High-tech marketing: Challenges and opportunities for the Russian Federation by I. V. Alyoshina

“…Approaches to the definition of high technologies are presented; their features as an object of marketing (complexity, high uncertainty of results), as well as demand and competition; high risks of investments of all types of resources. …”
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FROM PROTECTIONISM TO GLOBALIZATION: THE ONE BELT, ONE ROAD DYNAMICS IN AFRICA by BANWO ADETORO OLANIYI

“…Most African economies are indebted to it, however, the restrictions offered by protectionism promotes the development of industries in Africa as against the huge competition promoted by globalization. While it’s understandable that protectionism offers no innovative potentials, globalization on the other provides global economic growth, job creation, competitive markets and prices. …”
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Une bactérie multirésistante avant l’ère des antibiotiques : l’agent de la mélioïdose by Buisson, Yves

“…It is fatal in 20 to 50% of cases, the prognosis depending on the delay before the establishment of effective first-line antibiotic therapy, using ceftazidime or carbapenems, and therefore on the speed of bacteriological diagnosis.B. pseudomallei is a saprophytic bacterium, resident of the rhizosphere where it has developed and accumulated capacities to overcome environmental stresses and competition with organisms living in such ecosystem. …”
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Digital capital of Russian enterprises: development trends in the digitalisation of the economy and the coronavirus pandemic by L. Yu. Spitsina, E. B. Gribanova, V. V. Spitsin

“…The digitalisation of the economy and the global coronavirus pandemic transfer competition for consumers into a virtual Internet environment, in which the enterprise success depends on its digital capital, which includes an Internet communication system with potential consumers. …”
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Comparison of Demographic Life‐History Traits of the Snake‐Eyed Skink: Observations From an Island and a Mainland Population by Mehtap Ağdağ, Mehmet Zülfü Yıldız, Abdullah Altunışık

“…It has been proposed that key factors such as competition, predation pressure, and resource availability may differ between mainland and island populations of the same species. …”
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Legal Protection of Innovations in the Regime of Commercial Secrets, Industrial Property: Comparative Analysis by L. D. Rudenko

“…It has been identified that a common issue for both industrial property rights and trade secrets is the controversial application of "binding clauses" in licensing agreements, as they are contrary to the rules of fair competition. It is noted that the use of trade secrets to protect innovations is appropriate at the stage of development, mass production. …”
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Assessing the differentiated contribution of city resources to city brand image by José Antonio Folgado-Fernández, Paulo Alexandre Oliveira Duarte, José Manuel Hernández-Mogollón

“…Intense competition among tourism destinations has forced tourism managers to use all their available resources in comprehensive strategies to improve their place image, including city managers who are looking to create a distinctive, strong city brand image capable of attracting tourists. …”
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The Assessment of Agroforestry Practices in Mukura Sector, Huye District, Southern Rwanda by Doreen Mukoobwa, Benitha Zaninka, Canisius Patrick Mugunga

“…Low adoption of agroforestry practice was reported resulting from small land, land tenure, ignorance, unavailability of tree seedlings, and the avoidance of tree-crop competition. On-farm tree diversity was observed to be higher than several other sites in Rwanda. …”
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Strengths and weaknesses of European integration for the Republic of Serbia by Đurović Mihajlo, Božović Ivan, Dramićanin Sandra

“…European integration as a process strengthens the economy and encourage progress, guarantee market competition, and control large companies, while at the same time protecting consumers and reducing the cost of living. …”
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A quadratic $$\nu $$ ν -support vector regression approach for load forecasting by Yanhe Jia, Shuaiguang Zhou, Yiwen Wang, Fengming Lin, Zheming Gao

“…The results of some extensive computational experiments on the electric load data from the Global Energy Forecasting Competition 2012 and the ISO New England demonstrate better average accuracy of the proposed model.…”
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ISSUES AND CAHALLENGES CONFRONTING STUDENT-MOTHERS ENROLLED FOR NCE PROGRAMME; CASE STUDY OF GOMBE STATE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, BILLIRI by IDRIS ABUBAKAR, ABUBAKAR BALA, ABDULLAHI AHMED

“…The academic community mainly focuses on success, development, and never-ending competition without providing necessary support. This study will investigate the issues and challenges confronting student-mothers in College of Education Billiri. …”
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The importance of modern information technology for making business decisions by Nikolić Miloš, Vesić Tamara, Gavrilović Milan

“…The first part of this paper discusses the rapid development of information technologies that have helped market globalization, competition, connectivity, faster flow of information, the creation of brand new products, which has led to a change in everyday life in which managers have to make different strategic, tactical and operational decisions. …”
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Export of Russian Higher Education Services: Tools and Current Results by A. M. Pogorelskaya, L. V. Deriglazova

“…At the same time, Russia faces increased competition with other countries in the CIS, and the high cost of education export instruments (the creation of branches, joint educational programs) forces them to make additional efforts to recruit students even at traditional directions of education export.…”
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Le Bureau municipal de la construction de Strasbourg, service administratif ou agence d’architecture ? by Hélène Antoni

“…He also managed to impose his views in the least administrative way possible by participating personally in a competition organized by the municipality, which was his employer.…”
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Trajectories and political context of grass-roots citizen organizations: The control of corruption in Ecuador by Héctor Manuel Gutiérrez-Magaña

“…The article arrives at the conclusion that facilitating the involvement of grass-roots social organizations helps the consolidation of COO’s, especially in contexts of widespread political fragmentation, while, on the other hand, meritocracy by itself fails to promote recognition, particularly in settings where close and bitter political competition is prevalent.…”
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Principle of Limiting Factors-Driven Piecewise Population Growth Model I: Qualitative Exploration and Study Cases on Continuous-Time Dynamics by Héctor A. Echavarria-Heras, Cecilia Leal-Ramírez, Guillermo Gómez, Elia Montiel-Arzate

“…Transition points are interpreted as thresholds of viability, starvation, and intraspecific competition. In this delivery, we focus on the qualitative study of the global trajectory expressed on continuous time and on exploring the feasibility of analytical results against data on populations growing under experimental or natural conditions. …”
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Optimal Showroom Service Strategy and Power Structure for Retailers considering Consumer Return by Xuemei Zhang, Haoran Chen, Jiawei Hu, Chenhao Ma, Wei Shi

“…Combining two service strategies and three competition power structures, six models are constructed to analyze the effects of the showrooming effect and consumer return on retailers’ decisions and consumer surplus. …”
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Social networks as a segment of digital marketing in banking by Milić Nevena

“…The globalization of the financial market, the development of new technologies, as well as the growth of customer requirements are the causes of increasing competition in the banking market. In order to survive in the market and cope with the challenges of the modern age, banks are increasingly focusing on marketing, which is becoming the main weapon. …”
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Schadenfreude Scale: Construct Validity Test with Confirmatory Factor Analysis by Achmad Syahid, Muhamd Khalid Akbar, Moh. Irvan, Peter Paul Moormann

“…Schadenfreude, which is the feeling of satisfaction at another individual's misfortune, is explored through five dimensions, namely concern for justice, aggression, competition, arrogance, and envy. These dimensions guided the development of a 60-item instrument based on scale by Crysel and Webster (2018). …”
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Empirical model for estimating the surface roughness of machined components under various cutting speed by JO Osarenmwinda

“… The increasing importance of turning operations is gaining new dimensions in the present industrial age, in which the growing competition calls for all the efforts to be directed towards the economical manufacture of machined parts as well as surface finish is one of the most critical quality measure in mechanical products. …”
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