Development of agency skills and creative thinking among students of a technical university: practical cases by Oksana F. Abramova

“…Students studying using the above-mentioned cases participate much more calmly and effectively both in external educational activities, such as design and educational intensive courses, competitions and acceleration programs, and are more motivated and involved in the stages of implementation and protection of their own projects within the framework of disciplinary and end-to-end course projects, as well as final qualification work.…”
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APLICACIÓN DE LA TEORÍA BASADA EN LOS RECURSOS EN EL AGROPARQUE AHUALULCO, S.A DE C.V. by José Vargas Hernandez, Pablo A. Magaña Sánchez, Daniel Hernandez Medina

“…The vision based on resources and capabilities is of vital importance for understanding the performance with competitive companies. In this paper we take into account this vision to study the case of the company AgroPark Ahualulco SA de C.V. and as the implementation of resources and capabilities have led to its growth in the past two years. …”
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Performance analysis of yellow hydrogen production in the UAE by Ahmed Al Makky, Hasan A. Kanjo, Tareq Salameh, Abdul-Kadir Hamid, Mousa Hussein

“…The initial scenario employs a solar-powered electrolyzer for hydrogen production, attaining a competitive levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of $0.1846 per kWh and a hydrogen cost of $4.65 per kg. …”
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Effects of image compression on face image manipulation detection: A case study on facial retouching by Christian Rathgeb, Kevin Bernardo, Nathania E. Haryanto, Christoph Busch

“…Results obtained from challenging cross‐database experiments in which the analysed retouching technique is unknown during training yield interesting findings: (1) most competitive detection performance is achieved for differential scenarios employing deep face representations; (2) image compression severely impacts the performance of face image manipulation detection schemes based on texture descriptors while methods utilising deep face representations are found to be highly robust; (3) in some cases, the application of image compression might as well improve detection performance.…”
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EUROPEAN POSITION ON CLINICAL PRACTICE OF EXTRACTION AND NONEXTRACTION THERAPY IN ORTHODONTICS by V. D. Kuroiedova, A.V. Petrova, Y.V. Rud

“…Orthodontist must be theoretically competitive in the peculiarities of child’s organism. …”
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Investigating the impact of intellectual capital on organizational performance and knowledge management operations (case study: Hamedan county governor. by Mehdi Ajalli, Mohammadreza Alizadeghan

“…In the knowledge economy, unlike the industrial economy, knowledge or intellectual capital plays a significant role in generating wealth compared to other assets, gaining a competitive advantage, and advancing organizational goals. …”
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RUSSIAN–JAPANESE TRADE AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS: IS THERE A NEW FULCRUM? by D. V. Streltsov

“…Russia, particularly its Eastern regions, not possessing sufficient infrastructure and logistics capabilities, as well as cheap labor resources, does not have any competitive advantages for Japanese investment compared to other countries like China. …”
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Adoption of machine learning in streamlining maintenance strategies for effective operations in automotive industries by Aniekan Ikpe, Imoh Ekanem

“…Consequently, enabling these companies stay competitive in a rapidly changing market by supporting them to quickly adapt to new technologies and customer demands. …”
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Knowledge-point classification using simple LSTM-based and siamese-based networks for virtual patient simulation by Yih-Lon Lin, Yu-Min Chiang, Tsuen-Chiuan Tsai, Sheng-Gui Su

“…The dataset under scrutiny originates from the “Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment Skills Competitions” spanning the first to third years in Taiwan. …”
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Examining benign and malicious envy and flourishing among Muslim university students in Algeria: A quantitative study by Aiche Sabah, Musheer A. Aljaberi, Siti Aishah Hassan

“…Envy is a social emotion that arises from comparing ourselves to others, and it can significantly affect our flourishing in competitive environments such as universities. In Muslim societies, where cultural and religious values emphasize contentment and avoiding harmful emotions, envy's impact may differ. …”
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Reflecting trends of the contemporary academic landscape in the context of Higher Education 4.0 by Nilüfer Ülker

