Although published long before Babbitt in 1899, Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class, which critiqued consumer culture and social competition at the turn of the 19th to 20th century, is an oft-cited point of comparison.

This perception is out of date however, with the Class 170 DMUs maintained there being ( year to October 2009 ) the second most reliable new-generation DMUs in the UK at some 16, 000 miles per 5-minute delay, while over the same period the reliability of the depot's Class 90-hauled trains was respectable in comparison with other inter-city trains.

In comparison with the Cape Class 8 2-8-0 locomotive of 1901, however, it was found that their maintenance costs were much higher without any advantage in terms of efficiency.

As Florida demonstrates in his books, Buffalo, New Orleans and Louisville are examples of cities which have tried to attract the Creative Class but, in comparison to cities which better exemplify the " three ' T's ", have failed.

The fleet was ordered by the British Transport Commission as direct comparison with British Rail Class 40, and were not actually wanted by the Western Region, who preferred their production fleet of D800 Warships.

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The removal of the air filters from the side air louvers to the cantrail was the result of a comparison carried out at Inverness between a batch of Derby built Type 2s and a batch of BRCW Type 2s ( Class 26 and Class 27 ), the tests targeting the air quality within the engine room.

At the same time, six externally similar locomotives employing hydraulic transmission were ordered for comparison, these becoming Class 22.

By comparison, Fritzie and Laura Andrus were quivering fledglings.

Two of the fluids showed a high-positive normal pressure when undergoing shear, and two showed small negative pressures which were negligible in comparison with the amount of the positive pressures generated by the other two.

It is as follows: `` The usual sensitivity tests showed that the specific qualities of skin-perceptiveness ( pressure, pain, temperature ), as well as the kinesthetic sensations ( muscular feelings, feelings in the tendons and joints ), were, as such, essentially intact, although they seemed, in comparison with normal reactions, to be somewhat diminished over the entire body.

`` Ceilings '' were judged by comparison with known mountain heights and cloud positions.

In comparison, there were 62 non-combat deaths and 71 cases of injury in 2010.

Of the public transactions of this period there is only the scantiest of information, but, to judge by what is extant, those twenty-two years were not remarkably eventful in comparison to those before and after his reign.

However, this theory is undermined by the disproportional fear of spiders in comparison to other, potentially dangerous creatures that were present during Homo sapiens environment of evolutionary adaptiveness.

They lived in 100 cantons ( 4. 1 ) from which 1000 young men per year were chosen for military service, a citizen-army by our standards and by comparison with the Roman professional army.

In comparison to the northern colonies, the southern colonies were quite diverse in their agricultural diet and did not have a central region of culture.

The comparison of these two signals enabled logic circuits to determine the true target reflection signal, even if the target were to eject radar-reflecting chaff.

2 9v batteries were added as a size comparison.

GM maize-fed rats were compared first to their respective isogenic or parental non-GM equivalent control groups, followed by comparison to six reference groups, which had consumed various other non-GM maize varieties.

For the Bandanese, on the other hand, although they welcomed another competitor purchaser for their spices, the items of trade offered by the Dutch — heavy woollens, and damasks, unwanted manufactured goods, for example — were usually unsuitable in comparison to traditional trade products.

By comparison, the former colony of the United Province of Canada ( divided into the District of Canada East, and the District of Canada West ) and the western provinces were dozens of times larger and in some cases were expanded to take in territory formerly held in British Crown grants to companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company ; in particular the November 19, 1869 sale of Rupert's Land to the Government of Canada under the Rupert's Land Act 1868 was facilitated in part by Maritime taxpayers.

The English Civil War ( also known as the Great Rebellion ) was still within living memory for most of the major English participants in the events of 1688, and for them, in comparison to that war ( or even the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685 ) the deaths in the conflict of 1688 were mercifully few.

From the beginning with his theory of mass comparison, Greenberg addressed why the issues of chance resemblance and borrowing were not obstacles to its being useful.

He thought the manners of the British aristocracy were very democratic in comparison to the Japanese nobility, where "… everything is bound by tradition, imperfection, and artificiality.

This prompted a scientific investigation of the relics in Padua, and by numerous lines of empirical evidence ( archeological analyses of the Tomb in Thebes and the Reliquary of Padua, anatomical analyses of the remains, Carbon-14 dating, comparison with the purported skull of the Evangelist located in Prague ) confirmed that these were the remains of an individual of Syrian descent who died between 72 and 416 A. D.

An intended by-product of the 17th CGPM's definition was that it enabled scientists to compare their lasers accurately using frequency, resulting in wavelengths with one-fifth the uncertainty involved in the direct comparison of wavelengths because interferometer errors were eliminated.

By comparison, during the Cold War, there were rarely any foreign visitors to the DPRK except from other communist nations.

