At times, however, several of the areas were fully independent, in theory as well as in fact, while the relations of certain cities with provincial governments and with the central government varied.
Formal ontologies are theories that attempt to give precise mathematical formulations of the properties and relations of certain entities.
Semantic relations of certain types (based on metadata analysis in the original glossaries, e.g., brackets, additional columns, and definition comparison) .
Nodes are connected via directed edges (relations) of certain types.
On the other hand, using the Market Model, the Expected Return is derived from the relation of a certain security with the market portfolio.
One of my responsibilities was to advise company executives of the potential public relations consequences of certain decisions, such as refusing to pay for doctor-ordered care if a policyholder had sought help from the media or from an elected official.
In many discussions of deflationism, for example, the opponent is assumed to be a particular version of a correspondence theory that attempts to reduce the correspondence relation to certain relations of causation (Field 1986 is a good example).
