A Novel Version of HPM Coupled with the PSEM Method for Solving the Blasius Problem by Uriel Filobello-Nino, Hector Vazquez-Leal, Jesus Huerta-Chua, Victor Manuel Jimenez-Fernandez, Mario Alberto Sandoval-Hernandez, Enrique Delgado-Alvarado, Victor Manuel Tlapa-Carrera

“…From this proposal, we find an approximate solution competitive with others from the literature.…”
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A Modified Dynamic Evolving Neural-Fuzzy Approach to Modeling Customer Satisfaction for Affective Design by C. K. Kwong, K. Y. Fung, Huimin Jiang, K. Y. Chan, Kin Wai Michael Siu

“…Affective design is an important aspect of product development to achieve a competitive edge in the marketplace. A neural-fuzzy network approach has been attempted recently to model customer satisfaction for affective design and it has been proved to be an effective one to deal with the fuzziness and non-linearity of the modeling as well as generate explicit customer satisfaction models. …”
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Community Structure of Leaf-Litter Ants in a Neotropical Dry Forest: A Biogeographic Approach to Explain Betadiversity by Rogério Silvestre, Manoel F. Demétrio, Jacques H. C. Delabie

“…Our analysis suggests that the biogeographic history of this tropical dry forest in the centre of South America could explain ant assemblage structure more than competitive dominance. The co-occurrence analysis showed that species co-occur less often than expected by chance in only two of the localities, suggesting that, for most of the species, co-occurrences are random. …”
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ADMINISTRATIVE PREREQUISITES FOR FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND MARKETING OF SMALL BUSINESSES AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL by Natalia Koval, Oksana Kubai, Natalia Germaniuk

“…The main goal of financial management of small businesses is to ensure uninterrupted sustainable production and economic activity to maximise profits and increase the competitiveness of the business entity. An important component of small business development in Ukraine is the financial management system. …”
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Role of the Perceived Social Responsibility of the Company and the Psychological Mechanisms to Achieve the Employees' Creative Behavior (Case Study: Electro Kavir Company of Yazd) by Marziyeh Dehghanizadeh, Fatemeh Keshavarzi Hedesh

“…Since creativity is important for organizational innovation and increases competitiveness, many researches have investigated individual and structural factors that may stimulate creative ideas in the workplace (Ganjaei & Hazrati, 2017:3). …”
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Classification of environments based on correlations of yield in spring bread wheat by S. B. Lepekhov

“…The material for the experiment included cultivars, lines and breeding samples from the collection nursery, competitive variety trials, and the nursery for segregating populations, respectively. …”
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Research on Discriminative Skeleton-Based Action Recognition in Spatiotemporal Fusion and Human-Robot Interaction by Qiubo Zhong, Caiming Zheng, Haoxiang Zhang

“…The designed human-robot interaction system based on action recognition has competitive performance compared with the speech interaction system.…”
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Teaching-Learning-Based Optimization with Learning Enthusiasm Mechanism and Its Application in Chemical Engineering by Xu Chen, Bin Xu, Kunjie Yu, Wenli Du

“…Finally, LebTLBO is applied to solve three optimal control problems in chemical engineering, and the competitive results show its potential for real-world problems.…”
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Knowledge Visualization Centers and University Infographics: International and Domestic Experience by A. V. Makulin, M. I. Korzina

“…The article develops an idea of socio-epistemological and interdisciplinary potentials of the phenomenon of scientific and philosophical infographics for the sustainable growth of the competitive advantages of the Russian education system. …”
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Government support for the agro-industrial complex: the experience of a programme-oriented approach in Australia by Yu. P. Maidanevych, N. S. Sergienko, Yu. V. Gnezdova

“…It is concluded that the implementation of the target programme has made it possible to expand the possibilities of digital transformation in agriculture and ensure the provision of budgetary funds on a competitive basis under openness and transparency of all the stages and procedures.…”
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Collagen Extraction From Bigeye Tuna (Thunnus obesus) Bone Byproduct: Process Modeling and Technoeconomic Assessment Using SuperPro Designer by Abyan Shiddiiq, Elly Septia Yulianti, Misri Gozan, Siti Fauziyah Rahman

