Partial measurement invariance was established for the LMSQ scores across the countries whereas full measurement invariance was achieved across gender.
He hyperbolises abridgements of liberty in democratic countries whereas, in Ba'athist Iraq, he perceives a "fortress of stability" that "offered women opportunities unimaginable in nearby countries".
Mortgages are generally variable-rate in these countries, whereas they are fixed as a rule in Germany and France.
In overall terms, a convergence of cropland yields (YIELDGAP) increases the self-sufficiency of developing countries, whereas converging diets decrease self-sufficiency.
Dramas and comedies tend to be culturally specific, and therefore less marketable in other countries, whereas action films and comic-book films, set in fantasy landscapes and featuring relatively little dialogue, are ready-made for worldwide distribution.
The empirical case against expansionary austerity is that it doesn't seem to be working in Britain (or in any of the struggling eurozone countries), whereas good old fashioned fiscal expansion does seem to be doing the trick in the US.
Shas (7) appeals to Mizrahi Jews (originating mainly from Arab countries), whereas United Torah Judaism (6), draws on ultra-Orthodox Ashkenazi (European) Jews.
Yet most Chinese imports are of consumer goods, competing with imports from other poor countries, whereas America's manufactures are chiefly capital goods.
Negotiated reforms are a common leitmotif of the current wave of reforms taking place in various European countries, whereas American attempts to reinvent government opt to replace the state with the market.
This is partially a result of better coverage of major flood events across all countries, whereas flood events recorded in Italy, Spain and France were dominated by flash floods.
At the national level, political elites number only a few thousand persons in all but the largest countries, whereas the makeup of cultural elites is more indeterminate and turns on the nonpolitical spheres regarded as consequential in a society.
