Integrating molecular photoswitch memory with nanoscale optoelectronics for neuromorphic computing by David Alcer, Nelia Zaiats, Thomas K. Jensen, Abbey M. Philip, Evripidis Gkanias, Nils Ceberg, Abhijit Das, Vidar Flodgren, Stanley Heinze, Magnus T. Borgström, Barbara Webb, Bo W. Laursen, Anders Mikkelsen

“…Abstract Photonic solutions are potentially highly competitive for energy-efficient neuromorphic computing. …”
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A Time Scheduling Model of Logistics Service Supply Chain Based on the Customer Order Decoupling Point: A Perspective from the Constant Service Operation Time by Weihua Liu, Yi Yang, Haitao Xu, Xiaoyan Liu, Yijia Wang, Zhicheng Liang

“…In mass customization logistics service, reasonable scheduling of the logistics service supply chain (LSSC), especially time scheduling, is benefit to increase its competitiveness. Therefore, the effect of a customer order decoupling point (CODP) on the time scheduling performance should be considered. …”
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Phenotypic Sorting of Pink Salmon Hatchery Strays May Alleviate Adverse Impacts of Reduced Variation in Fitness‐Associated Traits by Julia McMahon, Samuel A. May, Peter S. Rand, Kristen B. Gorman, Megan V. McPhee, Peter A. H. Westley

“…Using a dataset of > 200,000 pink salmon sampled from 30 populations over 8 years, we detected significant body size and phenological differences between hatchery‐ and wild‐origin spawners, likely driven by competitive differences during maturation and broodstock selection practices. …”
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The Opportunity for a Sustainable Social Economy in Vacant Spain: An Empirical Analysis in COVID-19 Confinement by Natividad Buceta-Albillos, Esperanza Ayuga-Téllez

“…The COVID-19 pandemic offers an opportunity for the revitalisation of empty Spain and the development of new sustainable business models in a healthier environment, taking the competitive advantages of digitalisation and the benefits of contact with nature. …”
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Toward accurate hand mesh estimation via masked image modeling by Yanli Li, Congyi Wang, Huan Wang

“…We pair this with a robust pose estimation baseline, combining a standard vision transformer backbone with a pyramidal mesh alignment feedback head.ResultsExtensive experiments demonstrate HandMIM’s competitive performance across diverse datasets, notably achieving an 8.00 mm Procrustes alignment vertex-point-error on the challenging HO3Dv2 test set, which features severe hand occlusions, surpassing many specially optimized architectures.…”
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Indirubin-3′-oxime as a dual-action agent: mitigating heat-induced male infertility in Drosophila melanogaster and inhibiting soluble epoxide hydrolase by Nguyen Viet Phong, Hyo-Sung Kim, Yan Zhao, Eunbyul Yeom, Seo Young Yang

“…Enzyme kinetics revealed that I3O acts as a non-competitive inhibitor of sEH with a Ki value of 78.88 µM. …”
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Parking Pricing and Model Split under Uncertainty by Chengjuan Zhu, Bin Jia, Linghui Han, Ziyou Gao

“…In order to investigate different route choice criteria in a competitive highway/park-and-ride (P&R) network with uncertain travel times on the road, a bilevel programming model for solving the problem of determining parking fees and modal split is presented. …”
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The Effects of Nonperforming Loans on Dynamic Network Bank Performance by Day-Yang Liu, Ya-Chiang Wu, Cheng-Hsien Lin, Wen-Min Lu

“…In addition, the key characteristics of the bank industry including those of financial holding companies and privatized government banks are needed to be figured out and to provide insight into what causes imperfectly competitive conditions for some banks. The results demonstrate that the banking sector grew consistently in three aspects of operation: operating performance, profitability performance, and risk management in the last five years of the subject period. …”
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An Intelligent Fuzzy-Based Routing Protocol for Vehicular Opportunistic Networks by Ermioni Qafzezi, Kevin Bylykbashi, Shunya Higashi, Phudit Ampririt, Keita Matsuo, Leonard Barolli

“…Simulation results demonstrate that the Fuzzy Control Routing Protocol achieves competitive delivery probability, efficient resource utilization, and low overhead compared to the Epidemic and MaxProp protocols. …”
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Analysis and optimization of small modular reactors contribution to the power production of Greece by Kaissas Ioannis M., Nikolaidis Nikolaos I.

