Dryland vegetation is inherently patchy. Th is patchiness goes on to impact ecology, hydrology, and biogeochemistry. Recently, researchers have proposed that dryland vegetation patch sizes follow a power law which is due to local plant facilitation. It is unknown what patch size distribution prevails when competition predominates over facilitation, or if such a pattern could be used to detect c...

Competition in the business world is getting tougher and tighter. This encourages entrepreneurs, both large small scale, to compete face competition strive for their continue exist. One of ways that entrepreneurs do expanding open a franchise system or franchise. The essence franchising contract agreement regarding distribution goods services consumers. In between giver franchisee, there are ri...

The utterance planning processes allowing speakers to produce agreement between subjects and verbs (the catspl arepl asleep) have been the topic of extensive study as a window into language production mechanisms. A key question has been the extent to which agreement processing is influenced by semantic and phonological factors. Most prior studies have found limited effects of non-syntactic, par...

A fundamental question is whether people have available one category learning system, or many. Most multiple systems advocates postulate one explicit and one implicit system. Although there is much agreement about the nature of the explicit system, there is less agreement about the nature of the implicit system. In this article, we review a dual systems theory of category learning called compet...