"We wanted to take a childhood game and make it competitive for adults," said Mr. Tobias, who calls himself and his partners, including Eric Pavony, 32, the C.E.O.'s, or "Skee-EOs," of the tournament.
The results proved that the Ni/Ca-HA1_S catalyst could be easily regenerated under different atmospheres and make it competitive for dry reforming of methane.
You want to make it competitive, hard for him and I wasn't able to do that.
Massive federal subsidies for the use of renewable natural gas are making it competitive with cheap geologic gas for transportation fuel.
The high desorption temperature and slow desorption kinetics of MgH2 makes it less competitive for future mobile applications; using a catalyst accompanied by mechanical milling seems to be a good solution to overcome those problems.
The strong dependence of gelatin ionization with pH makes it a competitive candidate for DNA encapsulation [19].
Slack's momentum in picking up new users — it currently has 2.3 million daily active users, 675,000 of them paying — makes it a competitive threat for others who are hoping to lead in enterprise collaboration services.
"Of course, we're regularly working with our European partners to reform the EU to make it more competitive, for example at the last summit the PM worked with Hollande and Merkel to secure agreement that the EU will identify areas where it an withdraw legislation that is no longer necessary".
Oxford did at least manage to issue a statement justifying its own poor performance, although the English left something to the imagination: "One thing which can be overlooked is that, partly as a result of our outreach work, the overall number of applications has been rising year on year, making it more competitive for everyone".
Kicking off the event with onstage remarks, Y Combinator founder Paul Graham said that he feels like the contracted size of this class means that there are essentially no weak startups in the bunch — which will make it more competitive for the investors on hand.
