Problems of Small and Medium Business in Germany by B. E. Zaritskiy

“…The Total Early-Stage Entrepreneurial Activity Index (TEA-Quote) puts Germany far behind its competitors. For several consecutive years the number of liquidated small and medium enterprises has been higher than that of newly created ones. …”
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Semantic Features-Based Discourse Analysis Using Deceptive and Real Text Reviews by Husam M. Alawadh, Amerah Alabrah, Talha Meraj, Hafiz Tayyab Rauf

“…Scammers leave deceptive reviews regarding services they never received, or inject fake promotions or fake feedback to lower the ranking of competitors. These malicious attacks will only increase in the future and will become a serious problem not only for merchants but also for hotel customers. …”
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Models, systems, networks in economics, engineering, nature and society by E.M. Bizhanova, V.M. Myskin, L.N. Semerkova

“…It is concluded that knowledge of the specifics of interaction between innovative industrial automation market participants will increase the efficiency of the developer company and will also help to form its distinctive market advantages that will allow the company to stand out from its competitors.…”

Silver nanoparticles immobilized on crosslinked vinyl polymer for catalytic reduction of nitrophenol: experimental and computational studies by Elsayed Elbayoumy, Ashraf A. El-Bindary, Tamaki Nakano, Mohamed M. Aboelnga

“…In addition, Ag/poly(DVB) catalyst regards as one of the most active catalyst that exhibits an advantage over the other catalysts showing similar activities in the aspects that it can be more readily prepared than the competitors and that it works at the lowest concentration of NaBH4. …”
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Models, systems, networks in economics, engineering, nature and society by S.V. Zinchenko

“…The quality of customer experience and the organization’s position among competitors depend on the effectiveness of logistics management at the last mile stage, which determines the relevance of this research. …”

Analysis of the Effect of Social Capital on Brand Performance with the Mediating Role of Employees’ Brand Citizenship Behavior by Naser Seifollahi

“…In case of further expansion of social capital and brand citizenship behavior in companies producing dairy products, it can be expected that the performance of the brand will be strengthened and lead to the creation of a sustainable competitive advantage over competitors in the field of further expansion of social capital and brand citizenship behavior. …”
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A novel graph neural network based approach for influenza-like illness nowcasting: exploring the interplay of temporal, geographical, and functional spatial features by Jiajia Luo, Xuan Wang, Xiaomao Fan, Yuxin He, Xiangjun Du, Yao-Qing Chen, Yang Zhao

“…Notably, our approach exhibits excellent capability in accurately and timely capturing short-term influenza outbreaks during the flu season, outperforming competitors across all evaluation metrics. Conclusion The incorporation of dual topology processing and the subsequent fusion mechanism allows the model to explore in-depth spatiotemporal feature interactions. …”
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The development of a kinetic biotic ligand model to predict acute toxicity of Gadolinium for Daphnia magna by Marion Revel, Qiao-Guo Tan, Andrew Hursthouse, Susanne Heise

“…The outcome revealed that three major cations (potassium, magnesium, and calcium) act as strong competitors. The model was successfully validated in the presence of organic matter and in the majority of surface freshwater samples (9 out of 13 samples). …”
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CAUSES OF COLLUSION AMONG PEOPLE IN CONSTRUCTION by Ayodeji OKE, Clinton AIGVABOA, Zacharia Mangena, Wellington THWALA

“…This study examined the influences of this practice among competitors and stakeholders in the construction industry. …”
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A benchmark of deep learning approaches to predict lung cancer risk using national lung screening trial cohort by Yifan Jiang, Leyla Ebrahimpour, Philippe Després, Venkata SK. Manem

“…Both 2D and 3D deep learning models can handle lung cancer risk prediction tasks effectively, although 3D models generally have superior performance than their 2D competitors. Our findings highlight the importance of carefully selecting pretrained datasets and model architectures for lung cancer risk prediction. …”
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Niche markets for sustainable agri-food systems: A systematic review by Kehinde Oluseyi Olagunju, Simone Angioloni, Maurizio Canavari

