But he noted, in an e-mail on May 24, 2010, that the price of competing solar panels had fallen as the price of a crucial ingredient, silicon, had fallen, and that the market for such panels was dropping because of economic problems in Spain.
A moderate-is-best (blue) outcome occurs when R 01 and the similarity coefficient are high, because the strains are competing (left panel).
The recent fall in natural gas prices has made it even harder for solar to compete (although panel prices are falling, too).
Cognitive biases also make it difficult to see the competing desiderata the panel was charged with balancing.
Celery leaves, or indeed Hopkinson's chopped stalks, prove too savoury for the panel, competing, they say, with the bivalve itself, which seems to have suffered too much to be overshadowed by a mere vegetable.
CMOS image sensors (CIS) are taking an ever growing part in the X-ray sensors market, competing with a Si flat panels and direct conversion sensors.
There is no obvious reason in excluding "all those with potentially competing interests from expert panels, and indeed, it may not be appropriate to do so, but [it] is possible to manage the consensus process in such a way that the effect of competing interests is minimized" [ 14].
Mr. Swig said his vote on the contract was based purely on the number of points awarded to each of the competing firms by the panel, which scored CirclePoint over Arc Ecology by 0.2 points.
These are usually rear-projection type products, although we now have flat-panel displays competing for the same dollar and space in retail shops and in the home.
However, as indicated above, evidence sometimes does succeed in achieving an agreement among rational observers, thus serving as a neutral, objective arbiter among potentially competing views of the panel members.
