Theory predicts that sympatric predators compete for food under conditions of limited resources. Competition would occur even within the same species, between neighboring populations, because of overlapping foraging habits. Thus, neighboring populati...
Considering the harvesting of prey and stocking of predator impulsively at different fixed moments of time, this paper studies the dynamics of a seasonally competitive m-prey and n-predator impulsive system, which is focused more specifically in four...
Many monoculture forests have been converted to mixed-species forests in Europe over the last decades. The main reasons for this conversion were probably to increase productivity, including timber production, and enhance other ecosystem services, suc...
In extensive livestock production, high densities may inhibit regulation processes, maintaining high levels of intraspecific competition over time. During competition, individuals typically modify their behaviours, particularly feeding and bite rates...
Investigating the neural mechanisms underlying both cooperative and competitive joint actions may have a wide impact in many social contexts of human daily life. An effective pipeline of analysis for hyperscanning data recorded in a naturalistic cont...
Species coexistence is a major issue in ecology. We disentangled the role of individual interference when competing in the classical interference competition model. For the first time, we considered simultaneously intra- and inter-species interferenc...
(1,2) In this theoretical study, we apply MesoFON, a field-calibrated individual-based model of mangrove forest dynamics, and its Lotka–Volterra interpretations to address two questions: (a) Do the dynamics of two identical red mangrove species that...
Agricultural trade is the foundation of world trade and an important link in economic and trade relations between countries or regions. Exploring the competitiveness and complementarity of the agricultural trade between China and the Association of S...
To realize economic and social sustainability, it is necessary to avoid economic injustice and therefore too unequal a distribution of income and wealth. In this paper we investigate the extent to which oligopolies contribute to an unequal income dis...
Restaurants are increasingly providing both dine-in and delivery services through online delivery platforms, yet how this prevalent strategy is affected by heterogeneous network externalities under competition remains understudied. This paper examine...
Notational analysis (NA) systems are regularly used to quantify sports performance but have not been adopted in competitive skateboarding. In this study, we aimed to develop an NA application to quantify outcome-related aspects of skateboarding judgi...
The aim of the study is to investigate the influence of the capitalist spirit in conjunction with the distribution of income on economic growth. The capitalist spirit is represented by the fact that savings rates increase with increasing relative inc...
The type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a widely distributed molecular apparatus found in most Gram-negative bacteria. Studies show that T6SSs have functions in bacterial virulence, inter- and intra-bacterial competition, and environmental adaptation....
Plant invasion has severely damaged ecosystem stability and species diversity worldwide. The cooperation between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and plant roots is often affected by changes in the external environment. Exogenous phosphorus (P) add...
A competitive smart tourism city can be a solution for building resilience to address current and future crises and even be a booster of the economic effects of tourism, since it has an economic ripple effect both inside and outside of the city. This...
Despite the great development of match analysis in professional soccer during the last decade, very few studies have assessed the individual technical and tactical behaviors of youth soccer players. The purpose of this paper was to design and assess...
Vehicle re-identification holds great significance for intelligent transportation and public safety. Extracting vehicle recognition information from multi-view vehicle images has become one of the challenging problems in the field of vehicle recognit...
Document-level Event Argument Extraction (DEAE) aims to extract structural event knowledge composed of arguments and roles beyond the sentence level. Existing methods mainly focus on designing prompts and using Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) g...
Implicit neural representations (INRs) are a new way to represent all kinds of signals ranging from 1D audio to 3D shape signals, among which 2D images are the most widely explored due to their ubiquitous presence. Image INRs utilize a neural network...
Accurately estimating the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of lithium-ion batteries is crucial for maintaining the safe and stable operation of rechargeable battery management systems. However, this task is often challenging due to the complex temporal dy...
The cooperation and integration of channels has promoted the evolution of the traditional dual-channel supply chain into an omni-channel supply chain. The omni-retailing modes can be divided into M mode and R mode depending on the difference in the o...
In addition to its economic potential and environmental significance, remanufacturing shows strategic importance in competition. Product recovery, a fundamental part of the remanufacturing system, should be aligned with the competition between supply...
How polyploids become established is a long-debated question, especially for autopolyploids that seem to have no evolutionary advantage over their progenitors. The Centaurea aspera polyploid complex includes diploid C. aspera and two related tetraplo...
Small-scale vegetable producers often do not have modern mechanical equipment; as a result, a significant amount of inter-row and all intra-row weeding is performed manually. The development of small, affordable machines increases the competitiveness...
A recent experimental study [1] has demonstrated the alignment of phase separated domains across hundreds of bilayer units in multicomponent stacked lipid bilayers. The origin of this alignment is the interlamellar coupling of laterally phase separat...
The shoulder region has the highest incidence of acute injuries in the sport of surfing. Little is known about the strength profile at the shoulder in a surfing cohort. The primary aim of this study was to establish the reliability of a rotator cuff...
