Relative insecticide costs vary by location and ease of access, the habits of the local mosquitoes, the degrees of resistance exhibited by the mosquitoes, and the habits and compliance of the population, among other factors.

They worshipped and made incantations to their Nae Yakka ( Relative Spirit ) followed by other customary ritual ( called the Kiri Koraha ) which is still in vogue among the surviving Gam Veddas of Rathugala, Pollebedda Dambana and the Henanigala Vedda re-settlement ( in Mahaweli systems off Mahiyangane ).

Relative density is often used by geologists and mineralogists to help determine the mineral content of a rock or other sample.

Relative fitness is quantified as the average number of surviving progeny of a particular genotype compared with average number of surviving progeny of competing genotypes after a single generation, i. e. one genotype is normalized at and the fitnesses of other genotypes are measured with respect to that genotype.

Relative to other Star Trek captains, Sisko shows strength in strategic / operational military planning, as evidenced by his chief role in the Federation's Dominion War effort.

Relative photometry is the measurement of the apparent brightnesses of multiple objects relative to each other.

Relative to the other species it is an extreme heavyweight.

Relative deprivation theory states that awareness of the income difference between neighbors or other households in the migrant-sending community is an important factor in migration.

Relative advantage simply meant that the ratio of the labor embodied in the two commodities differed between two countries, such that each country would have at least one commoditiy where the relative amount of labor embodied would be less than that of the other country.

Relative to other benzodiazepines, lorazepam is thought to have high affinity for GABA receptors, which may also explain its marked amnesic effects.

Relative to other trial courts, a lower court is a court of limited jurisdiction, especially one that is limited to hearing minor offenses, or civil actions involving a limited amount, as distinct from a superior court.

Relative to each other, layer I is thin to medium in width making up 11 % of the depth of area 10.

Relative to other monkeys, they show some apparently primitive features: they have claws rather than nails, and tactile hairs on their wrists.

This includes, for example, Relative Performance Evaluation – measurement relative to other, similar agents, so as to filter out some common background noise factors, such as fluctuations in demand.

In 1932 a George Gallup " Survey of Reader Interest in Various Sections of Sunday Newspapers to Determine the Relative Value of Rotogravure as an Advertising Medium " found that these special rotogravures were the most widely read sections of the paper and that advertisements there were three times more likely to be seen by readers than in any other section.

Relative to other building components, aluminum has a high heat transfer coefficient, meaning that aluminum is a very good conductor of heat.

For a discussion of adjective clauses in languages other than English, see Relative clause # Examples.

Relative to Microsoft's other 3 ERP products, Dynamics NAV's sector is distribution and manufacturing companies that want more than " out of the box " functionality.

Relative amounts of overyielding ( or how much more a species grows when grown with other species than it does in monoculture ) should be used rather than absolute amounts as relative overyielding can give clues as to the mechanism by which diversity is influencing productivity, however if experimental protocols are incomplete, one may be able to indicate the existence of a complementary or facilitative effect in the experiment, but not be able to recognize its cause.

Relative to other composers of the Classical music era Johann Baptist Georg Neruda ( Czech: ) is little known, and his dates of birth and death ( given as c1707 and c1780 by the Grove Dictionary ) are only approximations.

Relative to other mechanics at the time, Torments Madness mechanic proved to be overpowered, most notably on Circular Logic, Basking Rootwalla, and Arrogant Wurm.

Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index however, exempts The Revelation of John and other biblical apocalyptic passages from this cataloging rule.

Relative to other towns in the province of Batangas, Tuy is among those towns not gifted with a great natural resource-that of the sea.

There are several other wavelength assignment algorithms: Least Used, Most Used, Min Product, Least Loaded, Max Sum, and Relative Capacity Loss.

Originally a record-oriented filesystem., VSAM comprises four data set organizations: Key Sequenced Data Set ( KSDS ), Relative Record Data Set ( RRDS ), Entry Sequenced Data Set ( ESDS ) and Linear Data Set ( LDS ).

These compounds are characterized by C – S – C bonds Relative to C – C bonds, C – S bond are both longer, because S is larger than carbon, and about 10 % weaker.

