Comparing characteristics of this basal angiosperm, other flowering plants and fossils may provide clues about how flowers first appeared — what Darwin called the " abominable mystery ".

Comparing the derived characteristics that all other angiosperms share with each other, but not with the Amborella Family, may give scientists clues to what features early flowering plants had and how these characteristics have evolved through time.

Comparing physic-anthropological characteristics of Tats and Mountain Jews together with information about their languages suggests no signs of ethnic unity between these two nations.

Comparing it to other ' slot ' canyons, especially those in the state of Utah ( USA ), it shows many similar characteristics.

Comparing its workings to the techniques of mass production and scientific management made famous by Henry Ford and Frederick Winslow Taylor in the United States in the early 20th century, the economist Eric Roll wrote " Neither Taylor, Ford nor any other modern experts devised anything in the way of plan that cannot be discovered at Soho before 1805 ".

Comparing the novel to King Solomon's Mines the review declared: " The book before us displays all the same qualities, and we anticipate for it a similar popularity.

Comparing Atef to the Prophet's lieutenant, he reminded those present that Atef " knew of Jihad before most of you were even born ", and warned them that he didn't want to hear any more " negative talk " about Atef.

Comparing Richards to Lemon, Bannister said, " He'd post the lineups 10 minutes before the game, and only then we'd find out who was playing and where.

Comparing David Bowie's portrayal of Warhol to others who've portrayed Warhol before this film, Paul Morrissey ( who directed many movies that Warhol produced ) said " Bowie was the best by far.

* Comparing and viewing differences between call stacks before and after performance optimization.

" Defining Moments and Recurring Myths: Comparing Canadians and Americans after the American Revolution " in The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Vol.

* Grabb, Edward, James Curtis, Douglas Baer ; " Defining Moments and Recurring Myths: Comparing Canadians and Americans after the American Revolution " The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Vol.

Comparing the cat and the mousetrap, then, one sees that the mousetrap ( which is not alive ) offers better evidence, in terms of irreducible complexity, for intelligent design than the cat.

200px < center > Comparing with provinces of Sweden, one sees many similarities.

Comparing the exonic structure shown in the first line ( green ) with the one in the second line ( yellow ) shows intron retention, whereas the comparison between the second and the third spliceform ( yellow vs. blue ) exhibits exon skipping.

Comparing the DNA sequence of an individual to that of another individual can show whether one of them was derived from the other.

Comparing a frame with adjacent frames allows detail information to be reconstructed since a given small detail may be split between more film grains from one frame to another.

Comparing to Lem's another mystery novel, The Investigation, Lem himself notes that the latter one is rather overstretched, while the story in Katar is more credible.

Comparing these two computations yields the integral, though one should take care about the improper integrals involved.

Comparing financial ratios is merely one way of conducting financial analysis.

Comparing the powers of the two tests, and, one can see that

Comparing plans of the various architects it is apparent that perhaps the most striking change, and one that has endured in the finished building, was the fact that West and Russell eliminated the rounded dome that all previous designers had suggested for the building, instead replacing it with a low conical roof.

Comparing this method of detecting extrasolar planets with other techniques such as the transit method, one advantage is that the intensity of the planetary deviation does not depend on the planet mass as strongly as effects in other techniques do.

Comparing the photos with one of Place, both agreed that Eunice Gray was definitely not Etta Place.

Comparing this waiting period with the one prescribed for a divorced woman ( three menstrual periods of the divorced woman ), one sees that the waiting period prescribed for a widow exceeds that, which is prescribed for a divorced woman by at least a month and a half.

Comparing this instrument to the photo of a typical octant at the top of the article, one can see that the only significant differences in the more modern design are:

Comparing the work of Rodgers and Hammerstein to that of Lloyd Webber, Paige has said that she finds Rodgers and Hammerstein songs more difficult to sing, and described them as challenging.

On playing some typical situations before a jury of his peers he showed some characteristics rated as unsatisfactory.

