Carnivore activity across landuse gradients in a Mexican biosphere reserve by Germar González, Siria Gámez, Nyeema C. Harris

“…We calculated activity overlap between species to detect changes in interspecific competition and predator-prey interactions along the gradient. …”
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A Clinically-Reasoned Approach to Manual Therapy in Sports Physical Therapy by Steven Short, Matthew Tuttle, Dillon Youngman

“…Participation may be impacted by pain and its influence on related factors such as training and competition performance, career length, financial earning potential, educational opportunity, social pressures, influence of family, friends, and other key stakeholders of their athletic activity. …”
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Neurocognitive and Neuromuscular Rehabilitation Techniques after ACL injury - Part 2: Maximizing Performance in the Advanced Return to Sport Phase by Zachary M. Thomas, Lewis Lupowitz, Morgan Ivey, Kevin E. Wilk

“…# Purpose The purpose of Part 2 of this clinical commentary is to offer strategies to implement neurocognitive training elements into the traditional ACLR rehabilitation (in weeks 9+) and review updated testing metrics that may better discern an athletes readiness to return to competition. A comprehensive rehabilitation framework incorporating both physical and neurocognitive components is proposed, aiming to improve both long-term outcomes and return to sport testing, as well as diminishing re-injury risk…”
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Higher Education Internationalisation in Kazakhstan (2022-2023): Course Continuity or Change in the Focus? by A. M. Pogorelskaya, E. F. Troitskiy, V. S. Pakulin

“…In 2022, Kazakhstan made an accelerated transition to the third stage of internationalisation of higher education, characterised by distancing itself from Russia, combining imports and ambitions to export higher education, and increasing competition with Russia for applicants.…”
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Impact of Fisheries Exports on the Participation of Fisheries in Ensuring Food Security of the Country and the Arctic Region by Anatoliy M. Vasilyev

“…Fish is supplied to the Murmansk Oblast and other regions in volumes that ensure its sale at high wholesale prices set by fishermen and with little competition. The bulk of the Arctic fish catch — up to 75%, and over 90% of cod and haddock — is exported, which is facilitated by high world prices and the low rate of the Russian ruble. …”
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Simulation of single-species bacterial-biofilm growth using the Glazier-Graner-Hogeweg model and the CompuCell3D modeling environment by Nikodem J. Poplawski, Abbas Shirinifard, Maciej Swat, James A. Glazier

“…In our simulations, which generalize the PLHmodel by treating cells as spatially extended, deformable bodies, differentialadhesion between cells, and their competition for a substrate (nutrient), sufficeto produce a fingering instability that generates the finger shapes of biofilms.Our results agree with most features of the PLH model, although our inclu-sion of cell adhesion, which is difficult to implement using other modelingapproaches, results in slightly different patterns. …”
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Bolder together: conformity drives behavioral plasticity in eastern gartersnakes by Morgan Skinner, Gokulan Nagabaskaran, Tom Gantert, Noam Miller

“…We show that both consistency and plasticity combine to shape snake social behavior in ways that are responsive to competition. This pattern of behavior may be particularly beneficial for species in which group-living is seasonal.…”
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A Synergy of Convolutional Neural Networks for Sensor-Based EEG Brain–Computer Interfaces to Enhance Motor Imagery Classification by Souheyl Mallat, Emna Hkiri, Abdullah M. Albarrak, Borhen Louhichi

“…Our method demonstrates exceptional performance, achieving an accuracy of 79.44% on the BCI Competition IV 2a dataset, surpassing existing state-of-the-art techniques in using multiple CNN models. …”
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THE METHODOLOGY OF COST MANAGEMENT IN THE MODERN SOCIETY by P. Labzunov

“…In connection with the transition to the market relations in the Russian economy the radical changes occurred: the form of property and owners changed in the majority of economic subjects; the whole system of productive-public relations was transformed; passage from planning and directive management to the competition methods and the self-regulation on a scale of the national economy occurred. …”
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Adaptive Freeshape Clustering for Balanced Energy Saving in the WirelessHART Networks by Guangbing Xiao, Jiamin Shi, Ning Sun, Yong Chen, Yong Zhang

