The effect of the prolonged competitive season on semi-elite female volleyball players’ physical performance by Mustafa Karahan

“…Despite the literature on the changes in the physical performance characteristics of elite female athletes during the competition period, up to this date, there was no study of the physical performances of both the aerobic and anaerobic contented of the semi- elite female volleyball players over the competitive season. …”
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The Soviet and Russian Energy Industry as Objects of Western Sanctions: Political Rivalry or Economic Competition by Y. V. Borovsky

“…The author tries to answer two research questions: what provokes such a policy of the West: political rivalry or economic competition? Has the West changed its attitude to the Russian energy industry after the end of the Cold war? …”
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Nanobody-based indirect competitive ELISA for the detection of aflatoxin M1 in dairy products by Li Yi, Haiyuan Liu, Yingda Liu, Aiyisi, Jing He, Liang Ming, Jirimutu

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Competition between Heisenberg and bond-dependent interactions driven an incommensurate ordering in honeycomb cobaltates by Maryam Ghafari-Mofrad, Hamid Mosadeq, Mohammad-Hossein Zare

“…Our results show that the interplay between the second neighbor Heisenberg interaction and bond-dependent exchange interactions play a vital role in the stability of incommensurate phases. The competition between the second nearest nearest-neighbor interaction and the off-diagonal bond-directional exchange for  may place this material in proximity to a quantum spin liquid phase. …”
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Asthma and Asthma Medication Are Common among Recreational Athletes Participating in Endurance Sport Competitions by Amanda Näsman, Tommie Irewall, Ulf Hållmarker, Anne Lindberg, Nikolai Stenfors

“…Asthma prevalence is high among elite endurance athletes, but little is known about its prevalence among competitive recreational athletes. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of self-reported asthma and asthma medication use among competitive recreational endurance athletes and their association with training. …”
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Does Socioemotional Wealth Matter for Competitive Advantage? A Case of Polish Family Businesses by Katarzyna Bratnicka-Myśliwiec, Martyna Wronka-Pośpiech, Tomasz Ingram

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HYEI: A New Hybrid Evolutionary Imperialist Competitive Algorithm for Fuzzy Knowledge Discovery by D. Jalal Nouri, M. Saniee Abadeh, F. Ghareh Mohammadi

“…In recent years, imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA), genetic algorithm (GA), and hybrid fuzzy classification systems have been successfully and effectively employed for classification tasks of data mining. …”
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Existence and global stability of positive periodic solutions of a discrete delay competition system by Hai-Feng Huo, Wan-Tong Li

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CanKiwi: A Mechanistic Competition Model of Kiwifruit Bacterial Canker Disease Dynamics by Oussama Hadj Abdelkader, Hadjer Bouzebiba, Miguel G. Santos, Danilo Pena, António Pedro Aguiar, Susana M. P. Carvalho

“…The third part of the model is the carbon dynamics described by a mass conservation formula which computes the remaining amount of carbon available for competition. The model was validated by comparing simulations with experimental results obtained from growth chambers. …”
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The Platform Economy: New Competition Rules — Renaissance of Antitrust Control of the Abuse of Market Power by Justus Haucap

“…Hence, there are good reasons for a strengthening of competition law, as now planned with Germany’s competition law reform. …”
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MANAGEMENT OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES IN CONFECTIONERY INDUSTRY ENTERPRISES: A CASE STUDY OF SLOVAKIA AND UKRAINE by Nataliia Parkhomenko, Lucia Vilčeková, Peter Štarchoň

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Competitive Coexistence in a Two-Strain Epidemic Model with a Periodic Infection Rate by Chentong Li, Yingying Zhang, Yicang Zhou

“…The positivity and boundedness of solutions are established, and the competitive exclusion conditions are given for the model. …”
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Invasion entire solutions in a time periodic Lotka-Volterra competition system with diffusion by Li-Jun Du, Wan-Tong Li, Jia-Bing Wang

“…This paper is concerned with invasion entire solutions of a monostable time periodic Lotka-Volterra competition-diffusion system. We first give the asymptotic behaviors of time periodic traveling wave solutions at infinity by a dynamical approach coupled with the two-sided Laplace transform. …”
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Handball practice on bone health of female adolescents: evaluation of an eight-month competitive period by Tathyane Krahenbühl, Juliano Henrique Borges, Gil Guerra-Júnior, Antonio de Azevedo Barros Filho, Ezequiel Moreira Gonçalves

“…The results showed that after eight-month competitive handball period, there was an increase in BMD of total body for handball players. …”
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Information technology adoption for service innovation practices and competitive advantage: the case of financial firms by J.S. Chen, H.T. Tsou

“…This paper aims to broaden understanding about service innovation as a critical organizational capability through which information technology adoption influences the competitive advantage of a firm. In the context of financial firms, this study examines how information technology is adopted and managed to enhance service innovation practices and whether and how service innovation practices may influence the competitive advantage of firms. …”
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Stochastically Ultimate Boundedness and Global Attraction of Positive Solution for a Stochastic Competitive System by Shengliang Guo, Zhijun Liu, Huili Xiang

“…A stochastic competitive system is investigated. We first show that the positive solution of the above system does not explode to infinity in a finite time, and the existence and uniqueness of positive solution are discussed. …”
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Du sexe au genre ou de la complémentarité à la compétition by Roberte Hamayon

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Targeted Sanctions: a Tool of Foreign Policy, Unfair Competition or Global Social Engineering? by L. L. Fituni

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Agri-food competitiveness in the Andean Community: a study of revealed comparative advantage indices by Rubén Francisco Llerena Tapia, Gianella Alexa Beraun Alegre, Britaly Briggete Carrasco Garcia, Carlos Barja Otero, Miguel Alexander Flores Lamas, Julio Ricardo Moscoso Cuaresma

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ANALYSIS OF THE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE SUSTAINABILITY FACTORS BASED ON THE KEY COMPETENCIES OF AN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING ENTERPRISE by S. B. Moiseev

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