Information is an essential ingredient of competition.
Working with a trainer, Fitocracy users acquire points for hitting their fitness goals, while the app's social network feature adds that essential layer of competition.
Here we have reported new evidence for between-strain competition among pneumococci, suggesting that the essential mechanism of competition works in acquisition rather than in clearance of carriage.
Promotion and relegation, they say, are essential to competition.
But at the best of times, of the 20 commissioners, only three do essential work: those in charge of competition, trade and farming.
"And I also believe that there are others who believe this sort of competition is essential to achieve the sort of resolution that the league wants".
This work was aimed to study the effectiveness of peppermint/soybean intercropping patterns on the yield, quality of peppermint essential oil, competition and monetary indices in two years (2015 2016) and two harvests.
In explicitly considering this link it becomes essential to separate out the effects of competition from the effects of replication on the evolution of parasite life history traits.
This supports the idea of an essential competition and conflict between the 'centrifugal logic' of state-centric formalised bureaucracies and a 'centripetal logic [which] proceeds in terms of relations, movements and flows of people, animals, resources and tradeable commodities' (Korf et al. 2015, p. 885).
When important conditions are met, greed not only poses no threat to Smith's "invisible hand" of competition, but is an essential part of it.
