Mr. Aboulafia cites as an example the competition for sales of fighter and attack jets.
External conditions may affect this; for example, in the Competition of Cues Theory, Pennebaker (1982) suggested that awareness of internal states is a function of the ratio of the quantity and salience of internal to external information.
The above example of branching induced by the competition of a consumer species for resources may appear specific, but in the last decade a multitude of ecological scenarios have been identified where evolutionary branching is expected to occur (Dieckmann et al. 2004; Doebeli et al. 2005).
Furthermore, the natural occurrence of tricin in the forage crops, M. sativa [ 33] and M. truncatula [ 34], represents an example of the competition between both groups of OMTs involved in the methylation of lignin monomers [ 35] and the flavone, tricetin.
The suppression of microbial ethanol fermentation in the presence of hydrogen-utilizing micro-organisms is an example of the competition between microbes (Iannotti et al. 1973).
For example, the pressures of competition, the short-term perspectives of many boards and the emphasis placed on quarterly results can push environmental concerns way down a company's list of priorities.
As examples, competition of ideas, incubation services, business plans and patents are evident boundary objects commonly used in the connection between the worlds of science and industry.
It would be important to investigate co-occurrence of both positive and negative effects of enhanced pollen competition, for example the joint effects of sexual selection and sexual conflict, i.e. indirect and direct selection on mate choice in plants.
Not to cheerlead for Apple, but we can all agree that whatever their faults, the original iPhone and the iPhone 4 (from which the slightly disproportionate 5 has descended) are impressive examples of one-upping the competition in both material and industrial design.
For example, the strength of density-dependent resource competition may change depending on the resource availability [ 13].
The example of competition is raised because it has a long history in investigations of the maintenance of diversity at the level of the PEM, as exemplified in Hutchinson's "Homage to Santa Rosalia" [1].
