For comparison, note that traditional first-past-the-post would elect Memphis, even though most citizens consider it the worst choice, because 42 % is larger than any other single city.

Cuyp probably first encountered a painting by van Goyen in 1640 when van Goyen was, as Stephen Reiss points out “ at the height of powers .” This is noticeable in the comparison between two of Cuyp ’ s landscape paintings inscribed 1639 where no properly formed style is apparent and the landscape backgrounds he painted two years later for two of his father ’ s group portraits that are distinctly van Goyenesque.

The use of Stokes's law in Nernst's case, as well as in Einstein and Smoluchowski, is not strictly applicable since it does not apply to the case where the radius of the sphere is small in comparison with the mean free path.

If the weight of the roadway per unit length is w and the weight of the cable and the wire supporting the bridge is negligible in comparison, then the weight on the cable from c to r is wx where x is the horizontal distance between c to r. Proceeding as before gives the differential equation

It includes the description and analysis of foreign legal systems, even where no explicit comparison is undertaken.

A maturity model can be used as a benchmark for comparison and as an aid to understanding-for example, for comparative assessment of different organizations where there is something in common that can be used as a basis for comparison.

Another way to represent results is in DMIPS / MHz, where DMIPS result is further divided by CPU frequency, to allow for easier comparison of CPUs running at different clock rates.

The best comparison in terms of legal physical contact is soccer, where checking is used to improve one's positioning in relation to the ball rather than to remove an opposing player from the play.

A detailed comparison between the surviving Italian and Spanish texts shows numerous places where the Spanish reading appears to be secondary, as for example, where a word necessary for the meaning is missing in the Spanish text but present in the Italian.

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.

Bocconcini of whole cow ’ s milk are also manufactured, where the higher liquid content, in comparison to standard mozzarella, lends them the soft consistency of fior di latte.

The new official translation of the entire Order of Mass is available on the website of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which also provides a comparison between the new text of the people's parts and that hitherto in use in the United States ( where the version of the Nicene Creed is slightly different from that in other English-speaking countries ).

Rapids occur where the bed material is highly resistant to the erosive power of the stream in comparison with the bed downstream of the rapids.

They attempted, by comparison with the Greek, to identify within this unknown text the points where Greek names ought to occur.

A comparison of the images shows that where vegetation is dense, temperatures are cooler.

In 385, Jerome was forced out of Rome, and eventually settled in Bethlehem, where he was able to use a surviving manuscript of the Hexapla, likely from the nearby Theological Library of Caesarea Maritima, a columnar comparison of the variant versions of the Old Testament undertaken 150 years before by Origen.

By comparison, the 180 ° flat-6 boxer engine is only moderately wider than the 120 ° V6, and unlike the V6 is a fully balanced configuration with no vibration problems, so it is more commonly used in aircraft and in sports / luxury cars where space is not a constraint and smoothness is important.

* The deer plays a large role in Scottish Gaelic poetry ( fiadh ) of the Highlands of Scotland, where it is seen as a noble creature, and ofter used as a flattering simile or metaphor when used in comparison to a famous warrior, hero or chief.

This was the traditional method of manufacturing coins in the Western world from the pre-Hellenic Greek era onwards, in comparison to Asia where coins were traditionally cast.

RunB avoids much of the runtime overhead found in typical interpreted BASICs of the day — not to mention that one can do integer calculations where appropriate rather than doing everything in floating point — so that BASIC09 programs run extremely quickly in comparison with equivalent programs in the interpreted BASICs of the time.

where the constant of proportionality α > 0 is not permitted to depend upon θ, and is required to be the same for all likelihood functions used in any one comparison.

By comparison with West Texas Intermediate, the benchmark standard for crude oil in the futures-contract market, the Green River shale oil sulfur content ranges from near 0 % to 4. 9 % ( in average 0. 76 %), where West Texas Intermediate's sulfur content has a maximum of 0. 42 %.

Gresham also made his comparison of good and bad money where the precious metal in the money was the same metal, but of different weight.

Similar comments were made even in Constantinople, where John Kyriotes Geometres penned a poem offering a punning comparison between the Bulgarian Emperor and a comet which appeared in 989.

For example, it may be more cost-efficient to obtain the desired level of performance by using a cluster of several low-end computers, in comparison with a single high-end computer.

In comparison to the U. S .- destined Allanté, the Canadian models differed little, aside from the kilometer-based instrument cluster, but were equipped with daytime running lamps and an engine block heater as standard equipment.

The cluster is dim in comparison to more famous globular clusters such as M13.

By comparison, the age of the Hyades cluster is about 625 million years with an error margin of 50 million years.

In the 1970s, the ground-based Omega Navigation System, based on phase comparison of signal transmission from pairs of stations, became the first worldwide radio navigation system.