Von Baer argues that embryos will resemble each other before attaining characteristics differentiating them as part of a specific family, genus or species, but embryos are not the same as the final forms of lower organisms.

Wedding a style and story both with many noir characteristics, released the month before Lang's M, City Streets has a claim to being the first major film noir.

Configuration audits verify the system and subsystem configuration documentation complies with their functional and physical performance characteristics before acceptance into an architectural baseline.

It is often used as an insulator or housing for electrical components, due to its durability and electrical characteristics and because it can be pressed into complex shapes before firing.

Dunne sometimes flew an aircraft as a kite in order to develop it and confirm its flight characteristics, before adding an engine and flight controls, and flying it as an aeroplane.

Numerous circular junctions existed before the advent of roundabouts, including the Bath Circus world heritage site completed in 1768, the 1907 Place de l ' Etoile around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, the 1904 Columbus Circle in Manhattan, and several circles within Washington, D. C., however, the operating and entry characteristics of these circles differs considerably from modern roundabouts.

The purpose of trial excavations is to determine the extent and characteristics of archaeological potential in a given area before extensive excavation work is undertaken.

Most of the characteristics of Western films were part of 19th century popular Western fiction and were firmly in place before film became a popular art form.

If the previous miscarriage occurred after forty days, but before the fetus developed distinguishing characteristics, redemption of the first-born is still required, but the blessing said by the father is omitted.

In January 1956, a select committee was formed that examined more than 200 potential sites before Camp Cooke was chosen, essentially for the same characteristics the Army found desirable in 1941.

But its most notable characteristics is its restlessness: rarely does one mood persist for long before it is contrasted, often abruptly, with another.

He supposedly derived these characteristics from his mother, the daughter of an aristocratic New York family, who had married Richard Queen, a bluff, man-in-the-street New York Irishman, and who dies before the stories began.

He noted that " the treatment of insanity ( l ’ aliénation mentale ) without considering the differentiating characteristics of the patients distinction des espèces has been at times superfluous, rarely useful, and often harmful ", describing the partial or complete failures of some psychological approaches, as well as the harm that the usual cruel and harsh treatments caused to patients before they came to his hospital.

The electrical characteristics of the silicon are controlled by adding material like phosphorus or boron to the silicon before it is melted.

He has human characteristics, and although some say that He lives in the sky or in the clouds, Gĩkũyũ lore also says that he comes to earth from time to time to inspect it, bestow blessings and mete out punishment ( similar to God's visit of Abraham before destroying Sodom ).

Or, a washing machine and dryer may share information about load characteristics ( gentle / normal, light / full ), and synchronize their finish times so the wet laundry does not have to wait before being put in the dryer.

Like the Van Beuren studio before, Oriolo gave Felix a more domesticated and pedestrian personality, geared more toward children, and introduced now-familiar elements such as Felix's Magic Bag of Tricks, a satchel that could assume the shape and characteristics of anything Felix wanted.

Thus, the breeder has to study different breeds and types of chickens and analyze what can be expected from a certain set of characteristics before he or she starts breeding them.

Archaeological evidence indicates that humans migrated to the Western Hemisphere before the end of the Paleolithic so cultures around the world share its characteristics.

Yet another explanation is the characteristics of the wood from a time before laminating techniques.

For a solar eclipse, every exeligmos a solar eclipse of similar characteristics will occur close to the eclipse before it.

This confusion and contradiction does not oppose the genetic basis of personality traits, but does emphasize the amount of research there is still to be done before the bases of even one or two of these characteristics can be identified.

According to S. Boyd Eaton, " we are the heirs of inherited characteristics accrued over millions of years ; the vast majority of our biochemistry and physiology are tuned to life conditions that existed before the advent of agriculture some 10, 000 years ago.

This prevents manufacturers from using any old device as a varicap, they need devices with reliable, tightly specified characteristics from one batch to the next, however for small scale experimenters this is generally not an issue and individual devices can be measured and selected for the desired characteristics before insertion into a project.