The rarity of the black cultured pearl is now a " comparative " issue.

Due to the comparative rarity of NMS, it is often overlooked and immediate treatment for the syndrome is delayed.

Despite being a better-adapted virtual machine for modern computing hardware and being just as accessible to developers, Glulx continues to lag behind the Z-machine in popularity, largely due to the comparative rarity of interpreters.

The early versions produced before 1967 used a split front windshield ( giving rise to the nickname " Splitty "), and their comparative rarity has led to their becoming sought after by collectors and enthusiasts.

Because of its receptivity to music videos ( something of a necessity because of the comparative rarity of tours by overseas acts ) Countdown proved to be instrumental in the worldwide success of a number of important overseas acts of the period.

This was mainly due to the comparative rarity of Alex James in the English game.

As a female, she was also a comparative rarity in the male-dominated world of Soviet art.

However, due to the comparative rarity and poor quality of Japanese armor it was often used in a fire support role instead of as a tank destroyer.

Not surprisingly, Graftons are challenging and expensive to overhaul or repair when compared to saxophones made entirely of metal e. g. Selmer or Conn. For these reasons, and their comparative rarity, it is unusual to see a Grafton being played by performers in the 21st century.

The book was highly influential in introducing comparative studies ( in this case France and England ), as well as long durations (" longue durée ") studies spanning several centuries, even up to a thousand years, downplaying short-term events.

** use of the dative possessive case in personal pronouns and nouns: ; descriptive future tense using the verb (" to want "); use of the comparative form ( smaller ) to denote " younger ".

* MLA style was developed by the Modern Language Association and is most often used in the arts and the humanities, particularly in English studies, other literary studies, including comparative literature and literary criticism in languages other than English (" foreign languages "), and some interdisciplinary studies, such as cultural studies, drama and theatre, film, and other media, including television.

This was made possible by the massive Polynesian language comparative lexicon (" Pollex "-with reconstructions ) of Biggs and Clark.

Spanish: The comparative superlative, like in French, has the definite article ( such as " las " or " el "), or the possessive article ( such as " tus ", " nuestra ", " su "), followed by the comparative (" más " or " menos "), so that " el meñique es el dedo más pequeño " or " el meñique es el más pequeño de los dedos " is " the pinky is the smallest finger ".

In 1827, Franscini published Switzerland's first comparative statistical analysis ever in Statistica della Svizzera (" Statistics of Switzerland ").

* Johannes Peter Müller publishes his first important works, Zur vergleichenden Physiologie des Gesichtsinns (" On the comparative physiology of sight ", Leipzig ) and Über die phantastischen Gesichtserscheinungen (" On visual hallucination ", Coblenz ), making a first statement of the law of specific nerve energies.

The title is deceiving: It is not a " vocabulary " but a comprehensive and comparative analysis of key social behaviors and institutions across Germanic, Romanesque, Greek and Roman, Old Iranian and Indian cultures, using the words (" vocables ") that denote them as points of entry.

For example, while the comparative form of the adjective zoet (" sweet ") is zoeter, the comparative of zuur (" sour ") is zuurder and not * zurer as would be expected.

Perspective comparative asupra istoriei gîndirii politice în Europa Est-Centrală (" Ideology and Phantasmagoria.

Perspective comparative asupra istoriei gîndirii politice în Europa Est-Centrală (" Ideology and Phantasmagoria.

His PhD research (" tesis doctoral ") was a comparative case law study in the impact of so called third countries mandatory laws, such as embargoes or other compulsory laws on the validity and enforceabiluty of international trade contracts.

In recent years, he has explored the links between old Indian, Eurasian and other mythologies ( 1990, 2001-2010, resulting in a new scheme of historical comparative mythology that covers most of Eurasia and the Americas (" Laurasia ", cf.

In Pokorny's comparative dictionary on Indo-European languages, the author considers Yazata -, yaz -, yasna, yájati, yajñá, ἅγιος hagios to all be derivatives of a Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ) root i ̪ agʲ-( i ̪ ag ´-) " religiös verehren " (" religiously venerate ").

Grundriß der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen (" Outline of the comparative grammar of the Indo-European languages ") is a major work of historical linguistics by Karl Brugmann and Berthold Delbrück, published in two editions between 1886 and 1916.

