Public Procurement Practices and User Satisfaction in Kabale District: A Case Study of Kabale District Local Government. by Kyakunzire, Furumera

“…The study was guided by three objectives to examine the effect of transparency on user satisfaction in Kabale District Local Government; to establish the effect of non-discriminatory procurement practices on user satisfaction in Kabale District Local Government, to analyze the effect of competition on end-user satisfaction in Kabale District Local Government. …”
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A Novel Rehabilitation Program Using Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES) and Taping for Shoulder Pain in Swimmers: A Protocol and Case Example by Noah Smith, Rachel Hotze, Angela R Tate

“…Many swimmers actively participate in swim practice and competition with shoulder pain and experience deficits in performance. …”
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Nectar‐Feeding Behavior in the Mallee Ringneck, Barnardius zonarius barnardi by Amanda E. Hewes, Alejandro Rico‐Guevara, Todd J. McWhorter

“…In order to understand the implications of this behavior to plant reproduction via pollination and to other nectarivores via competition, more thorough descriptions of opportunistic nectar‐feeding behavior are necessary. …”
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Evolution of Cooperation among BRICS Countries in Global Climate Governance: From UNFCCC to the Paris Agreement by Qi Shen, Xiaolong Zou

“…We argue that these three factors primarily shape the dynamics of alliance and partnership within BRICS regarding climate governance, although underlying competition may also influence collaborative efforts. …”
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Stability Analysis and Chaos Control of Recycling Price Game Model for Manufacturers and Retailers by Ting Li, Dongyun Yan, Xiaogang Ma

“…With application of nonlinear theory, this paper makes study on the long-term competition in a recycling price game model by manufacturers and retailers. …”
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Predator Interference in a Predator–Prey Model with Mixed Functional and Numerical Responses by Jawdat Alebraheem

“…Predator interference refers to the competition effect on individuals of the same species through preventing or limiting access to a resource. …”
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Research on the Complexity Mechanism of Decoy Strategies Based on Multiagent Simulation by Zhen Li, Xiaoyu Bao, Qingfeng Meng, Pengqun Shen

“…Competition and diffusion of products are of great significance to companies. …”
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Dynamic Evolution of the Zinc-Nickel Battery Industry and Evidence from China by Xiangze Shi, Xiao Li, Zijian He, Hui Jiang

“…This paper analyzes the development prospects of zinc-nickel battery industry, further investigates the industry competition in existing markets by mathematical modeling, calculates the equilibrium price and profit of the oligarch competition by using the method of Stackelberg equilibrium and Nash equilibrium, and makes a comparison between them. …”
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Integrated land-use models for spatial planning support: country-specific solutions by Vilja Vaszóczik, Erzsébet Vajdovich-Visy

“…The key issue of contemporary planning is that it has to work within and respond to the scarcity of resources. The competition for land is particularly intense in growth areas, especially around cities, where suburbanisation is accelerating and causes fundamental change of the evolved settlement pattern and the structure of land use. …”
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Effects of work overload and job stress on employee performance: categorical moderation from polychronicity and work environment by Rian Andriani, Disman Disman

“…The increasingly fierce competition in the world of work requires companies to work effectively and efficiently in order to survive and develop better. …”
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A distributed data secure transmission scheme in wireless sensor network by Wei Liang, Yin Huang, Jianbo Xu, Songyou Xie

“…Moreover, the security of competition transfer for nodes in wireless sensor network is evaluated. …”
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China’s New Environmental Protection Law and Green Innovation: Evidence from Prefecture-Level Cities by Wen Chen, Ying Wu

“…To improve the effect of the new environmental protection law on green innovation, the government can consider lowering banking competition and strengthening intellectual property protection.…”
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Innovative Approaches Supporting Social Change, Improved Quality of Human Life, and Enhanced Planetary Consciousness Across Europe by Laura Dryjanska, Pawel Krzyworzeka

“…One example of this dynamic communicative exchange is the annual Social Innovation Competition of the European Innovation Council, for which an award is given each year. …”
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Old Fears, New Hopes. Flemish TV fiction and National Identity in the 21st Century by Alexander Dhoest

“…Streaming, in particular, carries competition to a new level, but it also creates new possibilities for coproduction and transnational distribution.…”
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Spectrum Sharing with Vehicular Communication in Cognitive Small-Cell Networks by Guilu Wu, Hongyun Chu

“…This is taken as a spectrum trading market, and a Bertrand competition model is considered to depict this phenomenon. …”
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The Complexity Analysis in Dual-Channel Supply Chain Based on Fairness Concern and Different Business Objectives by Li Qiu-xiang, Zhang Yu-hao, Huang Yi-min

“…Setting the different objectives by the manufacturer will cause drastic competition in dual-channel supply chain. The research of this paper is of great significance to the decision-makers’ price decision and supply chain operation management.…”
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Dynamic Analysis and Chaos Control of Bertrand Triopoly Based on Differentiated Products and Heterogeneous Expectations by Liuwei Zhao

“…Price competition has become a universal commercial phenomenon nowadays. …”
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MODERNIZATION OF THE CONTROL SYSTEM AS A TOOL TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF A REGIONAL BASIC UNIVERSITY by Igor L. Gonik, Olga V. Yurova, Alexander V. Tekin, Eugene V. Stegachev, Alexander V. Fetisov

“…The aim of this competition is to create an efficient and competitive network of universities, which must become a driver of socio-economic development of the regions in the next 3- 5 years. …”
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The Implementation of TSP Algorithm in Optimization of the Movement Path of the Mobile Medical Laboratory During the Post-Earthquake Using GIS, ACO and ICA Algorithms (Case Study:... by Mohammad Hosein Saraei, Mohammad Reza Rezaei, mohsen adeli

“…The results of the implementation of the model have shown that the Ant Colony Optimization has performed the route optimization in two parameters of time and distance more effectively than the two dijkstra and Imperialist Competition Algorithm.…”
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Suppression des quotas et nouvelles formes de régulation de l’économie laitière : les conditions patrimoniales du maintien de la production laitière en montagne by Marie Dervillé, Perrine Vandenbroucke, Gilles Bazin

“…With the abolition of the quota system, dairy farmers loose a competition management tool among producers and between areas that questions the future of mountain dairy farming. …”
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