he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.

However, an initial perusal and comparison of some of the famous passages with the same parts of other versions seems to speak well of the efforts of the British Biblical scholars.

A survey of practices and/or policies in other states concerning assignment and use of state automobiles reveals several points for comparison with Rhode Island's practices.

Look at the physical features of the land to determine how desirable it is for use, what can be done to correct the faults, and what it will cost to make the area meet your needs in comparison to other sites.

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.

Whether this abnormal TSH differs chemically from pituitary TSH, or is, alternatively, normal TSH with its period of effectiveness modified by some other blood constituent, cannot be decided without chemical study of the activity in the blood of these patients and a comparison of the substance responsible for the blood activity with pituitary Aj.

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.

By comparison Whorf's other work in linguistics, the development of such concepts as the allophone and the cryptotype, and the formulation of " Whorf's law " in Uto-Aztecan historical linguistics, have met with broad acceptance.

From a philosophical point of view, what makes the brain special in comparison to other organs is that it forms the physical structure that generates the mind.

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.

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

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

By comparison, estimates of the population density per square kilometer of the Indian Ocean's other island microstates ranged from 241 ( Seychelles ) to 690 ( Maldives ) in 1993.

CRTs, despite recent advances, have remained relatively heavy and bulky and take up a lot of space in comparison to other display technologies.

For this reason, the history of Cairo during Ottoman times is often described as inconsequential, especially in comparison to other time periods.

* Visualisation of human chromosomes and comparison to other species

Studies suggest that knowledge of its existence and anatomy is scant in comparison to that of other sexual organs, and that more education about it could help alleviate social stigmas associated with the female body and female sexual pleasure ; for example, that the clitoris – and the vulva in general – are visually unappealing ; that female masturbation is taboo ; or that women's orgasms are something that " men are expected to master and control ".

No one can make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.

In many collation algorithms, the comparison is based not on the numerical codes of the characters, but with reference to the collating sequence – a sequence in which the characters are assumed to come for the purpose of collation – as well as other ordering rules appropriate to the given application.

A comparison between the methods employed in the USA and other nations discloses some similarities in emphasis, but also other nuances in emphasis.

Third, the information is useless to other individuals if it is not in a form that allows for meaningful comparisons of value ( i. e. money prices as a common basis for comparison ).

His does not produce norms from aborted specimens, but rather visualizes the embryos in order to make them comparable and specifically subjects his embryo specimens to criticism and comparison with other cases.

In one of his novels, entitled Invitatie la vals, referring to Carl Maria von Weber's " Invitation to the Dance " ( later orchestrated by Berlioz ), a comparison is made between the novel's main character and Manon Lescaut.

In comparison, the previous season premiere episode, " Lard of the Dance ", drew a Nielsen rating of 7. 2 points with 7. 1 million households watching.

Below are comparison charts of several of the major Indic scripts ; transliteration is indicated in ISO 15919 ; pronunciation is indicated in International Phonetic Alphabet ( IPA ).

During 1958 and 1959, Nelson placed twelve hits on the charts in comparison with Presley's eleven ( it should be remembered that the latter was then serving in Germany with the U. S. Army ).

The focus of Petrie ’ s work shifted permanently to Palestine in 1926 ( although he did become interested in early Egypt, in 1928 digging a cemetery at Luxor that proved so huge that he devised an entirely new excavation system, including comparison charts for finds, which is still used today ).

* Christian Denominations History, profiles and comparison charts of major Christian denominations.

Examples of this type include items depicted out of scale to one another, noisy backgrounds making comparison between elements difficult in a chart or graph, and 3-D simulations in line and bar charts.

The Reverend Rob Schenck, founder of the Washington, D. C. ministry Faith and Action in the Nation ’ s Capital, described the Family's influence as " off the charts " in comparison with other fundamentalist groups, specifically compared to Focus on the Family, Pat Robertson, Gary Bauer, Traditional Values Coalition, and Prison Fellowship.

Subsequent research has shown that during the " disputed " period of the 1960s, the samples sizes of the Record Retailer chart were considerably inferior to those of the other charts: around 30 shops in 1963 in comparison to more than 100 used by Melody Maker, and later around 80 in comparison to NMEs 150 and Melody Makers 200.

The rebellious and political " Black, White, and Blood Red " was the only single released from the album, though it did not perform well in comparison to their previous songs that made the charts.

