Evolution, ISSN 0014-3820, 1/2013, Volume 67, Issue 1, pp. 95 - 109
Reproductive males face a trade-off between expenditure on precopulatory male—male competition—increasing the number of females that they secure as mates—and...
Mating behavior | Spermatozoa | Contests | Ecological competition | Male animals | Evolution | Testes | Female animals | Modeling | Sperm competition | international | life‐history trade‐off | Contest competition | ejaculate allocation | scramble competition | weapons | Ejaculate allocation | Scramble competition | Weapons | Life-history trade-off | ONCORHYNCHUS-KISUTCH | EJACULATE EXPENDITURE | POPULATION-DENSITY | SECONDARY SEXUAL TRAITS | ALLOCATION STRATEGIES | PSEUDALETIA-SEPARATA | life-history trade-off | LEPOMIS-MACROCHIRUS | EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY | STALK-EYED FLIES | GENETICS & HEREDITY | SPERMATOPHORE SIZE | ECOLOGY | ALTERNATIVE REPRODUCTIVE TACTICS | Copulation | Sexual Behavior, Animal | Animals | Models, Biological | Ejaculation | Male | Spermatozoa - physiology | Evolution, Molecular | Competition (Biology) | Motility | Genetic aspects | Research | Sexual reproduction
Mating behavior | Spermatozoa | Contests | Ecological competition | Male animals | Evolution | Testes | Female animals | Modeling | Sperm competition | international | life‐history trade‐off | Contest competition | ejaculate allocation | scramble competition | weapons | Ejaculate allocation | Scramble competition | Weapons | Life-history trade-off | ONCORHYNCHUS-KISUTCH | EJACULATE EXPENDITURE | POPULATION-DENSITY | SECONDARY SEXUAL TRAITS | ALLOCATION STRATEGIES | PSEUDALETIA-SEPARATA | life-history trade-off | LEPOMIS-MACROCHIRUS | EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY | STALK-EYED FLIES | GENETICS & HEREDITY | SPERMATOPHORE SIZE | ECOLOGY | ALTERNATIVE REPRODUCTIVE TACTICS | Copulation | Sexual Behavior, Animal | Animals | Models, Biological | Ejaculation | Male | Spermatozoa - physiology | Evolution, Molecular | Competition (Biology) | Motility | Genetic aspects | Research | Sexual reproduction
Journal Article
1985, ISBN 0883854287, xii, 147
Book
The Science Teacher, ISSN 0036-8555, 08/2019, Volume 87, Issue 1, p. 61
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The Science Teacher, ISSN 0036-8555, 07/2019, Volume 86, Issue 9, p. 10
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2011, ISBN 9780521764070, xi, 290
Athenian comic drama was written for performance at festivals honouring the god Dionysos. Through dramatic action and open discourse, poets sought to engage...
History | Greek drama (Comedy) | Aristophanes | History and criticism | Criticism and interpretation
History | Greek drama (Comedy) | Aristophanes | History and criticism | Criticism and interpretation
Book
Journal of Financial Economics, ISSN 0304-405X, 01/2015, Volume 115, Issue 1, pp. 189 - 209
We exploit the deregulation of interstate bank branching laws to test whether banking competition affects innovation. We find robust evidence that banking...
Access to finance | Innovation | Banking competition | Mergers and acquisitions | MATTER | BUSINESS, FINANCE | LIQUIDITY | LAWS | FINANCE | BANKRUPTCY | DEREGULATION | ECONOMICS | Banks (Finance) | Deregulation | Innovations
Access to finance | Innovation | Banking competition | Mergers and acquisitions | MATTER | BUSINESS, FINANCE | LIQUIDITY | LAWS | FINANCE | BANKRUPTCY | DEREGULATION | ECONOMICS | Banks (Finance) | Deregulation | Innovations
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Journal of Ecology, ISSN 0022-0477, 7/2006, Volume 94, Issue 4, pp. 725 - 739
1 Root competition is defined as a reduction in the availability of a soil resource to roots that is caused by other roots. Resource availability to...