“…Firstly, niche markets provide financial incentives to encourage farmers to adopt environmentally friendly practices by increasing the price premiums and limiting competitors' market access. Secondly, niche markets facilitate partnerships and networks that enable sharing know-how and best practices, reducing the high cost of transitioning to sustainable production systems. …”
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THE DESIRE FOR RECOGNITION IN THE CONTEXT OF FRANCIS FUKUYAMA’S UNIVERSAL HISTORY by T. V. Danylova

“…But so far the idea of liberal democracy has no real competitors.…”
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Muslim Bank as a Historical Category: Creating Credit Institutions for Muslims In the First Half of the 20 ^th Century by R. I. Bekkin

“…The article emphasizes that Muslim banks in their activities relied on the theological and legal conclusions (fatwas) of Islamic scholars who considered such activities legitimate and not falling under the Quranic concept of usury.The author adheres to the point of view that the creation of an independent state or nationalterritorial / national-cultural autonomy of Muslims was a natural result of the struggle of the Muslim bourgeoisie with competitors for the markets for goods and services in a number of countries and regions, considering both Muslim and Islamic banks only as a certain stage in the development of banking in a number of countries in Asia, Africa and Europe.The article disputes the idea that both Islamic banks and the Islamic economic model as a whole are monolithic structures that cannot be modified. …”
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A meta-analysis of the impact of TOE adoption on smart agriculture SMEs performance. by Adrian Nagy, Johan Tumiwa, Fitty Arie, Erdey László, Anas Ratib Alsoud, Main Al-Dalahmeh

“…<h4>Research implication</h4>TOE adoption improves access to information about competitors and customers, providing practitioners and decision-makers with a clearer understanding. …”
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SFSCDNet: A Deep Learning Model With Spatial Flow-Based Semantic Change Detection From Bi-Temporal Satellite Images by K. S. Basavaraju, N. Sravya, Vibha Damodara Kevala, Shilpa Suresh, Shyam Lal

“…Notably, the proposed network achieves these results with only 14.56 million parameters, making it more effective and efficient than its competitors, which utilize over 22 million parameters.…”
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Inhibition and evasion of neutrophil microbicidal responses by Legionella longbeachae by Hannah E. Hanford, Christopher T. D. Price, Silvia Uriarte, Yousef Abu Kwaik

“…Collectively, we conclude that L. longbeachae evades restriction by human neutrophils via T4SS-independent mechanisms and utilizes trans-acting T4SS-dependent mechanisms for inhibition of neutrophil ROS generation throughout the cell cytosol.IMPORTANCELegionella longbeachae is commonly found in soil environments where it interacts with a wide variety of protist hosts and microbial competitors. Upon transmission to humans, L. longbeachae invades and replicates within alveolar macrophages, leading to the manifestation of pneumonia. …”
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Effects of Marketing Strategies on the Performance of Tourism and Hospitality Enterprises in Uganda: Case Study of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. by Asiimwe, Dennis

“…There is a need to clearly communicate the unique features and experiences that set the tourism destination, hotel, or service apart from competitors.…”
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Beyond variance: simple random distributions are not a good proxy for intraspecific variability in systems with environmental structure by Girard-Tercieux, Camille, Vieilledent, Ghislain, Clark, Adam, Clark, James S., Courbaud, Benoit, Fortunel, Claire, Kunstler, Georges, Pélissier, Raphaël, Rüger, Nadja, Maréchaux, Isabelle

“…This is because unstructured random noise can either limit the competitive exclusion of inferior competitors in low dimensions or destabilise tight niche partitioning in high dimension. …”
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The university brand as a factor in attracting applicants by I. I. Cherkasova, V. V. Cherkasov, A. V. Cherkasov

“…The developed model of the brand personality of Russian univer­sities and the adapted methodology of its assessment can be used by universities to obtain feedback, to compare the characteristics of the brand by its developers and features of its perception by the target audience, as well as to compare themselves with competitors. This, in turn, will make it possible to develop marketing strategy for attracting talented applicants.…”
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The Contract for the Construction of Ocean Liners MS “Piłsudski” and MS “Batory” of 29 November 1933 by Jarosław Drozd

“…Unfavourable operating results and the economic crisis of 1931–1932 meant that PTTO, like other Polish shipping companies with outdated ships unable to compete with foreign competitors, was forced to replace its ships with modern ones - the fastest and cheapest in operation. …”
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