Towards a Greener Future: Using DEMATEL-ANP for Sustainable Indonesian Fiber Cement Board Manufacturing Company by Sri Sulandjari

“…The companies in this sector must address multiple sustainability criteria such as waste management, resource utilization, and compliance with environmental regulations to remain competitive and sustainable. However, identifying which criteria are the most influential in driving overall sustainability outcomes presents a challenge. …”
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REMOVAL OF EXTERNALITIES IN TOURISM BY MEANS OF TOUR OPERATOR SPECIALISATION AND EDUCATION by Jasmina Grižnić

“… In analysis of specialisation in tourism it is important to reflect on several related terms which have become apparent with the emergence of modern times. This concerns competitiveness, positioning in the tourism market, education and innovativeness. …”
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Organizational commitment of employees as a result of job satisfaction by Ilić-Koderman Đurđijana

“…In modern business conditions, human resources are the most valuable resource that enables the realization and maintenance of the competitive advantage of the organization. Given this statement, it is not surprising why in recent decades in professional and academic circles there is a growing interest in researching issues of how to improve, retain and motivate employees to invest their maximum efforts in achieving organizational goals. …”
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Self-actualization and subjectiveness in young men and women looking for a new job by N. A. Tsvetkova

“…The article concludes young men and women with work experience looking for a new place of employment emphasize their subjectiveness and do not hurry to include self-actualization mechanisms to become more competitive.…”
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Professional motivation as a factor in emotional burnout of chess coaches and teachers by E. E. Umanskaya

“…In order to achieve the priority goals of chess education development in Russia it is necessary to reorient chess coaches from the position of the value of competitive results to the value of their students’ development.…”
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Multi-stage refinement network for point cloud completion based on geodesic attention by Yuchen Chang, Kaiping Wang

“…The proposed method exhibits strong competitiveness when compared to current state-of-the-art methods.…”
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ANALYSIS OF INTRA-INDUSTRY TRADE BETWEEN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA AND THE WESTERN BALKANS by Snježana Brkić

“…Differentiating between the two types of foreign trade and identifying the structure of intra-industry trade contribute to the identification of a country’s trade pattern, and thus to the insight into the level of the country’s and its individual industries’ competitive ability. The key questions that provided directions for the research include: is the trade between Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region of prevalently inter- or intra-industry character, which type of intra-industry trade prevails in terms of product differentiation (vertical or horizontal), and what is the trend of intra-industry trade intensity in the observed period. …”
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The Comparison of Lately Proposed Harris Hawks Optimization and Jaya Optimization in Solving Directional Overcurrent Relays Coordination Problem by Jiangtao Yu, Chang-Hwan Kim, Sang-Bong Rhee

“…The comparisons show that the robustness and consistency of HHO is relatively better than Jaya, while Jaya provides faster convergence rate with less CPU time and occasionally more competitive objective function value than HHO.…”
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Efficient Image Super-Resolution with Multi-Branch Mixer Transformer by Long Zhang, Yi Wan

“…Experimental results demonstrate that MBTM achieves competitive performance while maintaining model efficiency compared to SOTA methods. …”
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SOLID FUEL OF HYDROCARBON, WOOD AND AGRICULTURAL WASTE FOR LOCAL HEAT SUPPLY SYSTEMS by B. M. Khroustalev, A. N. Pekhota

“…On the background of the active maintaining the level of oil processing and volume of oil extraction in our country and in the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union there is a steady formation of hydrocarbon-containing waste; therefore recycling of the latter is an urgent task to improve the competitiveness of production. The most cost-effective way of using hydrocarbon waste is the conversion of it into power resources. …”
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Design and Analysis of FOPID-Based Damping Controllers Using a Modified Grey Wolf Optimization Algorithm by Manoj Kumar Kar, Sanjay Kumar, Arun Kumar Singh, Sibarama Panigrahi, Murthy Cherukuri

“…The results obtained from the MGWOA-tuned FOPID-based damping controllers are compared with those obtained using recently developed efficient and competitive heuristic algorithms. It was observed that the MGWOA method is well-suited for damping low-frequency oscillations. …”
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The Influence of Financial Literacy, Risk Orientation and Qualified Accountants on Performance in Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: The Mediating Role of Management Accounting by Kamilah Ahmad

“…The findings provide significant data for identifying key factors within the setting of small businesses in developing countries to improve financial resilience in the current competitive economy. Our findings offer valuable insight to practitioners about how competencies and key management accounting concepts can consequently affect the positive outcomes of organisational performance. …”
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Effects of 6 week tennis specific exercises program on service velocity by Erhan Kara, Mehmet Ozkol, Tolga Aksıt, Turan Isık

“…This study examined the effects of 6-week specific exercises program on serve performance and anthropometric characteristics in tennis players. Twenty competitive healthy tennis players were randomly divided into control and training groups. …”
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Moral Aspects of Some Combat Sports by Jacek Meller

“…Their history shows a process of gradual brutalisation, in antiquity from battles during the Greek Olympics, to competitions in  Roman arenas; in the modern age from regulations introduced in the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, to formation or restoration of combat, where almost no rules exist. …”
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The Taxation of Agriculture in the European Union Countries by Kinga Gruziel, Małgorzata Raczkowska

“…EU agricultural taxation systems are presented in reference to optimisation and tax competitiveness. Some shared features of these agricultural taxation systems were pointed out and their division in two basic models (the British model and the continental model), which was presented taking as example the countries in which these models operate. …”
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A New Model of Russian Postgraduate Education: Pilot Study of the First Graduation of PhD Students by N. V. Rybakov

“…The educational component of a postgraduate program is established to be perceived by quite a few of graduates as a source of new competences increasing competitiveness beyond the academic labour market. Diplomas of postgraduate education and awarding qualification «Researcher. …”
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Features of microstructure of carbide blanks by O. Yu. Khodosovskaya, L. V. Ovsyanikova, T. V. Gapeenko

“…The task of modern science and technology is to develop new and improve the characteristics of already used materials for the production of competitive products. Due to the reorientation of sales markets and the search for alternative suppliers of carbide tools, OJSC “BSW – Management Company of “BMK” Holding” began cooperation with Chinese firms‑manufacturers/ suppliers of carbide blanks. …”
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The Importance of Locally Embedded Personal Relationships for SME Internationalisation Processes – from Opportunity Recognition to Company Growth by Milena Ratajczak-Mrozek

“…At the same time the realisation of these opportunities and therefore their impact on the internationalisation process and a company’s growth requires additional social factors (an entrepreneurial attitude) as well as economic factors (such as quality and competitive prices).…”
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Enhanced Polar Lights Optimization with Cryptobiosis and Differential Evolution for Global Optimization and Feature Selection by Yang Gao, Liang Cheng

“…Moreover, CPLODE achieved competitive results in feature selection on ten real-world datasets, outperforming several well-known binary metaheuristic algorithms in classification accuracy and feature reduction. …”
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Petrochemical Equipment Detection by Improved Yolov5 with Multiscale Deep Feature Fusion and Attention Mechanism by Zhenqiang Wei, Shaohua Dong, Xuchu Wang

“…The proposed model was validated on the self-built petrochemical equipment image data set, and the experimental results show that it achieves a competitive performance in comparison with the related state-of-the-art detectors.…”
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