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Comparative negligence, or non-absolute contributory negligence outside of the United States, is a partial legal defense that reduces the amount of damages that a plaintiff can recover in a negligence-based claim based upon the degree to which the plaintiff's own negligence contributed to cause the injury.

Comparative fault and contributory negligence are not the same as in pari delicto, though all of these doctrines have similar policy rationales.

Much work has been done on the reconstruction of Proto-Mon – Khmer in Harry L. Shorto's Mon – Khmer Comparative Dictionary.

Comparative reconstruction has the status of an explanatory theory for facts already established by language classification ( Greenberg, 1957: 45 ).

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

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.

Comparative genomic analysis has led to the identification of 15 proteins which are uniquely found in members of the genus < i > Campylobacter </ i > and serve as molecular markers for the genus.

Comparative linguistics has the goal of constructing language families, reconstructing proto-languages, and specifying the changes that have resulted in the documented languages.

Comparative history, to which his approach belongs, has been in the doldrums.

It has been reconstructed from loanwords in Old French and from Old Dutch ( see also Comparative method ).

Comparative genomic analysis has led to the identification of 11 proteins which are uniquely found in members of the family < i > Helicobacteraceae </ i >.

With his wife Holly, Wolff has four children: Hew, a computer programmer living in Oakland, CA ; Tamsen, a professor of Drama and English at Princeton University ; Nicholas, a graduate student in Archaeology at Boston University ; and Tristram, a graduate student in Comparative Literature at University of California Berkeley.

Comparative anatomy has long served as evidence for evolution, it indicates that various organisms share a common ancestor.

The Education Arcade, which began as a collaboration between Microsoft and MIT's Comparative Media Studies program, has used the Aurora toolset combined with custom content to convert the game into a teaching tool, simulating the environment and setting of Colonial America during the American Revolution.

This eclecticism has led critics ( from within and without ) to charge that Comparative Literature is insufficiently well-defined, or that comparatists too easily fall into dilettantism, because the scope of their work is, of necessity, broad.

The discipline of Comparative Literature has scholarly associations such as the ICLA: International Comparative Literature Association and comparative literature associations exists in many countries: for a list of such see BCLA: British Comparative Literature Association ; for the US, see ACLA: American Comparative Literature Association.

Like the French School, German Comparative Literature has its origins in the late 19th century.

Casper has been elected to membership in the American Law Institute, the International Academy of Comparative Law, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Orden Pour le mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste ( Order Pour le mérite for the Sciences and Arts ), and the American Philosophical Society.

Comparative genomic analysis has led to the identification of 27 proteins which are present in most species of the phylum < i > Bacteroidetes </ i >.

Rakugo has been described as " a sitcom with one person playing all the parts " by Noriko Watanabe, assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at Baruch College.

The irrational-mystic approach to the study of religion also has its proponents ( one could mention the tradition of Rudolf Otto and his classic The Holy ( 1917 ) here ), but in the Comparative Religion field, Gulkowitsch ’ s approach, if somehow modified, could today be considered mainstream.

Comparative genomic analysis has led to the identification of 31 signature proteins which are specific for the methanogens ( also known as < i > Methanoarchaeota </ i >).

Within the last two years he has taught several undergraduate classes including Astronomy Methods and Instrumentation, Comparative Planetology, Modern Physics, and Astrobiology.

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 ).

Comparative law may also provide insights into the question of legal transplants, i. e. the transplanting of law and legal institutions from one system to another.

Mayr joined the faculty of Harvard University in 1953, where he also served as director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology from 1961 to 1970.

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.

Bloomfield was Instructor in German at the University of Cincinnati, 1909 – 1910 ; Instructor in German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1910 – 1913 ; Assistant Professor of Comparative Philology and German, also University of Illinois, 1913 – 1921 ; Professor of German and Linguistics at the Ohio State University, 1921 – 1927 ; Professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Chicago, 1927 – 1940 ; Sterling Professor of Linguistics at Yale University, 1940-1949.

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.

Comparative ananlysis of genomic sequences have also identified 5 conserved signature indels in important proteins which are uniquely found in members of the genus < i > Rickettsia </ i >.

Comparative linguistics also may provide evidence as the Chumash word for " sewn-plank canoe ," tomolo ' o, may have been derived from kumulā ' au, the Polynesian word for the redwood logs used in that construction.

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

He was also a manager of the 1907-founded Comparative Law Bureau of the American Bar Association, whose Annual Bulletin was the first comparative law journal in the U. S.

Comparative borrowing assessments may also affected by crowding out effects.

LaFree is also on the editorial boards of several scientific journals including the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology and the International Journal of Conflict and Violence.

He was also, at the same time, director of the university's Institute for Comparative Law and Commercial Law.

Comparative studies of pregnant women suggest that excessive amounts of liquorice ( 100g a week ) may also adversely affect both IQ and behaviour traits of offspring.

Comparative anatomy supports Darwin's theory of descent with modification, also known as evolution.

Comparative techniques, expert opinions, and the results of scientific tests may also be used to these ends, but establishing provenance is essentially a matter of documentation.

Work considered foundational to the discipline of Comparative Literature include Transylvanian Hungarian Hugo Meltzl de Lomnitz's scholarship, also the founding editor of the journal Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum ( 1877 ) and Irish scholar H. M. Posnett's Comparative Literature ( 1886 ).

Today, the French School practices the nation-state approach of the discipline although it also promotes the approach of a " European Comparative Literature.

In its early years, it was known as Comparative Religion or the Science of Religion and, in the USA, there are those who today also know the field as the History of religion ( associated with methodological traditions traced to the University of Chicago in general, and in particular Mircea Eliade, from the late 1950s through to the late 1980s ).

Apart from the Media Lab, the building also hosts the List Visual Arts Center, the School of Architecture and Planning's Program in Art, Culture and Technology ( ACT ), and MIT's Program in Comparative Media Studies.

Peter John Ucko FRAI FSA ( 27 July 1938-14 June 2007 ) was an influential English archaeologist, noted for being the Professor Emeritus of Comparative Archaeology and also the former Executive Director of University College London's Institute of Archaeology.