"Partly that's because of a greater availability of other competitors with more advanced weaponry since the end of the Cold War," he said, "and partly, quite simply, because China doesn't compete very well in terms of quality".
However, protandrous arrival may not always be beneficial, as its fitness advantages depend on factors such as female availability, the number of competitors present or post-arrival mortality [ 23].
92– 94 Numerous other features such as the presence of a competitor or the availability of background information (like recent form guides in sports betting) may feed into the same belief.
But Mr. Gates argued that the rapidly increasing availability of computing power, which undid his competitors, will ultimately save Microsoft.
"Retailers pipe a bunch of information in electronically, like internal information — cost, availability of inventory, sales goals," along with competitors' prices, she said.
The other investigation will look at whether it used anti-competitive tactics, such as restricting availability of spare parts, to keep potential competitors out of the market for mainframe maintenance services.The stakes are high for the computer-maker, which recently unveiled a new version of its mainframe offering.
Whereas winged competitors only decrease the availability of virgin queens and, if female sexuals mated multiply, potentially increasing sperm competition, the presence of wingless males introduces the risk of being killed or injured.
The sequences of competitor DNAs are shown in Figure 1.
7. Synthesize single-stranded transcript of competitor RNA.
The amount of sample RNA corresponds to the amount of competitor when the ratio of competitor to target is 1.0.
The ratio of intensity (competitor/target) was plotted against the six known dilutions of competitor for each sample.
