An ethical edge just might be the ultimate cause of advantage.
It's how better distribution, production, marketing, and pricing — all just proximate causes of advantage — ultimately happen.
Third, Ms. Miller insists that "the evidence on both sides of the argument is mixed and complicated" because of the many factors besides too big to fail that could be the cause of the funding advantage.
In addition, if dominance is the primary cause of heterosis, the advantage of hybridization may continue in later generations and facilitate the purging of genetic load (Burke and Arnold 2001).
The cause of this early advantage could be linked to decreased apoptosis of the cells through decreased expression of the pro-apoptotic ligand TRAIL [ 51, 52].
We have not tested the perceptual and behavioural mechanisms underlying frequency-dependent foraging, therefore we have avoided invoking search image formation as the specific ultimate cause of rare form advantage.
Matthew Syed, a former champion table tennis player who is now a sports journalist, investigates the extent and causes of home advantage.
Creating microholes might be an appropriate approach [16]; however, using microholes may cause the advantages of light harvesting to be lost.
And a renegotiated NAFTA that would reestablish trade barriers is unlikely to help workers who lost their jobs — regardless of the cause — take advantage of new employment opportunities.
Since ammonoids are an extinct group, we have no direct evidence of the cause and advantage of this possible adaptation.
And when we began drilling down into this in what turned out to be about a three-year project on the root cause of more enduring competitive advantage in a world where it seemed shorter, we asked 377 executives what was the number one barrier to achieving their goals.
