Comparisons, which are most commonly planned, can be either simple or compound.

Comparisons with Homer can be unflattering.

Comparisons with Homer, a native Ionian, can be unflattering.

Comparisons between hypnotised and non-hypnotised subjects suggest that if a " hypnotic trance " does exist it only accounts for a small proportion of the effects attributed to hypnotic suggestion, most of which can be replicated without hypnotic induction.

Comparisons can be drawn between Round the Horne and the American sketch comedy television series Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In ( 1968 – 1973 ).

Comparisons of lifters and scores across different weight classes can also be made using handicapping systems such as the Wilks formula.

Comparisons can also be drawn with the Mesopotamian monster Tiamat and its slaying by Babylonian chief god Marduk.

Comparisons between original scientific reports and derivative science journalism and popular science typically reveal at least some level of distortion and oversimplification which can often be quite dramatic, even with politically neutral scientific topics.

Comparisons have been made with artists such as James McNeill Whistler and Edvard Munch, but as of 1905, her paintings take on a characteristic that can be attributed to her alone ; she continued experimenting with various techniques, e. g., different types of underpaintings.

Comparisons of past data with the present in the U. S. can result in distortions, due to a significant population increase and since the level of large commercial truck traffic has substantially increased from the 1960s while highway capacity has not kept pace with the increase in large commercial truck traffic on U. S. highways.

Comparisons between the centurion grades and modern officer ranks can lead to many incorrect assumptions.

Comparisons can be drawn between the Klondike gold rush and the events in Rustenburg in the late 20th and early 21st century which led to it becoming one of the fastest growing cities in South Africa.

Comparisons between experimental animals and human Cytochrome P450 ( CYP ) strongly suggest animal carcinogenicity data can be extrapolated to humans.

Comparisons of drugs, medical devices, tests, surgeries, or ways to deliver health care can help patients and their families understand what treatments work best and how their risks compare.

The Agency CM can represent the owner by helping to select the design team as well as the construction team and manage the design preventing scope creep, helping the owner stay within a pre-determined budget by performing Value Engineering, Cost / Benefit Analysis and Best Value Comparisons.

Comparisons can easily be drawn from this part to where the same phrase In the beginning first occurs along with the emphasis on the difference between the darkness ( such as the earth was formless and void, ) vs light ( the ability to see things not understood / hidden by the darkness, ).

Comparisons have also been drawn to Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, for the presence of two central characters who almost appear to be two halves of a single character.

Comparisons with the Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels ( gepei ’ er ( 戈培尔 )) also spread.

Comparisons have also been made with the name of Zemelo & Žemelė, the Phrygian and Lithuanian goddess of the earth, and with the Lithuanian chthonic god Žemeliūkštis.

Comparisons have also been made between Daniel and Kenny from the cartoon series South Park.

Comparisons and other symbolic devices are also found their range including straightforward comparisons, epithets, metaphores, synecdoches, allegories, personifications and parallelisms where seemingly unrelated concepts are used likening events from nature to human life and different social classes.

Comparisons between the raid on Guernica and the fate of other cities during the conflict are also telling.

Comparisons have also been made with the Soviet process of glasnost, though this was not mainly focused on the past but rather on achieving a level of open criticism necessary for progressive reform to take place ( which generally assumed the maintenance of a continued monopoly of the Communist Party ).

Comparisons have also been made to a statement by Isidore of Seville to the effect that the river Tanais ( now the Don ) had been named for one " Tanus ", an ancestral king of Scythia.

Comparisons have also been made between the work of Dawson and German sociologist and historian Max Weber.

Comparisons of the game to its forerunner ( Doom ) and to other similar games of the day were also often unfavorable to Chex Quest, which was pejoratively labeled a " Doom clone ," and the game was regarded as an imitation with little to no innovation.

" Comparisons were also made to Tim Burton's eponymous film about the director, Ed Wood.

" Ipsative Comparisons " are also sometimes used in standardized testing to compare significant differences in subtest scores.

Comparisons of species are used to examine interspecific or evolutionary allometry ( see also Phylogenetic comparative methods ).

