Sometimes children are given competing terms for when they're writing: eg "connectives", which, when they're doing grammar, they will have to unlearn and call conjunctions or adverbs.
The objective function includes two competing terms that force the optimizer to maximize power capture while minimizing structural loads.
To resolve these disputes, the frequency with which the competing terms were used was objectively measured (using Google page statistics or literature count statistics).
The free energy of the system consists of two competing terms: (1) a Landau Lifshitz functional that models the spontaneous separation of the ionic groups, and (2) the standard mean-field electrostatic interaction between the ions in the liquid.
Equation (1) consists of two competing terms.
More precisely, using the notation of Figure 1, the three-population test statistic f3(C; A′, B′) estimates the sum of two directly competing terms: − αβF2(A″, B″), the negative quantity arising from admixture that we wish to detect, and α F2(A″, A) + β F2(B″, B) + F2(C, C″), a positive quantity from the "off-tree" drift branches.
I asked Lee Epstein of the University of Southern California, and Andrew Martin of Washington University in Saint Louis, for statistics on one-vote majority decisions in orally argued cases, which they provided dating back to 1946, and up through 2010 (the last compete term).
It's shocking that they are competing in terms of bad practice in terms of paying female staff".
The two men bicker constantly, even competing in terms of whose family took the most extreme measures to hold onto their religion in the Nazi camps.
