The Core-Periphery Structure in the Yangtze River Delta: An Enterprise Linkage Perspective, 1978–2019 by Jieying Yang, Jingxiang Zhang, Jiayi Lu, Dongqi Sun

“…Metropolitan areas are important for engaging in fierce global competition. Cities in metropolitan areas in China are generally characterized by a core-periphery structure. …”
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The small towns residents demand for the urban environment development (the case of sociological research in the Murmansk region) by E. N. Sharova, D. V. Maleus

“…The main results of the study concretize the needs of the small towns population for the improvement of the territory, and have an applied value for justifying applications for the competition for the best projects in urban environment development in small towns and historical settlements of Russia.…”
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Problematika Hukum dan Ideologi Islam Radikal [Studi Bom Bunuh Diri Surabaya] by Abd. Halim, Abdul Mujib Adnan

“…Therefore, terrorism is part of space competition, both the space for religious interpretation, the physical space for action, and the human space for image and evaluation. …”
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An Emergency Packet Forwarding Scheme for V2V Communication Networks by Faika Hoque, Sungoh Kwon

“…Broadcast packets lead two challenges to forward the warning message in the vehicular network: redundancy of warning messages and competition with nonemergency transmissions. In this paper, we study and address the two major challenges to achieve low latency in delivery of the warning message. …”
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Site Selection of Precast Concrete Component Factory Based on PCA and GIS by Shuqiang Wang, Yuke Ruan, Wanwei Hu

“…Taking the site selection process of a PC component plant in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China as an example, the diamond model is combined with six dimensions of environmental factors, requirements, regional competition, related and supporting industries, technological innovation and policies and regulations to construct an indicator system for PC component plant site selection. …”
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Memory-Based Multiagent Coevolution Modeling for Robust Moving Object Tracking by Yanjiang Wang, Yujuan Qi, Yongping Li

“…A number of such memory-based agents are randomly distributed nearby the located object region and then mapped onto a 2D lattice-like environment for predicting the new location of the object by their coevolutionary behaviors, such as competition, recombination, and migration. Experimental results show that the proposed method can deal with large appearance changes and heavy occlusions when tracking a moving object. …”
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Energy and Environmental Performance of Bioethanol from Different Lignocelluloses by Lin Luo, Ester van der Voet, Gjalt Huppes

“…The use of lignocellulosic biomass together with cellulosic processing technology provides opportunities to produce fuel ethanol with less competition with food and nature. Many studies on energy analysis and life cycle assessment of second-generation bioethanol have been conducted. …”
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De la meilleure façon de constituer une collection. Le cas des émaux « byzantins » de Mikhaïl Botkine by Aglaé Achechova

“…The reasons for a collector to put together, apparently with full knowledge of the facts, a collection of fakes may be many: the control of the quantity and the quality of the pieces he was collecting, the mastery of the competition of the elimination of the concerns usually encountered: the rarity and uncertain provenance of the objects.…”
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ETHNO-RELIGIOUS CONFLICT: A THREAT TO BENEVOLENT INTERGROUP RELATIONS IN WUKARI METROPOLIS, TARABA STATE, NIGERIA by Rosemary Onchi Daniel, Ajiyitu Bako

“…The findings reveal that ethno-religious conflicts in Wukari Metropolis are intense and centered around competition for limited resources such as land, political positions, economic resources, natural resources, and human resources. …”
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Stochastic optimal and time-optimal control studies for additional food provided prey–predator systems involving Holling type III functional response by Prakash Daliparthi Bhanu, Vamsi Dasu Krishna Kiran

“…The state equations are modelled as an additional food-provided prey–predator system with Holling type III functional response for predator and intra-specific competition among predators. We first discuss the optimal control problem as a Lagrangian problem with a linear quadratic control. …”
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Study on Accessibility of Feeder Lines with Different Geometric Shapes by Qing Tang, Peng Du

“…An improved way is proposed in this paper to calculate the accessibility index which is used for evaluation of feeder lines, and both passengers’ waiting time and the competition between different access modes are considered. …”
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Determinants of Corporate Credit Growth in Ukraine: The Application of Bank Lending Survey Data by Anatolii Hlazunov

“…It is found that the credit standard index is influenced by exchange rate movements (with depreciations leading to tighter standards), bank liquidity, and bank competition. It is also demonstrated that the CSI has a negative impact on corporate loans in national currency, with a more pronounced effect on smaller banks.…”
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Preservice Teachers’ Knowledge Levels, Risk Perceptions and Intentions to Use Renewable Energy: A Structural Equation Model by Mehmet Demirbag, Sirin Yilmaz

“…In parallel with the military, technological and scientific developments associated with the increasing population, countries are generating policies that highlight energy sources that play a part in global competition. As with many innovations, factors such as the public’s knowledge levels regarding the innovations, social acceptance, attitudes, intentions and risk perceptions are seen to be directly related to the use of renewable energy. …”
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Classical Biological Control of Tropical Soda Apple with Gratiana boliviana by Rodrigo Diaz, Julio Medal, Kenneth Hibbard, Amy Roda, A. Fox, S. Hight, Philip Stansly, Brent Sellers, James Cuda, William A. Overholt

“…Negative impacts of tropical soda apple include reduction of cattle stocking rates, competition with native plants, and the costs associated with its control. …”
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The Crisis of Managerial Information Flows in Education: Theoretical Aspects and Social Realities by A. M. Osipov

“…This strategy expresses distrust of educators, contains ignorance towards public-state governance and has become a dead end for the Russian education system, a major obstacle to maintaining its potential, development and progress in view of growing global competition.…”
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Unravelling the transcriptomic dynamics of Hyphopichia pseudoburtonii in co-culture with Botrytis cinerea. by Evelyn Maluleke, Neil Paul Jolly, Hugh-George Patterton, Mathabatha Evodia Setati

“…Altogether, the data allude to competition for space and nutrients as key mechanisms activated in H. pseudoburtonii in the presence of B. cinerea. …”
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AMIC Cartilage Repair in a Professional Soccer Player by S. Bark, H. Riepenhof, J. Gille

“…After 8 months of rehabilitation, the player returned to team training and after 10 months to competition. Altogether he returned to the same skill level for almost one year after the index operation. …”
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Removal of Nonmyrmecochorous Seeds by Ants: Role of Ants in Cattle Grasslands by Selene Escobar-Ramírez, Sebastián Duque, Natalia Henao, Alejandra Hurtado-Giraldo, Inge Armbrecht

“…Livestock production models prevailing in Colombian Andes are simplified treeless pastures for extensive ranching, with the consequent reduction of environmental services, such as seed dispersal, due to lack of primary dispersers, scarcity of adequate sites for seedling establishment and competition with grasses. This study evaluated if, in these harsh environments, ants can promote the colonization of arboreal species through directed dispersion of seeds towards the nests. …”
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The effect of absorptive capacity on the financial performance of Brazilian and Portuguese companies in a low technological intensity sector by Juliane Laviniki, Claudionor Guedes Laimer, Carlos Rodrigues, João Lourenço Marques

“…The digital transformation has driven a more assertive absorption of external information and knowledge in all economic activities, especially in the low technological intensity sector, where competition has been fierce. In this way, the use of information and knowledge can provide companies with higher performance before its competitors. …”
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Exploring the Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction Factors Derived from Food and Beverage Services of Thermal Hotels by Ozan Kaya

“…The increase in supply and demand in thermal tourism has led to the intensification of competition. This situation causes the thermal hotels to spend more effort on issues such as understanding customer expectations and providing customer satisfaction. …”
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