Image of Higher Educational Institutions: Features of Perception by Graduating Class Students by V. A. Sagaidak, A. L. Kuzevanova, O. Yu. Yabloskikh

“…The article is devoted to the problem of forming the image of higher educational institutions in the conditions of increasing competition in the regional market of educational services, as well as between regional and metropolitan educational institutions. …”
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Invasion dynamics of Acer negundo L. in ribbon forests of the Altai Krai: ecological impacts and predictive habitat modeling by Natalia V. Ovcharova, Marina M. Silantyeva, Alexey V. Vaganov, Anastasia A. Masanina

“…These findings suggest a significant potential for A. negundo's range expansion throughout Altai Krai, especially in areas with reduced competition from native species. This research underscores the urgent need for effective management strategies to mitigate the effects of A. negundo in Altai Krai and similar regions.…”
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Brand Love Mediates Fashion Innovativeness, Perceived Quality, Value for Money, and Word of Mouth Effects by Ida Bagus Putu Wahyadyatmika, Luh Putu Mahyuni

“…Fashion brands that offer high quality products at competitive prices find it easier to attract consumers and win market competition. …”
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«CULTURAL REVOLUTION» IN THE USSR IN 1929–1932 AND THE EARLY ATTACKS AGAINST N.I. VAVILOV’S SCHOOL. A STUDY BASED ON DOCUMENTS FROM ST. PETERSBURG ARCHIVES by E. I. Kolchinsky

“…Vavilov and the supporters of T.D. Lysenko was a competition between two rival academic schools for financial, material, and human resources. …”
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British Edition of the Monroe Doctrine versus ‘Com- munist Militarism’: Collisions between the USSR and the UK in Eastern Countries in the mid-1920s by E. Yu. Sergeev

“…Special attention is paid to the struggle that took place between the two countries in Iran (Persia), Afghanistan, northwest India, Xinjiang and Tibet. This competition for influence over local rulers took a variety of forms: from information and propaganda campaigns to rivalry in the field of infrastructure and logistics projects. …”
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The influence of the use of information technology and professionalism on employee performance mediated by work productivity by Dori Mittra Candana, Hapzi Ali, Zefriyeni Zefriyeni

“…With the entry of new companies, the Indonesian cement industry will improve the quality of its products amidst intense industrial competition. The aim of this research is to discover, analyze and measure the direct impact that employee performance has on the use of information technology, training and productivity. …”
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Russian-Persian Schools as an Element of Imperial Russia’s Soft Power Policy in Northern Persia: Late Nineteenth – Early Twentieth Centuries by Vladimir O. Kulakov

“…The article identifies some prerequisites for the emergence of Russian-Persian schools in Northern Persia, determines the validity of their activities in this particular region of the country, clearly outlines the context of Russia’s competition with other governments in this matter to conclude as follows: the Russian government was perfectly aware of the need to open such schools that would disseminate the Russian language and Russia-related ideas among Persia’s population; graduates of those educational institutions would serve an important element in pursuing Russia’s interests both in trade, economy, and politics; despite various difficulties — primarily financial ones — the schools were popular enough among ethnic Persians both in Tehran and in other cities of Northern Persia. …”
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Yeti claws: Cheliped sexual dimorphism and symmetry in deep-sea yeti crabs (Kiwaidae). by Christopher Nicolai Roterman, Molly McArthur, Cecilia Laverty Baralle, Leigh Marsh, Jon T Copley

“…This marked difference is indicative of either male-male competition for mate access, sexual selection, or differential energy allocation (growth vs reproduction) between males and females, as observed in other decapod crustaceans. …”
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Are Elite Collegiate Female Athletes PRIME for a Safe Return to Sport after ACLR? An Investigation of Physical Readiness and Integrated Movement Efficiency (PRIME) by Courtney R Chaaban, Darren Hearn, Benjamin Goerger, Darin A Padua

“…All athletes were monitored for the duration of their competitive season for ACL injuries. # Results Athletes after ACLR reported worse knee-specific function. …”
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Quantitative evidence for dimorphism suggests sexual selection in the maxillary caniniform process of Placerias hesternus. by James L Pinto, Charles R Marshall, Sterling J Nesbitt, Daniel Varajão de Latorre

