In Europe, the past twenty years saw a process of liberalisation, deregulation and unprecedented financial sector reform whose main aims were to increase competition and remove all remaining barriers to the integration of EU banking sectors. However, the recent acceleration in the consolidation process has raised concerns about the potential implications for public policies deriving from increa...

Coexistence of host-specific herbivores on plants is believed to be governed by interspecific interactions, but few empirical studies have systematically unraveled these dynamics. We investigated the role of several factors in promoting coexistence among the aphids Aphis nerii, Aphis asclepiadis, and Myzocallis asclepiadis that all specialize on common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca). Competitive ...

Background. Considering that a person's physical and psychological possibilities are not limitless, the technical means used by athletes are of great importance. In order to achieve high results in the kayak sprint competition, users-athletes orient to the highest quality products; therefore, a significant task falls to their manufacturers to analyze the competitors' products, evaluate users' n...

Three sets of neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) used to type the outer capsid protein VP7 of four group A rotavirus serotypes (1 through 4) were compared in competition immunoassays. Reciprocal competition was observed for each of the VP7 type 2-, 3-, and 4-specific MAbs. The VP7 type 1 MAbs exhibited variable competition patterns with other VP7 type 1 MAbs. MAb RV4:3, which has been us...

Much research has explored how spoken word recognition is influenced by the architecture and dynamics of the mental lexicon (e.g., Luce and Pisoni, 1998; McClelland and Elman, 1986). A more recent question is whether the processes underlying word recognition are unique to the auditory domain, or whether visually perceived (lipread) speech may also be sensitive to the structure of the mental lex...

OBJECTIVE To identify risk factors such as signalment, previous competition miles completed, ride characteristics, and physical examination variables associated with the elimination of horses during endurance competitions. DESIGN Retrospective observational study. SAMPLE Veterinary records for 3,493 endurance horse competition starts. PROCEDURES Records were requested of all sanctioned 20...

Competition is an important biotic interaction that influences survival and reproduction. While competition on ecological timescales has received great attention, little is known about competition on evolutionary timescales. Do competitive abilities change over hundreds of thousands to millions of years? Can we predict competitive outcomes using phenotypic traits? How much do traits that confer...

Ecological communities are structured by processes operating at multiple spatial scales, which results in an often daunting complexity. Here we present a simple graphical theory to study the interaction of two fundamental community processes: resource competition at the local scale and dispersal at the regional scale. We consider a metacommunity model with two habitat patches in which consumer ...

abstract: after the end of the cold war, were came up different views about nature and how to continue rival in international relations. some scholars of these fields were believe that with the end of ideological competition in the macro level in the world and with any rival hegemonic there is not any basis for more competition between countries and power blocks in the world . so it consider th...

1 Nucleocytoplasmic Transport: A Role for Non-Specific Competition in Karyopherin-Nucleoporin Interactions Jaclyn Tetenbaum-Novatt, Loren E. Hough, Roxana Mironska, Anna Sophia McKenney, Michael P. Rout The Laboratory of Cellular and Structural Biology, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA. Corresponding author: Michael P. Rout ([email protected]) Running ti...