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

Comparisons can also look at tests of trend, such as linear and quadratic relationships, when the independent variable involves ordered levels.

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 of nova-based distance estimates to various nearby galaxies and galaxy clusters with those done with Cepheid variable stars have shown them to be of comparable accuracy.

Comparisons may be chained, for example < code > a <= b <= c </ code >.

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 of the two fully sequenced diatom genomes finds that the P. tricornutum genome includes fewer genes ( 10, 402 opposed to 11, 776 ) than T. pseudonana and no major synteny ( gene order ) could be detected between the two genomes.

Comparisons between denominational churches must be approached with caution.

Comparisons could be drawn with the reformists within the Sarkozy government in France, the moderate wing of the US Republican Party or David Cameron's Conservatives in the United Kingdom.

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 a rural state like Alaska, with the lowest population density in the United States, with that of Illinois, which includes the Chicago metropolitan area and other major cities, may not be scientifically valid because of the existence of confounding variables.

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 of the signatures allowed the movement of carbon to be.

Comparisons with Honeybus were inevitably drawn ; the sessions bled into each other causing a reunion in all but name, and record company executives were so impressed by this new work that they commissioned an album, Recital, to be released under the Honeybus name.

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

Comparisons which might be drawn between Ross and the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould ( e. g., due to their common love of Baroque music and their unconventional approaches ) are put into a fuller context by these comments from Ross in a documentary film made toward the end of his life:

Comparisons and contrasts may be marked by stress ( or by other prosodic means ), by particles like " too ", or by comparatives constructions.

Comparisons were drawn to Justin Timberlake, who did not return to band ' N Sync after his breakthrough debut solo album, Justified.

Comparisons have been drawn between them and East London band Shut Up and Dance, with both bands evolving in the early 1990s as a rapprochement between the breakbeat-driven African-diasporic musical structures of hip-hop and reggae, and the dark, European reconstruction of the techno sound popularised by the likes of Joey Beltram, CJ Bolland and Mundo Muzique.

Comparisons were drawn between Willy Wonka and musician Michael Jackson.

" Comparisons to the game Dead Rising, released for the Xbox 360 in 2006, have been drawn, Lucas Thomas of IGN saying " Zombies Ate My Neighbors is basically a comical 16-bit template for the new Xbox 360 release, Dead Rising.

Comparisons between maps of Skerries drawn in 1703 and 1760 suggest that the Hamilton family was responsible for setting out the streets of the town as they are today.

Comparisons have been drawn with Lawrence Summers, the 27th President of Harvard University, who announced his resignation on 21 February 2006 following two motions of censure.

Comparisons have been drawn with early punk bands such as The Clash, Sham 69, The Sex Pistols, and Stiff Little Fingers.

Comparisons were drawn with bills of attainder, which are specifically prohibited by the United States Constitution.

Comparisons are frequently drawn to PJ Harvey, though Round would contend that she is more directly influenced by Patti Smith.

Comparisons have been drawn between Asianux and United Linux, an attempt by SUSE, Turbolinux, Conectiva and the SCO Group to take on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comparisons have been made between Doublespeak and Orwell's descriptions on political speech from his essays Politics and the English Language in which " unscrupulous politicians, advertisers, religionists, and other doublespeakers of whatever stripe continue to abuse language for manipulative purposes ".

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.

* Tennyson's Idylls of the King: Literary Relations, Sources, Influence, Analogues, Comparisons from Victorian Web

Comparisons made between limerence and substance addiction may draw attention to the constant, free availability of the limerent's " drug of choice ," as they are essentially suffering from a chemical imbalance within the brain.

Comparisons with descendants of the princely family proved that the blood examined could not possibly stem from the hereditary prince of Baden.

Comparisons were immediately made to a scene in Bad News Bears in which the team received a donation from " Bo-Peeps Gentlemen's Club " and is required to put the logo of the strip club on their uniforms.

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

* Contrasts and Comparisons from Baroque to Modern: Tartini's Devil's Trill Sonata

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.

* Hylton, Brodie ; Ecology and Species Comparisons of the Short-Horned Lizard ( Phrynosoma douglassi ) and the Desert Horned Lizard ( Phrynosoma platyrhinos ), from the following website:

Comparisons have been made between scenes from the movies, making note of similarities in both cinematography and atmosphere, as well as the plot.