"Historically, price comparison sites have tended to direct consumers to the cheapest products first, but with PMI, price is not the most important factor," says Richard Theo, the director of ActiveQuote.
Andrew Shapiro: Thinking by analogy, or thinking historically by comparison, consider the dot-com boom 10 years ago and the bust that followed.
But in addition to authoritatively formulating utilitarianism and inspiring utilitarians, the Methods has also served as a general model for how to do ethical theory, since it provides a series of systematic, historically informed comparisons between utilitarianism and its leading alternatives.
For many, simply to be born in a rich nation is to have won the lottery for inexpensive access to the necessities of life; to be gloriously, unprecedentedly free from cares historically and in comparison to much of the globe.
This mean childhood blood lead value has been historically used for comparisons with cognitive and behavioral outcomes (Dietrich et al. 1991, 1993b).
We demonstrate that selection on short and long timescales, in fact, is largely consistent: Strong purifying selection acts on mature miRNA sequence in contemporary populations, not just being evident historically from phylogenetic comparisons.
"I sense some sort of fear of revenge for the fact that historically speaking, and in comparison to many parts of the world, we have it good right now," Schlink says over the phone from his US home in the Berkshires, Massachusetts.
By comparison, many historically important algorithms operate over continuously variable configurations.
At $885 an ounce, the price for gold is historically high, particularly in comparison to oil prices.
This comparison has historically been conducted using a 95% one-sided confidence interval for the 0.95-quantile of the output distribution, which is usually found following the technique of simple random sampling using order statistics (SRS-OS).
