The phrase "experimental contests" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to competitions that are designed to test new ideas, methods, or technologies.
Example: "The university is hosting a series of experimental contests to encourage innovative solutions to environmental issues."
Alternatives: "trial competitions" or "test contests".
This stands in stark contrast to the robust overbidding observed in experimental contests with deterministic group size.
Each focal male engaged in 2 experimental contests on consecutive days.
We kept track of all individual identifications throughout the experiment to ensure that no focal male was paired with a sibling or an opponent that had been met previously, either during experimental contests or social experience treatment.
If female territoriality and sexual monomorphism are causally linked in Tropheus because body size plays an equally important role for the competitive success of male and females, we expect that both sexes show similar behavioral strategies in experimental contests and that the effects of body size asymmetries on the outcome are the same in both sexes.
Back in 2012, the Institute for the Future, for which we work, ran an experimental contest to see how they might be used to influence people on Twitter.
On the day of their first experimental contest, older males were 30 35 days old posteclosion, and younger males were 12 16 days old posteclosion.
Try the new, experimental Caption Contest survey.
We compare rates of agonistic behavior and the effects of body size asymmetries on competitive success between male-male and female-female contests in an experimental setup.
The Critical Assessment of Small Molecule Identification (CASMI) Contest [1] was founded in 2012 as an open contest for the experimental and computational mass spectrometry communities [2, 3].
In each "experimental village" only one SWC contest, which focused on all physical SWC practices, was conducted; in the "validation villages" two SWC contests were conducted, focusing on two SWC practices each.
Contests were observed in experimental arenas [ 12].
