What's the difference between relative and seriation?

Relative


Definition:

  • (a.) Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject.
  • (a.) Arising from relation; resulting from connection with, or reference to, something else; not absolute.
  • (a.) Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an antecedent; as, a relative pronoun.
  • (a.) Characterizing or pertaining to chords and keys, which, by reason of the identify of some of their tones, admit of a natural transition from one to the other.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, relates to, or is considered in its relation to, something else; a relative object or term; one of two object or term; one of two objects directly connected by any relation.
  • (n.) A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman.
  • (n.) A relative pronoun; a word which relates to, or represents, another word or phrase, called its antecedent; as, the relatives "who", "which", "that".

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here we have asked whether protection from blood-borne antigens afforded by the blood-brain barrier is related to the lack of MHC expression.
  • (2) In contrast, DNA polymerase alpha, the enzyme involved in chromosomal DNA replication, was relatively insensitive to CA1.
  • (3) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
  • (4) The extents of phospholipid hydrolysis were relatively low in brain homogenates, synaptic plasma membranes and heart ventricular muscle.
  • (5) The typical findings have been related to their anatomical localisation and frequency.
  • (6) There was a weak relation between AER and both systolic and diastolic blood pressures.
  • (7) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
  • (8) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
  • (9) A series of human cDNA clones of various sizes and relative localizations to the mRNA molecule were isolated by using the human p53-H14 (2.35-kilobase) cDNA probe which we previously cloned.
  • (10) Neuropsychological testing is a relatively new field in the area of clinical neuroscience.
  • (11) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
  • (12) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
  • (13) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
  • (14) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
  • (15) These results suggest the presence of a new antigen-antibody system for another human type C retrovirus related antigens(s) and a participation of retrovirus in autoimmune diseases.
  • (16) This study examined the [3H]5-HT-releasing properties of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and related agents, all of which cause significant release of [3H]5-HT from rat brain synaptosomes.
  • (17) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
  • (18) Among a family of 8 children, 4 presented typical clinical and biological abnormalities related to mannosidosis.
  • (19) In X-irradiated litters, almost invariably, the incidence of anophthalmia was higher in exencephalic than in nonexencephalic embryos and the ratio of these incidences (relative risk) decreased toward 1 with increasing dose.
  • (20) Also we found that the lipid deposition in the glomeruli of patients with Alagille syndrome is related to an abnormal lipid metabolism, which is the consequence of severe cholestasis.

Seriation


Definition:

  • (n.) Arrangement or position in a series.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The cause of the hyperactivity was established after a thorough urological and neurological screening with intravenous urography, seriated mictional cystoureterography, cystoscopy, and urine culture.
  • (2) Techniques such as seriation can produce preliminary genetic maps that may be used as starting points for more computer-intensive maximum-likelihood multipoint techniques.
  • (3) The comparison between seriation and recognition of one nonseries over another revealed that performance on these two tasks was correlated and that one common feature between them was systematicity, which occurred either in searching for relationships or constructing them.
  • (4) We have studied with seriated controls for a period of 9 days 18 patients admitted to our hospital for acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
  • (5) The methods developed in the paper also provide an alternate method of studying seriation .
  • (6) Visually seriated radiographs of the proximal femur, proximal humerus, clavicle, and calcaneus from 130 individuals from the Hamann-Todd collection were examined as indicators of skeletal age at death.
  • (7) We concluded that the alternative matrix seriation tasks cannot serve as a replacement for the traditional seriation tasks in assessing a child's seriation capacity.
  • (8) Seriate samplings along the 24-hour span have been performed.
  • (9) The focus of this study was the strategies used by young children between 18 and 42 months for correcting the errors they made as they attempted to nest a set of 5 seriated cups.
  • (10) A developmental progression of strategies for combining seriated cups identified in an earlier study (Greenfield et al., 1972) was used to demonstrate some psychological consequences of formal parallels between language and action.
  • (11) Seriated Epon semithin sections were immunostained alternatively for GFAP or VIM.
  • (12) The following parameters were considered: decrease of plasma prolactin levels, reduction of tumor size studied by seriate CT scan controls and recovery of eventual visual fields impairments.
  • (13) The ability to produce a correct order is related to seriation performance but not classification performance when the variance attributable to age is partialed out.
  • (14) A histological study by the method of seriated sections in one case of "double-outlet left ventricle" made it possible to confirm and to describe the embryology of the nodal-His junction: not only the atrio-ventricular node (AV N) but also the His bundle (H) have a double origin, atrial and ventricular.
  • (15) We undertook an epidemiological case-control study of the prevalence of CLD and HBV infection in 394 diabetics and 265 healthy subjects from Seriate and Como.
  • (16) The same radiographs were also seriated by size-normalized optical density as a means of establishing relative radiolucency.
  • (17) However, prior to the present investigation, no such effect of the centromere on NRD in Drosophila had been described, although reanalysis of part of the data of Novitski (1951) and Novitski and Sandler (1956) suggests some evidence of a seriation of increasing c values extending from the most distal region of the chromosome toward the centromere.
  • (18) Light microscopic study of the evolution of 3-methylcholanthrene-induced mammary tumors in Wistar-Furth rats revealed a seriation of changes proceeding from early hyperplasia (8 days) to advanced hyperplasia (57 days) and cancer (78 days).
  • (19) Visual inspection of clavicular radiographs, seriated on a populational basis, provides age estimates that are comparable to anatomical age indicators and provides independent estimates of skeletal age when included in the summary age method (1985: Am.
  • (20) The constraints are considered to be general and are compared with work on seriation and number in children, and on phonological awareness and musical ability in adults.