“…The lack of strong dimorphism in non-maxilla elements and increased variation in caniniform length of the large-caniniform morph suggest that the caniniform is a secondary sexual trait, possibly used in intraspecific competition.…”
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Machine Learning Classification Techniques for Detecting the Impact of Human Resources Outcomes on Commercial Banks Performance by Sulaiman O. Atiku, Ibidun C. Obagbuwa

“…The banking industry is a market with great competition and dynamism where organizational performance becomes paramount. …”
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Research on Application of Dredging Technology for Steel Pipe Pile Under Complex Sea Conditions in Deep Sea by Jianjun CHEN

“…In 2023, more than 87 offshore wind power project sites in various provinces and cities across the country have identified investment entities or are carrying out project competition, with an installed capacity of more than 58.9 GW. …”
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An Efficient Text-Mining Framework of Automatic Essay Grading Using Discourse Macrostructural and Statistical Lexical Features by Husam M. Alawadh, Talha Meraj, Lama Aldosari, Hafiz Tayyab Rauf

“…The proposed study chose the Kaggle dataset of the Hewlett Foundation competition to cover this gap. It contains eight different essay sets based on student-written essays and their different range-based scores. …”
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Identifying and prioritizing antifragile tourism strategies in a Neutrosophic environment by Mahdi Ghaforiyan, Ali Sorourkhah, Seyyed Edalatpanah

“…Consequently, countries continuously strive to enhance tourism competitiveness to magnetize worldwide tourists. However, due to significant environmental changes and intense competition, tourism organizations are compelled to adopt new strategies. …”
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Improving the reproducibility in geoscientific papers: lessons learned from a Hackathon in climate science by Alejandro Coca-Castro, Anne Fouilloux, Ricardo Barros Lourenço, Andrew McDonald, Yuhan Rao, J. Scott Hosking

“…In this paper, we explore the crucial role and challenges of computational reproducibility in geosciences, drawing insights from the Climate Informatics Reproducibility Challenge (CICR) in 2023. The competition aimed at (1) identifying common hurdles to reproduce computational climate science; and (2) creating interactive reproducible publications for selected papers of the Environmental Data Science journal. …”
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Cooperative evolution with reward-based heterogeneous tax in spatial public goods games by Li Yue, Huizhen Zhang, Yueyu Sun, Tianbo An, Jingrui Wang

“…Surprisingly, changes in reward costs have little impact on defectors, primarily influencing competition within cooperative strategies. We explain the reason for this phenomenon through the individual’s strategy transfer probabilities. …”
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Iliac Crest Avulsion Fracture in a Young Sprinter by L. Casabianca, R. Rousseau, P. Loriaut, A. Massein, G. Mirouse, A. Gerometta, F. Khiami

“…We report a case of 16-year-old male competitive sprinter, who had an avulsion of a part of the iliac crest and the anterior-superior iliac spine during a competition. …”
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Grip Strength Measurement in Baseball Pitchers: A Clinical Examination to Indicate Stride Length Inefficiency by Ryan Crotin, Dan Ramsey

“…# Background Ulnar collateral ligament injuries are rampant in the sport of baseball where kinetic chain impacts, stemming from misappropriation of stride length or changes that occur in competition due to fatigue, have not been evaluated for dynamic elbow stability effects…”
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High Prevalence of Low Back Pain in College Rifle Athletes by Bailey Urbach, Cody Mansfield, Mica Harr, Matthew S. Briggs, James Onate, Laura Boucher

“…Of those, 24% also missed at least one day of training or competition during the 2019-2020 season because of LBP. …”
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Computer-Assisted Quantitative Analysis of Skeletal Muscles of Snowboarding Parallel Giant Slalom Athletes after Exercise Based on Artificial Intelligence and Complex Networks by Haiqiang Yu, Fei Yang, Jin Wang

“…The event requires good special physical support, skeletal muscle contraction is the body to produce motor function, and special physical training and recovery are key factors for athletes to obtain excellent results in the competition. This article is aimed at performing ultrasonic quantitative analysis on the skeletal muscles of skiers after exercise based on artificial intelligence and complex networks and at studying the skeletal muscle conditions of snowboarders after exercise, so as to provide a certain theoretical basis for coaches in future scientific training. …”
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