When he was admitted to a long-term-care facility, Molaison's hospital chart listed Corkin as "the only interested relative, friend, or contact".
When put to a parliamentary vote, euthanasia is often denied "because old people might be pressured into it by self-interested relatives" – yet, of course, they feel no pressure from every report and prediction that emphasises that we are an expensively ageing society!
Our model is only interested in relative relative rates as given by the multinomial model, and it is well-known that the natural parameter space of the multinomial distribution, as a member of the exponential family, is the logarithm of the multinomial parameters.
We focused on measures of relative ASE for individual sites in this study, but most researchers are more interested in relative ASE for individual exons and/or genes.
Earning more money, Layard argues, won't make us happy because most of us are interested in relative wealth rather than absolute wealth.
As we are only interested in relative differences in LE between the different groups studied, we for simplicity ignore the bias for the statistical analysis.
This is usually explained as being for family reunion purposes, but most travellers are not all that interested in their relatives in China.
The reason your doctor is so interested in your relatives is because we still don't have a better way to identify which women are at the highest risk for the disease, says Debbie Saslow, PhD, the director of breast and gynecologic cancer for the American Cancer Society.
This limits applicability when absolute positions are of interest but is not an issue if one is interested in judging relative positions, i.e. spacing, homogeneity, etc.
The American physician Paul Farmer is one such miracle, his Partners in Health a venerable institution by now, but Wilentz is more interested in the relative newcomers.
