While the detection of viruses is distributed over the Internet, for example, just as the cells of the immune system are spread throughout the body, there is no biological equivalent of the central analysis centre.

ECONOMIST: A thousand ills require a thousand cures

Xarelto, made by Johnson and Bayer, was better than warfarin in one analysis, about equivalent in another.

FORBES: Names You Need To Know: Pradaxa and Xarelto

The creation of the equivalent of data cubes and other summaries to speed analysis is far faster and less intermediated by experts.

FORBES: Kill Your Data Warehouse

In the ECF analysis, the indirect effect of American cuts equivalent to those in the House legislation, via increased ambition elsewhere, is even more than the direct effect.

ECONOMIST: What countries are currently offering on climate

Based on this analysis, nine diesels had five-year ownership costs that are lower than equivalent models with gas engines, as detailed in this slideshow.

FORBES: The Diesel vs. Gas Showdown

The most interesting thing about the Moody's analysis is that it, in effect, creates three new categories of global banks, the banking equivalent of the Premier League, the Championship and League One.

BBC: Are any British banks still Premier League?