Exploring the Nonlinear Effect of Intellectual Capital on Financial Performance: Evidence from Listed Shipping Companies in China by Jian Xu, Yi Zhang

“…Intellectual capital (IC) is reckoned as a significant driving force of competitive advantage and financial sustainability of any organization. …”
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Deutsche Bahn: Rail Network Monopoly, Financial Locusts and the State by Thomas Ehrmann, Aloys Prinz

“…During that time period, DB Netz AG pursued a monopolistic pricing policy for the transport companies on downstream competitive markets, which had serious consequences for both DB’s own companies and its competing transport companies. …”
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INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR IN HIGHER EDUCATION: THE CASE OF REFORMS IN UNDERGRADUATE ECONOMIC EDUCATIONIN RUSSIA by Vyacheslav V. Volchik

“…Institutional change in higher education is aimed at establishing a competitive and efficient system of specialist training. …”
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Efficiency determinants in Portuguese banking industry: an application through fractional regression models by Ana Isabel Martins

“…The participation in the Euro area and the current financial crisis substantially conditioned the development of the Portuguese banking industry, for which is expected a continuous fall in income and a growing competitive pressure, improving the need to look carefully to issues as efficiency as an essential survival factor. …”
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A szociális és szolidáris gazdaság csírái a magyarországi vidéki térségekben (Seeds of Social and Solidarity Economy in Hungarian Rural Areas) by Éva Fekete

“…Opinions on the role of employment, the relations to governments and attitudes to competitiveness differ from each other. In the first part of my paper a clarification of the conceptual issues will be summarized. …”
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MASTER’S PROGRAMME FOR ADULT EDUCATION IN SOCIAL WORK by Irina M. Vorotilkina

“…Graduates become more competitive on the labor market and gain additional opportunities for career growth.…”
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Foreign trade of the Slovak Republic with selected agrarian commodities of animal origin by Dušan Šimo

“…Increasing costs of production critical industries plant and animal production enterprises are the result of low competitiveness of domestic producers in comparison with the developed EU agrarian countries…”
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SUSTAINABLE MARKETING AS A FACTOR OF INNOVATION GROWTH IN SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES by Monika Zajkowska

“…Innovation is nowadays a key for companies to stay competitive and to successfully compete in changing markets and environments. …”
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PROSPECTS FOR EXPORT DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSPORT AND LOGISTICS SERVICES OF RUSSIA by D. I. Tkachenko

“…The main problems that hinder the development of both services exports and the transport system as a whole, which are reduced to a lag in the technical and technological level and low competitiveness of domestic companies, have been outlined. …”
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Brazilian Multinationals ́ Competences: Impacts of a “Tug of War” Between Cultural Legacies and Global Mindedness by Germano Glufke Reis, Maria Tereza Leme Fleury, Afonso Carlos Corrêa Fleury, Felipe Zambaldi

“…Because the ability to develop competences abroad is critical for emerging multina tionals competitiveness, we proposed hypotheses and tested a model for how the competenc es of subsidiaries may be affected by the dimensions of global mindedness and culture. …”
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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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Biological Control of Solenopsis Fire Ants by Pseudacteon Parasitoids: Theory and Practice by Lloyd W. Morrison

“…Laboratory and field experiments evaluating Solenopsis population regulation have been equivocal, and overall the available evidence provides little support for strong top-down effects in this system. Competitive exclusion may occur among introduced Pseudacteon species, and future efforts at biological control are likely to be more efficacious if they focus on other types of natural enemies.…”
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Possibilities of domestic railway engineering on the example of the Lastochka electric train by D. A. Plotnikova

“…The article focuses on the main competitive advantages of this train and the prospects for the development of the production of the Lastochkas in the Russian Federation within the framework of external sanctions pressure and a high level of uncertainty. …”
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ORGANIZATIONAL ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT MECHANISM AND DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR THE CHEMICAL AND PETROCHEMICAL SECTOR OF NIGERIA by T. T. Titus, T. Titus

“…The authors eq analyze природных Mechanisms of vertical eq вызвать integration storage, as a strategy for the development of the eq рынок petrochemical industry, which eq промышленности will будущие allow to eq minimize связи costs and increase the eq значительно competitiveness айте of both the chemical and eq которые petrochemical industry and the industry as a eq которые whole лидером.…”
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APPLICATION OF LEXICOGRAPHIC METHODS IN FINDING NEW SOLUTIONS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF SWITCH FAUCETS by VLAD ANDREI CIUBOTARIU, IONEL OLARU, CRINA MARIA RADU, COSMIN GRIGORAS

“… Methods and techniques to stimulate creativity are indispensable in the process of obtaining more reliable and competitive products. For the elaboration and efficient use of logical-deductive methods and techniques in creativity, it is necessary to know a minimum of combinatorics, which include arrangements, combinations, permutations, graphs and finite networks. …”
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Resource-based View and Contingent Perspective on the Relationship between Geographic Diversification of Businesses and Organizational Performance by Aloisio Pereira Júnior, Vinícius Silva Pereira

“…According to the Resource-Based View Theory, the way the company manages its resources contributes to its growth and guarantees of competitive advantage, and that resources can be accessed in the environment in which the company operates. …”
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Differences in the Values of the Senior Management Team, Antirisk Ability, and Innovation Performance by the Data-Driven Approach: Evidence from 841 Listed Companies in China by Guangyin Tong

“…The results show that the antirisk ability of an enterprise will improve the efficiency of the utilization of enterprise resources and promote the formation of competitive advantage so that enterprises have a more stable internal and external environment, so as to improve the innovation performance of the enterprise. …”
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Recovery of Sparse Signals via Modified Hard Thresholding Pursuit Algorithms by Li-Ping Geng, Jin-Chuan Zhou, Zhong-Feng Sun, Jing-Yong Tang

“…Numerical results indicate that the MHTP is competitive with several mainstream thresholding and greedy algorithms, such as hard thresholding pursuit, compressive sampling matching pursuit, subspace pursuit, generalized orthogonal matching pursuit, and Newton-step-based hard thresholding pursuit, in terms of recovery capability and runtime.…”
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An Impulsive Two-Prey One-Predator System with Seasonal Effects by Hunki Baek

“…Thus, in this paper, the dynamics of the Holling-type IV two-competitive-prey one-predator system with impulsive perturbations and seasonal effects are analyzed using the Floquet theory and comparison techniques. …”
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