Some problems were classic subjects of comparison with other operating systems:

While they were viewed as Green Day " acolytes ", critics also found teen pop acts like Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, and ' N Sync suitable points of comparison for Blink-182's sound and market niche.

In a 2004 paper, Jouve used a different method of analysis and recovered the same result, showing that the " distinctive " features of P. kochi were age-related, and using mathematical comparison to show that the two forms are different growth stages of the same species.

By comparison, the Cole 30 and Colt Runabout were priced at US $ 1500, Kirk's Yale side-entrance US $ 1, 000, the high-volume Oldsmobile Runabout went for US $ 650, Western's Gale Model A was US $ 500, a Brush Runabout US $ 485, the Black started at $ 375, and the Success hit the amazingly low US $ 250.

SxS shotguns are often more expensive, and may take more practice to aim effectively than a O / U. The off-center nature of the recoil in a SxS gun may make shooting the body-side barrel slightly more painful by comparison to an OU, single-shot, or pump / lever action shotgun.

The switch to synthetic surfaces ended Indian and Pakistani domination because artificial turf was too expensive — in comparison to the wealthier European countries — and since the 1970s Australia, The Netherlands and Germany have dominated at the Olympics.

However, the B-58 was expensive to develop and purchase, required enormous amounts of fuel and maintenance in comparison to the B-47, and was estimated to cost three times as much to operate than the much larger and longer-ranged B-52.

In recent years a number of instrument builders have started lines of " high-end ," hand-made whistles, which can cost hundreds of dollars US each — expensive in comparison to cheap whistles, but nevertheless cheaper than most other instruments.

In comparison to more expensive technologies like thermal wax, dye sublimation, and laser printing, inkjets have the advantage of practically no warm up time, and lower cost per page.

Bars made from synthetic materials generally fall short in sound quality in comparison to wooden bars, but are less expensive and yield added durability and weather resistance, making them suitable for outdoor use ; marimbas with wooden bars are usually played inside because the bars are susceptible to pitch change due to weather.

In comparison to the popular A500 it was considered unexpandable, did not improve on the A500's CPU, was more expensive, and lacked a numeric keypad meaning that some existing software such as flight simulators and application software could not be used without a numerical pad emulator.

As a result, they were expensive units in comparison to other designs.

The supply and demand for denatured alcohol arises from the fact that normal alcohol ( which in everyday language refers specifically to ethanol, suitable for human consumption as a drink ) is usually very expensive in comparison with similar chemicals, being highly taxed for revenue and public health policy purposes ( see sin tax ).

In many countries, eating at international fast-food chain restaurants such as McDonald's is relatively expensive in comparison to eating at a local restaurant, and the demand for Big Macs is not as large in countries like India as in the United States.

As such, its price was considered too expensive in comparison to its contemporaries.

Steam traction was expensive in comparison to horse drawn traffic, but it soon proved that it was viable and economic.

Ampthill's historic centre, coupled with well-respected schools and the facilities mentioned above has made it one of the most expensive places to buy a house in Bedfordshire, even in comparison to other mid-Bedfordshire towns such as neighbouring Flitwick, and Cranfield.

The magazine was expensive ; subscribers paid $ 3 per year ( for comparison, The Saturday Evening Post was only $ 2 per year ).

Now the Seikan Tunnel provides a convenient but more expensive alternative and approximately halves the travel time in comparison to ferrying.

Consequently, Indian's operations and firms are concerned that they are becoming too expensive in comparison with competition from the other offshoring destinations.

It was, at the time, one of the most expensive films ever made ( cost: almost $ 30 million ) ( for comparison: the earlier Steven Spielberg's contemporary 1941 cost $ 35 million ).

Although purchasing a chromolithograph may have been cheaper than purchasing a painting, it was still expensive in comparison to other color printing methods which were later developed.

Once again, Alta's keen pricing, in comparison to the expensive ERA models, resulted in many sales to amateur racers.

At a reported cost of A $ 6000 per episode it was said to have been the most expensive Australian TV series yet produced up to that time ( by comparison, the first series of Star Trek reportedly cost around US $ 200, 000 per episode ).

The weak value of the American dollar against European currencies at the time rendered imports relatively expensive in comparison to home-built product.

In comparison, Charles Onyett says in an editorial for IGN that " expensive, one-time purchases are facing extinction ".

Turning to operating companies as opposed to investment companies ( mutual funds ), in determining whether shares in a public company are a cheap or expensive investment, one tool used by investors is a comparison of the company's current market capitalization ( being the price at which the market values the company ) with its NAV.

Knockdown kit assembling plants are less expensive to establish and maintain, because they do not need modern robotic equipment, and the workforce is usually much less expensive in comparison to the home country.