The thousands of years, perhaps hundreds of thousands, since the human species first developed speech have seen built up the almost infinite systems of relationships called languages.
From this perspective, intimacy implies systems of relationships – the linguistic, historical, cultural, sexual, creative, sensual, organic spaces in which identity forms, performs and transforms on a moment by moment basis.
The use of graph theoretical approach has revealed novel insights about the complex connected system of relationship among different brain regions in health and its aberration in disease states (Johansen-Berg 2013).
All are caught up in a complex system of relationships defined largely by a combination of issues within and outside of the academy, including the marketisation of and neo-liberal trends in university education.
The legal and illegal industries continue to operate in parallel, within an opaque system of relationships and rules set by the Alaba cartel, Emeka Mba, head of Nigeria's efforts to regulate the film industry, told me.
Not only does his being demand that he find a position in a complex system of relationships but also his social life and his biologic survival depend on the making of distinctions.
The balance of nature is not the same today as it was in Pleistocene times, but it is still there — a complex, precise, and highly integrated system of relationships between living things, which cannot safely be ignored, any more than the law of gravity can be ignored by a man perched on the edge of a cliff.
The concepts of guanxi (a deeply embedded system of relationships, personal connections, contacts and networks) and mianzi (the concept of 'face', broadly defined as pride or self-respect and its corollary – the preservation of the self-respect of others) are central to Chinese society and heavily influence business life.
In this research, a system of relationships is modeled by five latent variables, as shown in Fig. 2.
The research design tests and confirms the nomological validity of a system of relationships among chronic and manipulated conditions.
