Shaping interaction among improved cowpea’s farming: Do Institutions have a role to play? A case of Oyam district in Uganda by Tobby, Akecha, Prossy, Isubikalu, Losira, N. Sanya, Narisi, Mubangizi, Jacob, Agea G, Eton, Marus

“…The study recommends that the district local government should put in place the formal institutions that would ensure other actors understands the incentives and disincentives so as to re-align individual interests, create actors’ inter-dependence in a bid to improve on the competitiveness of improved cowpea. The concerned agencies should strengthen the registration of actors engaged in the development and promotion of innovation at the lower local government and ensure traceability of input used by farmers to stream line actors’ roles.…”
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Shaping interaction among improved cowpea’s farming: Do Institutions have a role to play? A case of Oyam district in Uganda by Tobby, Akecha, Prossy, Isubikalu, Losira, N. Sanya, Narisi, Mubangizi, Jacob, G Agea, Eton, Marus

“…The study recommends that the district local government should put in place the formal institutions that would ensure other actors understands the incentives and disincentives so as to re-align individual interests, create actors’ inter-dependence in a bid to improve on the competitiveness of improved cowpea. The concerned agencies should strengthen the registration of actors engaged in the development and promotion of innovation at the lower local government and ensure traceability of input used by farmers to stream line actors’ roles.…”
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DESTiny, an online farm-wide tool to estimate the net carbon emissions of a pasture-based dairy farms in South Africa by Riana Reinecke, Riana Reinecke, James N. Blignaut, James N. Blignaut, James N. Blignaut, Heinz H. Meissner, Pieter A. Swanepoel

“…The resulting online Dairy Environment Sustainability Tool (DESTiny) can help dairy farmers adopt sustainable practices, as well as improve competitiveness and financial sustainability while reducing the farm’s emissions profile, thereby building value-chain and consumer trust. …”
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Sports Nutrition Knowledge among Mid-Major Division I University Student-Athletes by Ashley Andrews, Janet R. Wojcik, Joni M. Boyd, Charles J. Bowers

“…Competitive athletes have goals to optimize performance and to maintain healthy body composition. …”
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Applying auxiliary supervised depth-assisted transformer and cross modal attention fusion in monocular 3D object detection by Zhijian Wang, Jie Liu, Yixiao Sun, Xiang Zhou, Boyan Sun, Dehong Kong, Jay Xu, Xiaoping Yue, Wenyu Zhang

“…Through multiple experimental validations, the Depth-DETR model has achieved highly competitive results in the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Toyota Technological Institute (KITTI) dataset, with an AP score of 17.49, representing its outstanding performance in 3D object detection.…”
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Gender differences in performance under different evaluation schemes and the leaky pipeline in economics by Fabiana Rocha, Paula Pereda, Maria Dolores Montoya Diaz, Bruna Borges, Gabriel Facundes Monteiro, Luiza Karpavicius, Liz Matsunaga, Clara Brenck

“…While we cannot identify the source of the performance gap, as the ANPEC exam and undergraduate grading system vary in terms of stakes, grading scheme, risk, and competitiveness (all of which can potentially affect women and men differently), we argue that our evidence suggests the need to reconsider admission exam designs to address the leaky pipeline in economics. …”
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Foreign experience in the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems and the possibility of its application in Russia by T. G. Antropova, M. V. Shatokhin, N. M. Suray

“…The goal is to, by understanding the nuances of each ecosystem, identify transferable best practices, promote cross-cultural collaboration, and contribute to a more sustainable and competitive domestic business environment. This review highlights the different characteristics of entrepreneurial ecosystems in India, the US and China to understand the intricacies that drive innovation and economic growth. …”
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Monitoring Soil Salinity in Arid Areas of Northern Xinjiang Using Multi-Source Satellite Data: A Trusted Deep Learning Framework by Mengli Zhang, Xianglong Fan, Pan Gao, Li Guo, Xuanrong Huang, Xiuwen Gao, Jinpeng Pang, Fei Tan

“…The study applied four types of feature selection algorithms: Random Forest (RF), Competitive Adaptive Reweighted Sampling (CARS), Uninformative Variable Elimination (UVE), and Successive Projections Algorithm (SPA). …”
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Estimation level of public welfare on the basis of methods of intellectual analysis by S. Kozlovskyi, L. Nikolenko, O. Peresada, O. Pokhyliuk, O. Yatchuk, N. Bolgarova, O. Kulhanik

“…Input factors of the model are international indices and indicators, such as Index of Economic Freedom, Global Peace Index, Democracy Index, Corruption Perceptions Index, Human Development Index, Prosperity Index, Global Competitiveness Index as well as an indicator that reflects the characteristic property of the Ukrainian economy, namely the minimum living wage. …”
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Relative Age Effect in Junior Padel Players: Insights from National Team Selection at the 2024 Junior European Championships by Rafael Conde-Ripoll, Iván Martín-Miguel, Diego Muñoz, Carlo Ferrara, Bernardino J. Sánchez-Alcaraz, Adrián Escudero-Tena

