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Relative Vector
Relative may refer to: General use *Kinship and family, the principle binding the most basic social units of society. If two people are connected by circumstances of birth, they are said to be ''relatives''. Philosophy *Relativism, the concept that points of view have no absolute truth or validity, having only relative, subjective value according to differences in perception and consideration, or relatively, as in the relative value of an object to a person *Relative value (philosophy) Economics *Relative value (economics) Popular culture Film and television * ''Relatively Speaking'' (1965 play), 1965 British play * ''Relatively Speaking'' (game show), late 1980s television game show * ''Everything's Relative'' (episode)#Yu-Gi-Oh! (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters), 2000 Japanese anime ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters'' episode *'' Relative Values'', 2000 film based on the play of the same name. *''It's All Relative'', 2003-4 comedy television series *''Intelligence is Relative'', tag line f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kinship
In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated. Anthropologist Robin Fox says that the study of kinship is the study of what Human, humans do with these basic facts of lifemating, gestation, Parenting, parenthood, socialization, siblingship etc. Human society is unique, he argues, in that we are "working with the same raw material as exists in the animal world, but [we] can conceptualize and categorize it to serve social ends." These social ends include the socialization of children and the formation of basic economic, political and religious groups. Kinship can refer both to the patterns of social relationships themselves, or it can refer to the study of the patterns of social relationships in one or more human cultures (i.e. kinship studies). Over its history, anthropology has developed a number of related concepts an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Relativity Of Wrong
''The Relativity of Wrong'' is a 1988 collection of seventeen essays on science by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. The book explores and contrasts the viewpoint that "all theories are proven wrong in time", arguing that there exist degrees of wrongness. The book was the twentieth of a series of books collecting essays from '' The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction''. Like most of the essays Asimov wrote for ''F&SF'', each one in ''The Relativity of Wrong'' begins with an autobiographical anecdote which serves to set the mood. Several of the essays form a sequence explaining the discovery and uses of isotopes. Title essay In the title essay, Asimov argues that there exist degrees of wrongness, and being wrong in one way is not necessarily as bad as being wrong in another way. For example, if a child spells the word ''sugar'' as "pqzzf", the child is clearly incorrect. Yet, Asimov says, a child who spells the word "shuger" (or in some other phonetic way) is "less ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Relation (other)
Relation or relations may refer to: General uses * International relations, the study of interconnection of politics, economics, and law on a global level * Interpersonal relationship, association or acquaintance between two or more people * Public relations, managing the spread of information to the public * Sexual relations, or human sexual activity * Social relation, in social science, any social interaction between two or more individuals Logic and philosophy * Relation (philosophy), links between properties of an object * Relational theory, framework to understand reality or a physical system Mathematics A finitary or ''n''-ary relation is a set of ''n''-tuples. Specific types of relations include: * Relation (mathematics) (an elementary treatment of binary relations) * Binary relation (or diadic relation – a more in-depth treatment of binary relations) * Equivalence relation * Homogeneous relation * Reflexive relation * Serial relation * Ternary rela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Rel (other)
Rel or REL may mean: __NOTOC__ Science and technology * REL, a human gene * the rel descriptor of stereochemistry, see Relative configuration *REL (''Rassemblement Européen pour la Liberté''), European Rally for Liberty, a defunct French far-right party active in the 1960s * Category of relations or Rel, a mathematical category of sets and relations * Rel attribute, an HTML attribute for indicating a semantic link * Recommended Exposure Limit, a recommended limit for occupational exposures published by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health * Rights Expression Language, a machine-processable language used for digital rights management People * Rel Dowdell, American screenwriter, film director, film producer, and English/screenwriting educator * Nickname of Arielle Gold, American world champion and Olympic bronze medalist snowboarder * Rel Hunt (born 1974), Australian actor * Nickname of Ariel Schulman (born 1981), American actor, film director, and pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Gavin DeGraw (album)
''Gavin DeGraw'' is the second album by American singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw. The album was released on May 6, 2008, by J Records J Records was an American record label owned and operated by Bertelsmann Music Group until it was transferred to Sony Music Entertainment when they acquired all of BMG's record labels in late 2008 at the end of their merger. It was distribut .... The album debuted at number seven on the U.S. ''Billboard'' 200 albums chart, selling 66,000 copies the first week. Album information The album features an extended and re-recorded version of the song "We Belong Together", which was a single in 2006 and was featured on the soundtrack to the film of '' Tristan & Isolde''. One week before its release, the album was put up in full to stream on Imeem.com on April 29, 2008. Singles The album was preceded by the single " In Love with a Girl", which became his second-biggest single ever since his debut " I Don't Want to Be", and fourth Top 40 hit in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Relative Ways