It was Thomas Young who in 1813 first used the term Indo-European, which became the standard scientific term through the work of Franz Bopp, whose systematic comparison of these and other old languages supported the theory.

These became references for comparison of species and the ornithologists at these museums were able to compare species from different locations, often places that they themselves never visited.

" Blur became perceived as an " inauthentic middle class pop band " in comparison to the " working class heroes " Oasis, which Albarn said made him feel " stupid and confused ".

As machines became more powerful, the time to run programs diminished and the time to hand off the equipment to the next user became very large by comparison.

Later, however, it became a major obstacle to the further intensification of agriculture, especially in comparison to the surrounding lowlands where land productivity increased rapidly.

" Blur became perceived as an " inauthentic middle class pop band " in comparison to the " working class heroes " Oasis, which Albarn said made him feel " stupid and confused ".

A history of boarding houses, hotels and other such facilities serving traveler and resident is replete in the town's history until that routing became secondary as too circuitous by comparison to the new more direct path from Easton to Cambridge and on to Salisbury.

While initially derided for poor performance in comparison to the more sophisticated graphics devices used in computers like the Atari 400, framebuffers eventually became the standard for all personal computers.

Macmillan's style of politics and that of Douglas-Home had also been regarded as old-fashioned in comparison with that of Labour's Harold Wilson, who became leader of the opposition in early 1963 following the sudden death of Hugh Gaitskell.

" In her later teenage years, she became a fan of American indie rock bands including Pixies, Television and Slint, though not as many critics have suspected, Patti Smith ; a frequent comparison that Harvey dismisses as " lazy journalism.

Citing his work at ‘ Ein Feshkha as a comparison, he suggested that the site at Qumran ultimately became an agriculturally-based, fortified trading station during the Herodian era.

However, its importance pales in comparison to the power of the System Lords or the Free Jaffa Nation, even though after the extinction of the Asgard and the defeat of the Ori, the Tau ' ri became the dominant race of known space — although they were initially at a huge technological disadvantage, they later managed to reverse-engineer Goa ' uld technology to the point where they started building their own ships, though much of it was rendered obsolete when the Asgard granted a significant amount of non-weapon technology.

After comparison of Esterhazy's handwriting with that of the bordereau, he became convinced of Esterhazy's guilt of the crime for which Dreyfus had been convicted.

In later years his poetry became progressively more cryptic, fractured and monosyllabic, bearing comparison to the music of Anton Webern.

Following Tito's death in 1980, the 1948 census results became available for comparison with those of 1931.

These were possible before emulation on PCs became popular ( or even adequate enough to play games ) because the games were on floppy disks, and were therefore easier to distribute to the users, in comparison to ROM cartridges used by video game consoles ( the MSX also used cartridges, but methods were discovered to copy the content onto floppy disks and other media too ).

The disadvantage with this — in comparison to self contained glide bombs like the slightly later VB-6 Felix — were that the aircraft had to be flown toward the target on a steady course and that as the missile neared its target it became possible to misguide by jamming its radio channel.

In the absence of a strong Attorney General, he became the main spokesman for the government in the House of Commons, and was noted for his " great powers of eloquence " and described as " beyond comparison the best speaker " in the House of Commons.

The term became more common after the Treaty of Versailles, when the attachment of Transylvania to the Kingdom of Romania occurred as a result of the Treaty of Trianon ; thus the Kingdom of Romania under King Ferdinand I came to include all provinces with an ethnic Romanian majority, by comparison with the previous Romanian Old Kingdom under King Carol I, which did not include the provinces of Transylvania, Bessarabia and Bukovina.

The study found that only 8 percent of InnerChange graduates, as opposed to 20. 3 percent of inmates in the matched comparison group, became offenders again in a two-year period.

Birt's use of impenetrable jargon became known as " Birtspeak ", a phenomenon still regularly mocked in the satirical magazine Private Eye, complete with miniature Dalek caricature of the man himself a comparison originating from Dennis Potter who labeled Birt a " croak-voiced Dalek ".

In this time he became interested in the possibility that the strong interaction could be described as a massless Yang-Mills theory, i. e. one of a type that he had just proved to be renormalizable and hence be susceptible to detailed calculation and comparison with experiment.

Astruc's methods were adopted by German scholars such as Johann Gottfried Eichhorn ( 1752 – 1827 ) and Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette ( 1780 – 1849 ) in a movement which became known as the higher criticism ( to distinguish it from the far longer-established close examination and comparison of individual manuscripts, called the lower criticism ); this school reached its apogee with the influential synthesis of Julius Wellhausen ( 1844 – 1918 ) in the 1870s, at which point it seemed to many that the Bible had at last been fully explained as a human document.