Jane Platt, NS&I's chief executive, said: "It is always a difficult decision to reduce rates, but downwards movements in interest rates across the cash savings market mean that our rates have risen in the competitor tables".
A corresponding inverse pattern was seen in transmittance values (Figs. 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14) and, once again, the F22 aligner provided significantly better optical properties (higher transmittance) at all wavelengths than its competitors (Tables 5 and 6).
Statistical comparison of all rabbit antibodies from the three-antigen (Gp 2, n = 8) and seven-antigen (Gp 1, n = 9) immunisation groups, both formulated in Co-Vaccine HT, showed no significant difference in mean % antibody depletion by all six competitor antigens/mixtures (Table 1, Gps 1 & 2).
The oligonucleotides containing wild-type or mutated binding sites of transcription factor AP-2γ were synthesized; and the wild-type consensus sequences of AP-2γ binding site on the promoter of human metallothionein IIa was used as competitor DNA (Table 1).
Mr. Gurfein said, RestaurantRow.com alreay makes more reservations in a week than its chief competitors, Open Table and Food Line, do in a month.
Three Russian competitors from table tennis and another three from taekwondo are also waiting to be cleared, as are 11 Russian boxers.
One reason is that, on average, industrial R&D spending lags behind that of Britain's competitors (see table).
Notice, however, that the market continues to value the group at a discount to most of its main competitors (see table below).
Finally, we have measured the computation times for our method (its MATLAB implementation) as compared to the competitors (see Table 4) in a server with 2 Intel Quad core Xeon E5504 CPUs and 16 GB of main memory.
Investors value LVMH in line with its competitors, (see table), and yet its net profit margin last year was just 8.6% –about one third the margins posted by Gucci and Richemont, and well below those of Swatch, Bulgari and Herms.
