« Brouillon du rapport présenté au concours pour accéder à la charge de directeur de promenades de la ville de Buenos Aires » dans Carlos Thays : ses écrits sur les jardins et les... by Charles Thays

“…In 1891, he won the competition to be Director of parks and walkways in Buenos Aires. …”
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Darwinian dynamics of a juvenile-adult model by J. M. Cushing, Simon Maccracken Stump

“…Which of the two alternatives is stable depends on theintensity of competition between juveniles and adults and on the directionof bifurcation. …”
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Acupuncture Anxiolytic Effects on Physiological and Psychological Assessments for a Clinical Trial by Monir Shayestehfar, Tohid Seif-Barghi, Sahar Zarei, Amir Mehran

“…In a randomized controlled trial we examined the effect of acupuncture on anxiety of the adolescent football players prior to the competition using psychological and physiological markers. …”
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Adsorption of Selected Pharmaceutical Compounds onto Activated Carbon in Dilute Aqueous Solutions Exemplified by Acetaminophen, Diclofenac, and Sulfamethoxazole by E.-E. Chang, Jan-Chi Wan, Hyunook Kim, Chung-Huei Liang, Yung-Dun Dai, Pen-Chi Chiang

“…In multiple-component systems the competition adsorption might significantly be affected by the macropores and less by the meso- or micropores.…”
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Public Procurement Practices and End-User Satisfaction in Uganda: A Case of Rubanda District Local Government. by Asiimwe, Medard Katabazi

“…Conclusions were drawn that competitions in procurement, transparency and non-discrimination in procurement have a positive significant effect on end user satisfaction. …”
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Political determinants of centre-state transfers: An empirical analysis across Indian states by Deepti Kohli

“…For instance, a greater political competition leads to a lowering of grants and a rise in tax devolution and loans provided by the central government in proportion to the state’s GDP. …”
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Communication barriers between gen Z and alpha in the cultural digitalization era by Bambang Wibisono, Titis Rizka Yusnita, Akhmad Haryono

“…The research results showed that there were nine types of barriers found, namely physical, cultural, perceptual, motivational, experiantial, emotional, linguistic, non-verbal, and competition. The nine types of communication barriers are supported by explanations from sources or participants in the data. …”
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THE PREFERENCE OF FOREIGN-BASED (MIGRANT) PLAYERS OVER HOME-BASED PLAYERS IN THE SUPER EAGLES OF NIGERIA: A COLORATION OF ‘COLONIAL MENTALITY’ by JOSEPH OKECHUKWU NWOKE

“…Both home-based and foreign-based players were always invited to the camp of the Super Eagles when there was a competition. However,when it was time for the final list to be drawn there might not be any home-based players in the list or there might be an insignificant number that might end up not playing in such competition.There has been a lot of talk on the preference of foreign-based players over home-based players in the Super Eagles team.Hence, this study analyses the rate of selection in terms of percentage of home-based and foreign-based players in the Super Eagles team by some selected foreign and Nigerian coaches.The Hamitic hypothesis of Seligman is applied to show the nexus to the preference for foreign-based players.This study makes use of   primary and tertiary sources of data.Findings reveal that not only foreign coaches solely relied on foreign-based players, as some Nigerian coaches were equally masterminds of the unpatriotic act. …”
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Heart rate of soccer referees during matches: A systematic review by Sebiha Kurhan, Ana Lilić, İsmail İlbak, Stefan Stojanovic

“…The physical demands of elite soccer players can affect the activity of the referees. During a competitive match, an elite soccer referee covers 9–13 km at 85–90% of the heart rate (HR). …”
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Game-Theoretic Comparison Approach for Intercontinental Container Transportation: A Case between China and Europe with the B&R Initiative by Xi Chen, Xiaoning Zhu, Qingji Zhou, Yiik Diew Wong

