However, clinical feeding studies with bifidobacteria show that while the strains can be detected in subject's feces during feeding trials, they are rapidly lost upon cessation of the studies pointing to a possible loss of competitive fitness of the strains for competition within the human intestinal environment [ 7- 9].
Why then do we find a disproportionate loss of competitive vigor by U.S. companies?
Guernsey may follow, though Jersey remains implacably opposed, fearing a loss of "competitive advantage".Efforts to lift the veil that hangs over global finance are certainly patchy.
Apart from the liability issue, Marty must consider the loss of competitive advantage that her company would suffer if it opened up its software.
Other British companies, such as airlines, faced a devastating loss of competitive advantage if the UK moves abruptly from the single market without some form of negotiated trade agreement to replace it.
However, over time a gradual loss of competitive position, coupled with open conflict among cliques in the form of union disputes, led to the dismissal of the vice president.
For others, who perhaps have a commanding market share or are operating in protected markets, concern for the firm's people, culture, and heritage can all too easily slide into complacency, inward focus, and loss of competitive vitality.
Social decline, on the other hand, describes the loss of competitive employment after illness onset, followed by prolonged periods of unemployment and difficulties to re-enter the labor market.
Faced with persistently high unemployment, an increasingly integrated world capital market and a rapid loss of competitive position to Japan, European governments gradually abandoned their attempts at bargained national accommodation with organized labour and gave preference to supply-side policies of competitive restructuring.
"It is clear that the plaintiffs have made substantial investments in the development and protection of their brand-specific ingredient information," Judge O'Toole wrote, "and that there would be a substantial loss of competitive advantage if they were required to disclose that information for publication by the Commonwealth".
