22 January 2020
Consumer environmental awareness (CEA) can affect green consumption decisions in different and confusing ways. In order to explain the reasons for these divergences, this study divides CEA into two main components: the subjective effect and the socia...
Export competitiveness is an important factor for national development and economic growth. The craft product market is one of the commodities with high growing value. Thus, many craft product companies are encouraged to export their products to fore...
The proliferation of counterfeit products poses a substantial threat to numerous industries. Blockchain technology (BCT) offers an effective solution for product traceability, providing a means to combat counterfeiting. However, BCT can verify the au...
The dynamic optimization of the closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) is a hot research topic. Members’ competitive behavior and product goodwill play an important role in the decision making of CLSC members. In this paper, a closed-loop supply chain...
We proposed an active differential intensity (DI) fiber coupled plasmon waveguide resonance (CPWR) sensor based on the mode competition effect in the C-band, aiming to enhance the sensitivity. The sensing head is a fiber probe with a sensing layer of...
Due to the unique market context and consumer differences, Porter’s generic competitive strategy has often failed in China. This study examined the impacts of managerial factors on performance by using the company brand as an indicator of perfo...
The wind farm layout optimization problem (WFLOP) aims to maximize wind energy utilization efficiency under different wind conditions by optimizing the spatial layout of wind turbines to fully mitigate energy losses caused by wake effects. Some high-...
The growing religious diversity in Brazil has more to do with a differentiation process within Pentecostalism itself than with the presence of very diverse religious groups. Starting with the analysis of such differentiation process, the article aims...
Little is known about the competition between and niche differentiation of water and nutrients between angiosperm and gymnosperm tree species under prolonged drought stress, especially in fragile environments. We imposed 21 d drought and competition...
We construct a Stackelberg differential game model in which industries with varying degrees of market rivalry are the followers, and the government is the leader, describing their long-term dynamic optimal decision-making behaviors, and we research h...
In this paper, we provide a welfare ranking for the equilibria of the supply function and quantity competitions in a differentiated product duopoly with demand uncertainty. We prove that the expected consumer surplus is always higher under the supply...
The main aim of this paper is to show the extent to which environmental proactivity is able to generate competitive advantages in a firm in order to improve their economic-financial performance by introducing the role of managerial perception into th...
This study aims to analyze the differentiation strategies developed by sectoral brands in the global wine industry and how these strategies interrelate. A sectoral brand is defined as having a distinctive brand name accompanied by a visual identity,...
The acceleration of environmental problems has put firms under high pressure to assume their social and environmental responsibility. This study aims to investigate the links between proactive environmental strategy, competitive advantages and firm p...
The comparative analysis of the feeding ecology among sympatric small carnivores reveals both differentiation and overlap in resource utilization patterns, which serves as a critical pathway for understanding interspecific interactions and maintainin...
In this article, I address the evolution of the competition between two Latin patterns, habeo and mihi est, in Romanian. As opposed to the other Romance languages, which replace the mihi est pattern with habeo in possessor and experiencer contexts, R...
Since the China State Grid opened the market for infrastructure construction of electric charging stations and allowed Tesla, Potevio, BAIC BJEV and other enterprises to provide their own charging stations and other infrastructure construction, the d...
In the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, uneven-aged stands of fir and beech are very important from the economic and ecological points of view. A major lack of information on the simple structure of stands is that it cannot be used to draw valid...
Understanding invasion mechanisms or identifying their potential outcomes has been a longstanding objective of invasion. Many recent empirical and theoretical works tend to frame a perspective of invasion biology within the field of coexistence theor...
Over-the-Air updates have emerged as a critical competitive frontier in the Software-Defined Vehicle era. While offering value creation opportunities, automakers face strategic uncertainty regarding pricing models (e.g., subscription vs. one-time pur...
The demand for environmental labels is increasingly becoming important for consumers to differentiate products and to make an informed choice. This study reports the findings of a business case study in Nova Scotia (Canada) that demonstrates how rene...
Spain’s olive oil production is world-leading. A significant portion of Spain’s olive oil production is in Andalusia, a southern region. In the Estepa region, a local agri-food system based on olive monoculture is emerging. Furthermore, p...
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in economic and development growth, particularly in developing countries. Their success depends on the expansion of their markets across borders, based on the strategies adopted, in whi...
With the global challenge of climate change, it becomes crucial to understand the factors that can guide carbon intensive companies to comply with environmental regulations through significant reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Using the n...
This study investigated how encoding strength and consolidation shape proactive interference (PI) in associative memory. Using a Modified Modified Free Recall (MMFR) paradigm, participants studied overlapping (A-B, A-C) and non-overlapping (E-F, G-H)...
To provide a scientific basis and technical support for agroforestry management practices, such as interrow configuration and soil water and fertilizer management, a stratified excavation method was performed both to explore the fine-root spatial dis...
