At the end of the 20th century, a new electronic printing method, print-on-demand, began to compete with offset printing.
"Aligning with Turkey helps Syria to offset competing pressures from Iran and the West while strengthening its position economically".
Huge sums spent on third-generation licences may be offset if competing telecoms firms are given the go-ahead to share the costs of building networks.
The vibrating support generates a time-periodic parametric excitation of the controller plant system that is shown, under certain operating conditions, to produce a bifurcation in the steady state motion, whereby a globally stable limit cycle encircling the target position is replaced by two offset, and competing, periodic attractors.
The net result is that benefits of reducing postnatal HIV transmission through early cessation of breastfeeding are too small to offset the high competing risks of mortality attributable to the absence of breast milk in the diet of an infant between 4 and 24 months.
A good account of our data was provided by a variant of the leaky competing accumulator model, in which reward offsets the starting place of a competitive, inhibition-dominant, activation process.
These studies showed that temporal offsets between two competing patterns strongly bias perceptual outcome.
However, this race to the bottom is not optimal: if country X decreases its wage levels, competing countries can also do the same thing to offset the relative competitiveness temporarily gained by X.
Premiums are subject to many competing pressures, but, in several states, competition appears to be offsetting factors that might push rates up.
Instead of competing over how to reverse the haemorrhage of jobs and offset the collapse of private investment, the issue has become which public services to cut.
