The phrase "adopted relative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a family member who has been legally adopted into a family, indicating a familial relationship that is not biological.
Example: "After the adoption process was finalized, she felt a deep bond with her adopted relative, who had come to live with them."
Alternatives: "adopted family member" or "legally adopted relative".
The familiarity of the strategy-makers with the market and the industry in which they are active, the consumer group and its specific needs that must be satisfied and, consequently, the role they (want to) adopt relative to their industry rivals are core issues in the design of corporate strategy.
Careful validation of RGs has been repeatedly advocated as mandatory to ensure the accuracy of normalized data in qPCR studies adopting relative quantification.
The comparative Ct method was adopted for relative quantification of gene expression and 18 s was used to normalize RNA inputs.
Since there is no formal equivalent of elite rater performance we adopted a relative approach to expertise.
Stable isotope labeling with d0- and d4-succinic anhydride and iTRAQ reagents has been successfully adopted for relative quantitation of nanoliter volume samples containing the Aplysia insulin Cβ peptide.
But it takes a lot more concentration to keep track of the swarms of adopted children, relatives, native associates, political enemies and family cats that have accrued to the series since 1975.
It is impossible to know how many of the approximately 140,000 adoptions in the United States each year begin with the Internet; most older children are adopted by relatives or by foster parents, and the growing number from abroad are placed through agencies.
However, quantitative studies on strategies adopted by relatives to cope with the disorder are lacking.
Born in New York City 48 years ago, he was adopted by relatives who raised him in their walk-up flat on Chicago's tough South Side.
Children receiving family finding were more likely to be adopted by relatives and less likely to age out of care without permanency resolution, but other forms of permanency, number of placement disruptions, and subsequent substantiated maltreatment reports did not differ between groups.