Synecology | Ecological competition | Plant roots | Plant ecology | Essay Review | Ecology | Plants | Human ecology | Applied ecology | Soil ecology | Soil resources | root signals | allelopathy | plant diversity | soil organisms | soil resource availability | soil heterogeneity | contest competition | scramble competition | self‐inhibition | size‐asymmetric competition | Plant diversity | Root signals | Allelopathy | Soil organisms | Contest competition | Scramble competition | Self-inhibition | Soil heterogeneity | Size-asymmetric competition | Soil resource availability | INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION | DESERT SHRUBS | SHOOT COMPETITION | size-asymmetric competition | OLD-FIELD | COMMUNITY STRUCTURE | CENTAUREA-MACULOSA | BELOW-GROUND COMPETITION | SELF/NON-SELF DISCRIMINATION | self-inhibition | ECOLOGY | EXOTIC PLANT INVASION | SOIL NUTRIENT HETEROGENEITY | Environmental aspects | Roots (Botany) | Plant competition | Research | Comparative analysis | Growth
Synecology | Ecological competition | Plant roots | Plant ecology | Essay Review | Ecology | Plants | Human ecology | Applied ecology | Soil ecology | Soil resources | root signals | allelopathy | plant diversity | soil organisms | soil resource availability | soil heterogeneity | contest competition | scramble competition | self‐inhibition | size‐asymmetric competition | Plant diversity | Root signals | Allelopathy | Soil organisms | Contest competition | Scramble competition | Self-inhibition | Soil heterogeneity | Size-asymmetric competition | Soil resource availability | INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION | DESERT SHRUBS | SHOOT COMPETITION | size-asymmetric competition | OLD-FIELD | COMMUNITY STRUCTURE | CENTAUREA-MACULOSA | BELOW-GROUND COMPETITION | SELF/NON-SELF DISCRIMINATION | self-inhibition | ECOLOGY | EXOTIC PLANT INVASION | SOIL NUTRIENT HETEROGENEITY | Environmental aspects | Roots (Botany) | Plant competition | Research | Comparative analysis | Growth
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Annual Review of Entomology, ISSN 0066-4170, 1/2013, Volume 58, Issue 1, pp. 333 - 351
Immature development of parasitoid wasps is restricted to resources found in a single host that is often similar in size to the adult parasitoid. When two or...
idiobiont | development | contest competition | host immunity | scramble competition | koinobiont | gregarious development | microplitis-croceipes | interspecific competition | biological-control | endoparasitoid wasps | heteronomous hyperparasitoids | campoletis-sonorensis | lepidoptera larvae compete | heliothis-virescens | insect parasitoids | INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION | CAMPOLETIS-SONORENSIS | LEPIDOPTERA LARVAE COMPETE | HETERONOMOUS HYPERPARASITOIDS | GREGARIOUS DEVELOPMENT | HELIOTHIS-VIRESCENS | ENTOMOLOGY | MICROPLITIS-CROCEIPES | INSECT PARASITOIDS | ENDOPARASITOID WASPS | BIOLOGICAL-CONTROL | Competitive Behavior | Animals | Genetic Fitness | Insecta - parasitology | Wasps - physiology | Host-Parasite Interactions | Wasps - growth & development | Physiological aspects | Host-parasite relationships | Parasitism | Wasps | Behavior | Research | Health aspects
idiobiont | development | contest competition | host immunity | scramble competition | koinobiont | gregarious development | microplitis-croceipes | interspecific competition | biological-control | endoparasitoid wasps | heteronomous hyperparasitoids | campoletis-sonorensis | lepidoptera larvae compete | heliothis-virescens | insect parasitoids | INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION | CAMPOLETIS-SONORENSIS | LEPIDOPTERA LARVAE COMPETE | HETERONOMOUS HYPERPARASITOIDS | GREGARIOUS DEVELOPMENT | HELIOTHIS-VIRESCENS | ENTOMOLOGY | MICROPLITIS-CROCEIPES | INSECT PARASITOIDS | ENDOPARASITOID WASPS | BIOLOGICAL-CONTROL | Competitive Behavior | Animals | Genetic Fitness | Insecta - parasitology | Wasps - physiology | Host-Parasite Interactions | Wasps - growth & development | Physiological aspects | Host-parasite relationships | Parasitism | Wasps | Behavior | Research | Health aspects
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1983, ISBN 0720116856, xxxviii, 416
Book
Economics Letters, ISSN 0165-1765, 09/2013, Volume 120, Issue 3, pp. 419 - 423
We experimentally analyse simultaneous behaviour in a contest game and a public good game, whose endowment is shared. Competition for resources (i) almost...
