German engineers have also devoted special attention to the measurement of the flow in rivers ; the Beiträge zur Hydrographie des Königreiches Bohmen ( Prague, 1872 – 1875 ) of AR Harlacher contained valuable measurements of this kind, together with a comparison of the experimental results with the formulae of flow that had been proposed up to the date of its publication, and important data were yielded by the gaugings of the Mississippi made for the United States government by AA Humphreys and HL Abbot, by Robert Gordon's gaugings of the Ayeyarwady River, and by Allen JC Cunningham's experiments on the Ganges canal.

As a comparison, in 2004, Mississippi earned $ 2. 7 billion in casino revenues, third behind Nevada and New Jersey ($ 10. 3 billion and $ 4. 8 billion, respectively ).

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 %.

The current discovery of jade, pottery, bronze vessels contest the conventional historiography that the local culture and technology were background and uncivilized in comparison to the technologically and culturally " advanced " China Proper in the Yellow River valley.

The Tanana River is shallow, with a maximum draft for loaded river barges of 4. 5 feet ; by comparison, the Yukon River has very few shallow areas.

For comparison Lowell is rated safer than Boston ( 104 of 393 ), Providence RI ( 123 ), Springfield ( 51 ), Lynn ( 120 ), Fall River ( 103 ), and New Bedford ( 85 ), but rated more dangerous than Cambridge ( 303 ), Newton ( 388 ), Quincy ( 312 ), and Worcester ( 175 ).

The town is named after its local geographical setting, a relative comparison of two tributaries ( the other being the neighboring Great Valley ) of the Allegheny River.

The Don River is now small in comparison to the deep and wide valley that resulted from its glacial origin.

In comparison, the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon drops an average of 7. 5 feet per mile ( 1. 4 m / km ).

Much of the eastern side of the range from north of Salt Lake City to the Bear River Mountains is especially gentle in comparison to the rest of the range.

Common to these definitions is that it includes districts located north of the River Thames and is used in comparison with South London.

The natural beauty of the Hudson Valley has earned the Hudson River the nickname " America's Rhineland ", a comparison to the famous 40 mile ( 65 km ) stretch of Germany's Rhine River valley between the cities of Bingen and Koblenz.

By comparison, the average OWQI score for the Willamette River in downtown Portland, the state's largest city, was 74 between 1986 and 1995.

In comparison, the Columbia River, Washington's largest river, has an average flow of about.

The industrialised nature of the Port River has led to concern for the welfare of the bottlenose dolphin population and studies have shown that some of the dolphins have very high heavy metal burdens in comparison to dolphins elsewhere.

Unfortunately, Roxbury — originally named " Rocksbury " for its rocky soil — was a poor site on which to farm in comparison to the fertile Connecticut River Valley.

It also regarded the Great Wall, the Yellow River and the Chinese dragon as isolated symbols that represented conservativeness of Chinese traditional culture in comparison with the blue sea that symbolized the superiority of western civilization.

Apart from the Murray River, it is the largest river in mainland Australia south of the Tropic of Capricorn, though its flow for comparison is only half that of the Potomac.

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

By comparison, Nemo's personal quarters are very sparsely furnished, but do feature duplicates of the bridge instruments, so that the captain can keep track of the vessel without being present on the bridge.

File: Ft Point-pre bridge. jpg | A mid-1800s image of Fort Point for comparison with representations of the fort on some of the following renditions of the Seal of California

By comparison, the bridge replacement project without transit is estimated to cost $ 5. 2 billion.

The biggest disadvantage to the vertical-lift bridge ( in comparison with many other designs ) is the height restriction for vessels passing under it.

Other important objections against additional extensions of the Tenn-840 highway include the hilly nature of the terrain north of Nashville, which would require huge and costly amounts of excavation, soil relocation, and bridge construction, especially in comparison with the partially completed southern bypass Tenn-840 route.

In comparison to the standard form of pop songs in AABA — where A represents a standard verse, and B represents a variation, usually referred to as the bridge — " In Dreams ", with each variation, can be represented as Intro-A-B-C-D-E-F.

