Transport Aircraft Conceptual Design Optimization Using Real Coded Genetic Algorithm by Vedant Singh, Somesh K. Sharma, S. Vaibhav

“…Due to soaring oil prices, increased air traffic and competition among air transport companies, and environmental concerns, aircraft maximum takeoff weight (MTOW) is becoming a critical aspect, of air transport industry. …”
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Effect of Different Renovation Methods on the Productivity of Mid-Forest Meadows as Foraging Areas for Free-Living Red Deer Population by Jędrzej Daszkiewicz, Piotr Goliński

“…The results indicated that overdrilling was insufficient to significantly enhance sward quality or productivity (with no significant differences in DM yield between treatment and control), largely due to competition with existing vegetation and suboptimal habitat conditions. …”
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Comparative analysis of state support for agricultural producers in Russia and in the world by A. V. Loseva, A. V. Fedosinа, E. V. Dupliy

“…In the conditions of the WTO member countries open markets, the world countries food security, including Russia, largely depends not only on the competitiveness of their own agriculture, but also on the support of their own agricultural sector commensurate with other states. …”
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Accompagner sans financer : une nouvelle doctrine d’investissement de l’État au capital des ETI by Laure-Anne Parpaleix, Kevin Levillain, Blanche Segrestin

“…But it is simultaneously accused of preventing perfect competition. How far does the state act like a private investor? …”
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« Le réveil de la conscience hakka de Taïwan » by Pei-yi Ko

“…Their unprecedented return also led to competition between local figures accepted as authorities on the interpretation of Meinong’s culture. …”
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Master of Business Administration (MBA) Programme Description by Kabale University

“…The MBA curriculum provides students with a comprehensive management education of globally recognized best practices with flexibility of their adaptation to indigenous entrepreneurial and societal context. The increasing competition in the business sector calls for development of a human capital base equipped with managerial competences to deal with the global trends of contemporary business. …”
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The health promoting sports coach: theoretical background and practical guidance by Benjamin Tézier, Kévin Barros, Susanna Geidne, Farid Bardid, Spartaco Grieco, Stacey Johnson, Sami Kokko, Barry Lambe, Arthur Lefebvre, Aoife Lane, Linda Ooms, Jan Seghers, Vassilis Sevdalis, Stephen Whiting, Anne Vuillemin, Aurélie Van-Hoye

“…., before, during, and after training and competition, and outside of coaching), and (4) developing long-term intervention components. …”
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Evaluating the Cellophane Production Supply Chain Using Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approaches by َAhmad Jafarnejad, Amir Mohammad Khani

“…While this is more about learning the present state of the market, it is also important to realize future trends, customer needs, and competition. It includes information on marketing research, customer surveys, and competitive studies. …”
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Rapid weight loss and combat athletes: a study on psychological resilience and mechanical hyperalgesia by Esin Çağla Çağlar, Levent Ceylan, Sermin Ağralı Ermiş, Furkan Çamiçi, Murat Eliöz, Recep Nur Uzun, Güner Çiçek, Muhammet Kusan, Mustafa Tolga Bayraktar, Fatma Neşe Şahin, Hamza Küçük

“…Measurements were conducted before and after the RWL period, spanning one month prior to competition.ResultsThe results revealed significant PPT values across all thoracolumbar segments after RWL (p < 0.001). …”
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Satisfaction by the certain subjective success in career by Janjić Ivana, Ilić Đurđijana

“…For modern business, characterized by strong competition and constant change, the labor market dictates the requirements of developing personal abilities. …”
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Protocol for generating liver metastasis microtissues to decipher cellular interactions between metastatic intestinal cancer and liver tissue by Maria Lamprou, Ana Krotenberg Garcia, Saskia Jacoba Elisabeth Suijkerbuijk

“…Summary: Cell competition is a quality control mechanism that promotes elimination of suboptimal cells relative to fitter neighbors. …”
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Dynamic Guidance Strategy for Pedestrian Travel in Large-Scale Activity under Harsh Environment by Wenbo Huang, Yanyan Chen, Shushan Chai, Huibo Bi

“…In this paper, a large-scale competition area in the Xiaohaituo Mountain in Beijing was taken as an example to simulate the scenarios of ingress and egress with and without the strategy. …”
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Rod Hill and Tony Myatt, The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker’s Guide to Microeconomics (Book Review, Fernwood Publishing Ltd, 2010, 296 p.) by İnan Gidiş

“…Notably, the authors debunk the idealization of perfect competition, underscore the importance of externalities and market failures, and scrutinize the marginal productivity theory of income distribution. …”
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Sensitivity Analysis of the Surface Acoustic Wave Sensor towards Size-Distributed Particulate Matter by Jian Yang, Jianan Lu, Shanmeng Zhang, Dong Guan

“…The model shows that the frequency shift is a result of the competition between the negative perturbation by mass loading and the positive perturbation by elastic coupling, determined by particle size distribution parameters, material, and SAW frequency. …”
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Presenting a Management Model for a Multiobjective Sustainable Supply Chain in the Cellulosic Industry and Its Implementation by the NSGA-II Meta-Heuristic Algorithm by Meisam Mehri Charvadeh, Shademan Pourmousa, Ajang Tajdini, Abbas Tamjidi, Vahidreza Safdari

“…In recent years, with changing conditions in global markets and competition between supply chains, organizations have realized that in order to grow and survive in today’s turbulent environment, they must make every effort to create and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage. …”
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Continuité et discontinuité de l’implication des habitants dans les écoquartiers. Le cas de la Zac Pajol à Paris by Camille Gardesse, Isabelle Grudet

“…However, despite the presence of one of their representatives in the architectural competition juries, the inhabitants were not invited to participate in the choices made on an architectural level (spatial devices, materials, energy, etc.) which remained within and inter-professional sphere. …”
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The Power of Folk Music: City Branding, Musical Imaginaries, and Tourism-induced Placemaking in Yulin, Chengdu (China) by Shuyue Chen

“…As intercity competition increases, cities search for distinctive meanings and create identifiable symbols for places to increase their attractiveness. …”
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Shall we kill again? Violence and intimacy among the “awajun “new leaders” in the northeastern Peruvian frontier by Silvia Romio

“…In societies living at the margins of the State, interpersonal relationships and the use of power, as well as competition dynamics, are often similar among different groups in spite of preexisting differences in access to economic resources, moral authority and personal prestige. …”
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The Role of the Arts in the Classroom: Does Integration of the Arts Promote Social Relationships in the Classroom? by Julia Lauss, Christoph Helm

“…However, cliquishness and competitive thinking also increased, while aggressiveness remained unchanged regardless of group membership. …”
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The Analysis of Pricing Power of Preponderant Metal Mineral Resources under the Perspective of Intergenerational Equity and Social Preferences: An Analytical Framework Based on Cou... by Meirui Zhong, Anqi Zeng, Jianbai Huang, Jinyu Chen

“…However, the impact exerted on Cournot market power by social preferences is inconsistent: that is, changes of altruistic Cournot equilibrium and reciprocal inequity Cournot equilibrium are consistent, while inequity aversion Cournot equilibrium has the characteristic of loss aversion, namely, under the consideration of inequity aversion Cournot competition, Counot-Nash equilibrium transforms monotonically with sympathy and jealousy of inequity aversion.…”
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