Its main scientific use at the moment is in clinical trials as a baseline for comparison with another treatment.
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Since DNA testing has become available, Ms. Rose said, 22 people have been eliminated as suspects after providing DNA samples for comparison with crime-scene evidence.
He said that in addition, rats kept in ordinary laboratory cages before being put into their "enhanced" environment might be considered understimulated prior to the experiment - and therefore not necessarily ideal for comparison with humans.
Mr McCain's support among the party faithful has plunged since the beginning of the year, even in his own backyard (see the chart for a comparison with the better-placed Rudy Guiliani).
And as the Scottish figure already excludes that figure (though it does include the economic activity from the sector's onshore activities), the 'like-for-like' comparison with Scotland shows that its 0.5% growth rate looks half as strong as the UK one.
Murakami is a serious artist, whose theory of the "Superflat" opened the door for a comparison of manga with classical Japanese scroll painting and printmaking, but the show was promoted with a quote from Marc Jacobs, the fashion designer with whom he'd collaborated on Louis Vuitton handbags.
For this reason, PPP is a more reliable comparison for the currencies of economies with similar levels of income.
Though growing fast, China's thirst for oil still pales in comparison with America's.
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But a comparison with data for weeks when there was no experimentation showed that output always went up on Mondays.
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As FORBES was first to report in November, Schering has been futzing for 18 months with this comparison study, which ended up showing that these expensive pills were no better at clearing out artery gunk than a generic statin.
By comparison, the percentages for people with regular access to health care were 75.4% and 86.4%, respectively.
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Pocket Legends and Order and Chaos Online, they are seriously lacking in comparison with traditional titles for the PC, and even if the games improve over time, developers will have a hard time maintaining the complexities players are used to on other platforms.
For comparison, another group of nine volunteers with amblyopia wore similar goggles but had their good eye covered, and watched the whole game through only their lazy eye.
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Click past the break for a head-to-head comparison with the San Diego, which is cheaper but slightly less well-built (and still running Gingerbread), and the Galaxy Nexus, which costs more but comes with a far better display.
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But if successive Welsh teams for the past 20 years have laboured in comparison with the 70s vintage, the professional era has brought the decline into sharp focus.
But even these pale in comparison with General Motors's plans for next year's Cadillac line: a night-vision system.
The comparison with Malaysia is particularly apt: for a long time, Malaysians were happy to accept strong if unaccountable government from Mahathir Mohamad in the interests of economic progress.
Another good comparison to make is with the average yield for apartment REITs, currently 7.8%.
Season ticket sales for the current 2012-13 campaign remained stable in comparison with recent seasons, it added.
One examined 29 patients with Crohn's disease and found that after six months, 21 were considered remitted. (There wasn't a control group for comparison.) The other was study of 54 patients with ulcerative colitis.
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Yet according to Gregory Rodriguez, of the Pepperdine Institute for Public Policy, the most appropriate historical comparison is not with the confrontational politics of the 1960s, which sprang out of the squashing of racial minorities.
He demonstrated using the tool bar at the top of the display, starting with Apple and then adding Nokia and Samsung for comparison.
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Drawing a comparison with the US Congress, he argued that for too long the Commons had resembled the Senate, with its emphasis on oratory in the chamber and a lack of focus on committees.
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By comparison, Yelp has 543 reviews with star ratings for the El Castillito taqueria in San Francisco, while Facebook has 97 likes (none from my friends), and a few scattered wall posts on a sparse unofficial landing page.
They were told not to make contact with friends or post information to allow for a cleaner comparison since all participants simply browsed online rather than actively engaging.
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And choosing another site for comparison isn't easy: Choose one too close to intersections with cameras and it could experience a so-called spillover effect, when camera-less intersections along the same route are affected by motorists conditioned by cameras.
Because the life insurance company we used for this analysis has the highest financial strength ratings, our comparison was made with top rated tax-free bond yields.
For one thing, print advertising, even though it is diminished, still pays the bulk of the freight for newsrooms, with web ads paying just pennies on the dollar in comparison.
Galling as the revelations are of traders trying to manipulate rates for personal gain, the actual harm done would probably have paled in comparison with the subsequent misconduct of the banks.
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Turnout for the assembly elections has also been low in comparison to Westminster elections - with 46.3% in 1999, 38.2% in 2003 and then 43.5% in 2007 - around 20 points behind comparable UK general elections.
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