Interference theory refers to the idea that when the learning of something new causes forgetting of older material on the basis of competition between the two.

In economics, the idea of monopoly is important for the study of market structures, which directly concerns normative aspects of economic competition, and provides the basis for topics such as industrial organization and economics of regulation.

The mercantilist idea that all trade was a zero sum game, in which each side was trying to best the other in a ruthless competition, was integrated into the works of Thomas Hobbes.

The English adoption can be likened to the phrases " one on one ," " head to head ," or " single combat " and conveys the idea of intense competition.

Finally, the idea of free entry with free access to technology is also often listed as a characteristic of perfectly competitive markets, probably owing to a difficulty with abandoning completely the older conception of free competition.

But while others had created Olympic contests within their countries, and broached the idea of international competition, it was Coubertin whose work would lead to the establishment of the International Olympic Committee and the organisation of the first modern Olympic Games.

The idea for reviving the Olympic Games as an international competition came to Coubertin in 1889, apparently independently of Brookes, and he spent the following five years organising an international meeting of athletes and sports enthusiasts that might make it happen.

Coubertin had originally opposed the choice of Greece, as he had concerns about the ability of a weakened Greek state to host the competition, but was convinced by Vikelas to support the idea.

Scholars have critiqued the idea that athletic competition might lead to greater understanding between cultures and, therefore, to peace.

Kip Fulbeck, who teaches Spoken Word at the University of California, Santa Barbara, responded to why he steered away from poetry slams in his classes: " I don ’ t like the idea of competition and art being put together.

Some political commentaries, including Walter Bagehot's Physics and Politics ( 1872 ), attempted to extend the idea of natural selection to competition between nations and between human races.

In economics the DC preferred competition to cooperation, supported the model of social market economy and rejected the Marxist's idea of class struggle.

While practitioners of other forms of yoga maintain that competition contradicts the idea of peace and unity, Bikram contends, " Competition is the foundation for all democratic societies.

The TV show Expedition Robinson, created by TV producer Charlie Parsons, which first aired in 1997 in Sweden ( and was later produced in a large number of other countries as Survivor ), added to the Nummer 28 / Real World template the idea of competition and elimination, in which cast members / contestants battled against each other and were removed from the show until only one winner remained.

Anne McGlone Burke, a physical education teacher with the Chicago Park District, began with the idea for a one-time Olympic-style athletic competition for people with special needs.

The etymology is uncertain, but the word seems to have originated from the conjunction of the two Latin words conserere ( meaning to tie, to join, to weave ) and certamen ( competition, fight ): the idea is that the two parts in a concerto, the soloist and the orchestra, alternate episodes of opposition, cooperation, and independence in the creation of the music flow.

The idea of a European cup competition was shaped after World War I which brought the defeat and collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The social market economic model is based upon the idea of realizing the benefits of a free market economy, especially economic performance and high supply of goods, while avoiding disadvantages such as market failure, destructive competition, concentration of economic power and anti-social effects of market processes.

This idea of an unequal relationship was however contested by John Thornton ( 1998 ), who argued that " the Atlantic slave trade was not nearly as critical to the African economy as these scholars believed " and that " African manufacturing this period was more than capable of handling competition from preindustrial Europe.

A panel game with no competition was not itself a new idea: the BBC had a history of successful quiz shows designed to allow witty celebrities to entertain where winning was not important.

Khrushchev's idea of peaceful competition with the United States rather than overt hostility did not resonate well with Peking.

Mirroring the circumstances behind the creation of the European Cup five years earlier, the idea for a pan-European cup competition contested by all of Europe's domestic cup winners came from prominent European sports journalists.

Rather than maintain an ‘ inward-looking ’ economy, the idea of catching up can be much faster with strong competition rather than the domestic competition of people with similar levels of human capital.

Officials of the Georgian Orthodox Church publicly objected to the inclusion of both religious and secular figures in the competition ( the January 2009 short list of 50 candidates included 13 saints ), as well as to the idea of having viewers put saints in rank order.

Freud's description of subjective states, involving an unconscious mind full of primal impulses, and counterbalancing self-imposed restrictions, was combined by Carl Jung ( 1875 – 1961 ) with the idea of the collective unconscious, with which the conscious mind fought or embraced.

In this circumstance, the idea of Russia involving the Southern Slavic unity under Serbian helm was favored.

The Macquarie Dictionary defines racism as: " the belief that human races have distinctive characteristics which determine their respective cultures, usually involving the idea that one ’ s own race is superior and has the right to rule or dominate others.

Distributive constructions apply a single idea to multiple members of a group, hence involving both singularities ( the idea, the group, each individual member, and the relation of idea to member ) and pluralities ( the members and the repeated relation ).

Hutton then sought evidence to support his idea that there must have been repeated cycles, each involving deposition on the seabed, uplift with tilting and erosion, and then moving undersea again for further layers to be deposited.

When seeing a still of himself and Bruce Dern in The Wild Angels, Peter Fonda had the idea of a modern Western, involving two bikers travelling around the country and eventually getting shot by hillbillies.

He seems to have some idea of revolution involving the peasants, but not the workers.

Ultima Online is the product of Richard Garriott's idea for a fantasy game involving several thousand people who can all play in a shared fantasy world.

In 1975, Lloyd Kaufman had the idea to shoot a horror film involving a health club while serving as the pre-production supervisor on the set of Rocky.

A Regional fire authority involving Covington, Maple Valley, Black Diamond, Ravensdale, Kent, and part of unincorporated King, and Pierce County has been an idea brought up for several decades.

In an interview about the development of Super Mario Sunshine with producer Takashi Tezuka and directors Yoshiaki Koizumi and Kenta Usui, it was mentioned that the game's development began with the idea of gameplay involving a water pump.

Though this idea has come under a number of interpretations, in a primary masochism the masochist undergoes a complete, not just a partial, rejection by the model or courted object ( or sadist ), possibly involving the model taking a rival as a preferred mate.

Extending this meaning, the shastra is commonly used to mean a treatise or text written in explanation of some idea, especially in matters involving religion.

He conceived the idea of composing a slow movement for one of the quartets consisting of the Emperor's hymn as theme, followed by four variations, each involving the melody played by one member of the quartet.

When White does play 5. Nc3, it is usually with the idea of continuing 5 ... Bg7 6. Be3 Nf6 7. Bc4 0-0 8. Bb3 ( forestalling any tricks involving ... Nxe4 and ... d5 ), followed by kingside castling.

In Totem and Taboo, he applied the idea of the Oedipus complex ( involving unresolved sexual feelings of, for example, a son toward his mother and hostility toward his father ) and postulated its emergence in the primordial stage of human development.

There is a theory that the origin of the idea of witches flying with their brooms is based in a ritual involving a psychoactive drug trip.

Extending this meaning, the shastra is commonly used to mean a treatise or text written in explanation of some idea, especially in matters involving religion.

This idea was later shelved, and design of Phase 3D ( on-orbit name: AO-40 ) was undertaken under direction of the project team based in Germany, involving amateur radio payloads from many countries in Europe.

This version also introduces an idea Twain was toying with at the end of his life involving a duality of the " self ", one being the " Waking Self " and the other being the " Dream Self ".

There are theoretical extensions of this idea into supersymmetric theories and theories involving extra compactified dimensions.

Of the program, U. S. Representative Leonor K. Sullivan of Missouri asserted, "... the Department of Agriculture seemed bent on outlining a possible food stamp plan of such scope and magnitude, involving some 25 million persons, as to make the whole idea seem ridiculous and tear food stamp plans to smithereens.

The idea to use gas was partly inspired by an incident involving Nebe.