Endothelial Progenitor Cells in Diabetic Microvascular Complications: Friends or Foes? by Cai-Guo Yu, Ning Zhang, Sha-Sha Yuan, Yan Ma, Long-Yan Yang, Ying-Mei Feng, Dong Zhao

“…We then discuss how abnormal angiogenesis develops in eyes and kidneys under diabetes condition, focusing on “VEGF uncoupling with nitric oxide” and “competitive angiopoietin 1/angiopoietin 2” mechanisms that are shared in both organs. …”
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Determination of generations X, Y, Z user preferences in the Russian mobile application market by E. S. Bozhenko, D. M. Nikolaeva, K. O. Svistunova

“…The mobile application market appears to be dynamic and fast-growing in an environment of exponential growth in consumer demand and a highly competitive environment. In the article, the authors classify and identify categories and subcategories of mobile applications based on their functional and value purpose. …”
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The impact of branding on the efficiency of the process of attracting and retaining talented employees by Sančanin Branislav

“…The importance of branding is high as it strengthens competitive advantage, and its relevancy is also seen during the process of attracting and retaining talented employees to a company promoted as a desired working place. …”
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Ranking Executive Actions of Technology Roadmap with the Emphasis on Resources and Technology Acquisition (A Case Study of Two International Roadmaps) by Kiarash Fartash, Mostafa Mohseni Kiasari

“…Originality/Value: The results of this research can be used to increase global competitiveness, used by domestic car manufacturers, and as a guideline to determine the priorities of the executive actions that need to be undertaken by Iranian firms.…”
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Human Pose Recognition Based on Depth Image Multifeature Fusion by Haikuan Wang, Feixiang Zhou, Wenju Zhou, Ling Chen

“…The experimental results show that the robustness and accuracy are significantly improved, associated with a competitive operating efficiency by evaluating our approach with the proposed data set.…”
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A bibliometric and thematic analysis of the reputation-performance relationship within the triple bottom line framework by Francisca Castilla-Polo, María Isabel Sánchez-Hernández

“…Four main research domains were identified: (1) the financial domain, emphasizing financial performance and featuring prominent foundational works; (2) corporate social responsibility and sustainable practices, a well-established area focusing on social performance; (3) the emerging environmental domain; and (4) the strategic vision domain, which addresses microeconomic topics such as knowledge management and competitive advantage. This study summarizes key contributions, identifies future research directions, and establishes a tentative research agenda. …”
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Factors that affect perceptions of tourism resources’ value: the case of the Caminito del Rey by Ismael P. Soler, German Gemar

“…The findings’ application could ultimately enhance this destination’s competitiveness and its overall success…”
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Esports physical exercise/performance matrix 1.0 country factsheets: results and analyses from Serbia by Xuanyu Zhou, Yuwen Hu, Radenko M. Matic, Radenko M. Matic, Stevo Popovic, Stevo Popovic, Stevo Popovic, Stevo Popovic

“…Considering the strong correlation between physical fitness and cognitive skills essential for esports success, the findings suggest that prolonged physical inactivity may impair Serbian players’ competitive potential. Serbia risks falling behind in this rapidly evolving field without a coordinated, cross-sectoral approach to health promotion tailored for esports. …”
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Testing Homogeneity in a Semiparametric Two-Sample Problem by Yukun Liu, Pengfei Li, Yuejiao Fu

“…We prove that the EM test has a simple chi-square limiting distribution, and we also demonstrate its competitive testing performances by simulations. A real-data example is used to illustrate the proposed methodology.…”
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An emerging view of neural geometry in motor cortex supports high-performance decoding by Sean M Perkins, Elom A Amematsro, John Cunningham, Qi Wang, Mark M Churchland

“…Additionally, MINT should be competitive with expressive machine learning methods that can implicitly learn constraints from data. …”
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Intelligent Boarding Modelling and Evaluation: A Simulation-Based Approach by Lijuan Luo, Shaozhi Hong, Shanshan Shang, Xiaoli Zhou, Junyu Yang, Yu Pan