Allelopathy is an important mechanism of interference competition in some plants, but little is known about whether compounds exuded from seeds influence the germination of neighbors. We treated seeds of multiple lines of Brassica rapa (field mustard...
Spatial competition considerations are important in hotel location selection. This study proposes and demonstrates a method of colocation network analysis to quantify the potential encroaching effect of spatial inter- and intra-competition between un...
Weed competition in inter- and intra-row zones presents a substantial challenge to crop productivity, with intra-row weeds posing a particularly severe threat. Their proximity to crops and higher occlusion rates increase their negative impact on yiel...
Sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) is highly susceptible to weed competition during the early growth stages; hence, intercropping is considered to overcome the weed competition challenge. This study was conducted to determine the performance o...
17 September 2026
Artificial spin ice provides a versatile platform for investigating geometrical frustration and emergent collective phenomena. However, direct visualization and manipulation of individual magnetic moments remain challenging in conventional nanoscale...
A sensitive biotinylated indirect competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Bic-ELISA) was developed to detect acetamiprid pesticides in pollen, based on the heterogeneous coating antigen and biotinylated anti-acetamiprid monoclonal antibody. Un...
Competitive interactions come in a variety of forms and may be modulated by the size and number of individuals involved, and/or the resources available. Here, intra- and interspecific competitive behaviours for food (i.e., foraging/food search and fe...
Due to the severe hazard of aflatoxins (AFs) to humans, it is of great significance to detect the key aflatoxins, aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) and aflatoxin G1 (AFG1), in food and feed in simple, rapid, and semi-quantitative ways. The hybridoma clone 3A1 was...
The Qinling Mountains, serving as a natural geographical and climatic boundary in China, require comprehensive climatic records to elucidate the trends in climate changes across the country. While stable isotopes in tree rings are widely employed to...
Western industrial cluster literature pays little attention to specialized markets (SMs) and the geographical agglomeration of distributors or sale agencies (SAs). This paper takes Linyin, Shandong, a famous commodity city in Northeastern China, as a...
Motor imagery electroencephalography (MI-EEG) decoding remains challenging in cross-subject scenarios due to pronounced inter-subject variability and signal non-stationarity, which often lead to performance degradation on unseen subjects. Existing pr...
Extant research pays little attention to unorganized migrant workers’ skill accumulation/upgrading from the perspective of the labor supply. This paper takes China as an example to explore the factors influencing the skill accumulation of rural–urban...
This study examines the potential implications of the EU–Mercosur free trade agreement for the Polish horticultural sector, with particular emphasis on sustainability, trade competitiveness, and structural complementarities between the regions....
The impacts of climate change are expected to alter the abundance and distribution of invasive annual grasses, such as Bromus tectorum L. (cheatgrass) and Ventenata dubia (Leers) Coss. (ventenata). High temperature extremes will be more frequent and...
The objective of this study was to discover the repertoire of coping strategies used by young Tunisian male and female athletes in individual and team sports when competing in their sport, and to examine the effect of gender and type of sport on thes...
Recent advancements in deep learning have driven the rapid proliferation of deepfake generation techniques, raising substantial concerns over digital security and trustworthiness. Most current detection methods primarily focus on spatial or frequency...
Performing a mitosis count (MC) is the diagnostic task of histologically grading canine Soft Tissue Sarcoma (cSTS). However, mitosis count is subject to inter- and intra-observer variability. Deep learning models can offer a standardisation in the pr...
7 September 2021
To explore long-term changes in intra and inter-class choices between generic compounds, this paper investigates the market trends of two antihypertensive drug classes that have closely related pharmacological mechanisms—angiotensin convertase enzyme...
Multi-frame super-resolution (MFSR) leverages complementary information between image sequences of the same scene to increase the resolution of the reconstructed image. As a branch of MFSR, burst super-resolution aims to restore image details by leve...
In a previous study, the two nitrifying functions (ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB) or nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB)) of a nitrification reactor—operated continuously over 525 days with varying inputs—were assigned using a mathematical modeling ap...
Global trends and factors, such as the increased level of globalization, climate change, resource scarcity, and awareness of social and environmental responsibilities, as well as fiercer competition and lower profit margins in all industries, force o...
During the breeding season, aggression is expressed to gain access to resources such as territories and mates and protect offspring. Female aggressiveness has received much less attention than male aggressiveness, and few studies have examined female...
This study develops a game-theoretic framework to analyze collaborative advertising decisions between manufacturers and retailers in seasonal product supply chains characterized by competitive–cooperative channel relationships. We formulate a m...
4 September 2019
The purpose of this study was to determine the inter- and intra-testing reliability of newly developed tests of the change of direction speed (CODS) and reactive agility (RAG) in competitive futsal players. Additionally, the developed tests were eval...
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