In the UK, ( where radio play is not included in the official charts ) this not completely reflect the song's overall popularity, as the weekly chart position is solely based on a direct comparison with the sales of other singles released at around the same time.

" When Edna gently explains " It's like I'm DC Comics, and you're Marvel ", he accepts the comparison without any rancor.

As da Matta observed, ' It's a pretty unfair comparison, since one side spends £ 100 million more than the other!

It's a reasonably common comparison point, however takes many factors into account.

In a review of Alone in the Dark, Rob Vaux states that the movie makes other " bad " movie directors feel better in comparison: "' It's okay ,' they'll tell themselves, ' I didn't make Alone in the Dark.

It's only then that Anna realizes that her fancy notion of romantic love was nothing in comparison to the maternal love she feels for Marianna.

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.

Their objection is methodological: if mass comparison is not a valid method, it cannot be expected to successfully have brought order out of the chaos of African languages.

; according to this approach, a work is art by comparison to the works in the canon, or conversely, any aesthetic law to be valid should not rule out any of the works included in the canon.

On one hand, the document says that non-Catholic Christian ecclesial communities that have not preserved a valid episcopate and the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery are not Churches in the proper sense and that non-Christians are seriously deficient in terms of access to the means of salvation in comparison with those who in the Church have the full means of salvation.

Unlike Justinian, Edward did not codify the law, but as William Stubbs pointed out, " if it be meant to denote the importance and permanence of his legislation and the dignity of his position in legal history ", the comparison is still a valid one.

The Naiyayikas ( the Nyaya scholars ) accepted four valid means ( pramaṇa ) of obtaining valid knowledge ( prama )-perception ( pratyakṣa ), inference ( anumāna ), comparison ( upamāna ) and verbal testimony ( śabda ).

If a X. 509v3 certificate is bound to a valid organization's distinguished name within the Directory, then a simple check can be made in regards to the authenticity of the certificate by a comparison with what is presented to the browser with what is present in the Directory.

" In fact, the comparison was not valid as Caruso had a bigger, darker, more heroic voice than Gigli's honey-toned lyric instrument.

Complex functions such as Human Resources, Finance and Accounting and Information and Communication Technology are unlikely to be directly comparable in cost and efficiency terms and may need to be disaggregated into processes to make valid comparison.

Often this is not possible because crime statistics aggregate equivalent offences in such different ways that make it difficult or impossible to obtain a valid comparison.

A mainstream political view is that the comparison of the two terms is valid, but that they are somewhat mutually exclusive in the sense that striving for either type of equality would require sacrificing the other to an extent, and that achieving equality of opportunity necessarily brings about " certain inequalities of outcome.

Other linguists believe no valid comparison can be made between mathematics and language, because they are simply too different:

Part of the reason for this is that the Eurasiatic hypothesis rests on mass comparison of lexemes, grammatical formatives, and vowel systems ( see Greenberg 2000 – 2002 ) rather than on the prevailing view that regular sound correspondences, linked to a wide array of lexemes and grammatical formatives, are the only valid means to establish genetic relationship ( see for instance Baldi 2002: 2 – 19 ).

Splitters regard the comparative method ( meaning not comparison in general, but only reconstruction of a common ancestor or protolanguage ) as the only valid proof of kinship, and consider genetic relatedness to be the question of interest.

For valid comparison of the initial thrust-to-weight ratio of two or more engines or vehicles, thrust must be measured under controlled conditions.

To have a valid base for comparison, the basic word order is defined as:

Overpricing and Underpricing statements are valid if related to the used comparison origin but irrational without such a basis.

Another argument is that prediction of reliability based on historic data can be very misleading, as a comparison is only valid for exactly the same designs, products, manufacturing processes and maintenance under exactly the same loads and environmental context.

The market price of the stocks of publicly traded companies engaged in the same or a similar line of business, whose shares are actively traded in a free and open market, can be a valid indicator of value when the transactions in which stocks are traded are sufficiently similar to permit meaningful comparison.

An Egyptian study published in 2011 found that HDP is " a valid test with high sensitivity and specificity for assessment of adequacy of hemodialysis in comparison to KT / V and URR.

Additionally, there ’ s a small difference between believable and valid ( 89 %) in comparison to unbelievable and invalid ( 56 %) ( Evans, Barston & Pollard, 1983 ; Morley, Evans & Handley, 2004 ).

However, because crude oil is refined before use, generating specific alkanes via cracking and fractional distillation, this comparison is not valid in a practical sense.