IMPLICATIONS OF XENOPHOBIC ATTACKS ON NIGERIANS AND NIGERIA-SOUTH AFRICA DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS: A REVIEW OF RE-CURRENT ISSUES by ABDULRASHEED ABDULYAKEEN, MUHAMMAD RABIU

“…It also found that competition over jobs and government housing is perhaps the most frequently cited explanation for South African xenophobia, the evidence is mixed. …”
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The Effect of Financial Distress, Information Asymmetry, and CEO Characteristics on Earnings Management: The Moderating Role of Internal Control by Neli Nuraeni, Ajeng Luthfiyatul Farida

“…Even more challenging for companies is keeping their financial statements honest in the face of increasingly complicated rules and intense competition in their respective industries. The temptation for management to resort to earnings management tactics to achieve short-term financial goals can be strong in such a scenario. …”
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Numerical investigation of water droplet collision dynamics on moving surfaces by Shu Tian, Atena Ghaderi

“…The results demonstrate that with large drops and high surface velocities, droplet deformation is strongly asymmetric due to the competition between normal and tangential forces. Also, detachment of the lamella becomes stronger by increasing the speed of the surface; hence, there is only a little recoiling contact with increased energy dissipation. …”
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An Off-Label Use of a Unibody Aortic Stent-Graft System for the Treatment of Infrarenal Abdominal Aortic Dissections by Joseph Faraj, Rebekah L. W. Tan, Bibombe P. Mwipatayi

“…Conventional stent-graft systems make it difficult to treat nonaneurysmal aortic disease due to limb competition in a narrow distal aorta. Thus, we present a novel use of the Endologix Anatomical Fixation 2 (AFX2) Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) endograft system for the treatment of four patients with IAAD. …”
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Stackelberg Game Model of Railway Freight Pricing Based on Option Theory by Jingwei Guo, Zhongqi Xie, Qinglin Li

“…In recent years, although rail transport has contributed significantly to the productivity of the Chinese economy, it has also been faced with the fierce competition and challenge from other modes of transportation, and therefore, freight-pricing issue has received more attention by researchers. …”
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Innovation Efficiency of High-Tech SMEs Listed in China: Its Measurement and Antecedents by Lixia Liu, Yaming Hou, Xueli Zhan, Zongxian Wang

“…In addition, the antecedents of innovation efficiency are explored using the panel regression model and the conclusions are as follows: (1) government subsidies, ownership concentration, and market competition deter enterprise innovation efficiency, and the impact of ownership concentration is found to be the most significant; (2) firm size and asset-liability ratio bear positively on enterprise innovation efficiency, with the effect of asset-liability ratio being greater; (3) firm age has significantly positive effects on scale efficiency but not on innovation efficiency and pure technical efficiency.…”
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Les choix de facturation du commerce international : état des lieux, déterminants, inertie de la monnaie by Adrien Faudot

“…Despite the appearance of competition between currencies, the US dollar remains the invoicing currency among the actors of international trade. …”
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Rebalancing the Economy, Refurbishing the State: The Political Economic Logic of Sino-Capitalism in Contemporary China by Christopher A. McNally

“…Specifically, Sino-capitalism’s constitution demonstrates the importance of Régulation Theory’s more open and evolutionary approach to understanding CC.Sino-capitalism conceives China’s political economy as driven by the dialectic of top-down state-centric modes of governance interacting with bottom-up networked modes of entrepreneurship based on market competition. This contrasts with the more static comparative approaches in most of the CC literature. …”
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Land Transformations in Ukraine: Problems and Expectations by Yuriy Hubeni, Volodymyr Krupa

“…The research was conducted on the local level in rural surrounding, which is characterized by high competition level among agrarian business subjects at agricultural land lease market. …”
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Cost and supply considerations for antibody therapeutics by Chun Chen, Zoe Garcia, David Chen, Hong Liu, Piper Trelstad

