He then studied at the University of North London (now part of London Metropolitan University) for a PhD, on the accomplishments of bilingual Turkish children and how this competence enhanced their general cognitive powers.
Natural selection might have built a specialized language faculty, containing inborn knowledge about language (e.g., knowledge of UG), which subsequently was selected for because it helped human children to acquire linguistic competence, and having linguistic competence enhanced our ancestors' fitness.
Niches aiming to replace the existing regime can be said to have a competitive relationship to the regime, but they can also have a symbiotic relationship, when the innovation that emerges in the niche can be a competence enhancing add-on to the existing regime [17].
[N1] Several participants explained that their newfound confidence and competence enhanced their interactions with other health professionals.
Thus, the improvement of bacterium virulence and plant cell competence would enhance T-DNA delivery into plant cells.
Additionally, entrepreneurs possess generic competences that enhance generation of diversity and diffusion of new knowledge (Drucker 2014; see for university-run enterprises, Zhou 2014).
Functional competence is enhanced through increasing physical activity.
Accessing this existing wealth of knowledge, experience and cultural competence has enhanced the implementation of the ClASS framework and reduced associated costs.
While Nikendei et al. (2009) and Schauseil-Zipf et al. (2010) found that self- assessed clinical competence was enhanced by PAL, in comparison with students taught by faculty alone, Heckmann et al. (2008) found that PAL was as effective as faculty teaching, rather than better, when measured by scores in written tests and OSCE, as well as self- assessed competence.
The former includes firm-specific technological-competence-enhancing capability and the initial level of technological knowledge, and the latter includes industry-specific R&D appropriability.
