Forked Fungus Beetle (suggested common name) Bolitotherus cornutus (Panzer) 1794 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) by Ummat Somjee, Andrea Lucky

“…Males use these horns in competitions with rivals for access to reproductive opportunities with females. …”
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Le docufiction l’Odyssée de l’espèce. Analyse didactique et pistes d’exploitation en classe de terminale S by Yannick Rech, Eric Triquet

“…It is also at the heart of television fictional documentary reporting a narrative scenography. The sake of realism rivals here with imaginary fiction. Although renowned anthropologists have given their guarantee to scenarios, these general public films show evidence for a certain distancing to scientific data. …”
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Fuzzy Reliability Analysis of the COVID-19 Mortality Rate Using a New Modified Kies Kumaraswamy Model by Fathy H. Riad, Bader Alruwaili, Ehab M. Almetwally, Eslam Hussam

“…Finally, we fitted a COVID-19 mortality real data set to the suggested distribution in order to compare its efficiency to that of its rivals.…”
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History and trajectory of Rossetti's works ‘after Dante’: between private collections and museums by Yannick Le Pape

“…Dante was definitely popular in Great-Britain, so that it was quite easy for Rossetti to negotiate his works, and no doubt that the emerging speculative collecting for businessmen did limit sales to a short panel of wealthy rivals who took advantage of museums' hesitations about Pre-Raphaelitism — as well as foreign critics focused on Rossetti a bit too late, when his works were already in the English acquisitions field. …”
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Mucosal Airway Laceration Secondary To Endobronchial Ultrasonography by Amarinder Sandhu, Edmundo Rubio, Susanti Ie, Michael Boyd

“…It is considered to be safe and rivals the gold standard, mediastinoscopy, in safety and accuracy. …”
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Strategy, information processing and scorecard models in the UK financial services sector by Judith Broady-Preston; Tim Hayward

“…In the current turbulent business environment, quality information is required to ensure that companies achieve competitive advantage by using such information to make decisions more rapidly than their rivals. Scorecard models are employed increasingly to translate the mission and strategy of a company into a comprehensive set of performance measures, providing the framework for a strategic management system. …”
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Advantage Management Strategy in Competition via Technological Race Perspective: Empirical Evidence from the Taiwanese Manufacturing Industry by Tsu-Yi Hung, Yu-Ju Hsiao, Shih-Wei Wu

“…The result indicates that, under financial constraints, Taiwanese manufacturing firms attempt to invest in R&D to catch up with their rivals or to avoid being eliminated from the race.…”
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Profitability Analysis of Price-Taking Strategy in Disequilibrium by Weihong Huang

“…Moreover, when the economy turns cyclic or chaotic, a combination of the Cobweb strategy with a cautious adjustment strategy could also bring relative higher average profits for the naive firm than its rivals.…”
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Berkeley’s Best System: An Alternative Approach to Laws of Nature by Walter Ott

“…More important, the Berkeleyan Best System can solve some of the problems afflicting its Humean rivals, including the problems of theory choice and Nancy Cartwright’s ‘facticity’ dilemma. …”
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Elections in Croatia, Northern Macedonia, Bulgaria and Serbia by Pavel E. Kandel

“…The center-right GERB has beaten its rivals in Bulgaria, but is experiencing great difficulty forming a government, so the question is has it really won? …”
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HighDimMixedModels.jl: Robust high-dimensional mixed-effects models across omics data. by Evan Gorstein, Rosa Aghdam, Claudia Solís-Lemus

“…High-dimensional mixed-effects models are an increasingly important form of regression in which the number of covariates rivals or exceeds the number of samples, which are collected in groups or clusters. …”
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The Ethical Significance of the Consequences of Our Actions: Contemporary Theory of Action, Aquinas, and the Utilitarian Point of View by Stefan Hofmann

“…It is shown that when it comes to complex actions, Aquinas’ account is more sophisticated and has more intuitive support than its utilitarian rivals. …”
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Quality and Competitiveness in the System of Higher Education: Aspects of Interrelation by A. I. Vasil’ev

“…The author’s definition of the competitiveness of educational organization as a feature reflecting the relative superiority over rivals at the pre-active stage is proposed. The author considers the relationship of competitiveness and quality of education by highlighting the methods and indicators of their evaluation and analysis in the intra-university management system. …”
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Ukrayna Örneğinden Hareketle Nükleer Silahsızlanmanın Olası Sonuçlarına Dair Bir İnceleme by Eray ALIM

“…By way of conclusion, it is argued in the context of the 2014 crisis that, denuclearization constitutes a potential national security risk for states (Ukraine) that face formidable nuclear-armed rivals (Russia).…”
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AN INQUIRY INTO CHINA’S ALIGNMENT WITH RUSSIA by W. Li

“…Yet, they also split into the arch rivals for nearly two decades until the early 1980s. …”
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Multi-level high utility-itemset hiding. by Loan T T Nguyen, Hoa Duong, An Mai, Bay Vo

“…Organizations and corporations who publicly share their data always have a major concern that their sensitive information may be leaked or extracted by rivals or attackers using data miners. High-utility itemset mining (HUIM) is an extension to frequent itemset mining (FIM) which deals with business data in the form of transaction databases, data that is also in danger of being stolen. …”
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MÜŞTERİ İLİŞKİLERİ YÖNETİMİ SÜRECİNDE SÖZSÜZ İLETİŞİMİN ROLÜ: TÜRKİYE'DEKİ 5 YILDIZLI OTELLER ÜZERİNE BİR ÇALIŞMA - THE ROLE OF NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION IN CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MAN... by Bahar Urhan Torun, Abdullah Koçak

“…Business organizations competing with various rivals, think by the illusion of the modern age; the best way to reach their target consumers is to use benefits of technology. …”
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Moral Aspects of Some Combat Sports by Jacek Meller

“…Rules that apply in modern combat sports, lead to aggressive behaviour towards rivals, and give an advantage to the person who, not only strikes more technically correct blows or uses grips, but also reduces the opponent’s ability to fight further.  …”
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Between giants and windmills: Lulismo in the presidential elections of 2018 by Mércia Alves, Joyce Miranda Leão Martins

“…It is concluded that Lulismo was mobilized to fight against the Temer government and the Brazilian Social Democratic Party, which were not dangerous rivals; however, it failed to build a narrative against the “dragons” of anti-petismo that questioned not only the Brazilian electoral game, but the democratic regime itself.…”
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Lobbying of Qatar's Interests in the United States and the Qatar Diplomatic Crisis by D. B. Grafov

“…Although Qatar is not as powerful as its rivals, but it uses the “defensive realism” strategy, that allows it to disrupt aggressive efforts and increase the costs of the Saudi coalition.…”
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