Mechanisms for stable coexistence in an insect community by Meng Fan, Bingbing Zhang, Michael Yi Li

“…More specifically, it is known that,when a predator is introducedinto a community of two competing species, if the predator onlypredates on the strong competitor, it can allow the weak competitorto survive, but may drive the strong competitor to extinctionthrough over-exploitation. …”
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A competition model of the chemostat with an external inhibitor by Jianquan Li, Zuren Feng, Juan Zhang, Jie Lou

“…This inhibitor is lethal to one competitor and results in thedecrease of growth rate of this competitor. …”
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Information as a tool for management decision making: a case study of Singapore

“…Results indicated that the types of information considered very important for decision making included Competitor Trends followed by Regional Economic Trends. …”
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Marie d’Antioche, la mobilisation de sa parentèle dans la procédure judiciaire pour la revendication du trône de Jérusalem au xiiie siècle by Cécile Khalifa

“…Faced with her competitor, Mary of Antioch claimed the title of Queen of Jerusalem. …”
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Provision of essential resources as a persistence strategy in food webs by Raatz, Michael

“…Introducing the provision of essential resources by a prey species to either its competitor or its predator as a higher-order interaction, I find that this mechanism can ensure the focal prey’s persistence. …”
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METAPHORICAL CONCEPTS AND THEIR IDEOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS IN ALURING VOTES FOR INDONESIAN PRESIDENCY by Arif Budiman, Khristianto Khristianto

“… This study is to reveal the metaphor used in political talks among the supporters of running mates in Indonesian General Election of 2019, those are Jokowi as the incumbent, and Prabowo as the competitor. This applied a content analysis to explore the use of metaphor in the political speeches. …”
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Progressive Loading in a Strongman Following Distal Biceps Repair: Re-Thinking Load Progression – A Case Report by Daniel Lorenz

“… # Case Presentation The subject is a 39-year-old strong man competitor who suffered a distal biceps rupture while doing a tire flip during training. …”
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Competition for food in macroplankton animals in the Vistula Lagoon by Krzysztof W. Opaliński

“…The purpose of this paper is to find out which species is the superior competitor for food among the macroplankton living in the Vistula Lagoon. …”
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Synthetic Receptors Decorated on Nanoparticles for Selective and Sensitive Glyphosate Detection by Ilgım Gokturk, Mamajan Ovezova, Gaye Ezgi Yilmaz, Deniz Turkmen, Fatma Yilmaz, Adil Denizli

“…The MIP SPR nanosensor detected the target glyphosate molecule 4.950 times more selectively than the competitor molecule malathion while 3.918 times more selectively than the competitor molecule malaoxon. …”
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Bacteriophage-resistant and bacteriophage-sensitive bacteria in a chemostat by Zhun Han, Hal L. Smith

“…In this paper a mathematical model of the population dynamics of a bacteriophage-sensitive and a bacteriophage-resistant bacteria in a chemostat where the resistant bacteria is an inferior competitor for nutrient is studied. The focus of the study is on persistence and extinction of bacterial strains and bacteriophage.…”
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Symmetry problems for gauge balls in the Heisenberg group by Giulio Tralli

“…Martino in [23] by means of overdetermined problems of Serrin-type. The class of competitor sets we consider enjoys partial symmetries of toric and cylindrical type.…”
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REVITALIZATION OF TV AND VIDEO IN THE PERIOD OF «STAGNATION» AS ONE OF THE FACTORS REDUCING KINODOCUMENT by M. Kosinova

“…Soon the cinema have got another competitor - video. This further exacerbated the problems of the movie. …”
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Assessing a Common Currency in Africa

“…Rather, the power of African economies lies in the actual share of the proposed currency in world official foreign reserves, its liquidity in international trade, and its role as a competitor against the exorbitant U.S. dollar. …”
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Convention internationale sur l’utilisation pacifique du cyberespace by Edward M. Roche, Michael J. Blaine

“…In hopes of gaining a strategic advantage, many countries including the United States, Russia and China are developing offensive cyber-capabilities to disrupt political, economic, and social institutions in competitor nations. These activities have lead to a cyber arms race that is spiraling out of control. …”
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La production participative d’idées : quels effets du dispositif socio-technique sur les pratiques ? by Damien Renard

“…A variety of roles (competitor, coopetitor, and supporter) coexist in crowd-based coopetition. …”
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Resource availability and competition shape pollinator trophic specialization in longleaf pine savannas by Pablo Moreno-García, Johanna E. Freeman, Benjamin Baiser, Joshua W. Campbell, Daijiang Li

“…Our results show that flowering resources and the pools of pollinator competitors both influence pollinator trophic specialization. …”
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The Land of the Future: British Accounts of the USA at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century by David Seed

“…This article examines the ways in which British travelers to the USA at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries articulated their different perceptions of a nation which was emerging as a major imperial competitor. Characteristically these responses showed an ambivalent tension between respect for the growing commercial energy of the USA and a suspicion that it was posing an increasing threat to British national self-perception. …”
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A Least Squares Method for Variance Estimation in Heteroscedastic Nonparametric Regression by Yuejin Zhou, Yebin Cheng, Tiejun Tong

“…Finally, we demonstrate through simulation studies that the proposed estimators perform better than the existing competitor in various settings.…”
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Les relations économiques sino-américaines pendant les années Bush (2001-2008) : vers une stratégie de « dissuasion économique » ? by Juliette Bourdin

“…While the Bush administration had initially advocated a strategy of “congagement” (containment/ engagement) and had defined China as a “strategic competitor”, not only did 9/11 change Washington’s immediate priorities, but, with the US-China economic interdependency, the only realistic strategy between Washington and Beijing seemed to consist in “economic deterrence.”…”
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Les déplacements identitaires d’enseignantes formées à l’étranger s’intégrant dans l’école montréalaise by Joëlle Morrissette, Didier Demazière

“…Based on individual and group interviews with 4 of them, analyzed from an interactionist perspective, a research led to identify of three changes in their “relationship with oneself”: from the knowledge master to the educational relationship specialist, from the monitored technician to a more autonomous professional, from the competitor who stands out from the crowd towards a cooperative peer who complies. …”
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