If I now risk some comparisons with Sons And Lovers let it be clear that I am not comparing the two works or judging their merits ; ;

A cylinder's compression ratio is computed by comparing the cylinder's volume, or its displacement, with the total volume of the cylinder and its combustion chamber.

If Af was assigned as the information cell for Af, the routine can detect that Af is identical to Af by comparing Af with the form stored at location Af.

This question might be settled by comparing the measurement of the actual circumference with the dimensions noted, presumably in Brumidi's hand, above the various sections of his long preparatory drawing, which has been kept.

He also wrote Sapphic stanzas on Homeric themes but in unHomeric style, comparing Helen of Troy unfavourably with Thetis, the mother of Akhilles.

He was said to have written a book comparing the laws of the Scythians with the laws of the Greeks, as well as work on the art of war.

Written forms of British and American English as found in newspapers and textbooks vary little in their essential features, with only occasional noticeable differences in comparable media ( comparing American newspapers with British newspapers, for example ).

In May 2006, a CNN poll comparing Clinton's job performance with that of his successor, George W. Bush, found that a strong majority of respondents said Clinton outperformed Bush in six different areas questioned.

One striking difference when comparing the Bundestag with the British Parliament is the lack of time spent on serving constituents in Germany.

A table comparing the canons of some of these traditions appears below, comparing the Jewish Bible with the Christian Old Testament and New Testament.

Blackjack is a comparing card game between a player and dealer and played with one or more decks of 52 cards.

There have been no trials comparing short-acting Z-drugs with appropriate doses of short-acting benzodiazepines.

The field is usually seen as compatible with the physical sciences, and uses the scientific method as well as simulation or modeling, often comparing the output of models with aspects of human behavior.

" The church teaches that " he most reliable way to measure the accuracy of any biblical passage is not by comparing different texts, but by comparison with the Book of Mormon and modern-day revelations ".

Some interpreters find support for the " midtrib " position by comparing a passage in Paul's epistles with the book of Revelation.

)-massive columns have advantage comparing with not ones.

" It is not a law of our intellect, that, in comparing things with each other and taking note of their agreement, we merely recognize as realized in the outward world something that we already had in our minds.

Though this is true when comparing a single crochet swatch with a stockinette swatch, both made with the same size yarn and needle / hook, it is not necessarily true for crochet in general.

It is therefore often applied with certain refinements, the most obvious being the conversion of capitals to lowercase before comparing ASCII values.

The integrity of the data can be checked at any later time by recomputing the checksum and comparing it with the stored one.

There is also often a common thread of comparing orthodox doctrines and biblical passages with the teachings of the groups under examination.

The American scholar of religious studies Michael F. Strmiska argued that the modern adoption of the term " Pagan " was " a deliberate act of defiance " against traditional, Christian-dominated society, comparing it to the adoption of the surname " X " amongst African-Americans or the term " queer " amongst LGBT people.

Another Showtime series, Brotherhood, about the intertwining lives of the Irish-American Caffee brothers from Providence, Rhode Island: Tommy, a local politician and Michael, a professional criminal, was quite popular critically with some even comparing the show to The Wire and The Sopranos.

Mack enjoys the fact that her character was created specifically for the show, because she feels like she does not have to worry about being compared to someone else in the same role, which she likens to people comparing Michael Rosenbaum ’ s performance as Lex Luthor to Gene Hackman ’ s portrayal in the Superman film series of the 1970s – 1980s.

According to Michael von Brück, in 1996 Geshe Kelsang was expelled by a number of abbots and Geshes from the community of Sera Je Monastery in a letter " calling him an ' apostate ' and comparing him to ' Mahmud of Ghazni.

It was rated with four stars out of five possible in the British film magazine Empire, where reviewer Michael Hayden praised the performance by Oksana Akinshina while comparing the film to both the social realism of Ken Loach, and " the darkest of fairy tales, complete with wicked aunts and guardian angels.

* In March 2009, Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis were criticised for comparing the planned comeback of 80s pop star Michael Jackson with that of the IRA.

Sam Bloch from Stylus Magazine referred to it as a short film, comparing it to Michael Jackson's Thriller, and commented, " I sigh with admiration and wish every video was this alive.