Prescriptive learning is gradually gaining the attention of various industries in Nigeria, particularly on the issues and concerns surrounding sustainability. The existing literature shows that Nigerian pharmaceutical firms have not provided adequate...
In the fiercely competitive sharing market, manufacturers have launched product sharing/leasing services through business-to-customer (B2C) and peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms. To reduce the channel conflicts caused by product sharing, manufacturers exp...
In the search for causes and cures of cancer diseases, many mathematical models developed have resulted in systems of nonlinear stiff ordinary differential equations. With these models, many numerical estimates of biological knowledge of the paramete...
In a vertical differentiation model, we study a market where consumers, depending on their level of environmental consciousness, value the greenness of the product they consume and are distributed according to a Kumaraswamy distribution. Three scenar...
The origin of differences in traits influencing competitive success between invasive and native wild populations of alien species is subject of debate. Herbarium-based information sources from 2005 onwards about nativity and distributional range of P...
Organic agriculture is a production system based on environmentally friendly practices that promote the conservation of natural resources, biodiversity, and the production of high-quality food. Its tenets are linked to the concept of sustainable deve...
Two insurance companies I 1 , I 2 with reserves R 1 ( t ) , R 2 ( t ) compete for customers, such that in a suitable differential game the smaller company I 2 with R 2 ( 0 ) < R 1 ( 0 ) aims at m...
Differential evolution (DE) is one of the most popular and widely used optimizers among the community of evolutionary computation. Despite numerous works having been conducted on the improvement of DE performance, there are still some defects, such a...
This research focuses on the analysis of the competitive model used in the banking sector based on the stochastic fractional differential equation. For the approximate solution, a pseudospectral technique is utilized for the proposed model based on t...
21 August 2020
Did the diesel scandal of 2015 affect the market for cars? We consider this question in relation to Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Starting with historical registration data of cars with different drivetrain technologies, we considered each techn...
A numerical procedure capable of obtaining the equilibrium states of oligopoly markets under several assumptions is presented. Horizontal and vertical product differentiation were included by taking into account Euclidean distance in a two-dimensiona...
Classical swine fever can be controlled effectively by vaccination with C-strain vaccine. In this study, we developed a novel competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (cELISA) based on a C-strain Erns specific monoclonal antibody (mAb 1504), aim...
Similar to the number of agricultural cooperatives in the European Union, the number of German wine cooperatives is decreasing. The main purpose of the wine cooperatives is to support the member businesses with the highest possible payouts for their...
The Wind Farm Layout Optimization Problem (WFLOP) aims to improve wind energy utilization and reduce wake-induced power losses through optimal placement of wind turbines. Genetic Algorithms (GAs) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) have been widely...
To achieve a rapid and accurate estimation of the soil organic matter (SOM) content in wetland soil, we focused on surface soil samples from the Xianshan Lake wetland area in Zhejiang Province and proposed a novel method called Marine-Predators-Algor...
The wind farm layout optimization problem (WFLOP) aims to maximize wind energy utilization efficiency and mitigate energy losses caused by wake effects by optimizing the spatial layout of wind turbines. Although Genetic Algorithms (GAs) and Particle...
We develop a comprehensive dynamic Walrasian framework entirely in L∞ so that prices and allocations are essentially bounded, and market clearing holds pointwise almost everywhere. Utilities are allowed to be locally Lipschitz and quasi-concave...
Nowadays, in such a competitive business environment, under the pursuit of high quality and high standards, every enterprise has clearly realized that the quality of products is directly related to the interests of the enterprise, the development of...
The Leaf Area Index (LAI) is a key indicator for assessing fruit tree growth and productivity, and accurate estimation using hyperspectral technology is essential for monitoring plant health. This study aimed to improve LAI estimation accuracy in apr...
Rumen acidosis is a widespread digestive disorder in livestock, causing inflammation and lowering animal performance. Unraveling its molecular mechanisms is vital for improving cattle health and welfare. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are noncoding RNAs fu...
According to the traditional theory of industrial organizations, differentiated competition leads to higher returns. However, Chinese eCommerce platforms tend to homogenize in the choice of operational strategies, which deviates from the principle of...
Paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) is currently an invasive species on several continents. However, little is known about whether paper mulberry has a competitive advantage over its surrounding trees in its native distribution range, subtropica...
Background: Evidence on how physical and technical factors distinguish U-18 basketball levels is limited, yet these determinants may aid talent identification and development. This study examined differences in anthropometric, physical performance, a...
Over the past decade, return freight insurance (RFI) and return pickup services (RPSs) have emerged as dominant return service strategies in e-commerce, particularly in China’s competitive online retail market. Despite their prominence, the str...
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