In assembling a highly effective intelligence network during the Iraq War, U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal brought together siloed units from historically competitive branches of military service and government.
At least three times in the last week, the leaders of each of Iran's increasingly competitive branches of government have gathered at the urging of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, to try to agree on how the authorities should proceed with the case.
The results are consistent with a role for BDNF in competitive branching of OSN axons within the glomeruli of the OB.
Subsequently, thrA encoding the bifunctional aspartokinase/homoserine dehydrogenase was deleted to weaken the competitive l-threonine branch, resulting in an increase of ectoine titer by 109%.
The expression of enzymes involved in competitive starch metabolic branches, including hexokinase sucrose-phosphate synthase, phosphoglucomutase (EC: 5.4.2.2) and others were also down-regulated.
As a boy in Pozarevac, the north Serbian town where he was born 57 years ago, he was clever and competitive, running the school branch of the Communist Youth League.
Maltz sees Tala as a leader in a growing, competitive market that includes Branch, a startup founded by one of the entrepreneurs behind microfinance platform Kiva.
Under Mr. Meles, Ethiopia has invested heavily in public infrastructure and branched into competitive businesses like flower farming.
The objective is to reduce costs even further while maintaining a competitive franchise of neighborhood branches and personal services.
Young companies have attracted investors and interest, but as they struggle to make large quantities of ethanol and biodiesel at a competitive cost, some have branched out into making oils for products with higher profit margins, like cosmetics, food and soap.
