It would be worth the drive just to park my first-year Camaro alongside the about-to-be-revived version -- a design that unashamedly pays homage to the first generation of G.M.'s pony cars -- and get some sense of the comparative scale.
That's a minor point, given the comparative scale of possible spectrum revenue next to our accumulation of debt.
According to the Association of British Credit Unions Limited (Abcul), there are 1.2 million credit union members in Britain, but the comparative scale of the sector still lags behind many other countries.
To reach a comparative scale in the UK, awareness of credit unions needs to be raised and more members are needed from all income groups.
The recent drop in the cost of genome sequencing has enabled an increase in the scale of comparative genomic analyses.
Its enablers are the laws of comparative advantage and economies of scale.In "The Great Brain Race" Ben Wildavsky points to another mighty agent of globalisation: universities.
In the largest-scale test of comparative academic ability, conducted by the OECD, students from East Asia not only came out on top in the traditional subjects of maths, science and literacy, they also occupied the top four places in a newly-developed problem-solving test.
Additionally, these results highlight the value of comparative expression analyses between large-scale proteomic and transcriptomic datasets to reveal new regulatory connections.
A mainstream analysis in the field of comparative genomics is the genome-scale computational search for groups of homologous genes evolving under positive Darwinian selection, usually defined as genes with an elevated nonsynonymous substitution rate, since these groups of genes are of most interest to the understanding of how evolution works at the molecular level [ 4, 5].
The final problem is that, in the presence of scale economies, the perfectly-competitive international markets presumed by the theory of comparative advantage do not exist.