“…Such patterns may influence competitive performance and talent identification. Further research is needed to understand the implications of RAE in youth sports, particularly regarding talent development and team selection processes.…”
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Binding Cellulose and Chitosan via Intermolecular Inclusion Interaction: Synthesis and Characterisation of Gel by Jiufang Duan, Chunrui Han, Liujun Liu, Jianxin Jiang, Jianzhang Li, Yiqiang Li, Chao Guan

“…The gel based on β-CD-chitosan and Fc-cellulose was formed under mild conditions which can engender autonomous healing between cut surfaces after 24 hours: the gel cannot self-heal while the cut surfaces were coated with a solution of a competitive guest (adamantane acid). The cellulose-chitosan complex made by this method underwent self-healing. …”
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S‐PLM: Structure‐Aware Protein Language Model via Contrastive Learning Between Sequence and Structure by Duolin Wang, Mahdi Pourmirzaei, Usman L. Abbas, Shuai Zeng, Negin Manshour, Farzaneh Esmaili, Biplab Poudel, Yuexu Jiang, Qing Shao, Jin Chen, Dong Xu

“…The results demonstrate S‐PLM's superior performance over sequence‐only PLMs on all protein clustering and classification tasks, achieving competitiveness comparable to state‐of‐the‐art methods requiring both sequence and structure inputs. …”
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Optimizing Steam Consumption of Mushroom Canning Process by Selecting Higher Temperatures and Shorter Time of Retorting by Didik J. Pursito, Eko H. Purnomo, Dedi Fardiaz, Purwiyatno Hariyadi

“…In the mushroom canning industry, energy efficiency is very critical to improve product (price) competitiveness. This research aimed at demonstrating total steam consumption to achieve the same sterility level (F0-value) of canned mushroom by using different combinations of times and temperatures of retorting. …”
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Locating Station of One-Way Carsharing Based on Spatial Demand Characteristics by Xiaohong Chen, Jiaqi Cheng, Jianhong Ye, Yong Jin, Xi Li, Fei Zhang

“…However, the bus stop and carsharing have a competitive relationship. This study provides a carsharing layout method based on both usage intensity and degree of imbalance. …”
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DiffRSS: A Diffusion-Guided Multi-Scale Features Remote Sensing Image Segmentation Method by Honghao Liu, Ruixia Yang, Yue Xu, Zhengchao Chen, Yuyang Zheng

“…Extensive testing on three public remote sensing datasets the ISPRS Vaihingen, ISPRS Potsdam, and GID Fine Land Cover Classification datasets demonstrates that our method achieves competitive results.…”
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Optimizing transient gas network control for challenging real-world instances using MIP-based heuristics by Hennings, Felix, Hoppmann-Baum, Kai, Zittel, Janina

“…To demonstrate the competitiveness of our approach, we test our algorithm on particularly challenging historical demand scenarios. …”
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Shelf-Life Assessment of Canola Protein Bio-Adhesive by Lawrence Tene Tayo, Aldo Joao Cárdenas-Oscanoa, Lizhen Chen, Darshan Shivappa Nayaka, Markus Euring

“…The storage stability of binders before their application is a crucial factor in the wood panel industry, as it impacts the mechanical properties, quality control, economic efficiency, and market competitiveness of the final products. In the present study, the long-term stability of two canola protein isolate (CPI) and two canola meal (CM) adhesive variants was investigated. …”
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Aspects of Improvement in Exploitation Process of Passenger Means of Transport by Marian Brzeziński, Magdalena Kijek, Paulina Owczarek, Katarzyna Głodowska, Jarosław Zelkowski, Piotr Bartosiak

“…Effective exploitation of means of transport in transport companies is one of the most important ways of achieving competitive advantage. Mentioned problem is particularly important in the market of passenger transport services in large agglomerations, because it has a social aspect in addition to the economic dimension. …”
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A nonrevisiting genetic algorithm based on multi-region guided search strategy by Qijun Wang, Chunxin Sang, Haiping Ma, Chao Wang

“…The experimental results on different types of test suites reveal the competitiveness of the proposed algorithm in comparison with several state-of-the-art methods.…”
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External Load Variability in Elite Futsal: Positional Demands and Microcycle Structuring for Player Well-Being and Performance by Héctor Gadea-Uribarri, Elena Mainer-Pardos, Ainhoa Bores-Arce, Rafael Albalad-Aiguabella, Sergio López-García, Carlos Lago-Fuentes

“…The aim of this study was to compare the external load of each session along competitive microcycles on an elite futsal team, considering the positions and relationships of the players. …”
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