Among the most important educational components of the competition, Schneider said, was teaching students about professional design using systems engineering concepts.
On the other hand, the panel may have gone a long way toward formalizing the role of legal battles as simply another component of the competition, up there with technology and sailing.
Vancouver officials changed the course the morning after Kumaritashvili's death, lowering the start and erecting a wall at the curve where he had gone off the track, but said the changes were made for the "emotional component" of the competition.
In doing so the Human Practice component of the competition asks its young researchers: 'Will the world be a safe place if we make biology easy to engineer?
The iGEM community constitutes a particular interesting forum of young researchers in which real-time TA experiments can be – and sometimes are – undertaken in the Human Practice component of the competition.
Our evaluation reveals minimal trade-offs among the components of the overall competition's scoring criteria, but we caution that the scoring formula may be sensitive to implementation choices among its components.
This article focuses on the electrical energy components of SDE competition, the energy performance of the houses and the strategies and behaviors followed by the teams.
Since sigma factors play a key role in regulating gene expression when the cell is exposed to stress conditions and switches in part to the program "maintenance and survival" [ 21, 36], the regulatory network is apparently linked to components of the sigma factor competition module.
Three broad components of export competition are the focus of the current negotiations: (i) policies in direct support of an exported commodity, such as export subsidies and officially supported export credits; (ii) interventions in support of state trading enterprises; and (iii) food aid, notably that component of food aid used to facilitate the disposal of a country's surplus production.
The optional components of the educational package (homework, art competition, game) were not used in the four schools observed.
