The phrase "augment competition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to express the idea of increasing or enhancing competition in a particular field or market.
Example: "The new policies are designed to augment competition among local businesses, fostering innovation and better services."
Alternatives: "enhance competition" or "boost competition".
Generalized cross-immunity (in the Ferguson paper) and subadditive antigenic effects (in the Bedford paper) both augment competition between circulating beneficial antigenic mutants, and thus result in the generation of spindly HA phylogenies.
In contrast, the deleterious mutation model we present here does not need to invoke processes to augment competition between antigenic strains because a large proportion of fitness variation in the virus population arises from differences in deleterious mutation loads.
Moreover, seven of the current contractors will be suspended for a lack of "integrity and business ethics". Under this model, DOD reduces its dependence on individual companies and augments competition among the bidders.
It also remains a question whether micro-epidemic patterns are determined solely by heterogeneous transmission in a structured population of interconnected "patches" (day care cohorts), or if the dynamics of transmission needs to be augmented by competition in which one serotype hinders the presence, or at least compromises the sensitivity of finding others.
Research, development and demonstration (RD&D) policies will increase operational experience and reduce costs; investment tax credits will accelerate investment in storage projects; and continued market deregulation will augment revenue streams, enhance competition, and provide more accurate prices for storage services.
OTHER Funding Sources: It is recommended that students also look to other undergraduate competitions to augment funding for their proposed research.
I hypothesize that Westernized men in aggressive social environments, characterized by intense male male competition, will further augment testosterone production aggravating prostate cancer risk.
Virtual, augmented and mixed reality have a competition problem.
The £75 prize money of each competition were combined and augmented by a further £50 donated by Havelock Tobacco Company.
One corollary of life history theory is the 'challenge hypothesis', which predicts that males augment testosterone levels in response to intrasexual competition occurring within reproductive contexts.
In this study we test the idea that injuring females during mating is a by-product of traits augmenting male reproductive success in pre-copulatory competition with other males.