Scandinavian adjectives, like English ones, are inflected in terms of comparison by adding '- ere '/'- are ' ( comparative ) or '- est '/'- ast ' ( superlative ).

The author utilizes a comparative approach to explaining Unix by contrasting it to other operating systems including desktop-oriented ones such as Microsoft Windows and Mac OS to ones with research roots such as EROS and Plan 9 from Bell Labs.

In political science, international and comparative law and economics, transitology is the name for the study of the process of change from one political regime to another, mainly from authoritarian regimes to democratic ones.

These moments are historical events in the lives of individual authors with which the student of comparative literature must be frequently concerned.

In the next few months of comparative silence, Pike waited patiently until conditions were perfect for a new attack, and then, displaying a remarkable grasp of the subtleties of political infighting, gained from his first bout with Woodruff, he used these changed conditions to excellent advantage.

With respect to those countries whose leaders prefer to live with their illusions, we can afford to wait, for in time their comparative lack of progress will become clear for all to see.

The nonreactors had been separated into two groups on this assumption with the presumably `` secure '' nonreactors and `` secure '' reactors being used as the groups for comparative personality studies.

But consideration of the frequency of stems per constant meaning seems to be established as having significance in comparative situations with diachronic and classificatory relevance ; ;

Against such a termination of human life on earth by human action, he then proposes as an alternative that we `` negotiate at once with the Russians and get the best terms which are available '', that we deliberately `` negotiate from comparative weakness ''.

In some of its facets anatomy is closely related to embryology, comparative anatomy and comparative embryology, in line with modern teaching methods.

John Miles Foley held, specifically with reference to the Beowulf debate, that while comparative work was both necessary and valid, it must be conducted with a view to the particularities of a given tradition ; Foley argued with a view to developments of oral traditional theory that do not assume, or depend upon, finally unverifiable assumptions about composition, and that discard the oral / literate dichotomy focused on composition in favor of a more fluid continuum of traditionality and textuality.

Those who ignore the effects of long run trade deficits may be confusing David Ricardo's principle of comparative advantage with Adam Smith's principle of absolute advantage, specifically ignoring the latter.

) Opponents of this concept argue that local currency creates a barrier which can interfere with economies of scale and comparative advantage, and that in some cases they can serve as a means of tax evasion.

In linguistics, the comparative method is a technique for studying the development of languages by performing a feature-by-feature comparison of two or more languages with common descent from a shared ancestor, as opposed to the method of internal reconstruction, which analyzes the internal development of a single language over time.

These metrical inconsistencies ( along with a knowledge of comparative linguistics ) have led scholars to infer the presence of a lost digamma in the original Ionic text of the poem.

In 1988 he returned to Bloomington as " College of Arts and Sciences Professor " in both cognitive science and computer science, and also was appointed adjunct professor of history and philosophy of science, philosophy, comparative literature, and psychology, but he states that his involvement with most of these departments is nominal.

Even if one region has an absolute advantage as to the ratio of its outputs to inputs in every type of output, it may still specialize in the output in which it has a comparative advantage and thereby gain from trading with a region that lacks any absolute advantage but has a comparative advantage in producing something else.

In and around 1800, embryology fused with comparative anatomy as the primary foundation of morphology.

Even though Haeckel's program in comparative embryology virtually collapsed after the First World War, his embryo drawings have often been reproduced and redrawn with increased precision and accuracy in works that have kept the study of comparative embryology alive.

But the theory refers only to aggregate wealth and says nothing about the distribution of wealth ; in fact there may be significant losers, in particular among the recently protected industries with a comparative disadvantage.

: Bopp's researches, carried with wonderful penetration into the most minute and almost microscopical details of linguistic phenomena, have led to the opening up of a wide and distant view into the original seats, the closer or more distant affinity, and the tenets, practices and domestic usages of the ancient Indo-European nations, and the science of comparative grammar may truly be said to date from his earliest publication.

The success of the work bears comparison with his achievements in opera, but his comparative silence during the period from 1832 to his death in 1868 makes his biography appear almost like the narrative of two lives — the life of swift triumph and the long life of seclusion, of which biographers give us pictures in stories of the composer's cynical wit, his speculations in fish culture, his mask of humility and indifference.

New Trade Theory tries to explain empirical elements of trade that comparative advantage-based models above have difficulty with.