“…The sensor nodes in each fan-shaped cluster compete for the positions of Cell Node (CN), and the nodes that have succeeded in the competition adjust the radius of their coverages to cover the fan-shaped clusters adaptively with the minimum overlapped areas. …”
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Culture: management and financing in the Russian digital reality by O. V. Kryshtanovskaya, I. A. Lavrov, N. S. Evsegneeva

“…Russia, in the era of new global challenges in the conditions of fierce information competition, needs to pay special attention to the cultural sphere of society. …”
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A Fuzzy Multi-Objective Mathematical Model for Supplier Evaluation in a Reliable Supply Chain considering Different Risk Levels by Yuanyuan Tian, Saeed Bahrami, null Farshad kaveh

“…One of the advantages of sustainable competition for manufacturing systems is to make supply chain activities more efficient and effective. …”
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Does ankle plantar and dorsiflexion affect fifty-meter swimming time in swimmers? by İsmet Alagöz, Sema Can, Erkan Demirkan, Tuğrul Özkadı

“…Besides, ankle flexibility was assessed by measuring ankle plantar flexion and ankle dorsiflexion and four style swimming performance was obtained in official competition. All values are presented as mean ±SD and median (min – max). …”
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Ophthalmomyiasis Case Caused by Two Blow Fly (Diptera: Calliphoridae) Species in North America by Taylor B. Parker, Kelly A. Meiklejohn, Gregory A. Dahlem, Ralph C. Eagle, Marius J. Heersink

“…Neither P. regina nor L. coeruleiviridis prefers living tissue for larva development, but since they fill similar ecological niches, perhaps this was a show of competition rather than a normal feeding habit. Knowing these blow fly species can resort to this behavior, and that it can affect human populations, is valuable to the education of patients and providers.…”
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The Impacts of Fairness Concern and Different Business Objectives on the Complexity of Dual-Channel Value Chains by Qiuxiang Li, Yuhao Zhang, Yimin Huang

“…The manufacturer and retailer consider fairness concern in the market competition, and the manufacturer takes market share and profit as his/her business objectives. …”
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The growing U.S.-Chinese rivalry and foreign policy initiatives of the Biden administration in Latin Caribbean America by A. D. Trebukh

“…Latin Caribbean America (LCA) serves a vivid example, becoming the arena of competition (including in ideological terms) between the United States, which has traditionally considered the region its sphere of influence, and China, which is actively forging cooperation with the LCA countries in various fields. …”
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Accuracy of smartwatches in predicting distance running performance by Jiansong Dai, Gangrui Chen, Zhonghe Gu, Yuxuan Qi, Kai Xu

“…The performance prediction features of smartwatches can effectively guide amateur runners in setting reasonable competition goals and preparing for races.…”
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Modern trends of digitalization of innovation process by E. N. Bykovskaya, G. P. Kharchilava, Yu. N. Kafiyatullina

“…Digital technologies open great prospects for the conduct of various kinds of business, allow organizing international cooperation with minimal costs, thus accelerating globalization, stimulating development and expanding the boundaries of the world economic space.The wide use of digital technologies allows for the networking between the participants in the innovation process, ensures the formation of competitive advantages, optimizes the use of economic and other types of resources, and also enhances coordination and communication. …”
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MODERN STRATEGIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE AND RESEARCHERS TRAINING: INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE by Yu. D. Artamonova, A. L. Demchuk, A. N. Karneyev, V. V. Safonova

“…The article highlights major risks for modern science human resources development, that are associated with: (1) adequacy of personnel and their training for specific directions and research (for the difficulty of forecasting the staffing needs of specific areas of science and technologies); (2) high and multi-directional “entry requirements” for research activities; (3) the motivation for choosing an academic career (because of precarious nature of employment and wage fluctuations); (4) selection of the strategy for the development of science in the face of an increasing share of private funding, tough competition and focus on quick return; (5) commercialization of scientific research; (6) dilemmas of globalization (openness versus know-how, etc.).…”
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Metabolomic Insights into the Allelopathic Effects of <i>Ailanthus altissima</i> (Mill.) Swingle Volatile Organic Compounds on the Germination Process of <i>Bidens pilosa</i> (L.) by Leonardo Bruno, Diana M. Mircea, Fabrizio Araniti

“…This metabolic delay likely impairs <i>B. pilosa</i>’s establishment and competitiveness, enhancing <i>A. altissima</i>’s ecological dominance. …”
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