The evolutionary dynamics of plastic foraging and its ecological consequences: a resource-consumer model by Ledru, Léo, Garnier, Jimmy, Guillot, Océane, Faou, Erwan, Noûs, Camille, Ibanez, Sébastien

“…Consumers could either forage randomly, only as a function of resources abundance, or plastically, as a function of resource abundance, suitability and consumption by competitors. PF evolved when the niche breadth of consumers with respect to resource use was large enough and when the ecological conditions allowed substantial functional diversification. …”
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Exploring resistance factors on the usage of hospital information systems from the perspective of the Markus’s Model and the Technology Acceptance Model by Çiğdem Sıcakyüz, Oya Hacire Yüregir

“…Therefore, through its committed personnel, the hospital could sustainably compete with its competitors in the market and make more profit.…”
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Evaluation of Proteins Released to Medium in Yeast-Bacteria Co-culture System by Çağatay Tarhan, Ayşegül Yanık

“…Cultivation of microorganisms in ideal laboratory conditions seperates them from their natural conditions and isolates them from their microbial world, especially from their competitors. With traditional pure culture-oriented cultuvation techniques, interactions mediated by small molecules are not taken into account, resulting in the precise nature of the interactions being largely unknown. …”
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Explaining the geopolitical role of the city by Hasan Kamran Dastjerdi, Marjan Badiee Azandehie, Yashar Zaki, Abbas ahmadi, Narjessadat hossainy nasrabady

“…No urban point in the world can rely on maintaining its traditional role in the urban hierarchy, as other urban areas compete in a network structure with other cities in order to enhance their position on the network and overcome other competitors. In contemporary cities, forces, activists, and urban actors face a different role in their political, economic, social, and cultural domains, with a view to their modern and highly sensitive interests, and therefore competition between the positive and the negative ones It has emerged or is underway. …”
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Experimental Ethics and Kantian Deontology by Vadim A. Chaly

“…It is difficult to expect that such claims will remain without objections and without competitors based on different extra-theoretical standards. …”
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Wae Bobok Tourism Potential: Mapping a Destination in West Manggarai, East Nusa Tenggara by L. K. Herindiyah Kartika Yuni, I Wayan Kartimin

“…Opportunities: position, special segment, local support, but the existence of competitors and Prone to natural disasters and flooding is a threat to Wae Bobok.…”
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Research on Enterprise Competitive Information Management Based on Co-Occurrence Analysis by Peng Wu, Ran Feng

“…Non-Jaccard data and Jaccard data are compared with examples of Chinese representative banks based on new methods of URL co-occurrence analysis, and competitive information research of enterprises is conducted in the multidimensional scaling method and social network analysis method; and comprehensive exploration and analysis are conducted from multiperspectives such as gradient grading analysis, recognition of main competitors, and competitive landscape analysis of fine grit. …”
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Entrepreneurial Behaviour and the Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises in South-West, Nigeria by Nafiu Badiru

“…By doing so, they can develop more innovative products and services, outperform competitors, improve output, and retain customers in their operating sector. …”
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Electrooxidation and Development of a Highly Sensitive Electrochemical Probe for Trace Determination of the Steroid 11-Desoxycorticosterone Drug Residues in Water by Wejdan T. Alsaggaf, Mohammad S. El-Shahawi

“…Anabolic-androgenic steroids (AASs), a class of compounds frequently misused by competitors and unfortunately by the general population, have lately attracted international attention. …”
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The Impact of Digital Technologies on Leadership in Global Processes: from Platforms to Markets? by I. V. Danilin

“…It is doubtful that potential competitors from third nations may ever destroy this duopoly. …”
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THE U.S. QUEST FOR NEW TECHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF MILITARY SUPERIORITY: DILEMMAS OF THE THIRD OFFSET STRATEGY by V. I. Bartenev

“…Fourth, the TOS is likely to contain a disinformation component and aim at dragging the peer competitors of the U.S. into an exhaustive arms race.…”
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Rapid life-history evolution reinforces competitive asymmetry between invasive and resident species by Chapuis, Elodie, Jarne, Philippe, David, Patrice

“…Biological invasions by phylogenetically and ecologically similar competitors pose an evolutionary challenge to native species. …”
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Competitive strategies of differentiation and cost minimization by O. Mikhailov

“…Cost leadership strategy focuses on getting advantages by reducing cost below analogies of all competitors. It is unsufficient the single of cost minimization in the international competing, it is necessary the complex and creative decision of the compound problems, associated with differentiation of products and services.Product differentiation is a business strategy, whereby firms attempt to gain a competitive advantage by increasing the perceived value of their products/services relative to perceived value the other products/services firms; with recording dissatisfied inquiring the customers. …”
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UX-MAPPER: An automated approach to analyze app store reviews with a focus on UX by Walter T. Nakamura, Edson C. C. de Oliveira, Elaine H. T. de Oliveira, Tayana Conte

“…In this competitive scenario, User eXperience (UX) has emerged as an essential factor in standing out from competitors. By understanding what factors affect UX, practitioners could focus on factors that lead to positive UX while mitigating those that affect UX negatively. …”
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CONCERNING CORRELATION BETWEEN METHODOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY IN PEDAGOGICAL RESEARCH by Vladimir I. Zagvyazinsky

“…The purpose of the paper is the continuation of a cycle of the methodological articles, called to help work of young researchers.The general dissatisfaction with quality and results of research work in an education sphere and pedagogics has been largely caused not only insufficient level of methodological culture of competitors of scientific degrees and researchers-experts, but also their inability to choose a work technology of procedure of research that will be adequate to the purposes, problems and a plan of it. …”
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Impact of tire particle leachates on microplankton communities in the Canary Islands by Marta Sampalo, May Gómez, Rodrigo Almeda

“…The higher tolerance of O. cf. ovata to pollution compared to other phytoplankton species (resource competitors), in combination with other factors, may contribute to the rise of HABs in polluted coastal areas. …”
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Leadership and Nigeria's Regional Hegemonic Quest in Africa: A Critical Discus by GAMBO Nanven Audu, PULDU Samdi Gloria, KUMS Simon Nankap

“…The international political system experienced an unprecedented and remarkable shift from a United States (US) led unipolar global order to a fresh wave or emergence of multiple competitors. This changed global context has led to continuing interest in (and increasing research focus on) regions, regional order and regional powers in terms of their roles (with other regional/state actors) in the international system. …”
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Temporal habitat partitioning and resource competition between congenerics: Testing for density-dependent growth and mortality in estuarine shrimp. by Robert P Dunn, Matthew E Kimball, Bruce W Pfirrmann, Andrew S Bruck, Willa M Lane

“…Habitat partitioning can promote coexistence of closely related competitors. Two congeneric shrimps (brown shrimp, Penaeus aztecus, and white shrimp, Penaeus setiferus) which utilize estuaries in the southeastern U.S. temporally partition much of their nursery habitat occupancy but also experience a period of overlap at the respective tails of their nursery residency. …”
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Forensic characteristics of the offender who committed a criminal offence under Article 206-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine by S. V. Stetsenko

“…It has been noted that the purpose of the criminal offences under study is the unlawful seizure of property of an enterprise, institution or organisation through transactions for mercenary, economic, consumer motives, as well as for the purpose of eliminating competitors.…”
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