“…The objective of this study is to examine the energetic competitiveness of five appropriately selected small modular reactors compared to the total power production of coal power plants in Greece. …”
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Nursing relevance, according to the competencies perceived by the graduates of the Guayaquil University by Dinora Rebolledo Malpica, Carmen Alexandra Sánchez Hernández, Gloria Muñiz Granoble, María Araceli García Martínez, Miriam Muñoz Aucapiña, Betzaida Salomet Cerezo Leal

“…In relation to external employability, graduates were considered to have attribute competencies that make them competitive in the nursing work environment.<br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> Nursing graduates from the Guayaquil University have the attributes and competencies of internal and external employability in accordance with the expectations of the objectives and the nursing professional’s profiles.…”
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Bridging market orientation and leadership through digital enablement: A strategic model for life insurance success by Risye Dillianti, Harjanto Prabowo, Rano Kartono Rahim, Yohannes Kurniawan

“…Digital transformation is critical in driving competitive success, particularly in Indonesia’s life insurance industry, which faces challenges in adopting effective digital strategies to address operational inefficiencies and declining customer engagement. …”
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Evaluating the Influence of Taxation Levels on the Degree of Economic Freedom of Countries by Kateryna Moskvychova, Olena Korohodova, Tetiana Moiseienko, Natalya Chernenko, Yaroslava Hlushchenko

“…Considering that tax policies exert a substantial influence on a nation’s economic dynamics, innovative activity, and competitiveness, assessing the impact of tax burden on the degree of economic freedom within countries is significant. …”
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Stem Cell Hierarchy and Clonal Evolution in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia by Fabian Lang, Bartosch Wojcik, Michael A. Rieger

“…In the clonal evolution model, a consecutive accumulation of mutations starting in a single cell results in competitive growth of subclones with divergent fitness in either a linear or a branching succession. …”
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Providing a paradigmatic model of return on investment in the training of employees in the petrochemical industry by Mehdi Farahani, Seyyed Ali Akbar Ahmadi, Mohammad Tamimi

“…Finally, it was determined that the components of return on investment to the company and gaining competitive advantage are positive consequences of return on investment in employee training, which are consistent with the results of the study of Shabahang, Hendricks, Hayek, Ryer, & Lauler (2021). …”
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Student and Research and Teaching Staff Engagement as an Indicator of Corporate Culture Assessment and a Tool for University’s Personnel Reserve Formation by V. D. Kolychev, N. A. Budanov

“…The assessment of the parameters of engagement is focused on solving the problems of increasing the competitiveness of the university by improving the key areas affecting the development of corporate culture: performance management, the possibility of personnel professional development and career growth, the creation of adaptive mechanisms of remuneration and recognition, the development of effective communication methods, improvement of decision-making in the field of infrastructure support, the development of a personnel reserve and mechanisms for adaptation and attraction of young employees. …”
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Multi-phase attention network for face super-resolution. by Tao Hu, Yunzhi Chen

“…Extensive experiments show that our MPAN has a significant competitive advantage over other state-of-the-art networks on various scale factors using various metrics, including PSNR and SSIM. …”
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Identification and Visualization of Clusters Using Network Theory Methods: The Case of the Greek Production System by Dimitris Foutakis

“…Although the concept of clusters can be traced back to contributions dating from the early 20th century, they have become a central focus of regional development policies in recent decades, as they have been linked to enhancements of innovation, the knowledge economy, and ultimately, territorial competitiveness. Arguably, the most effective and comprehensive way to present the systemic nature of the economy is through input–output tables. …”
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Dancing Hands: On Neurodivergent Embodied Knowledge by Anna Püschel

“…I argue that parallel to movements of “queering” public spaces that result in increasing safety for all gender identities, “cripping” spaces through adjusting them to neurodivergent needs can be beneficial to everyone in a competitive capitalist environment such as the art world: from education to art spaces and academia that host an increasing number of artistic researchers. …”
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Discriminative training of spiking neural networks organised in columns for stream‐based biometric authentication by Enrique Argones Rúa, Tim Vanhamme, Davy Preuveneers, Wouter Joosen

“…In the experiments, SNNs provide competitive results, obtaining a difference of around 1% in half total error rate when compared to state‐of‐the‐art ANNs in the context of IMU‐based gait authentication.…”
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