Competition or complement

Complement-fixing antibodies in cattle experimentally infected with Theileria annulata or vaccinated with tissue cultures

P183: Key Function of Complement System in Interactions between Pain and Nociceptors, C5a, and C3a

A part of the immune system that improves (complements) the ability of antibodies and phagocytic cells to clear microorganisms and injured cells from an organism, attacks the pathogen's cell membrane, and encourages inflammation called complement system. It is main part of immune system. Over thirty proteins and protein pieces compose the complement system, including cell membrane receptors, an...

Competition in Healthcare: Good, Bad or Ugly?

The role of competition in healthcare is much debated. Despite a wealth of international experience in relation to competition, evidence is mixed and contested and the debate about the potential role for competition is often polarised. This paper considers briefly some of the reasons for this, focusing on what is meant by “competition in healthcare” and why it is more valuable to think about th...

Culture, competition, and happiness

Drawing on individual data from the World Values Surveys, this paper estimates the importance of cultural differences in determining the relation between individual feelings about competition and self-reported happiness. Cultural differences are measured by the ethnic origin: Asians, Blacks and Whites. In general, people who think competition is good are associated to the same (high) level of h...

Complement coercion is not modulated by competition: evidence from eye movements.

An eye-movement study examined the processing of expressions requiring complement coercion (J. Pustejovsky, 1995), in which a noun phrase that does not denote an event (e.g., the book) appears as the complement of an event-selecting verb (e.g., began the book). Previous studies demonstrated that these expressions are more costly to process than are control expressions that can be processed with...

Competition Policy and Property Rights

One of the most controversial questions in current competition policy is when, if ever, should competition law require a …rm with market power to share its property, notably intellectual property, with its rivals? And if supply is required, on what terms? These questions are discussed with reference to recent law cases including the EC Microsoft judgment of 2007 and the US linkLine case of 2009...