While on a tour at the base of the bridge in Bettendorf in May 2012, U. S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said that, in comparison with other bridges that he has seen in other states, the I-74 Bridge is one of the worst he's seen.

While their attempts to create a bridge between Poland's history and Soviet Marxism ideology were mildly successful, especially in comparison to similar efforts in most other countries of the Eastern Bloc, they have been to much extent stifled by the regime's unwillingness to step too far and risk the wrath of Soviets for going too far from the Soviet party line.

The construction of a bridge connecting the island with the continent has been discussed at government level but it was during the government of Michelle Bachelet ( 2006 – 2010 ) turned down due to its high cost in comparison with other proposals that could be done to benefit islanders.

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.

The Chennai Suburban Railway is another railway of comparison.

This normally requires two comparison instructions for each list item: one to check whether the index has reached the end of the array, and another one to check whether the item has the desired value.

A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is, on some point of comparison, the same as another otherwise unrelated object.

A common definition of a metaphor can be described as a comparison that shows how two things that are not alike in most ways are similar in another important way.

* For comparison with another predictive protoscience see Alchemy.

Although Williams ' career did not overlap with that of Ruth or Bonds, a direct comparison with another great hitter, Hank Aaron, is possible.

By comparison, during the same tornado outbreak, more than 2000 homes were completely destroyed, with another 7000 damaged, and yet only a few dozen people died in their homes.

Calibration is a comparison between measurements – one of known magnitude or correctness made or set with one device and another measurement made in as similar a way as possible with a second device.

For satellite communications, the microwave frequencies of the C-band perform better under adverse weather conditions in comparison with K < sub > u </ sub > band ( 11. 2 GHz to 14. 5 GHz ) microwave frequencies, which are used by another large set of communication satellites.

This leaves another question in turn, can the solipsist claim that his current consciousness is limited in comparison with its full potential, in which case, why would the available intellectual potential be limited to begin with?

They are in form and substance palaces by another name, yet that term in England is generally reserved for royal or episcopal residences, however modest in comparison to the stately home.

The present life man, O king, seems to me, in comparison with that time which is unknown to us, like to the swift flight of a sparrow through the room wherein you sit at supper in winter amid your officers and ministers, with a good fire in the midst whilst the storms of rain and snow prevail abroad ; the sparrow, I say, flying in at one door and immediately out another, whilst he is within is safe from the wintry but after a short space of fair weather he immediately vanishes out of your sight into the dark winter from which he has emerged.

According to Social Identity Theory, intergroup conflict starts with a process of comparison between individuals in one group ( the ingroup ) to those of another group ( the outgroup ).

By comparison, the human population is of the order of 15, 000 and it is estimated that one in three jobs are connected to horseracing in one way or another Newmarket has 3 main sections of Heath, all of which are used to train the racehorses on.

Power-to-weight ratio ( or specific power or power-to-mass ratio ) is a calculation commonly applied to engines and mobile power sources to enable the comparison of one unit or design to another.

The inverse of power-to-weight, weight-to-power ratio ( power loading ) is a calculation commonly applied to aircraft, cars, and vehicles in general, to enable the comparison of one vehicle performance to another.

More attention towards another member of the family can cause this emotion or the emotion can be seen through comparison to another member in the family.

Cathodic protection works by introducing another metal ( the galvanic anode ) with a much more anodic surface, so that all the current will flow from the introduced anode and the metal to be protected becomes cathodic in comparison to the anode.

* comparison with another dataset

Levinson recursion remains popular for several reasons ; for one, it is relatively easy to understand in comparison ; for another, it can be faster than a superfast algorithm for small n ( usually n < 256 ).

And under this aspect it suggests a significant comparison with another and better known set of " articles " composed nearly eleven centuries later, when the leaders of the Anglican schism were threading a careful way between the extremes of Roman teaching on the one side and of Lutheran and Calvinistic negations on the other.

In another episode, Superman states that Bizarro " looks like someone threw up in an ice cube tray ," and makes an additional, more vulgar comparison to Kryptonite as he, Flash and Wonder Woman are comparing ' reverse villains '.

By comparison, a predominantly symbolic person may be able to convert from one religious faith to another but such a change in identity has very profound emotional consequences.