Stop them offering advisory services to clients, for instance; set new rules for the behaviour and pay of their staff; or impose competition by recognising more agencies.The trouble is that such measures would increase, not reduce, the burden and cost of regulation.
The higher education white paper to be published on Monday by the universities minister, Jo Johnson, sets out the Conservatives' latest attempt to impose competition within the sector by attracting new non-profit and commercial operators with a short-cut to full university status.
The paired design was chosen to impose competition on plant pairs: the limited resources of a 2L pot strongly amplify small differences in growth rates, resource allocation, or competitive ability between the initially same-sized plants [18].
Miliband's aides claimed the cost of the promise would be £100m a year, which could be found by cutting the costs of imposing competition on the NHS, as well as by keeping patients out of A&E.
We expected the effect of phenotypic diversity on survival to be more pronounced under conditions that impose intense competition for resources, and therefore reared individuals under different density regimes; low (7 individuals/bucket) or high (14 individuals/bucket).
His view, particularly with respect to insect chemical communication, has been opposed by arguments emphasising the adaptive value of female signalling [ 11]: by releasing minimal amounts of pheromone, female moths impose scramble competition between males resulting in the selection of males with good searching and chemosensory abilities [ 12].
Now doctors are warning that the company's failure is a foretaste of what lies in store if health secretary Andrew Lansley's attempt to impose a competition-driven model of healthcare on to the NHS in England becomes reality.
If you play word association, it turns out that for many in a Parisian classroom, the polar opposite of "competition" is "solidarity": ie, the useful rigour imposed by competition is overshadowed by the pain caused as society divides into winners and losers.
We show how the geologic constraints have imposed a competition for space which is captured in the slope local drainage density probabilistic structure, in the failure of self-similarity in basin-wide river network topology, and in the length-area scaling relationship being not typical of fluvial landscapes.
The much-touted reforms include measures such as submitting teachers in public schools to aptitude tests and imposing more competition on the telecommunications sector, previously dominated by billionaire Carlos Slim Helu, once the world's richest man.
For example, the scarcity of hosts (relative to phages) in the marine environment may impose intense resource competition, and host specialization may evolve as a mechanism to reduce this competition.
