The research aims to compare the marketing strategies and practices of the Japanese, American and British firms competing in the UK market.

And if we compare practices across cultures then we will find distinctive and subtle differences in the way structured behaviour is learnt and compliance is assured.

Each year in the halls of the cloister of San Nicolò, the most important names in global scientific learning and artistic creativity meet to compare practices and respective languages.

Sieve divination or coscinomancy is culturally widespread, and Chao (1942:21) compares practices in ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, and India.

Armando Falcon, director of the agency, said the review would compare Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's disclosure policies and practices with those of other publicly traded companies.

It was in essence a comparative ethnography comparing practices and customs of European and American cultures and evaluating them according to whether they were good or bad, seen from a Christian viewpoint.

To determine influence, you'd have to randomly assign psychiatrists to two groups, one receiving significant pharmaceutical income and the other not, and then compare prescribing practices.

The rapporteur proposes indicators which would serve to compare individual practices with each other.

In short, because of its incompleteness, the regulation will probably become some kind of legal laboratory for comparing practices and conditions as and when they are established by the States.

As Mrs Ford said, we have also tried to impose a degree of order on national budgetary procedures, if only so as to be able to compare practices in different countries.