Sentences with phrase «direct comparison to others»

The graphs themselves emphasized not only the state's performance levels (with an emphasis on a proficiency goal), but also the direct comparison to others.

Though not as quick - witted or dramatically affecting as some of the other films Disney released in the surrounding years, Mulan is a film that wins you over on its own merits, even if it does not stand up to direct comparison to other animated triumphs.

They are marketing it with direct comparisons to other, bulkier materials.

I obviously couldnt make any direct comparisons to other speakers at the event, but I did get to listen to it in an acoustically sealed space and I liked what I heard.

Not exact matches

As you are trying to show loss in one goes to gain in the other, it would be much better if the scales allowed a direct comparison.

I shall assume that the aim of an explication of «valid induction» is to find a numerical or comparative function c (h, e)-- the «confirmation of hypothesis h given evidence e» — which is a syntactic function of the statements h and e, and which has a high or comparatively high value in those cases where normally accepted or intuitive inductive methods would direct us to accept hypothesis h on evidence e, at least in comparison with other hypotheses having lower c - value.

The lower levels of baseline sugar sweetened drink consumption in the UK compared with the US may in part explain why the effect on obesity that we estimate in the UK is much less than that estimated in the US.12 The differences with respect to other modelling studies may also be partly explained by their use of higher own price elasticity values for sugar sweetened drinks than we have calculated and used here.18 22 52 We can not make direct comparisons between the results of our study and the results of recent studies of the effect of reducing sugar sweetened drink consumption on body weight in children, 5 7 as the relation between energy balance and change in body mass index in children who are growing is different from that in adults.

In fact if you want to make a direct comparison with Chelsea you can see how Mourinho has balance in his front 3 behind Costa with Hazard on one side for flair and second striker option (for Arsenal read Alexis) and Willian on the other side.

The amount of time I've actually been pitched direct sales opportunities by other moms pales in comparison to the number of times I've wondered whether or not I was about to be pitched.

Stress resistance has not been assessed however and so the biological relevance of this finding is currently unknown.32 Several IER trials (75 - 85 % ER on restricted days) in overweight / obese populations have reported reductions in various markers of oxidative stress 37, 41, which in one study was accompanied by a complementary increase in the anti-oxidant uric acid.37 In a direct comparison of IER (75 % ER for two days / week) and CER, both ER strategies displayed equal efficacy in reducing levels of fast - acting advanced oxidation protein products (AOPP) after six months, which displayed a tendency to occur earlier (i.e. at three months) in the IER group.41 Levels of slow - acting (i.e. long term) AOPP tended to decrease in the IER group and increase in the CER group which the authors proposed may have resulted from IER - induced activation of autophagy, a key homeostatic cellular process in which dysfunctional or unnecessary cellular proteins are degraded and recycled.41 On the other hand, a follow - up study using similar IER / CER protocols demonstrated comparable reductions in AOPP in both groups after three months.48 Summary and Future Research Directions

The second article offers a more direct comparison of charters to other public schools, using a random lottery design.

Unfortunately, what I have observed in my own research and that of many others is that Michigan's academic stagnation — and decline in comparison to the rest of the nation — is a real and direct threat to our state and our children's futures.

Publishing on eBook platforms such as Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) is extremely inexpensive by comparison to all other print options.

We are going to compare the screen in an direct sunlight setting in normal mode and with Pixel QI, we will use the IPAD as a benchmark for its comparison (mainly cause everyone knows how the ipad performs) Most other reviews have been negative so far, because they do not know how pixel qi is supposed to function, or use a camera with FLASH.

Yes, you may be able to find other uses to justify the price differential, but I don't really see them as direct competitors, even though the media is obsessed with the comparison.

It would be nice if there was something to easily compare the Sleepy Portfolio against, but the regular contributions make direct comparisons against other products more challenging.

In order to draw a more direct comparison between different credit card options, we match up the Chase Freedom ® against other options below.

It was the best of ports, it was the worst of ports, it was a game of wisdom, it was a game of foolishness, it was the combat system of belief, it was the combat system of incredulity, it was released during the holiday season of Light, it was released during the holiday season of Darkness, its price in the spring will give hope, its price in the winter brings despair, it has everything going for it, it has nothing going for it, it will go straight to GOTY lists, it will go direct in the other way — in short the game is so like the previous game that some of its noisiest authorities insist on its being recieved, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

, so forget about direct comparisons to Sonic, Mario or other swifter mascot characters.

It's made me suspect that, when you have no direct comparison to make, environmental factors may be at work more than you realise in your other judgements.»

Now, as some of these costs and effects are known and others unknown, I would propose we keep cost - correlated comparisons limited to the direct and easily falsifiable columns rather than attempt to calculate all the possible correlated costs.

It was used as a standard for many years at NOAA, and we now add it to our other more advanced Standard Curves and Combined methods, allowing direct comparisons.

Therefore mitigating global warming will address both the synergistic harm that it wreaks in concert with the non-climate damage to the environment, and it will address the direct effect that it will have on species and ecosystem - an effect that, if warming is not properly addressed for a few more decades, will make all other human impacts pale by comparison.

Capacity for direct comparison of MCS data with published data from similar large, general population samples was limited for the other scales owing to modification from the original response formats to a standard three - choice format, adoption of a standard method of summed total scores for all scales and by minor alterations to the wording of some items.