People spend hours analyzing their next purchase by comparing quality and prices in order to get the very best deal possible.
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He also showed a new tone of even-handedness by comparing the sufferings and the longings of the two peoples.
By comparing the GPS and eLoran time signals with its internal clock, each probe can detect interference and determine whether it is natural or man-made.
"By comparing before-and-after satellite images, we were able to see a significant movement of the region's human population, suggesting widespread displacement, " said Lars Bromley of the American Association of the Advancement of Science.
Yahoo wants to prove the influence by comparing different ads in similar demographics, and comparing data from a server address, a zip code, and credit card info from a purchase.
By comparing the figures before and during the pandemic, the researchers can determine how many people were infected as the virus spread around the world.
Assuming an average flow rate of about 1.5 million homes per year, you can eyeball the stock deficit by comparing the mass above and below the zero on the following graph.
But by comparing differences found - and in particular, differences between large groups of people with a particular disease and groups of healthy individuals - scientists are now able to investigate the genetic basis of common diseases.
And by comparing the prices Inland pays with Ispat's best prices worldwide (it is one of the biggest buyers of the industry's inputs), he says Ispat has reduced costs on products such as blast-furnace components by up to 20%.
By comparing notes with friends and neighbours, and of course gleaning information from people who have been travelling or seen action, Iraqis, each of them with a few pieces of the puzzle, build a picture of what is happening.
Judging a team by its ratio of runs scored to runs allowed and seeing how that compares to its real world wins is a bit like judging a stock by its fundamentals and comparing those numbers to its share price.
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This second kind of analysis is done by lining up lots of known binding sites for a particular protein, comparing them position by position, and so finding out which letter is most likely to occur at which position, and how probable it is that a different letter may sometimes crop up instead.
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And so by comparing material-size to people-size, are we measuring primary material consumption on the right scale?
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Pfizer also holds the top spot on the list of the most generous companies in America, which were measured by comparing total giving in cash and products during 2009 to total profits from 2008.
Mr Hayes said that drug-related crime is "significantly down", with the NTA estimating that drug treatment prevented some 4.9 million offences from taking place in 2010-11, by comparing rates of offending before and after treatment.
Organic farming scores better on biodiversity and soil composition, according to a review of studies comparing conventional and organic farming by Britain's farming ministry.
As the fund made lower lows (line D), volume decreased, as evidenced by comparing the levels at points 2 and 3.
The Sheffield Hallam research assesses the geographical consequence of welfare reforms by comparing claimant caseloads in local authorities and factoring in the DWP's own impact assessments.
The beta value is calculated by comparing price movements of the security and the price movement of the representative index over the past 2 years of weekly data.
Start by comparing test scores, graduation rates and college admissions.
The paper's authors, Richard Zegers, Andreas Weigl and Andrew Steptoe, reached their conclusion by comparing historical accounts of the maestro's illness - fever, rash, limb pain and swelling - with illnesses prevalent at the time of his death.
By using the Split-Adjust mode, users can freeze the scene and make these adjustments while comparing side-by-side with the original image.
She said she gets through each day by "choosing sanity" and not comparing herself to other families.
By comparing the fossil with others from earlier and later periods, scientists have been able to sketch a rough timeline of the pterodactyl's progression.
You can gauge a company's receivables compared to sales by reviewing its quarterly income statement and comparing the receivables (balance sheet) ratio to sales (income).
Although it now clearly looks like a bubble, at the time, there were many who justified the prices paid for tulips by comparing their relative value to other food and commodities such as wheat, rye, swine, and cheese.
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By contrast, Jean Weissenbach and his colleagues at Genoscope in France made their estimate by comparing the raw human sequence now available (about 60% of the total when their paper was written) with that of a puffer fish.
They used the classic trick of neutralising the effect of upbringing and exposing that of genetics by comparing identical twins (who share all their genes) with fraternal twins (who share half).
Another similar compound, still known by the codename Cox-189, is being developed by Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people), which is making a bold move by directly comparing Cox-189 to both Celebrex and Vioxx.
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