da Cunha

“…In the respondents´ view, there are more barriers than incentives for the development of this type of innovation and the development is driven in large part as a mean to gain competitive advantage.…”
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Un métier émergent en éducation : l’accompagnateur de jeunes professeurs recrutés dans le contexte d’un établissement formateur by Luc Jamet

“…The new outline of the teacher training program in France (Decree 19/12/2006) revolves around two main poles: « an expertise training » finalized by a Master’s and a « qualifying training » through a national competitive recruitment exam. However, the « sensitisation training » which used to promote an initial educational approach has disappeared. …”
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Export Technological Sophistication of China: Measurement and Impact Factor by Peishan Fan

“…What matters for China’s future growth is not the volume of exports, but whether China will continue to enhance the export competitiveness of high-tech products. Using the export data of 25 countries from 1998 to 2019, this paper measures the export technological sophistication of machinery and transport equipment and constructs an empirical model to study the impact factors of export technological sophistication of machinery and transport equipment in China. …”
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Depuis les podiums des reines de beauté : se produire comme femme trans en Bolivie by Pascale Absi

“…Inspired by the conventional Miss competitions, the aim of these contests is to assert the existence and claim the rights of another category of women. …”
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Role of “ethical investments” in increasing the level of investment attractiveness of corporations: Russian and foreign experience by A. P. Laktyushina, P. S. Shcherbachenko

“…The following include: financial position of the company, market stability, level of competitiveness, management, structure of liabilities, etc. …”
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Writing Against Culture with Online Poker by Jukka Jouhki

“…It suggests a highly competitive recreational venture, a postmodern Darwinist challenge. …”
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Labor remuneration for higher education teachers: economic and legal issues of incentive and compensation payments by P. V. Zobov, M. V. Erkhova

“…The proposals are designed to increase the demand for pedagogical work and the competitiveness of domestic universities and enterprises.…”
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Top determinants of corporate reputation management by Nirvana Bechan

“…In this study, it is suggested that knowing the top determinants of current reputation management can only help to enhance the business objectives of an organisation by contributing to the bottom line and gaining a competitive advantage. This paper looks at what communication managers in toplisted companies operating in South African consider the top determinants of managing corporate reputation in their organisations to be. …”
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PROPERTY RELATIONS IN CINEMATOGRAPHY: EVALUATION, EVOLUTION, MANAGEMENT by M. I. Pankratova

“…The process of gradual reform of property relations in cinematography in order to transition to a competitive market has been considered. The possible consequences of a reduction in the public sector in this area of activity have been analysed in detail. …”
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