The 1980s and '90s were a period of change for the comic book industry, as it struggled to adapt to competition from interactive video technology and the Internet.
And yet, when we look to other industries that the internet flattened, it is hard to find many articles written in defence of travel agents who had to adapt to competition from websites like Expedia, or go out of business.
And I recently interviewed Pamela Chalmers, whose family chain of bakers in north-east Scotland is having a tough time adapting to competition from in-store supermarket bakeries.
In a for-profit company, we help increase the value of the enterprise by identifying how it can be more efficient and effective, how it can adapt to competition and, just as important, how they could give their customers extra value for money so that the company wins, and the customers do too.
Those deals enabled the company to restock its film studio pipeline to better adapt to competition and changing technology.
From studies on animals it is known that sperm competition often gives rise to sexual conflict; the male ejaculate is adapted to male male competition within the female reproductive tract and these adaptations might have a harmful side effect on females leading to sexual conflict and consequently female antagonistic adaptations (e.g. Schärer et al. 2011, see review by Stockley 1997).
This implies that high levels of intragenotypic competition decreased the yield of individual Ga-0 plants in monoculture, indicating that while Ga-0 is a strong competitor with other genotypes, it is not well adapted to intragenotypic competition.
It has adapted to growing competition by creating more programming for local partners to air.
Line, the messaging app company, has been the most successful new entrant with its Uber-like ride-hailing service, but Japanese taxi companies have adapted to the competition by bringing on-demand features their services, as the Financial Times recently reported.
Perhaps M. prima has adapted to increased competition, as well as to its new thermal niche, by adjusting its growth- and life-strategies, and by acquiring new genes and functions from its new bacterial and archaeal "neighbors".
