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Comparisons

People often examine things and objects by comparing their similarities or differences in order to judge the specific characteristics, qualities and the degree of their merit. This category includes all the questions and answers to relate things with their similarities and to distinguish with their differences that decide their specific nature in contrast to their counterparts being compared.

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What is the difference between the old and the elderly?

Nothing really. Elderly is a polite way to say an old person i.e a 70year old. Old is slightly ruder and is also used to describe objects rather than people.

What is the distance of the sun and the moon?

The Sun is at a distance of about 150 million kilometers from Earth; the Moon is at a distance of about 380,000 kilometers from Earth.

What is the definition of lust?

Lust is desire that is stimulated by a superficial impression of the object of passion with a selfish consideration in mind. On this basis, lust is not taking an interest in someone for their own sake, but mostly in order to gain pleasure of some sort from that person.

In contrast, love is when the desire towards a person is fully mediated by a consciousness of the importance of the person and when attention is given in actions towards this person with the appreciation of his or her inherent worth as the driving motivation.

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Lust is passionate sexual desire driven by the sex hormones testosterone and oestrogen.

Testosterone is not confined only to men. It has also been shown to play a major role in the sex drive of women. When testosterone levels reach a certain threshold, just after puberty, teenagers start thinking about sex.

Testosterone is a steroid hormone from the androgen group. In mammals, testosterone is primarily secreted in the testes of males and the ovaries of females. It is the principal male sex hormone and an anabolic steroid. Testosterone give virilizing and anabolic effect to our body.

Oestrogens are a group of steroid compounds, named for their importance in the estrous cycle, and functioning as the primary female sex hormone.

Oestrogens are used as part of some oral contraceptives, in estrogen replacement therapy of postmenopausal women, and in hormone replacement therapy for transwomen. While estrogens are present in both men and women, they are usually present at significantly higher levels in women of reproductive age. They promote the development of female secondary sex characteristics.

Reference:

Sex Drive. Life Chemistry. Retrieved June 26, 2008, from http://www.life-chemistry.blogspot.com/

What is a laboratory thermometer?

A laboratory thermometer is used to check the temperature, or changes in temperature, of an object with precise accuracy.

How much power did the collussus have in comparison to todays technology?

It is hard to put a figure on it because, although both the Colossus and modern computers are universal Turing machines, the fundamental nature of their designs are very different.

The common crude way to compare the 'power' of modern processors is by how many floating point (FLOPS) or integer (MIPS) calculations can be performed per second. Since the colossus did not have dedicated arithmetic units in the way we think of them now, these measures are inappropriate.

Considering system clock speed, the (mark II) Colossus' clock was generated by the paper tape reader to keep the machine synchronised with its paper-tape program. The clock speed was, therefore, limited by the mechanics of the spooler and the integrity of the paper. The safe limit used was 5000 characters per second (which may crudely be thought of as 5KHz). Since modern computers operate at around 3GHz, we can crudely say that this is six-hundred-thousand times faster. However this hides the fact that a modern general-purpose processor is vastly more flexible in its abilities and so can perform certain operations with just a few clock cycles that may have required huge programs to calculate on the Colossus.

Conversely, however, the Colossus was designed to perform a very specific function, and so could do that very efficiently. In evidence of this, Joachim Schüth wrote a decrypt code in 2007 that could crack the enigma code running on a 1.4GHz laptop. Comparing the speed of calculation to that of Colossus, he stated: "My laptop digested ciphertext at a speed of 1.2 million characters per second-240 times faster than Colossus. If you scale the CPU frequency by that factor, you get an equivalent clock of 5.8 MHz for Colossus. That is a remarkable speed for a computer built in 1944."

Pros and cons of paying a whistleblower?

Pros of paying a whistleblower include revealing the truth while the cons include tainting of image.

What are the pros and cons of using Westjet Deals?

It seems that the pros of Westjet deals are getting comp time or coupons for variety of things. At the other pole, the con side, there seems to be a shortest of good seats or just plainly seats at a better cost without a bit of luck on your side.

What is a good antidepressent?

There are many excellent antidepressants, many of the best are in the class of SSRI antidepressants because they have fewer and less severe side effects than older types (e.g. MAOI antidepressants, tricyclic antidepressants).

