# Comparisons of mean squares, along with F-tests ... allow testing of a nested sequence of models.

Comparisons have been made between the annunciation narrative in Luke's Gospel with the Dead Sea scrolls manuscript Q4Q246:

Comparisons with Homer can be unflattering.

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

# Comparisons of the agenda of the news and entertainment media with agendas of political candidates or other activists.

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 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 with their closest free living cyanobacteria of the genus Synechococcus ( having a genome size of 3Mb with 3300 genes ) revealed that chromatophores underwent a drastic genome shrinkage.

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

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

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

Comparisons were made with Goebbels, press co-operation was swiftly withdrawn, politicians protested, and despite agreements to modify the regulation, in November he was obliged to resign the post.

Comparisons of figures in affine geometry are made with dilations which are mappings comprising the affine group A.

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 of Leir with Lear as well as the full texts of both

Comparisons between denominational churches must be approached with caution.

Comparisons with the Bank of Finland — the equivalent of the Central Bank of Ireland — which has a much more complex banking system to safeguard, show it halved its staff since the introduction of the Euro to 650.

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 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 of self-hypnosis with more traditional ' hetero -' hypnosis show that they are highly correlated.

Women of the Right: Comparisons and Interplay Across Borders ( Penn State University Press ; 2012 ) 312 pages ; scholarly essays giving a global perspective on women in right-wing politics.

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 ".

To facilitate international comparisons, some organizations, such as the OECD, Eurostat, and International Labor Comparisons Program, adjust data on unemployment for comparability across countries.

Comparisons focused on the modern nation-state and its relationships to the more traditional feudal city-state government.

Comparisons of the position of the foramen magnum in early hominid species are useful to determine how comfortable a particular species was when walking on two limbs ( bipedalism ) rather than four ( quadrupedalism ).

Comparisons of experiments on hand-raised birds to observation of birds in the wild suggest that the fear of owls and hawks is instinctual, but fear of cats is learned.

Comparisons are made between the Ambiguous Party ( complete and utter fence-sitters on all issues ) and the current parties of the day.

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 with traditional classroom environments showed that the jigsaw classroom has positive effects on academic performance, self-esteem and attitudes towards other ethnic groups.

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

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 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 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 between FOCAL and BASIC were inevitable since both languages were common on smallish computers of the same era.

Comparisons between different organizations are often difficult as they depend on specific in-house practices and policies.

Comparisons of images balanced by diagonal transforms in a number of different RGB spaces have identified several such spaces that work better than others, and better than camera or monitor spaces, for chromatic adaptation, as measured by several color appearance models ; the systems that performed statistically as well as the best on the majority of the image test sets used were the " Sharp ", " Bradford ", " CMCCAT ", and " ROMM " spaces.

Comparisons were later made to the fire aboard the CSL passenger ship Quebec, on which the fire was proven to have been deliberately set in a linen closet on August 14, 1950.

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 between different types of processors are difficult because performance varies depending on the type of task.

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, ).