The phrase "assess contest" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to evaluating or judging a competition, but as it stands, it lacks clarity and context.
Example: "The judges will assess the contest entries based on creativity and originality."
Alternatives: "evaluate the competition" or "judge the contest".
This suggests that the females in the study groups had relatively well-established dominance hierarchies in which they could assess one another's contest ability without escalation (Parker 1974).
This three-study investigation was undertaken to develop, validate, and test the Contesting Orientations Scale (COS), a new measure designed to assess individuals' tendencies to use contest-is-partnership and contest-is-war conceptual metaphors (i.e., contesting orientations) when competing (Shields & Bredemeier, 2009, 2011a).
However, in order to accurately assess state-level caption-contest success, our metric should be the number of successes for some set number of attempts, rather than the absolute number of successes.
Reliable assessment cues are those physically or physiologically linked to fighting ability and males may rely on several of these to assess each other during contests [5].
The Assemblathon2 contest was organized as a friendly competition to assess current methods and evaluate the state of genome assembly by providing datasets of primarily short reads for three different vertebrate genomes.
In this contest they did not assess any problem of immune reaction against the product of the vector but they observed that the expression of RNAi cassette could be toxic [ 92].
In all, Mr. Bloomberg intends to invest in as many as a dozen House and Senate races, though exactly which ones has not yet been decided because the mayor and his advisers are assessing how the contests are unfolding and where he can have the most impact.
While the best overall results per participant were used to declare the winners, each participant was able to submit up to three entries to the contest if they chose to assess the influence of different strategies on their outcome.
These discrepancies might result from lateral-display behaviour, which provides a way for animals, particularly fish, to assess fighting ability during early stages of a contest.
But the real difficulty for both coaching teams was how to assess a match which was over as a contest with Hodge's 22nd minute dismissal.