However what works for one person does not for another, so you and your psychiatrist may have to try several before finding a good antidepressant for you.

What are good comparison and contrast topics?

Some things to compare and constrast are the following:

public school vs. private school

script writing vs. print writing

catholic vs. jewdisum

lap-top vs. computer

spanish vs. English

test vs. homework

When you compare and contrast items the easiest thing to do is make to circles and over-lap them. You baseically tell the similarities and differences of the two objects that you are writing about.

What is the definition of malapropism?

A malapropism in literature is a type of humor when a character uses a wrong, but similar word. For example, in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the nurse says the word "confidence" when she really means conference, and "indite" instead of invite. The question remains, what was this type of humor called in Shakespeare's time? Seemingly, the word "malapropism" comes from a character (Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals) created by Richard Sheridan, who wrote the same type of humor-- more than 100 years later. Malapropism is a comic or humerus [sic] misuse of language. It involves a word that is similar in sound to the word that is meant, often while using some familiar expression e.g. "a shrewd awakening," instead of "a rude awakening." From a character, Mrs Malaprop, in Sheridan's Restoration comedy The Rivals,but also from mal-a-propos (pronounced malla pro-POE) meaning inappropriate or out-of-place.

What are the relationship between democracy and development?

with out development democrancy cannot take place so both of them move together

What is the difference between endurance and stamina exercise?

Stamina is more about strength, and endurance is more about time. Stamina is focused on how long a group of muscles can perform at maximum capacity. Endurance is focused on the amount of time a group of muscles can perform a certain action.

What is the relationship between density and buoyancy?

The greater the density of the fluid, greater is the buoyancy. For example, when a piece of wood is pushed into different fluids, different forces have to be applied to do so. the denser the fluid, more is the force required to push the body into it. This is the reason that we apply more force to push a body into salt water than onto ordinary water this is because sea water has more density.

What is the relationship between density and temperature?

Due to thermal expansion, as temperature increases, density decreases.
There is no simple relationship. Usually, but not always, if a substance is heated, it will expand, thus decreasing its density.

What is lacquer work?

Lacquer-work is a highly skilled decorative art in which the artist shapes the wood using a hand operated lathe. Then several colors of lac are applied, design is then incised with sharp tools exposing the colors of the underlying layers.

Comparison between ac and dc machines?

DC Machines :

Gadgets running off direct current are much more regular than gadgets running off AC current. DC gives an exceptionally smooth supply of power, so it is useful for things. You may see that numerous battery chargers have AC to DC converters to change over the AC originating from your home attachment into DC to charge a battery. DC gadgets are generally energized. This implies that they have to have a sure association racing to ground and one association hurrying to the force supply. Air conditioning force does not give polarization, as the present inverts itself quite often.

Air conditioning Machines :

The most well-known use for AC is transmitting power over long separations. Electrical cables and power dispersion matrices use AC in light of the fact that it loses less voltage over long separations than DC. Some handheld gadgets, particularly ones that use speakers, need AC power. These gadgets, be that as it may, can likewise keep running off of DC force.The gadgets and parts that require AC force don't should be energized. Gadgets that require low voltages additionally some of the time use AC power, in light of the fact that AC is great at giving low voltages consistently much as it is great at conveying high voltages crosswise over electrical cables.

Why were native Americans societies in north America so diverse?

it was because of the British people who who some of the Native Americans and mess up their culture.

Eagles vs cowboys comparison?

To talk about the cowboys 2008 season is bad for them, don't trash the eagles no one cares about the past only the current and future. If you can recall the eagles dismantled the cowboys 44-6 in 2008's Win and In game. At least they made it to the playoffs. And if ur team doesnt make it, you have no say in what happened last year. And all the cowgirls have been in the last couple years are choke artists. The upcoming 2009 eagles team is shaping up to be the most promising in the NFC east.

To answer that question the eagles are better.

PS: who had a vote in saying the cowboys are Americas team im not even a patriots fan and id say it would probably be them cause whens the last time the cowboys went 17 and 0.

True or false a Volkswagen Beetle is the size of a blue whales heart?

It is true that the heart of a blue whale is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. The heart weighs about 1,000 pounds.