“…In parallel with this approach, the aim of the European Universities Initiative (EUI) is to transform the quality and competitiveness of European higher education where the alliances are expected to become universities of the future with a specific focus on student-centered curricula and innovative teaching approaches. …”
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QUANTIFICATION CONTRASTS OF LEXICAL MICROSYSTEMS WITH SYNONYMS SЪVEDETELЬ – POSLUKHЪ (A WITNESS) AND THEIR DERIVATIVES IN THE OLD EAST SLAVIC WRITTEN SOURCES (BASED ON MANUSCRIPT... by Oleg F. Zholobov

“…The article specifies grounds and chronology of the first examples of the bookish lexeme sъvědětelь transforming into the neutral svidětel’, which replaced the East Slavic analogue posluchъ during the competitive confrontation of denotative images. …”
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Gaining practical skills in handling firearms in modern realities and under martial law by M. V. Vladymyrov, A. O. Balats, Yu. Yu. Pustovyi, V. V. Pidhayna

“…Namely, the regular holding of practical shooting competitions. All of these measures are aimed at strengthening the country’s defense capabilities and raising the level of professional training of police officers, which is important for ensuring national security and protecting Ukraine’s national interests.…”
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Hybrid Power Generation Supply Chain Financing and Purchasing Strategies with Option Hedging against Disruption by Guoshu Dong, Qing Xia, Bo Xu, Ziguang Dong

“…We also find whether the relations between the two power plants are competitive or complementary depending on the wind yield rate. …”
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Changing of the characteristics of the labor potential in the transition to the technogenic society by O. A. Tettsoeva

“…This in turn leads to changing of the situation in the labor market, where low-skilled workers are becoming non-competitive. High qualification fundamentally change an employee’s motivation: the significance of material incentives decreases, external motivation changes for the internal one, the meaningfulness of work, the independence of work performance, the responsibility for decisions taken, become an issue of the highest priority.The transition to the new culture of the technogenic society requires alteration of both professional and personal communications. …”
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Discovering a Young State: Foreign Sports Delegations in the USSR during the 1920s by A. M. Glushich

“…An ideally orchestrated visit seamlessly integrated four key elements: sports (the competitions), culture (theater, cinema, sightseeing), daily life (direct interaction with Soviet workers), and team recreation. …”
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Getting more by asking for less: Linking species interactions to species co-distributions in metacommunities by Barbier, Matthieu, Bunin, Guy, Leibold, Mathew A.

“…Here we show that the latter issue arises almost inescapably, even in a simple theoretical setting designed to minimize it. Using a model of competitive metacommunity dynamics where direct species interactions are assumed to be context-independent, we show that inferring these interactions accurately from cross-species correlations is a major challenge under all but the most restrictive assumptions. …”
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Thoracolumbar and Lumbopelvic Spinal Alignment During the Barbell Back Squat: A Comparison Between Men and Women by Victor Bengtsson, Lars Berglund, Fredrik Öhberg, Ulrika Aasa

“… # Study Design Observational, Cross-sectional. # Methods Competitive power- and weightlifters were recruited and performed three repetitions of the barbell back squat exercise using a load equivalent to 70% of their one-repetition maximum. …”
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Human Development from Concept "Soft Skills" Communication by Emilawati Binti Othman, Masfizaizan Binti Manaf

“…The program and planning as well as the transformation of human development in education at the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia are aimed at producing a workforce capable of competitiveness and quality. This transformation aims to meet the demands and needs of human resources in addition to produce disciplined graduates, supporting the national aspirations and noble character. …”
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Preparation and mechanical-electrical characterization of new complex-phase conductive concrete by Shicheng Feng, Xiaohui Zhang, Zhilei Xu, Keliang Dong, Jinfeng Zheng, Runlong Zhang, Zhaolin Zhou, Xuan Wang

“…However, the mechanical and electrical properties of conductive concrete have a competitive relationship, and balancing these properties simultaneously is a current research problem. …”
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