What's the difference between affiliation and filiation?

Affiliation


Definition:

  • (n.) Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.
  • (n.) The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation.
  • (n.) Connection in the way of descent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It said 70 of the killed militants were from Isis, while the other 50 it described as being aligned with the Nusra Front, the parent organisation of the Khorasan cell and al-Qaida’s preferred affiliate in Syria.
  • (2) Many organisations choose not to affiliate their aid work with the UN, particularly in conflict situations, where the organisation is not always seen either as neutral or separate from the work of the UN security council.
  • (3) "The Texas attorney general's office will continue to defend the Texas legislature's decision to prohibit abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving taxpayer dollars through the Women's Health Program."
  • (4) The affiliation set up a joint venture to operate two clinics, one on Scholl College's traditional campus and one at the teaching hospital.
  • (5) The guy upstairs, I heard he was maybe affiliated with Islamic Jihad, but he wasn't there.
  • (6) Belaïd was an outspoken critic of these groups, whom he accused of being affiliated to Ennahda.
  • (7) In view of recent reports demonstrating that illicit cocaine use may cause rhabdomyolysis, we reviewed the collective experience of a university-affiliated medical center to identify patients with cocaine-induced rhabdomyolysis.
  • (8) To examine the relationship between stress and upper respiratory tract infection, 235 adults aged 14-57 years, from 94 families affiliated with three suburban family physicians in Adelaide, South Australia, participated in a six-month prospective study.
  • (9) At first, cadres worked undercover, organising clothes sales and other charitable events without stating their true affiliation.
  • (10) In order to assess the most important predictors of practice behavior, the authors conducted a survey of 163 junior and senior medical residents at five training hospitals affiliated with Harvard Medical School.
  • (11) Immunocytochemical tests with eight monoclonal antibodies against either bovine or human insulin and seven polyclonal antibodies against bovine insulin were carried out to determine the presence of insulin-like neuropeptides in the brain and affiliated neuroendocrine structures of the insect Leucophaea maderae.
  • (12) Sometimes it helps when an enterprise can point to the success of an affiliate in another country.
  • (13) Research laboratory of a metropolitan, university-affiliated medical center.
  • (14) When the mirror gave subjects visual access to neighboring animals, facial expressions, sexual, and agonistic behaviors increased, whereas affiliative behavior decreased compared with when no mirror was present.
  • (15) An al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo, reiterating the gunmen’s call to kill those who insult the prophet Muhammad.
  • (16) Results indicated that the clients' family relations improved, as did their leadership and affiliation skills.
  • (17) CtW works with pension funds sponsored by unions affiliated with Change to Win, a coalition of US unions representing nearly six million members.
  • (18) The aim is to: make people aware and encourage prevention in the work environment; situate the hand in a preventive context; show the importance of the hand as a work-tool; present the quantitative and qualitative extent of diseases and accidents of the hand; make the interest and difficulties in collecting information known (especially about professional diseases and workers not affiliated to the CNA); stimulate continuing search of information about prevention in the work environment.
  • (19) University hospital-affiliated physicians rated clinical and hospital pharmacists significantly higher than community pharmacists for six subject areas, and they also ranked clinical pharmacists over hospital pharmacists on four subject areas and considered them more reliable than other pharmacy drug information sources.
  • (20) Now let me be clear: we are indeed at war with al-Qaida and its affiliates.

Filiation


Definition:

  • (n.) The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father.
  • (n.) The assignment of a bastard child to some one as its father; affiliation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Previous results in connection with the diverse filiation variables.
  • (2) The ultrastructural patterns of the storage cells are described compared to descriptions in the literature and the question of their mastocytic or macrophagic filiation is discussed.
  • (3) These results do not contradict the hypothesis of a possible filiation between avian and mammalian orthomyxoviruses.
  • (4) The aim of this study was to establish the frequency of serologies positive to Borrelia burgdorferi in patients with non-filiated arthritis and in other well defined rheumatic diseases.
  • (5) All patients showed complete remission which was maintained for 6 months after the halt in treatment in the cases of the UC and non-filiated colitis.
  • (6) Data obtained by the investigation of 2000 families demonstrate the hereditary features and their value as an evidence in a filiation cases.
  • (7) When filiation research shows that paternity is possible, French legislation recommends the calculation of two coefficients: 1. paternity probability (CP); 2. percentage of random men excluded from paternity by genetic markers of the mother and the child (PEme).
  • (8) One patient had clear cell renal carcinoma and other had lymphatic metastasis of malignant melanoma without filiation of the primary tumor.
  • (9) The study of the chromosomal rearrangements differentiating the Chimpanzees and the others Anthropoids and Man allows us to propose a filiation of ancestral species.
  • (10) Based on a clinical observation of a paranoid filiation delirium, the authors raise the fundamental question of the nature of psychotic structure itself.
  • (11) It was shown that unsaturated mycolates and oxomycolic acids were not directly related, whereas a metabolic filiation was confirmed between oxomycolate and wax ester mycolate: the latter derived from the former by a Baeyer-Villiger oxidation step, as has been proposed on the basis of structural considerations.
  • (12) Study of the genetic markers confirmed the filiation.
  • (13) This histoenzymatic duality is perhaps related to the histogenetic filiation of the intimal thickening cells.
  • (14) Distinctions also exist among societies where there is almost no visible separation in the activities of marriage or prostitution and in societies where the nature of work and filiation differ.
  • (15) The intersection sign and the trochlear eminence in isolated patello-femoral osteoarthritis allows the direct filiation between dysplasia of the trochlea and osteoarthritis to be confirmed.
  • (16) The cell type distribution is compatible with the idea that the lymphocytes are the precursors of plasmacytes, proplasmacytes being transitional forms, but no direct filiation scheme can actually be deduced from these experiments.
  • (17) As Igh-6b production is not affected by the suppression, these T splenocytes are believed to influence B cells more or less committed to Igh-1b or Igh-3b production rather than more precocious Igh-6b (IgM of b haplotype) carrying precursors in the classical IgM-IgG filiation pathway.
  • (18) PSA) to determine the non-filiated origin of a metastasis.
  • (19) Each protein is encoded by a separate gene and there is no direct filiation between the two genes.
  • (20) The considerable amount of information was statistically studied with a computer, obtaining data on the following aspects: Filiation, frequency and percentage of every answer.