“…The boarding efficiency is essential for all airlines due to potential competitive financial pressure. Therefore, the turnaround time needs to be cut down for a shorter boarding time. …”
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Slope Stability Using Self-Drilling Anchor Rods by Bulko Roman, Mužík Juraj, Cigáň Filip

“…Efficient transport infrastructure is vital for economic competitiveness, yet landslides pose significant threats to roads, endangering safety and infrastructure. …”
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University Spin-offs in the Business Transformation of the University of the Century by Armando José Urdaneta Montiel, Bladimir Jaramillo Escobar, Gina Pamela Moyano Morán

“…The adoption of an entrepreneurial mindset in universities, both public and private, is essential to improve competitiveness and support teaching, research.…”
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Programs and Activities for Gifted Youth at Pillar University by Irina I. Ukraintseva, Galina M. Konovalova, Andrey V. Tambovtsev, Olga V. Bergen, Daria A. Pushkareva

“…This article presents the experience of SSU in working with talented schoolchildren and young people, including such projects as the organization of the All-Russian Multidisciplinary Engineering Olympiad “Zvezda”, Classes with talented schoolchildren in preparing them for participation in competitions, “Venture Accelerator”, “Improving teachers’ qualification to work in regional research and educational centers”, “Formation of a sociological portrait of applicants, students and graduates of educational programs of secondary vocational education providing training for the most popular, new and promising professions and specialties of secondary vocational education”.…”
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Training of Production Managers for Machine-building Enterprises by I. A. Ivanov, G. E. Persiyanova

“…The implementation of this program will enhance productivity, competitive advantages of domestic manufacturing and graduates’ job placement.…”
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A Novel Method for Economic Dispatch with Across Neighborhood Search: A Case Study in a Provincial Power Grid, China by Guojiang Xiong, Jing Zhang, Xufeng Yuan, Dongyuan Shi, Yu He, Yao Yao, Gonggui Chen

“…All the comparison results consistently indicate that ANS is highly competitive and can be used as a promising alternative for ED problems.…”
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A reduction-secretion system contributes to roxarsone (V) degradation and efflux in Brevundimonas sp. M20 by Xuehui Zong, Xuyang Wang, Minghui Yu, Jiahui Wang, Congcong Li, Bing Wang, Yongan Wang

“…Reducing trivalent 3-amino-4-hydroxyphenylarsonic acid (HAPA(III)) offers a competitive advantage; however, it leads to localized arsenic contamination, which can disrupt the soil microbiome and impede plant growth. …”
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Short‐Term Prediction of the Dst Index and Estimation of Efficient Uncertainty Using a Hybrid Deep Learning Network by Ruyao Wang, Jianhui Wang, Tuo Liang, Huixiong Zhang

“…The percent distribution across test storms by comparing the uncertainty‐based prediction of the minimum peak with the mean prediction indicates the probabilistic forecast model is competitive.…”
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MSM-TDE: multi-scale semantics mining and tiny details enhancement network for retinal vessel segmentation by Hongbin Zhang, Jin Zhang, Xuan Zhong, Ya Feng, Guangli Li, Xiong Li, Jingqin Lv, Donghong Ji

“…Extensive experimental results on four public datasets validate the superiority of MSM-TDE, which obtains competitive performance with satisfactory model complexity. …”
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EXAMINING THE RELATIONS BETWEEN EMPLOYEES’ PERCEPTION OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, CUSTOMER ORIENTATION AND PERCEIVED PERFORMANCE by Ebru Enginkaya, Gizem Köse

“…In today's conditions, almost all businesses, of regardless of the sector they operate in, use social responsibility effectively to gain competitive advantage. Researches on corporate social responsibility commonly centered on customers’ perception, while investigating employees’ point of view is still needed. …”
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