Our results are basically comparable with previous reports, but differ in some points.
Our results show that although mineralogical composition, clay content, grain size, and fabric type are basically comparable, porosity and quartz cementation are not.
As a matter of fact, having a close look at the result of Shen et al. (2003) and Jiang et al. (2003), it can be seen that although the shear strain rate of the Longmenshan fault zone is significantly smaller than that of the Xianshuihe, Anninghe, and Zemuhe fault zone, the principal strain rates of them are basically comparable.
Removing the effect of these two earthquakes and focusing on the changing rate or deformation rate, as shown by Fig. 2(b) which zooms in the recent two decades, it can be seen that for the period from 1987 /01/01to 2008/01/01, deformation rate of region A, B, C, and D, as shown by their cumulative Benioff strain curve, are basically comparable.
As the characteristics of our study population were basically comparable to those of Stumvolls population, the ratio of AUCInsulin/AUCGlucose, which performed best in Stumvolls study compared to a hyperglycemic clamp, was used to estimate insulin secretion.
This uniformity shown by the four high-D SNPs suggests that the nature of the difference between control and schizophrenic samples was basically comparable for the four individual high-D SNPs.
Since the running times of the three methods are basically comparable, due to its much better performances in terms of selectiveness, EXCELLENT* is clearly to be preferred for this data set instead of FINE* and GOOD*.
These differences between the groups were, to a great extent, attributable to length of employment as a baggage handler, indicating that the study and reference groups were basically comparable in relation to reporting of musculoskeletal symptoms.
Finally, in the elongated fruits both the production of ethylene and the expression of the ACO1 gene were basically comparable to those of the untransformed fruits, thus confirming that the oblong fruits can undergo a normal ripening process.
