today, such organizations are successful and can continue to grow and survive in the competitive conditions that try to make use of thoughts and new ideas and identify needs and environmental opportunities and exploit to their benefit the actions that other organizations are doing in order to gain a competitive advantage and thereby, they can prevent the possible threats that will arise in the ...

In this paper, we formulate a three-species ecological community model consisting of two aphid species (Acyrthosiphon pisum and Megoura viciae) and a specialist parasitoid (Aphidius ervi) that attacks only one of the aphids (A pisum). The model incorporates both density-mediated and trait-mediated host-parasitoid interactions. Our analysis shows that the model possesses much richer and more rea...

Grounded in social facilitation theory, this study compared the impact on exercise intensity of a virtual versus a live competitor, when riding a virtual reality-enhanced stationary bike ("cybercycle"). It was hypothesized that competitiveness would moderate effects. Twenty-three female college students were exposed to three conditions on a cybercycle: solo training, virtual competitor, and liv...

Pricing series reflect multiple decisions (e.g., regular pricing and discounting) often made by multiple decision makers. For example, temporary price reductions (high frequency price changes) can be used to price discriminate in the short run, while regular price adjustments (low frequency price changes) reflect more strategic or long-term goals. It is therefore not implausible that the “react...

Competition structures ecological communities and alters host-pathogen interactions. In environmentally transmitted pathogens, an infection-resistant competitor may influence infection dynamics in a susceptible species through the negative impacts of competition (e.g., by reducing host density or causing nutritional stress that increases susceptibility to infection) and/or the positive impacts ...

It is conventionally assumed that, when animals evaluate alternative options, the value assigned to an option is absolute and independent of the other options available. It follows that animal choices should exhibit the rational property of regularity whereby the proportion of choices for an option cannot be increased by the addition of further options to the choice set. However, violations of ...

From Figure A, protein bands on SurePAGE were more evenly distributed compared to competitor B’s Tris-Glycine gel, in which proteins in the middle parts of the gel were clustered. In addition, more bands were visualized on SurePAGE compared to both competitor B and homemade Tris-Glycine gels (zoomed panel). Lastly, SurePAGE offers slightly better resolution compared to Competitor T’s Bis-Tris g...

Foreign acquisitions are perceived as threats to organizational identification. Consequently, they trigger members’ sensemaking on their relationship with the organization. Analyzing these processes is fundamental understanding how members interpret identity-threatening events and which logics motives underlie We conducted interviews 28 of a German company that had been acquired by Chinese comp...