Both guidelines also take account of ovarian cancer among relatives, attaching slightly greater weight to it than to breast cancer in assessing familial risk.
There may even be a relative attached to the patient's hand, grasping, white-knuckled.
Thus, very few studies have paid attention to the meanings that bereaved relatives and friends attach to the act of suicide or to their views on how it might have been prevented.
The number of phones and internet users per dollar of GDP provides a measure of the relative importance attached to ICTs.
A measure of the relative weights attached to loyalties, and thus of stronger identification with one social unit rather than another, is the willingness to make sacrifices based on long-term relations of reciprocity.
In my experience of organisational change, in both public and private sectors, the relative priority attached to reforming structures, processes, and incentives is the exact opposite of what it should be.
Conservationists recently celebrated their success in stopping a developer from doing up the city's old armoury, which is becoming increasingly decrepit.The second big difference between the two districts lies in the relative importance attached to family life.
We surveyed citizens of Grafton County, New Hampshire (where Hubbard Brook is located) to determine the relative importance attached by these potential beneficiaries to each individual ecosystem service.
This paper assesses the relative value attached by Polish local authorities to the development of motorways, as opposed to other national roads.
Both policy decisions and outcomes and the relative weight attached to environmental and safety concerns strengthen the ecological and ethical basis of the discourse as reflected in the policies.
