Lawyers say some local governments have issued their own competing rules or interpretations of the law that weaken it, to aid factory owners.
Knapp and Brown [ 11] list several competing rules regarding the number of subjects required and argue that original studies on factor analysis (e.g., [ 12]) only assumed very large samples relative to the number of items, and made no recommendations on a minimum sample size.
At the time, Muslim extremists were blamed for the fire, but uncertainty remains, and last year one of a number of politically competing inquiries ruled that it was an accident.
A characteristic of supervised techniques is that clinical prediction rules based on the results of such research are usually dependent on a single outcome and therefore this type of research may lead to a proliferation of competing prediction rules.
We used a bimodality continuous performance task during fMRI to examine how patients with Parkinson's disease represent the prospect of reward and switch between competing task rules accordingly.
The country will be restless, communities will compete, the rule of law will be fragile, the government will be fractious, private investment will be risky.
This year's prize is the third year that American authors have been permitted to compete, a rule change that sparks debate about the relative strengths of British and American fiction.
The Burmese themselves are the most numerous of the ethnic groups, but they have by no means always been dominant; Burmese history is, in Thant's account, the story of "imperial ambitions" on the part of the various mini-states that competed to rule the country.
His promises are as vast as his résumé is short, and some of his pledges are competing ones: progressive rule and centrist red-blue fusion; wholesale transformation and down-to-earth pragmatism.
At Skate America, where top skaters like the gold medalist Sarah Hughes will compete, the rules will be different than they have been in the past, but not quite as radical.
However, the business sectors and the markets in which they compete have rules which require disciplining creativity (or to discipline the behaviors): the demand for positive benefits in order to continue the activity (Tracey et al., 2011).
