"We had many more competitive applications than money available to award," said Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in a press conference this afternoon.
For this reason, many regard as short-sighted Governor McGreevey's decision to cut off financing for the state's Commission for Science and Technology, which provides seed money for researchers to submit more competitive grants application to Washington.
The automaker's goal in this purchase to make its cars more competitive through application of the high-technology expertise of Hughes failed to materialize to the extent expected.
Speakers at the event pointed out that even as the contest was becoming more competitive, the application process was changing.
Be prepared for a more competitive and longer application process.
Besides making Oak more competitive in the application process, volunteer teaching also increased his motivation.
One cost to consider in the early planning: several years of additional English or math lessons, an expense that can make foreign students more competitive during the application process.
And at least in theory, more operating systems and applications makers would mean more innovation, more competition, more competitive pricing and, eventually, more store shelves full of software made by entrepreneurs.
Although the efficiency of multilayered InP/ZnS core/shell QD-LEDs is still not enough for the practical applications such as displays in this work, the development of QD-LEDs with environment-friendly materials, low cost, and high performance remains a key issue to make them more competitive for practical applications.
Polymers are more competitive for PnC applications due to their sufficiently high mechanical impedance to be able to open a complete phononic bandgap, compared to their relatively low refractive indices that leads to only partial optical bandgaps.
