Many studies have documented that patterns of species composition change after gap creation, but few have addressed the processes responsible for this change. The idea of competitive reduction, that disturbance removes biomass, reducing competitive intensity and allowing competitively inferior fugitive species to colonize, has been widely accepted but rarely tested. We suggest an alternative hy...

Based on insights from the decision-making and contingency theories, this study examined influence of strategic decision speed (SDS) international performance small medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), explored conditions under which SDS effectively drives performance. We tested our model using structural equation modeling a sample 212 SMEs involved in cross-border activities. First, results show t...

We apply competitive analysis onto the problem of minimizing the number of queries to an oracle to completely reconstruct a given monotone Boolean function. Besides lower and upper bounds on the competitivity we determine optimal deterministic online algorithms for the smallest problem instances.

The research suggests that Chinese companies do not subscribe to ‘western’ strategy theory. As they rapidly internationalise through massive Foreign Direct Investment, Chinese companies are developing new perspectives on achieving competitiveness. A comparison of the Resource-Based View of strategy (RBV) constructs from western literature with identified (indigent) Chinese business strategies f...

This article proposes to decide on the impact of external and internal factors (competitive forces strategic capabilities) competitive choices (pure or hybrid). Using a sample Tunisian companies operating in manufacturing industry, results show that face competition’ intensity, opt for hybrid strategies at expense pure ones only when they have strong combined capabilities. However, st...

This article introduces a new method for the estimation of the intensity of an inhomogeneous one-dimensional Poisson process. The Fisz transformation transforms a vector of binned Poisson counts to approximate normality. Theory shows that, asymptotically, the transformed vector is normal and the elements uncorrelated. Hence we can use wavelet shrinkage with a global threshold to estimate the Po...

The green alga Scenedesmus is known for its phenotypic plasticity in response to grazing risk. However, the benefits of colony formation induced by infochemicals from zooplankton should come with costs. That is, a tradeoff in benefit-to-cost ratios is likely under complex environmental conditions. In this study, we hypothesized that the coexistence of Scenedesmus and its competitors decreases t...

Nugent, FJ, Comyns, TM, Burrows, E, and Warrington, GD. Effects of low-volume, high-intensity training on performance in competitive swimmers: a systematic review. J Strength Cond Res 31(3): 837-847, 2017-The purpose of this systematic review was to examine the extent and quality of the current research literature to determine the effects of low-volume, high-intensity training (HIT) on physiolo...