People compete for access to the one toilet.
"In our terms," the psychoanalyst Peter Neubauer once observed, "the river is the mother who supplies our basic needs, and the children compete for access to her".
Here, authority is vested in an individual leader, and though groups compete for access, assets and influence, spoils can be awarded only by the emperor or trusted members of his entourage.
And how does that harm us to be separating these two parts of ourselves to compete for access to the male gaze?" But "Afternoon Delight," which won Soloway the best-director award at Sundance, is both subtler and more unsettling than she makes it sound — an investigation of the selfishness that can creep into what purports to be altruism.
The entertainment press and Hollywood have more of a symbiotic relationship than the news media do with many other businesses -- magazines and other news organizations compete for access to the studios' biggest stars, and also depend on the studios for advertising.
For example, viral strains compete for access to host resources within an infected host and, at the same time, compete for access to susceptible hosts within the host population.
Wild pigs (Sus scrofa) are only territorial during the peri-parturient period and when young compete for access to teats.
Let users compete for access to the wireless links and let denote the index set of all users.
Such approach reduces the control overhead in the MANET, and thus the number of times a node has to compete for access to the shared medium.
Since the link 12-24 in in the interference range of node 18, both nodes 28 and 24 will compete for access to the medium on this channel.
Moreover, in spite of the fact that the processors must compete for access to main memory, our algorithm still achieved scalable performance with up to 16 processors, which was the largest platform available to us.
