Perhaps buoyed by his run to the quarterfinals here last year, Nishikori became a more solid, reliable competitor in 2012.
Among competing individuals, a signal has been suggested to remain reliable when competitors at least partially share an interest in common (Lachmann and Bergstrom 1998; Szamado 2011).
Unlike other tankless water heaters, the Model 1 natively accepts different household voltages and employs a water heating element that's much more reliable than competitor's units.
The company has attributed the increase to, among other things, products that it says are better and more reliable than those of competitors and to better service to doctors.
The GT1 class cars proved themselves to be the most reliable, losing only two competitors over the 24 hours.
"Linode is a great competitor, they offer reliable Linux virtual servers and have been around for a long time," said Mitch Wainer II, marketing and design guru at DigitalOcean.
Honeywell believes that Jetwave is faster and more reliable than the current products from competitors like GoGo, the major incumbent in airplane Wi-Fi, and ViaSat, a general satellite internet company that's moved strongly into the airplane space.
That market, which Sony once dominated, has struggled as new technologies and competitors gnawed into once-reliable income from the manufacture of televisions, portable music players and video games.
Unlike some competitors, Novartis has gotten a reliable flow of new drugs from its research pipeline, and its bottom line has suffered little damage so far from generic competitors.
By designing server computers that bundle up to 64 processors and by working to make sure customers had access to plenty of reliable system management software, Sun vaulted past competitors like Compaq and Hewlett-Packard.
