Early in his ascent to the stratosphere of political possibility, Obama was commonly compared to John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. — the suggestion being that his election would, after a long winter of cynicism, reintroduce idealism to American life.
The signals from optical, SAR, or LiDAR sensors are commonly compared to the field-estimated AGB using semi-empirical regression models or machine learning algorithms to extrapolate over the entire remote sensing imagery.
For validation purposes, these products are commonly compared to freely available rain gauge data, which has in some cases already been used to bias correct the products in the first place.
Alpha Centauri's turn-based gameplay, including the technology trees and factional warfare, was commonly compared to Civilization and Civilization II.
It has to be pointed out that recombinantly produced HRP mutants from E. coli are commonly compared to recombinant wild-type enzyme from the same host but rarely to the plant-derived wild-type enzyme which might have yet again different characteristics, e.g. due its native glycosylation (Hiner et al. 1995).
For many applications, chemicals are commonly compared structurally according to computed or measured properties (Duffy et al., 2012).
Patristic distances calculated from tree branch lengths describe the amount of genetic change represented by a tree and are commonly compared with other measures of mutation to investigate the substitutional processes or the goodness of fit of a tree to the raw data.
The English word 'daffodil' appears to be derived from 'asphodel', with which it was commonly compared.
The patterns of circuitry on a computer chip are commonly compared with the layout of a modern city.
