Gold Sponsor RIKEN BASE (Bioinformatics And Systems Engineering Division) introduced a rational genome design contest (GenoCon) on a new informational semantic-web platform that links business and educational communities in the field of synthetic biology.
Mr Komorowski has framed the election as a contest between a "rational Poland in the heart of united Europe" and a "radical Poland…on Europe's peripheries", a reference to PiS's history of xenophobic (and specifically anti-German) rhetoric.
And as it turns out, "The Taste" takes the "Voice" format — blind auditions producing "teams" of contestants chosen by four judges who double as mentors — and turns it into something better than the original, if your definition of a better reality contest includes more rational and less insulting to the intelligence.
Within an organization, a bounded rational principal organizes a promotion contest based on a sequence of tests regarding candidates' relative performances.
The ability to contest ideas in a rational and systematic manner is one of the benefits acquired through teaching and learning ethics.
A potzer is not rational (otherwise, he would have avoided the contest in the first place), and this one was determined to fight it out to the end.
There are also explanations that hark back to Keynes's beauty-contest model, in which perfectly rational investors choose to run with the crowd rather than reacting to fundamentals.
At other times, in other contests, that logic - the rational assumption that the superior will always beat the valiant subordinate - stood firm, despite all the emotion and industry aimed at it.
Turning to a different body of literature, feminist political theories concerning the ethics of care contest the idea that agents are rational, detached and autonomous actors [ 32], as theorised in neo-liberal public service reforms.
This dual nature of the human condition contests the radical independence of the rational subject of Kantian autonomy or homo economicus by placing ambiguity at the heart of human experience.