Comparisons of the list of drugs most commonly implicated in adverse drug reactions with the list of metabolizing enzymes with known polymorphisms found that drugs commonly involved in adverse drug reactions were also those that were metabolized by enzymes with known polymorphisms ( see Phillips, 2001 ).

Comparisons with the Klemm collection of Egyptian rock samples showed a close resemblance to rock from a small granodiorite quarry at Gebel Tingar on the west bank of the Nile, west of Elephantine in the region of Aswan ; the pink vein is typical of granodiorite from this region.

Comparisons between the scleral rings of Velociraptor, Protoceratops, and modern birds and reptiles indicates that Velociraptor may have been nocturnal, while Protoceratops may have been cathemeral, active throughout the day during short intervals, suggesting that the fight may have occurred at twilight or during low-light conditions.

Comparisons were being made to David Bowie, though Suede sounded nothing quite like anybody else around at the time, and soon they fell upon what critics quickly deemed was a new movement.

Comparisons of segments of the hit songs played at the time of the broadcast, minutes before the blackout happened, in this aircheck, as compared to the same song recordings played at normal speed reveal that approximately six minutes before blackout the line frequency was 56 Hz, and just two minutes before the blackout that frequency dropped to 51 Hz.

Comparisons have shown stapedotomy to yield either as good or better results than stapedectomy ( measured by hearing improvement and reduction in the air-bone hearing gap, and especially at higher sound frequencies ), and to be less prone to complications.

Comparisons between the scleral rings of several dromaeosaurids ( Microraptor, Sinornithosaurus, and Velociraptor ) and modern birds and reptiles indicate that some dromaeosaurids ( including Microraptor and Velociraptor ) may have been nocturnal predators, while Sinornithosaurus is inferred to be cathemeral ( active throughout the day at short intervals ).

Comparisons between the scleral rings of several sauropodmorph genera ( Diplodocus, Lufengosaurus, Nemegtosaurus, Plateosaurus, and Riojasaurus ) and modern birds and reptiles suggest that they may have been cathemeral, active throughout the day at short intervals.

Comparisons of the deleterious effects between these and other pairs of competitors to arrive at a conclusion.

Comparisons between the scleral rings of Sinornithosaurus and modern birds and reptiles indicate that it may have been cathemeral, active throughout the day at short intervals.

Comparisons will be made against the differences in the density of water at 3. 98 ° C and 5 ° C.

Comparisons between the scleral rings of Corythosaurus and modern birds and reptiles suggest that it may have been cathemeral, active throughout the day at short intervals.

Comparisons between the scleral rings of two ornithomimosaur genera ( Garudimimus and Ornithomimus ) and modern birds and reptiles indicate that they may have been cathemeral, active throughout the day at short intervals.

Comparisons between the scleral rings of Herrerasaurus and modern birds and reptiles suggest that it may have been cathemeral, active throughout the day at short intervals.

" Comparisons with European phenomena lead Serbian intellectuals and publicists such as Tihomir Ostojić, Ilija M. Petrović, Božidar Kovačević and Vladeta Vuković to reduce it to an imitation or at best thorough influence of Byron.

Comparisons between the scleral rings of Riojasaurus and modern birds and reptiles suggest that it may have been cathemeral, active throughout the day at short intervals.

Comparisons between the scleral rings of Pterodaustro and modern birds and reptiles suggest that it may have been nocturnal, and may have had similar activity patterns to modern anseriform birds that feed at night.

Comparisons between the scleral rings of Tapejara and modern birds and reptiles suggest that it may have been cathemeral, active throughout the day at short intervals.

In addition, the Division of International Labor Comparisons at the Bureau of Labor Statistics compiles international comparisons of the HICP for different countries.

Comparisons between the scleral rings of Garudimimus and modern birds and reptiles indicate that it may have been cathemeral, active throughout the day at short intervals.

Comparisons of traditional texts ( eg the Aethiopica of Heliodorus of Emesa ) with the corresponding summaries at Photios word of caution.