Modeling that compares the effects of albedo differences between forests and grasslands suggests that expanding the land area of forests in temperate zones offers only a temporary cooling benefit.

This compares very favourably with other sub-Saharan African countries and is largely due to sustained progress in economic conditions ; between 1977 and 2008, growth averaged 4. 6 % compared with a 2. 9 % average in sub-Saharan Africa.

Biblical scholar Bruce M. Metzger notes that in one account of the Osirian cycle he dies on the 17th of the month of Athyr ( approximating to a month between October 28 and November 26 in modern calendars ), is revivified on the 19th and compares this to Christ rising on the " third day " but he thinks " resurrection " is a questionable description.

Coffee production of 14, 578, 560 tons in 2000 compares to a pre-civil war variation between 35, 000 and 40, 000 tons.

A physicist named Shevek travels between the two worlds and compares them in a literary structure much like that of Tolstoy's War and Peace.

Slack ( 2003 ) compares three groups that conducted biological research at Yale during overlapping periods between 1910 and 1970.

The appliance receiving the signals compares the difference between the two signals ( often with disregard to electrical ground ) allowing the appliance to ignore any induced electrical noise.

Evolutionary developmental biology ( evolution of development or informally, evo-devo ) is a field of biology that compares the developmental processes of different organisms to determine the ancestral relationship between them, and to discover how developmental processes evolved.

There is an affectionate relationship between the two of them, and Helen has harsh words to say for Paris, when she compares the two brothers:

Researchers at the Overseas Development Institute compares situations such as in Uganda, where during a period of annual growth of 2. 5 % between 2000 and 2003, the percentage of people living in poverty actually increased by 3. 8 %.

Sheets-Johnstone compares Rank's thought to that of three major Western philosophers — René Descartes, Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida: " Because immortality ideologies were originally recognized and in fact so named by Rank, a close examination of his writings on the subject is not only apposite but is itself philosophically rewarding ... Rank was a Freudian dissident who, in introducing the concept of immortality ideologies, traced out historical and psychological roots of ' soul-belief ' ( Seelenglaube )... chapter points up the extraordinary cogency of Rank's distinction between the rational and the irrational to the question of the human need for immortality ideologies " ( Sheets-Johnstone, 2008, p. 64 ).

Proponents of permaculture respond that this is true only if one compares data from between woodland forest and climax vegetation, but not when comparing farmland vegetation with woodland forest.

In her essay " What Nature Allows the Jealous Laws Forbid " literary critic Mary Aswell Doll compares the love between the two male protagonists of Annie Proulx ' book Brokeback Mountain ( 1997 ) with the love Myrrha has for her father in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

British author and literary critic David Langford has also noted that the relationship between Zeck and Wolfe compares to that of Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes.

To feel the effect, one compares the difference between looking straight up into a cloudless night sky for several seconds, to that of placing a sheet of paper between one's face and the sky.

She compares the properties and rights of owning cows versus owning screwdrivers, enumerating how both can be utilized to serve human purposes in many ways but, when it comes to inflicting pain, there is a vital distinction between such ' properties ': a person can legally smash or grind up a screwdriver but cannot legally torture an animal.

It is believed the central processing in the brain compares the afferent and efferent signals ; and dyspnea results when a " mismatch " occurs between the two: such as when the need for ventilation ( afferent signaling ) is not being met by physical breathing ( efferent signaling ).

The Floyd – Warshall algorithm compares all possible paths through the graph between each pair of vertices.

* Material efficiency, compares material requirements between construction projects or physical processes

If a matching phase is being performed, the obtained template is passed to a matcher that compares it with other existing templates, estimating the distance between them using any algorithm ( e. g. Hamming distance ).

For example, in his panegyric of Theodore I Laskarsis, Choniates describes a battle with a Seljuk sultan as a battle between Christianity and Islam, and rhetorically compares the wounds of Theodore, who had himself slain an enemy commander, to those of Christ on the crossDimiter Angelov suggests that western crusading ideology may have influenced the development of this view on reconquest, and during this period, there is mention that Patriarch Michael IV Autoreianos offered full remission of sins to Nicene troops about to enter battle, a practice almost identical to a western plenary indulgence.

Dunstan compares the situation between him and Boy to the story of Gyges and King Candaules, as a warning, but Boy is not the type to concern himself with archetypal patterns shaping human lives.

Besides the contradictions between the various desires within the poem, there are other paradoxes that emerge as the narrator compares his world with that of the figures on the urn.

In Chapter 1 he finds analogies between 16th century English drama and 19th century German idealism and compares Hegel to Shakespeare: " In the ferment of

There is also an edition by Yosef Qafiḥ of the Mishnah together with the commentary of Maimonides, which compares the base text used by Maimonides with the Napoli and Vilna editions and other sources.

In the chapter, " Musical Banks ", Butler compares the practice of the cathedral to that of banks in an attack on the religious hypocrisy of his time.

" Leich ") compares * laikom to the meaning of Greek, denoting first the ceremonial procession to the sacrifice, but also ritual dance and hymns pertaining to religious ritual.

In " African Traditional Thought and Western Science ," Robin Horton compares the magical and religious thinking of non-modernized cultures with western scientific thought.

He also compares contemporary society to the Middle Ages, where instead of individuals believing in anything told to them by religious leaders, now individuals believe everything told to them by science, making people more naive than in Middle Ages.