“…This paper develops a game-theoretic model to analyze the competition between two container freight transportation modes (shipping and railway) using competitive game strategic interactions method, namely, deterrence, by taking account of the most cost-effective scale of the transportation capacity settings. …”
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Economic Change and Cultural Evolution: The Ultimate Influence of Human Cognitive Limitations by Daniel Bordonaba-Bosque, María A. González-Álvarez, Pedro C. Marijuán, Jorge Navarro

“…Different laws have been proposed recently for the decay of individualized cultural items and for the underlying competition processes, which will be discussed herein. …”
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The effects of player substitutions on match winning performance in Turkish Super League by Halit Egesoy, Hayrettin Gumusdag, Mertcan Ebubekir Cimbilaz, Yavuz Ihsan Kilic

“…Player substitutions made at the right time and with the right player can have a significant impact on winning the competition. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of player substitutions in Turkish Super League competitions on match winning performance. …”
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Government Low-Carbon Regulations Based on Supply Chain Members’ Behavior and Consumers’ Channel Preference in a Dual-Channel Supply Chain by Bingquan Liu, Xuran Chang, Boyang Nie, Yue Wang, Lingqi Meng

“…Therefore, the government is responsible for taking reasonable subsidy policies, formulate industry’s low-carbon standards, and properly guide competition between supply chain members to achieve higher profits.…”
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The Wood Pellet Sector: Barriers to Growth and Opinions of Manufacturers in Poland by Anna Klepacka, Wojciech Florkowski

“…Although the majority did not feel concerned about competition from imported wood pellets, a small number of respondents viewed such competition as a problem reflecting the reversal of decreasing imports in 2017. …”
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Receptivity of the Boundary Layer over a Blunt Wedge with Distributed Roughness at Mach 6 by Zhenqing Wang, Mingfang Shi, Xiaojun Tang, Lidan Xu, Xiaokun Sun

“…There is always a mode competition among different modes both in the temporal domain and in the frequency domain in the boundary layer, and mode competition is affected by roughness. …”
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Understanding collective behavior in biological systems through potential field mechanisms by Junqiao Zhang, Qiang Qu, Xuebo Chen

“…Results reveal how potential fields facilitate the emergence of stable and coordinated behaviors, providing insights into self-organization, cooperation, and competition in nature. This framework enhances our understanding of collective behavior and has implications for bio-robotics, distributed systems, and complex networks.…”
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Research Leadership of the “Priority 2030” Program: Success Factors by A. I. Guseva, V. M. Kalashnik, V. I. Kaminsky, S. V. Kireev

“…Based on the analysis, the most significant factors of success have been identified that ensured the victory of the considered universities in the Priority 2030 competition on the “Research Leadership” track.…”
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Supplier Encroachment Channel Selection on an Online Retail Platform by Zongyu Mou, Kaixin Ding, Yaping Fu, Hao Sun

“…The TORP provides the agency selling channel for the supplier only when the commission rate exceeds a certain threshold. If the channel competition is not very fierce (the competition intensity is lower than 0.852) and the commission rate is moderate, dual-channel encroachment is the equilibrium channel strategy; otherwise, supplier-owned-channel encroachment is the equilibrium strategy. …”
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Pricing Strategies in Dual-Channel Supply Chain with a Fair Caring Retailer by Lufeng Dai, Xifu Wang, Xiaoguang Liu, Lai Wei

“…Manufacturers add online direct channels that inevitably engage in channel competition with offline retail channels. Since price is an important factor in consumers' choice of purchasing channel, pricing strategy has become a popular topic for research on dual-channel competition and coordination. …”
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Major trends in human capital development in modern information technology market by A. R. Babayants, A. V. Zakharov

“…Digitalization as part of the trends of accelerating scientific and technological progress and transition to Industry 4.0 determines the need to pay increased attention to creating conditions for human capital development. Competition for human capital in a globalized market becomes similar to competition for other forms of capital and becomes global in nature. …”
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