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

The international unit ( u. ), adopted to make possible the comparison of results from different laboratories ( Mussett and Perry, 1955 ), has been defined as the amount of activity present in 13.5 mg of the International Standard Preparation.

In this respect, the general palatability and individual acceptance of most radiosterilized foods has, to date, been found to be low in comparison with fresh and commercially processed foods.

In the former, the encounter with multiple, distinct cultures, often very different in organization and language from those of Europe, has led to a continuing emphasis on cross-cultural comparison and a receptiveness to certain kinds of cultural relativism.

A comparison of the development of Alberta's less oil and gas-endowed neighbours, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, reveals the role petroleum has played.

For comparison, Sirius has an absolute magnitude of 1. 4 which is greater than the Sun's absolute visual magnitude of 4. 83 ( it actually serves as a reference point ).

The blue whale has a long tapering body that appears stretched in comparison with the stockier build of other whales.

A statistical comparison of various alternative hypotheses has shown that universal common ancestry is significantly more probable than models involving multiple origins.

Modern cultural anthropology has its origins in, and developed in reaction to, 19th century " ethnology ", which involves the organized comparison of human societies.

Chile's Gini Coefficient in 2003 ( 53. 8 ) has slightly changed in comparison with the value in 1995 ( 56. 4 ).

The President of Costa Rica has limited powers, particularly in comparison to other Latin American Presidents.

Coal ( from the Old English term col, which has meant " mineral of fossilized carbon " since the 13th century ) is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds By comparison in 2007, natural gas provided of oil equivalent per day, while oil provided per day.

If, for the same focal length setting, the subject distance is adjusted to provide the same field of view at the subject, at the same f-number and final-image size, the smaller format has greater DOF, as with the “ same picture ” comparison above.

The Otto cycle by comparison has both the heat addition and rejection at constant volume.

In comparison with the French bow, the German bow has a taller frog, and it is held with the palm angled upwards, as is done for the upright members of the viol family.

Fine Gael is generally considered to be more on the political right in comparison to its more centrist rival, Fianna Fáil, but Fine Gael has never governed Ireland without the Labour Party, a social-democratic party on the centre-left of Irish politics.

The primary focus has been to prevent the use of outdated prescriptive rules in favor of more accurate descriptive ones and to change perceptions about relative " correctness " of standard forms in comparison to non standard dialects.

Precisely because such a comparison or reference may sometimes be appropriate, Godwin has argued that overuse of Nazi and Hitler comparisons should be avoided, because it robs the valid comparisons of their impact.

For example, there is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever debate was in progress.

* When added to boiling water and cooled, unflavored gelatin can make a home-made hair styling gel that is cheaper than many commercial hair styling products, but by comparison has a shorter shelf life ( about a week ) when stored in this form ( usually in a refrigerator ).

This means that the oxygen binding curve for fetal hemoglobin is left-shifted ( i. e., a higher percentage of hemoglobin has oxygen bound to it at lower oxygen tension ), in comparison to that of adult hemoglobin.

Yet Q1 has value: it contains stage directions that reveal actual stage practices in a way that Q2 and F1 do not ; it contains an entire scene ( usually labelled 4. 6 ) that does not appear in either Q2 or F1 ; and it is useful for comparison with the later editions.

If the term has nonetheless retained a certain consistency in its use across these fields and would-be movements, it perhaps reflects the word ’ s position in general English usage: though the standard dictionary definition of irreal gives it the same meaning as unreal, irreal is very rarely used in comparison with unreal.

Grimm's results have been greatly modified by the wider range of comparison and improved methods of investigation that now characterize linguistics, and many questions he raised will probably remain obscure, but his book's influence has been profound.

Northern Canaanites are commonly thought to develop into Phoenicians by the 8th century BC-a claim which has recently been verified by genetic comparison analysis of ancient Canaanite and Phoenician burial sites in modern Lebanon.

His video also has no other objects for size comparison.

Among the most outspoken critics of mass comparison have been Lyle Campbell, Donald Ringe, William Poser, and the late R. Larry Trask.

Something had even been done in the way of the comparison and determination of general laws, and the concept of a comparative Germanic grammar had been clearly grasped by the illustrious Englishman George Hickes by the beginning of the 18th century in his Thesaurus.

During the late 1990s, the comparison of the American war archives, which had not been done before, with the French and German ones as well as two court cases which finally settled some of the heirs ' rights ( Gentili di Giuseppe and Rosenberg families ) allowed more accurate investigations.

It helped invigorate study of British bog bodies, which had previously been neglected in comparison to those found in the rest of Europe.

No comprehensive comparison of performance relative to monolithic systems has been published for those multiserver systems.

This epithet repeated a comparison that had been made from Smith's earliest career, one that was not intended at the time to be complimentary.

Although ten years of exile would have been difficult for an Athenian to face, it was relatively mild in comparison to the kind of sentences inflicted by courts ; when dealing with politicians held to be acting against the interests of the people, Athenian juries could inflict very severe penalties such as death, unpayably large fines, confiscation of property, permanent exile and loss of citizens ' rights through atimia.

Also it has been speculated that the Bigfoot appears to be nearly seven feet tall when Heironimus was only six foot two and Heironimus was also not as bulky as the creature but a suit would prohibit a reasonable comparison.

In the fourth edition ( 1866 ) of On the Origin of Species Darwin wrote that " the periods during which species have undergone modification, though long as measured in years, have probably been short in comparison with the periods during which they retain the same form.

Schools and their teachers have always been under pressure — for instance, pressure to cover the curriculum, to perform well in comparison to other schools, and to avoid the stigma of being " soft " or " spoiling " toward students.

While still breezy in the summer time in comparison to other MLB parks, AT & T Park has been a consensus success and has developed the reputation as a " pitcher's park.

In function and effectiveness, the UN has been compared to the pre-Constitutional United States Federal government by some, giving a comparison between modern treaty law and the historical Articles of Confederation.

As with earthquakes, several attempts have been made to set up scales of tsunami intensity or magnitude to allow comparison between different events.

None of their advantages have been lost in comparison to other engines.

With characteristic kindness, he had volunteered to have the spectra observed for all the stars — including comparison stars — which had been observed in the observations for stellar parallax which Hinks and I made at Cambridge, and I discussed.

* Solunar theory says that animals move according to the location of the moon in comparison to their bodies, and is said to have been used long before this by hunters to know this times that are best to hunt their desired game

Historians see the lack of any bloodshed after a nearly " 700-year German rule " as indication that it must have been mild by comparison.