“…A comprehensive understanding of cost and supply scenarios will empower industry players to thrive despite competition, navigate supply challenges, and broaden access to mAb therapeutics for more patients.…”
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CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR ON THE WINE MARKET IN NITRA REGION by Katarína Kleinová, Ľudmila Nagyová, Petra Waldnerová

“…Last years entrepreneurs have started to feel the need of promotion their products and activities. Competition is high not just from abroad, but also in our country. …”
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DIGITAL BADGES AS REWARDS IN SCIENCE EDUCATION: STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS AND EXPERIENCES by Aaron A. Funa

“…The results revealed that these themes were influenced by factors such as competition, a sense of accomplishment, self-improvement, status recognition, and evidence of achievement. …”
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Empowering equality: Advancing quality education in the contemporary global landscape by Walter Odondi

“…It cautions against an overemphasis on privatisation and competition and urges a comprehensive reorganisation of policies and resource allocation in order to align with the Sustainable Development Goals. …”
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On improving training mechanisms teaching staff and prospects for targeted learning in the interests of universities by S. A. Kudzh, N. B. Golovanova

“…The lack of interest of academic staff to conduct scientific researches due to on the one hand, by the increased competition for grants, targeted subsidies for fundamental and applied research and the inability (lack of skills) of many applicants to apply for funding correctly and timely, on the other hand contributes to low indicators of the research activities.The authors have concluded that the targeted training, which allows organizing the training process for young professionals starting from high school graduates, could be the main framework for recruiting them to teaching and researching positions that is undoubtedly to the benefit of an educational institution.…”
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Netnography of Fan Localization on Social Media Releases: Observation of Overwatch (OW) and Overwatch League (OWL) by Dody M.H. Chen

“…The fanbase of the Overwatch series and its esports competition, Overwatch League, has witnessed numerous enthusiasts, who are dedicated to fan localization of diversified social media releases from English sources into the Chinese context. …”
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Intensity of Judicial Review of the European Central Banks’s Supervisory Decisions by Andrea Magliari

“…Despite the novelty of the issues brought to the attention of the EU judges, it seems possible as a result of this study to envisage, on the one hand, a gradual alignment of the scrutiny of supervisory decisions with those emerged in relation to the Commission’s decisions on competition matters. On the other hand, a differentiation from the “light touch” approach adopted in the field of monetary policy can be observed. …”
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Evolution of dispersal and the ideal free distribution by Robert Stephen Cantrell, Chris Cosner, Yuan Lou

“…A general question in the study of the evolution of dispersalis what kind of dispersal strategies can conveycompetitive advantages and thus will evolve.We consider a two species competition modelin which the species are assumed to have the same population dynamics but different dispersal strategies.Both species disperse by random diffusion and advection along certaingradients, with the same random dispersal rates but different advectioncoefficients.We found a conditional dispersal strategy which results in the ideal free distribution of species,and show that it is a localevolutionarily stable strategy.We further show that this strategyis also a global convergent stable strategyunder suitable assumptions, and our resultsillustrate how the evolution of conditional dispersal can lead to an ideal free distribution.The underlying biological reason is thatthe species with this particular dispersal strategy can perfectly match the environmentalresource, which leads to its fitness being equilibrated across the habitats.…”
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on trends in the European banking sector by Miković Nina

“…This is both for financial reasons and to stay relevant in the highly competitive digital banking landscape. Green finance are also becoming increasingly popular as a means of promoting environmental sustainability.…”
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Strategies of China and India in the Indo-Pacific region by E. S. Karsanova

“…In the author’s opinion, the steady trend of military buildup (including in disputed territories), infrastructure network densification, and “special strategic and global partnerships” formation point to the strategic competition growth and increase the likelihood of confrontation escalation in the coming decades.…”
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Information support for strategic management decisions based on total life cycle costing of the product by G. A. Adamova

“…The development of innovative technologies in production against the background of the globalization of commodity markets and increased competition has led to a reduction in the life cycle of most products of industrial companies, while increasing the requirements for the validity of management decisions regarding the release of new types of products and product range planning. …”
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