This behavior has generally been interpreted as a guarding tactic designed to reduce the likelihood that a rival male can rapidly displace the ejaculate of the guarding male [1, 2].
But few, if any, in the Arab world or in Israel think there is much likelihood that the dozen rival groups can reach a joint position on the conduct of the increasingly bitter 28-month intifada, let alone on stopping suicide bombers inside Israel.
There was even the likelihood that the old rivals, the Americans and the Mexicans, would trade after their Round of 16 game this afternoon in Chonju.
The Knicks were looking at a four-game sweep of their traditional rivals, the likelihood of a full week off before the next series and the right to claim that no team, not even Miami, had acquitted itself better in the first round.
What is the likelihood of the dozen rivals having enough stamina to survive the Cup's longest event?
Pheromone detection putatively helps trigger instinctual and learned courtship and dominance displays from which social judgments are made about the availability, compatibility, and fitness representativeness or likelihood of prospective mates and rivals.
Mr. Romney faces a classic dilemma in presidential politics: Going negative is never an appealing option, but the alternative amounts to unilateral disarmament and a much higher likelihood of defeat, especially against a rival like Mr. Gingrich who has little to lose.
Engineers from rival teams say the likelihood is each had in the region of 30-40kg in the tank, which at about 0.38secs per 10kg would add a second or more to the times the cars could achieve.
During a dinner after the lecture, the talk centred on the likelihood that the Kremlin will sponsor a rival candidate to Mr Lukashenka in next year's presidential election.
The Likelihood Ratio Test was used for comparing rival hierarchical models where a decrease in nonmem objective function (–2 log likelihood) of 7.88 points was necessary to consider the improvement in model performance statistically significant at α = 0.005 and 1 degree of freedom 14.
Over the last few days that DUP threat to hit the electoral nuclear button has receded in all likelihood because the UUP has called their rivals' bluff.