Niman traced the supposed Hopi prophecies to the 1962 book Warriors of the Rainbow by William Willoya and Vinson Brown, which compares prophecy of major religious sects throughout the world and tales of visions from North American natives and which he describes as purveying " a covert anti-Semitism throughout, while evangelizing against traditional Native American spirituality.

In the book Jihad and Sacred Vengeance: Psychological Undercurrents of History, psychiatrist Peter A. Olsson compares Osama bin Laden to other religious leaders including Jim Jones, David Koresh, Shoko Asahara, Marshall Applewhite, Luc Jouret and Joseph Di Mambro, in a section of the book called: " The Psychology of Destructive Cult Leaders ".

Gibson compares the monster to a similar figure in the 12th century Irish religious text Visio Tnugdali | Vision of Tundale, who feeds on the souls of corrupt and lecherous clergy.

Wilson identifies what he calls " Fundamentalist Materialism " belief and compares it to religious fundamentalism.

The song then compares the peace and serenity of making love on the island with the hypocrisy of some religious leaders and the tragedy of young people being " sacrificed " ( on both sides ) for political beliefs.

Plath explicitly compares her father to God and later to a devil, prompting some to suggest that she was openly attacking her own religious beliefs.

The main current writer on anti-Shakerism compares allegations against them as similar to other celibate religious groups like Roman Catholic monks and nuns, although there are also similarities with hostility to Mormons or Masons.

The story compares these emotions to those Arthur experiences as a revolutionary, particularly drawing on the relationship between religious and revolutionary feelings.

According to Mircea Eliade, the medieval " Gioacchinian myth [...] of universal renovation in a more or less imminent future " has influenced a number of modern theories of history, such as those of Lessing ( who explicitly compares his views to those of medieval " enthusiasts "), Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling, and has also influenced a number of Russian writers.

Hayek points out that much of science involves the explanation of complex multivariable and nonlinear phenomena, and the social science of economics and undesigned order compares favourably with such complex sciences as Darwinian biology.

According to them, Sonnet 91 ( which compares the Fair Youth's love to such treasures as high birth, wealth, and horses ) implies that the author is in a position to make such comparisons, and the ' high birth ' he refers to is his own.

He continually offers asides about his characters and compares them to actors and puppets, but his scorn goes even as far as his readers ; accusing all who may be interested in such " Vanity Fairs " as being either " of a lazy, or a benevolent, or a sarcastic mood ".

In this case, the spectrophotometer measures the intensity of light reflected from a sample (), and compares it to the intensity of light reflected from a reference material () ( such as a white tile ).

He compares war games like Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Warhammer 40, 000 to role playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons and notes the dynamic nature of battles, where each conflict is different from the last.

The article considers how est compares to more standard psychotherapy techniques such as behavior therapy, group and existential psychotherapy before concluding with a call for " objective and rigorous research " and stating that unknown variables might have accounted for some of the positive accounts.

He compares language to other species ' specialized adaptations such as spiders ' web-weaving or beavers ' dam-building behavior, calling all three " instincts ".

Among them was William Blake, who explicitly compares the sexual oppression of marriage to slavery in works such as Visions of the Daughters of Albion ( 1793 ).

Seth Lerer, in his book Children ’ s Literature, finds that Charlotte represents female authorship and creativity, and compares her to other female characters in children ’ s literature such as Jo March in Little Women and Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden.

He compares this to " the great tradition " for repeating musical themes in Hollywood serials such as Roy Rogers and The Lone Ranger.

This compares to other major dance categories based on purpose, such as ceremonial dance, competitive dance, participation dance, performance dance and social dance.

While the composition of the NASDAQ-100 changes in the case of delisting ( such as transferring to another exchange, merging with another company, or declaring bankruptcy, and in a few cases, being delisted by NASDAQ for failing to meet listing requirements ), the index is only rebalanced once a year, in December, when NASDAQ reviews its components, compares them with those not in the index, re-ranks all eligible companies and makes the appropriate adjustments.

Additionally, a bullet fired from a duelling pistol could have a muzzle velocity of up to approximately, which, with a. 52 caliber bullet, would give it a lethality which compares favourably with more modern automatic pistol cartridges such as. 45 ACP.

An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia compares Willett's character to other " valiant counterweight " in Lovecraft such as Thomas Malone in " The Horror at Red Hook " ( 1925 ) and Henry Armitage in " The Dunwich Horror "; like Willett, Armitage " defeats the ' villains ' by incantations, and he is susceptible to the same flaws -- pomposity, arrogance, self-importance -- that can be seen in Willett.

In the simplest type of an automatic control loop, a controller compares a measured value of a process with a desired set value, and processes the resulting error signal to change some input to the process, in such a way that the process stays at its set point despite disturbances.

Diamond compares these hypothetical Neanderthal hold-outs to more recent Native Americans in North and South America who adopted European technologies such as firearms or domestication of horses in order to survive in an environment dominated by technologically more-advanced competitors.

: This book ... is written for people who have no training in mathematics and who may not have actively thought about mathematics since high school, or even during it, but who may wish to experience an act of mathematical imagining and to consider how such an experience compares with the imaginative work involved in reading and understanding a phrase in a poem.

* Part 7 contains not only single-passage questions but also double-passage questions wherein the test taker reads and compares the two related passages, such as an e-mail correspondence.

An image distance measure compares the similarity of two images in various dimensions such as color, texture, shape, and others.