Competition | Public good game | Experiment | Behavioural spillovers | Contest game | Endowments
Competition | Public good game | Experiment | Behavioural spillovers | Contest game | Endowments
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MATHEMATICS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH, ISSN 0364-765X, 11/2019, Volume 44, Issue 4, pp. 1245 - 1263
We introduce a mean field game with rank-based reward: competing agents optimize their effort to achieve a goal, are ranked according to their completion time,...
mean field game | rank-based reward | optimal contract | R&D competition | MATHEMATICS, APPLIED | GAMES | RISK | CONTESTS | EXTENSION | PLAYER | FINITE-STATE | OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE | SYSTEMS | Employee motivation | Analysis
mean field game | rank-based reward | optimal contract | R&D competition | MATHEMATICS, APPLIED | GAMES | RISK | CONTESTS | EXTENSION | PLAYER | FINITE-STATE | OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE | SYSTEMS | Employee motivation | Analysis
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European Economic Review, ISSN 0014-2921, 09/2017, Volume 98, pp. 111 - 125
We report on two experiments that identify incentive effects of competition. As the number of competitors increases, monetary incentives to engage in cost...
Incentive effects of competition | Behavioral industrial organization | PERFORMANCE | PRODUCT-MARKET COMPETITION | ALL-PAY AUCTIONS | FIRMS | INNOVATION | CONTESTS | ECONOMICS | RISK-AVERSION | MODEL | MANAGERIAL INCENTIVES | Monopolies | Analysis
Incentive effects of competition | Behavioral industrial organization | PERFORMANCE | PRODUCT-MARKET COMPETITION | ALL-PAY AUCTIONS | FIRMS | INNOVATION | CONTESTS | ECONOMICS | RISK-AVERSION | MODEL | MANAGERIAL INCENTIVES | Monopolies | Analysis
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Management Science, ISSN 0025-1909, 02/2007, Volume 53, Issue 2, pp. 241 - 259
We consider a single buyer who wishes to outsource a fixed demand for a manufactured good or service at a fixed price to a set of potential suppliers. We...
service quality | supplier competition | queueing analysis | outsourcing | inventory systems | Supply chain management | Management science | Service quality assurance | Nash equilibrium | Cost allocation | Mathematical functions | Outsourcing | Economic competition | Pliers | Cost functions | Inventory systems | Supplier competition | Service quality | Queueing analysis | SUBSTITUTION | MARKET | DIVERSIFICATION | MANAGEMENT | CONTRACTS | RENT-SEEKING GAMES | CONTESTS | DEMAND | OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE | TOURNAMENTS | INVENTORY MODELS | SUPPLY CHAIN | outsourcing; supplier competition; service quality; inventory systems; queueing analysis | Economic aspects | Strategic planning (Business) | Financial services industry | Competition | Demand | Studies | Quality of service | Game theory | Vendor supplier relations
service quality | supplier competition | queueing analysis | outsourcing | inventory systems | Supply chain management | Management science | Service quality assurance | Nash equilibrium | Cost allocation | Mathematical functions | Outsourcing | Economic competition | Pliers | Cost functions | Inventory systems | Supplier competition | Service quality | Queueing analysis | SUBSTITUTION | MARKET | DIVERSIFICATION | MANAGEMENT | CONTRACTS | RENT-SEEKING GAMES | CONTESTS | DEMAND | OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE | TOURNAMENTS | INVENTORY MODELS | SUPPLY CHAIN | outsourcing; supplier competition; service quality; inventory systems; queueing analysis | Economic aspects | Strategic planning (Business) | Financial services industry | Competition | Demand | Studies | Quality of service | Game theory | Vendor supplier relations
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