* Review by Lia of * Haramlik, comparing Fallaci's books to Michael Moore's, in Italian.

Director David Michael Latt describes the film as The Pianist with aliens instead of Nazis, comparing the tale of one man's story of survival.

* First Post article comparing Walsh to Ryanair's Michael O ' Leary

* Vanport City, the 1948 Vanport Flood, and the Vanport Wetlands with photos of gauge comparing 1894, 1948, and 1996 floods

An example from France was a flattering anagram for Cardinal Richelieu, comparing him to Hercules or at least one of his hands ( Hercules being a kingly symbol ), where " Armand de Richelieu " became " Ardue main d ' Hercule ".

N > 2 saves storage, when comparing with N = 2, at the cost of more processing during both regular operation ( with often reduced performance ) and defective device replacement.

After dissecting the preserved head and foot of the specimen at the Oxford University Museum and comparing it with the few remains then available of the extinct Rodrigues Solitaire ( Pezophaps solitaria ) they found that the two were closely related.

N > 2 saves storage, when comparing with N = 2, at the cost of more processing during both regular operation ( with often reduced performance ) and defective device replacement.

By comparing the parts of the genome that are not under natural selection and which therefore accumulate mutations at a fairly steady rate, it is possible to reconstruct a genetic tree incorporating the entire human species since the last shared ancestor.

A 2010 study by Sean Aday comparing Fox News Channel's Special Report With Brit Humes and NBC's Nightly News coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during 2005 found that both underplayed bad news ; it concluded that " Fox News was much more sympathetic to the administration than NBC ", suggesting that " if scholars continue to find evidence of a partisan or ideological bias at FNC ... they should consider Fox as alternative, rather than mainstream, media ".

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Rating for different risk characteristics involves at the most basic level comparing the losses with " loss relativities "-a policy with twice as many losses would therefore be charged twice as much.

With the discovery of the neutron, scientists at last could calculate what fraction of binding energy each nucleus had, from comparing the nuclear mass with that of the protons and neutrons which composed it.

However, in 1918 the Dutch-American astronomer Adriaan van Maanen was able to measure the proper motion of stars in part of the Pleiades cluster by comparing photographic plates taken at different times.

This emphasis on recognizing positive achievements, and comparing the student to his own prior performance, has been accused by some of " dumbing down " education ( and by others as making school much too hard ), since it recognises achievement at different levels.

When comparing two hypotheses and using some information, frequency methods would typically result in the rejection or non-rejection of the original hypothesis at a particular significance level, and frequentists would all agree that the hypothesis should be rejected or not at that level of significance.

The results at the end when comparing Sherman's diary to Wilkins was that " Seventy-five per cent were found to be correct ".

Toward the end, the narrator expresses the terror and agony of remaining a ghost in the advent of full daybreak in heaven, comparing the experience to having large blocks fall on one's body ( at this point falling books awaken him ).

The time difference between two clocks may be determined by simultaneously comparing each clock to a common reference signal that may be received at both sites.

The area rule was discovered by Otto Frenzl when comparing a swept wing with a w-wing with extreme high wave drag while working on a transonic wind tunnel at Junkers works in Germany between 1943 and 1945.

Scholar Margarit Israelyan notes these changes when comparing inscriptions found on two cuneiform tablets at Erebuni:

* April 25 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, at his regular press conference, criticizes Charles Lindbergh by comparing him to the Copperheads of the Civil War period.

The French minister of the interior spoke about Casta at the radio ; comparing the advantages of living in France with regard to the drawbacks of London after political opponents used Casta's relocation to London as an opportunity to criticise the government.

Tubman spoke later of her acute childhood homesickness, comparing herself to " the boy on the Swanee River ", an allusion to Stephen Foster's song " Old Folks at Home ".

When comparing the predicted expansion rate of the universe as given by the tracker solutions with cosmological data, a main feature of tracker solutions is that one needs four parameters to properly describe the behavior of their equation of state, whereas it has been shown that at most a two-parameter model can optimally be constrained by mid-term future data ( horizon 2015-2020 ).