Comparative biomechanics is the application of biomechanics to non-human organisms, whether used to gain greater insights into humans ( as in physical anthropology ) or into the functions, ecology and adaptations of the organisms themselves.

Comparative biomechanics overlaps strongly with many other fields, including ecology, neurobiology, developmental biology, ethology, and paleontology, to the extent of commonly publishing papers in the journals of these other fields.

Comparative law is the study of differences and similarities between the law of different countries.

Comparative law is an academic study of separate legal systems, each one analysed in its constitutive elements ; how they differ in the different legal systems, and how their elements combine into a system.

Comparative civil law studies, for instance, show how the law of private relations is organised, interpreted and used in different systems or countries.

Comparative law is a very important discipline in communication between legal systems.

Comparative law is different from the fields of general jurisprudence ( legal theory ), international law, including both public international law and private international law ( also known as conflict of laws ).

Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Comparative Literature at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he directs the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition which consists of himself and his graduate students, forming the " Fluid Analogies Research Group " ( FARG ).

Comparative psychology also studies animal behaviour, but, as opposed to ethology, is construed as a sub-topic of psychology rather than as one of biology.

Jacob M. Appel's widely anthologized short story, A Comparative Seismology, features a con artist who convinces an elderly woman that an apocalyptic earthquake is imminent.

Bopp's Comparative Grammar, which appeared between 1833 and 1852, is the beginning of Indo-European studies as an academic discipline.

Comparative mythology is the systematic comparison of myths from different cultures.

Comparative politics is the science of comparison and teaching of different types of constitutions, political actors, legislature and associated fields, all of them from an intrastate perspective.

Comparative negligence has also been criticized, since it would allow a plaintiff who is recklessly 95 % negligent to recover 5 % of the damages from the defendant, and often more when a jury is feeling sympathetic.

Founded at a conference in 1961 in Salzburg, Austria, that was attended by Othmar Anderlie, Pitirim Sorokin, and Arnold Toynbee, this is an international association of scholars that publishes a journal, Comparative Civilization Review, and hosts an annual meeting in cities around the world.

Comparative rectitude is a doctrine used to determine which spouse is more at fault when both spouses are guilty of breaches.

His books The Myth of Mental Illness ( 1960 ) and The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement ( 1970 ) set out some of the arguments with which he is most associated.

A further and more recent approach is Comparative cultural studies, based on the discipline of comparative literature and Cultural Studies.

Comparative linguistics is now, however, only a part of a more broadly conceived discipline of historical linguistics.

Comparative linguistics ( originally comparative philology ) is a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages in order to establish their historical relatedness.

* The case of the Maya people's pozol drink is discussed in The New England Journal of International and Comparative Law and at Global Exchange

Comparative information is required for the prior reporting period ( IAS 1. 36 ).

In 1973, Harvard promoted him to Professor of Geology and Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at the institution's Museum of Comparative Zoology and very often described himself as a taxonomist.

The terms " Comparative Literature " and " World Literature " are often used to designate a similar course of study and scholarship.

Comparative studies indicate that such estimates are often flawed, preventing improvements in Pareto and Kaldor-Hicks efficiency.

Comparative life-cycle analysis is often used to determine a better process or product to use.

Comparative genomic hybridization ( CGH ) or Chromosomal Microarray Analysis ( CMA ) is a molecular-cytogenetic method for the analysis of copy number changes ( gains / losses ) in the DNA content of a given subject's DNA and often in tumor cells.

Comparative education is often incorrectly assumed to exclusively encompass studies that compare two or more different countries.

The Comparative method was formally developed in the 19th century and applied first to Indo-European languages.

After 1945 he studied Comparative Literature and Germanics, but attended other courses as well, such as esthetics or medicine.

Politics of Federal Intervention in Malaysia, with reference to Kelantan, Sarawak and Sabah, Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Vol.

Comparative genomics, together with functional studies, has led to a significant advance in this field over the past years.

However, by 1815, with the publication of physician Gilbert Blane's On the Comparative Health of the British Navy from 1779 to 1814, the efficacy of portable soup for promoting the health of sailors was found lacking.

Comparative genomics also established that a specific class of transposable elements, the Diatom Copia-like retrotransposons ( or CoDis ), has been significantly amplified in the P. tricornutum genome with respect to T. pseudonana, constituting 5. 8 and 1 % of the respective genomes.

Other members included theorist Raoul Vaneigem, the Dutch painter Constant Nieuwenhuys, the Italo-Scottish writer Alexander Trocchi, the English artist Ralph Rumney ( sole member of the London Psychogeographical Association, Rumney suffered expulsion relatively soon after the formation ), the Danish artist Asger Jorn ( who after parting with the SI also founded the Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism ), the architect and veteran of the Hungarian Uprising Attila Kotanyi, and the French writer Michele Bernstein.

Upon his graduation from Harvard, he took up a position with the school as an instructor and Assistant Professor in Comparative Psychology.

** University of Hamburg with Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law-PhD in maritime law

Comparative morphology of Haast's Eagle with its Common descent | closest living relative, the Little Eagle

His work included A Comparative Grammar of South African Languages and his great project jointly executed with Lucy Lloyd: The Bleek and Lloyd Archive of ǀxam and! kun texts.

She followed this, again at the publisher's request, with A Laboratory Manual for Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy ( 1922 ), which also had great success.

His next work was a large treatise, Comparative Embryology, in two volumes ; the first, published in 1880, dealing with the Invertebrates, and the second ( 1881 ) with the Vertebrates.

Darwin assumed that larvae arose from the same stock as adults, but Balfour believed that virtually all larvae are ‘ secondary ’, i. e. they “ have become introduced into the ontogeny of species, the young of which were originally hatched with all the characters of the adult ” ( Comparative Embyology, Vol 2, p300 ).

* Collaborated with Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, in biometry and evolutionary theory, 1891 – 1906

Comparative religion is that branch of the study of religions concerned with the systematic comparison of the doctrines and practices of the world's religions.

In 1963, with the assistance of sympathetic westerners, he received a Spalding sponsorship to study Comparative Religion at Oxford University in England.

He quickly attracted one hundred pupils, and in 1971, with the support of the Institute for Comparative Study, he inaugurated the International Academy for Continuous Education, in the village of Sherborne, Gloucestershire, England.

A Comparative Study of J. C. Powys, T. F. Powys and Llewelyn Powys, with special reference to the influence of their private religions in their literary work.

He won the Newdigate prize with a poem on the Apollo Belvidere in 1812, was elected a fellow of Brasenose in 1814, and in 1816 won the English essay prize with his Comparative Estimate of Sculpture and Painting.

A skeleton of Deinonychus, including bones from the original ( and most complete ) AMNH 3015 specimen, can be seen on display at the American Museum of Natural History, with another specimen on display at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.