Sentence examples for contest success from inspiring English sources
When the contest is optimally designed, we establish a structural equivalence between this family of noisy-ranking contests and contests built upon Tullock contest success functions.
The following general Tullock contest success function satisfies these conditions (Hirshleifer 1989; Skaperdas 1996): begin{array}rcl@ z a,b|g=text{AR})=frac{a^{m}}{a^{m}+b^{m}} end{array} (14).
Using both size-matched contests and a tournament design, we found that both winning and losing experience affected future contest success; males with prior winning experience were more likely to win subsequent contests.
Despite the challenger's chance of success being determined by a proportional contest success function, the defenders effectively find themselves in an all-pay auction that largely dissipates the value of the defended resources because the challenger will target the weaker defender.
As a result, we have a much higher contest success ratio.
We tested whether genetic background or male traits predicted contest success and aggressive behaviour.
However, in order to accurately assess state-level caption-contest success, our metric should be the number of successes for some set number of attempts, rather than the absolute number of successes.
As is usual in such contests, success favours those with the greatest armoury, so those with the most prestigious brands, who already take more than three quarters of their intake from the small AAB pool, will be best placed.
Mr. Simmons said the contest's success would be measured by how many artists submit their work and how many people visit the contest's Web site.
Asked what role the State Department would play in making the contest a success, Mr. Margolis said the department's sponsorship "does add a sense of legitimacy and gravitas to what we are trying to do".
Socrates here depicts himself as a new kind of citizen, conceptualizing the public good in a new way and so serving it best through unprecedented actions in contrast to the conventionally defined paths of political contest and success (Villa 2001).
