Aristotle used comparisons drawn from the arts and crafts to illustrate how final causes are at work in natural processes.
Wouters, (2013) performing meta-analytic techniques, used comparisons as well, to investigate whether serious games are more effective and more motivating than conventional instructional methods.
The poetics of geology had been under construction for some time, and the same old techniques were still used: comparisons with romance, descriptions of huge monsters, folklore allusions, devotional rhapsodies, poetry quotations, vivid restorations of the past.
O'Connor writes: The poetics of geology had been under construction for some time, and the same old techniques were still used: comparisons with romance, descriptions of huge monsters, folklore allusions, devotional rhapsodies, poetry quotations, vivid restorations of the past.
Bruno, 36, and Geller, 32, partners at Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher (it runs $2.5 billion for institutions), have used comparisons of enterprise multiples to help the firm's four largest funds score a 20% average annualized return over the past five years, placing Dalton Greiner in the top fifth of its peers, according to data from Effron Enterprises, which monitors pension managers.
Additional molecular studies have placed Limnoperdaceae in the pluteoid clade of the Agaricales, a grouping that includes the families Pluteaceae, Amanitaceae, and Pleurotaceae; other studies that used comparisons of ribosomal DNA sequences placed Limnoperdon near the gilled genera Melanoleuca or Resupinatus, of the Tricholomataceae family.
Nine papers used comparison data and 28 presented descriptive findings.
Several used comparison to lessen negative impact of IBD.
When pushed, those who attempt to justify exorbitant pay in the corporate world often use comparisons between great sports players and their own "star" performers.
So you can use comparisons with other states to support either case.
Private companies were valued using comparisons to their public counterparts.