''Relative Ways'' is an EP released by the band ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead for Interscope Records. The 4-song EP was released in late 2001, setting the stage for the early 2002 release of their first major label full-length '' Source Tags & Codes'', which contains all of the EP's tracks with the exception of "The Blade Runner". Track listing References ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead albums Interscope Records EPs 2001 EPs {{2001-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Dead Relatives
''Dead Relatives'' is the fifth full-length album by Canadian Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''C ... singer-songwriter Emm Gryner, released in 2000 on her independent label Dead Daisy Records. Track listing # "Parting Song" (4:05) # "Mary Jill" (5:39) # "Summerlong" (3:33) # "Half Sorry" (3:47) # "A Little War" (5:03) # "Yellow" (5:54) # "Daryn Song" (3:24) # "Suffer" (3:52) # "Lonely Boy" (2:33) # "Atlas" (3:43) # "Joan" (4:33) References 2000 albums Emm Gryner albums {{2000s-pop-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Friends & Relatives
''Friends & Relatives'' is a compilation album released by Eagle Records and Purple Pyramid (US) in 1999. The album features songs from various artists that have a common linkage to Electric Light Orchestra, such as The Move The Move were a British Rock music, rock band formed in Birmingham in 1965. They scored nine Top 40, top 20 UK singles in five years, but were among the most popular British bands not to find any real success in the United States. For most of ... and Wizzard. Track listing Audio CD References Albums produced by Jeff Lynne Albums produced by Roy Wood Progressive rock compilation albums 1999 compilation albums {{1990s-compilation-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Relative Dementias
The ''Past Doctor Adventures'' (sometimes known by the abbreviation ''PDA'' or ''PDAs'') were a series of spin-off novels based on the long running BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' and published under the BBC Books imprint. For most of their existence, they were published side-by-side with the '' Eighth Doctor Adventures''. The novels regularly featured the First through Seventh Doctors. '' The Infinity Doctors'' had an ambiguous place in continuity and featured an unidentified incarnation of the Doctor. The Eighth Doctor co-starred with the Fourth Doctor in one novel ('' Wolfsbane'') and, after the Eighth Doctor Adventures had ceased publication, a novel ('' Fear Itself'') featuring the Eighth Doctor and set between two earlier Eighth Doctor Adventures ('' EarthWorld'' and '' Vanishing Point'') was published within the Past Doctor series. Publication history Between 1991 and 1997, Virgin Publishing produced successful spin-off novels under the New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Time And Relative
''Time and Relative'' is an original novella written by Kim Newman and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Set shortly before the first televised ''Doctor Who'' story, it features the First Doctor and Susan Susan is a feminine given name, the usual English version of Susanna or Susannah. All are versions of the Hebrew name Shoshana, which is derived from the Hebrew ''shoshan'', meaning ''lotus flower'' in Egyptian, original derivation, and severa ...; their adversary is an entity known as The Cold, which is responsible for the so-called Big Freeze, an unusually harsh winter which caused widespread disruption in the UK. It was released both as a standard edition hardback and a deluxe edition () featuring a frontispiece by Bryan Talbot. Both editions have a foreword by Justin Richards. Newman's 2007 Diogenes Club series short story "Cold Snap" ties in with ''Time and Relative'', despite not being connected to ''Doctor Who' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Relative Heroes
''Relative Heroes'' is a limited comic book series published by DC Comics in six issues, from March to October 2000. It revolved around a family of orphaned children who become superheroes. The team first appears in ''Relative Heroes'' #1 (March 2000), by Devin K. Grayson and Yvel Guichet. History After their parents are killed in a traffic accident, the super-powered Weinberg children travel across country to Metropolis in order to find Superman. The children are hunted by three superpowered D.E.O. operatives named Girth, Napalm & Kittyhawk. The D.E.O. eventually capture the kids and reveal to Cameron that he and Chloe were never in fact human or metahuman In the DC Universe, a metahuman is a human with superpowers. The term is roughly synonymous with the terms '' mutant'', '' inhuman'' and '' mutate'' in the Marvel Universe and '' posthuman'' in the Wildstorm and Ultimate Marvel Universes. In ..., and that Cameron is actually a member of a race of alien shapeshifters k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Relative (film)
''Relative'' is a 2022 American drama/comedy feature film written and directed by Michael Glover Smith. The film is about a family reunion centered on a college graduation party in Chicago. It premiered at the 2022 Gasparilla International Film Festival in Tampa, Florida where actor Cameron Scott Roberts won the Grand Jury award for Best Performance. Plot Karen Frank and her husband, David, are retirement-age progressive activists who have lived in the same Victorian home in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood for 30 years. It's the house in which their four children grew up and where two of their children, adult sons Benji and Rod, still live. On the eve of Benji's graduation from college, daughters Evonne and Norma return home from out-of-state for a weekend celebration. Evonne brings her daughter, Emma, and newly separated wife, Lucia; Norma arrives alone, with thoughts of wasted potential as she reconsiders her suburban life; Rod, an unemployed burnout, pines for Sarah, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