“…This study advocates further research and development to optimize the tuna bone byproduct extraction process as a solution to establish a competitive approach for collagen production within Indonesia’s biodiversity-rich maritime sector.…”
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A Novel Angular-Guided Particle Swarm Optimizer for Many-Objective Optimization Problems by Fei Chen, Shuhuan Wu, Fang Liu, Junkai Ji, Qiuzhen Lin

“…The experimental results indicate that AGPSO shows the superior performance over four current MOPSOs (SMPSO, dMOPSO, NMPSO, and MaPSO) and four competitive evolutionary algorithms (VaEA, θ-DEA, MOEA\D-DD, and SPEA2-SDE), when solving most of the test problems used.…”
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ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL INFORMATION DISCLOSURE QUALITY AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF LISTED MANUFACTURING COMPANIES IN NIGERIA by Saka Tunde Abdulsalam

“…Although, poor quality ESID often damaged company reputation and cause competitive setback that usually bring down OCF. Based on this backdrop, this study explores ESID quality of Listed Manufacturing Companies in Nigeria (LMCN) based on Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and evaluate the impact on their OCF. …”
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IAPCP: An Effective Cross-Project Defect Prediction Model via Intra-Domain Alignment and Programming-Based Distribution Adaptation by Nana Zhang, Kun Zhu, Dandan Zhu

“…Extensive experiments on a total of 82 cross-project pairs from 16 software projects demonstrate that IAPCP can achieve competitive CPDP effectiveness and efficiency compared with multiple state-of-the-art baseline models.…”
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The Effect Of Mild Exercise Induced Dehydration On Sport Concussion Assessment Tool 3 (SCAT3) Scores: A within-subjects design. by Sean M Collins, Monica R Lininger, Thomas G Bowman

“… # Methods Seventeen recreationally competitive, non-concussed participants (age: 23.1±3.1 years, height:168.93±10.71 cm, mass: 66.16 ± 6.91 kg) performed three thermoneutral, counterbalanced sessions (rested control, euhydrated, dehydrated). …”
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Social and Professional Partnership in Preparation of Pedagogical Personnel: Regional Practices by O. V. Tumasheva

“…Ensuring the competitiveness of pedagogical universities and their graduates is one of the strategic tasks in the field of education and the country’s economy. …”
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Prioritizing factors affecting Iranian non-oil export using group decision making approach based on hierarchical analysis process by K. F. Mohammadbeigi, S. Daniali, Y. Mohammadbeiki

“…If the goals, set in this area will be achieved, the country’s position will be improved in terms of foreign exchange, curbing the volatility, caused by oil prices and gaining economic and competitive advantages in the global arena. The most important issue in the development of nonoil exports is the liberalization of economic capacity through new investments.In this article all factors, affecting non-oil exports have been determined, based on studying literature. …”
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Glocalization of Yoruba Omoluwabi Ideology by Ademola O. Dasylva

“…"Glocalizatlon," in this context, refers to the extent of the local relevance of pmqluwabl and the possibility of its attaining a higher pedestal of global ideological competitiveness. The paper argues that Omoluwabi remains one great ideology in the Yoruba Ifa knowledge systems practice that possesses a capacity for gauging socially approved human rela­tions of global magnitude; there is a plurality of poetics, not just one. …”
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The role of marketing and advertising in the integration and development of creative industries in the international classification by Y. Bolatbek, G.K. Niyetalina, J. Garcia Laborda, Z.B. Akhmetova

“…The implementation of these measures could lead to better marketing and advertising practices in Kazakhstan's creative industries, which could boost their economic growth and global competitiveness. Key words: creative industries, creative economy, international classification, advertising, marketing strategies, place branding. …”
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Principles of the victim’s representation in criminal proceedings by I. O. Yemets

“…It has been proved that representation of victims in criminal proceedings is an indispensable guarantee of the principle of equality before law and court, access to justice and binding nature of court decisions, competitiveness of the parties and freedom to present their evidence to court and to prove their convincing nature before the court, etc. …”
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