In three large research networks with national and international collaborations, sharing and ownership restrictions proved their value to communicate data between defined partners and to perform individual and user-specific queries immediately after hybridization.
According to Cherlin (2004 888), the growing acceptance of relationship alternatives is one indicator that marriage is undergoing a "deinstitutionalization", described as "a weakening of the social norms that define partners' behavior".
Laws – a millionaire former City banker – claimed he had breached no rules saying in a statement: "At no point did I consider myself to be in breach of the rules which in 2009 defined partner as 'one of a couple … who, although not married to each other or civil partners, are living together and treat each other as spouses'.
Casual partners included new partners (defined as partners encountered for the first time) and casual recurrent partners [defined as recurrent partners not considered to be regular partners and back-translated from the Kiswahili mara kwa mara ('from time to time', Fig. 1)].
Regular sexual partners were defined as partners with whom participants had had sexual relationships lasting three months or more, and casual sexual partners were sexual relationships lasting less than three months.
Parliament's rules are open to interpretation on the issue of defining a partner.
We enrolled three cohorts, all of which were monogamous, defined as partners that had no other sexual partners in terms of oral, anal or vaginal sex, whether protected or unprotected by means of barrier methods for the 12 months prior to enrollment in the study and for the duration of their participation in the study.
Partners at risk were defined as partners with whom the index had unprotected anal or oral intercourse during the last 4 weeks up to 1 year, depending on the type of STI [ 18].
Caregiver was defined as partner, spouse, or other informal caregiver closely related to the patient.
The laws define domestic partners as individuals who are over 18 years old, single but living together in a relationship of mutual support, commitment and financial interdependence.
