Competition Juries as Intercultural Spaces by Carmela Cucuzzella

“…From the construction of the brief to the selection of the winning project, competitions are exemplary platforms for communicating design values. For example, competitor project proposals, which comprise many qualities, including constructive, material, and even political, represent the priorities of each design team, in the form of a place. …”
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HIGHER EDUCATION MARKET SEGMENTATION by Boris Marjanović, Marino Učeta

“…The market is open and every foreign higher education institution is a serious competitor to the domestic ones in the Republic of Croatia. …”
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Wildland Weeds: Paragrass, Urochloa mutica by L. T. Markle, Brent A. Sellers, William A. Overholt

“…It is an extremely aggressive competitor that can displace many shoreline emergent plants and plants in cultivated or disturbed sites associated with moist soil. …”
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Wildland Weeds: Paragrass, Urochloa mutica by L. T. Markle, Brent A. Sellers, William A. Overholt

“…It is an extremely aggressive competitor that can displace many shoreline emergent plants and plants in cultivated or disturbed sites associated with moist soil. …”
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Pemanfaatan Instagram Sebagai Media Komunikasi Pemasaran Pariwisata Malino di Kabupaten Gowa, Sulawesi Selatan by Yulia Permatasari, M. Iqbal Sultan, Muhammad Akbar, Andi Subhan Amir

“…The results showed that the utilization of Instagram as a marketing communication medium for Malino tourist destinations, using an endorsement system, sale promotion, brand building, competitor review, and consistent interaction with followers proved effective in increasing tourist visits to Malino.…”
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Machine learning in medicine: what clinicians should know by Jordan Zheng Ting Sim, Qi Wei Fong, Weimin Huang, Cher Heng Tan

“…Therefore, physicians should acquaint themselves with ML and AI, and their role as an enabler rather than a competitor. Herein, we introduce basic concepts and terms used in AI and ML, and aim to demystify commonly used AI/ML algorithms such as learning methods including neural networks/deep learning, decision tree and application domain in computer vision and natural language processing through specific examples. …”
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Dynamics of two phytoplankton populations under predation by Jean-Jacques Kengwoung-Keumo

“…The autotoxicity assumption is ecologically explained by the fact that the toxin-producing phytoplankton is not mature enough to produce toxins that will affect the growth of its nontoxic competitor. We show that, in the absence of phytotoxic interactions and nutrient recycling, our model exhibits uniform persistence. …”
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Commitment Decisions: Is the Sky the Limit? - Commentary to Judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 15 September 2016, Case T-76/14, Morningstar, Inc. v European Commissi... by Rita Leandro Vasconcelos

“…With regard to standing, the General Court ruled the appeal lodged by a competitor admissible. As for substance, the General Court generally confirmed the previous case law. …”
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Mediasi employer branding pada pengaruh employee’s perceived job terhadap employee engagement by Suci Fika Widyana, Ali Mohamad Rezza, Angga Dewi Anggraeni, Bheben Oscar

“…The company is expected to improve organizational performance and reclaim their marketshare from competitor. The purpose of this study was to analyze the increase in employee engagement through employee perceived work through employer branding mediation at one delivery service company X in Bandung. …”
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Motion Deblurring in Image Color Enhancement by WGAN by Jiangfan Feng, Shuang Qi

“…Also, its image processing speed is approximately 1.75 times faster than the best competitor.…”
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Trend Analysis of Pakistan Railways Based on Industry Life Cycle Theory by Li Xuemei, Khalid Mehmood Alam, Shitong Wang

“…The main reasons behind the decline were underinvestment, political interference, and the rise of the same-sector competitor, the National Logistics Cell (NLC). From the year 2011, it experienced an upward trend of combined utility curve and showed a new round of industry life cycle. …”
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Crocodile optimization algorithm for solving real-world optimization problems by Fu Yan, Jin Zhang, Jianqiang Yang

“…The performance of the proposed COA is validated by comparing it with other competitor algorithms on 29 standard test functions and 5 real-world engineering optimization problems. …”
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Trait and plasticity evolution under competition and mutualism in evolving pairwise yeast communities. by ShengPei Wang, Renuka Agarwal, Kari A Segraves, David M Althoff

“…We quantified evolutionary changes in growth rate, resource use efficiency (RUE), and their plasticity in strains evolving alone, with a competitor, and with a mutualist. Compared to their ancestors, strains evolving alone had lower RUE and RUE plasticity. …”
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Vertical Line Extension Decisions in a Competitive Market with Consumers’ Need for Product Uniqueness by Jie Wang, Qin Su, Canyou Wang

“…We also analyse the low-quality firm’s extension decisions when it faces a high-end competitor and find that the low-quality firm may change from introducing a downward extension to introducing an upward extension when intrafirm quality differentiation is small.…”
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ANNULMENT OF A TRADEMARK FOR BAD FAITH by Roxana CATEA

“…Unfortunately, in several scenarios, the band name is already taken, either by an aggressive competitor or by a „well-intended” contractual partner. …”
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Bubaludicus: games and playfulness for the buffalo promotion by Ricardo Alexandre Silva Pessoa

“…An important feature associated with the memory game was the competitor’s familiarization with the “figure” of the buffalo, distinguishing it from Bison bison and Cyncerus caffer. …”
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Targeting heparan sulfate proteoglycans as an effective strategy for inhibiting cancer cell migration and invasiveness compared to heparin by Lorenzo Depau, Jlenia Brunetti, Chiara Falciani, Elisabetta Mandarini, Marta Zanchi, Maria Francesca Paolocci, Marta Garfì, Alessandro Pini, Luisa Bracci

“…We exploited our anti-heparan sulfate branched peptide NT4 to test the opposite approach, namely, targeting HSPGs to interfere with their functions, instead of using heparin as a soluble competitor in human cell lines from pancreas adenocarcinoma, colon adenocarcinoma, rhabdomyosarcoma and two different breast cancers. …”
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Competition between a nonallelopathic phytoplankton and an allelopathic phytoplankton species under predation by Jean-Jacques Kengwoung-Keumo

“…The model also allows allelopathic effects of one toxin-producingspecies, both on itself (autotoxicity) and on its nontoxic competitor(phytotoxicity). We show that a stable coexistence equilibrium exists as long as (a) there are allelopathic effects and (b) the input nutrient concentration is above a critical value. …”
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From Concept to Creation by Maricica STOICA, Carmelia Mariana BĂLĂNICĂ-DRAGOMIR, Cezar Ionuț BICHESCU, Alina Mihaela CEOROMILA, Angela Stela IVAN, Larisa ȘAVGA, Dimitrie STOICA

“…External sources, including market analysis, competitor monitoring, and participation in trade exhibitions, contribute to the identification of trends and opportunities for innovation. …”
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Taba Binary, Multinomial, and Ordinal Regression Models: New Machine Learning Methods for Classification by Mohammad Tabatabai, Derek Wilus, Chau-Kuang Chen, Karan P. Singh, Tim L. Wallace

“…The results using cirrhosis data revealed that the Taba regression model could be a competitor to other classification models based on the true positive rate, F-score, accuracy, and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC). …”
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