Relative to the rest of the Pacific Ocean waters around New Zealand, the Chatham Rise is relatively shallow, no more than deep at any point.

Relative knot strength, also called knot efficiency, is the breaking strength of a knotted rope in proportion to the breaking strength of the rope without the knot.

Relative density is more easily and perhaps more accurately measured without measuring volume.

Addressing modes include Immediate ( operand in instruction ), Direct or " Symbolic " ( operand address in instruction ), Register ( operand in workspace register ), Register Indirect ( operand address in workspace register ) with or without auto-increment, Indexed ( operand address in instruction indexed with workspace register content ), and Program Counter Relative.

For more information on the formation and uses of relative clauses, with and without relative pronouns, see Relative clause.

Relative to other methods of analysis, powder diffraction allows for rapid, non-destructive analysis of multi-component mixtures without the need for extensive sample preparation.

A review of all randomized controlled trials in the scientific literature by the Cochrane Collaboration published in JAMA in 2007 found that β-carotene increased mortality by something between 1 and 8 % ( Relative Risk 1. 05, 95 % confidence interval 1. 01-1. 08 ).

In 2002, Pam was signed by Sony Music Entertainment / Epic Records roots subsidiary Lucky Dog and debuted It's All Relative: Tillis Sings Tillis, a collection of her father's material that finally found her embracing his legacy on her own terms.

Harter Fell was originally listed as a Marilyn in Alan Dawson's The Relative Hills of Britain, but it was later found not to have the required 150 m of relative height, missing out by 1 metre.

Act 2: Ruth Meets Boaz, Naomi's Relative, on the Harvest Field ( 2: 1 – 23 )

An international agreement to create it, the Convention Relative to the Creation of an International Prize Court, was made at the Hague on October 18, 1907.

It was later modified by the Additional Protocol to the Convention Relative to the Creation of an International Prize Court, done at the Hague on October 18, 1910.

Relative social status asks whether they are equal in terms of power and knowledge on a subject, for example, the relationship between a mother and child would be considered unequal.

The rotor rotates at velocity U. Relative to the rotor, the velocity of the gas as it impinges on the rotor entrance is V < sub > r1 </ sub >.

In 1811, he published an article with the title Essai d ' une manière de déterminer les masses relatives des molécules élémentaires des corps, et les proportions selon lesquelles elles entrent dans ces combinaisons (" Essay on Determining the Relative Masses of the Elementary Molecules of Bodies and the Proportions by Which They Enter These Combinations "), which contains Avogadro's hypothesis.

In 1815, he published Mémoire sur les masses relatives des molécules des corps simples, ou densités présumées de leur gaz, et sur la constitution de quelques-uns de leur composés, pour servir de suite à l ' Essai sur le même sujet, publié dans le Journal de Physique, juillet 1811 (" Note on the Relative Masses of Elementary Molecules, or Suggested Densities of Their Gases, and on the Constituents of Some of Their Compounds, As a Follow-up to the Essay on the Same Subject, Published in the Journal of Physics, July 1811 ") (), about gas densities.

" The Evidence on Algonquian Genetic Grouping: A Matter of Relative Chronology ", Anthropological Linguistics 45: 201-25.

Relative sizes of sleeping Steller sea lion pup, adult female and male on Yamsky Islands in the northeast Sea of Okhotsk

Relative degrees of Romanisation, based on archaeology.

The International Committee of the Red Cross 1958 Commentary on 1949 Geneva Convention IV Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War states: " Every person in enemy hands must have some status under international law: he is either a prisoner of war and, as such, covered by the Third Convention, a civilian covered by the Fourth Convention, or again, a member of the medical personnel of the armed forces who is covered by the First Convention.

She returned to theatre ( between films ) more often in the 1950s and 1960s, playing in London and on tour in such roles as Edith Fenton in The Hat Trick ( 1950 ); Felicity, Countess of Marshwood, in Relative Values ( 1951 and 1953 ); Grace Smith in A Question of Fact ( 1953 ); Lady Yarmouth in The Night of the Ball ( 1954 ); Mrs. St. Maugham in The Chalk Garden ( 1955 – 56 ), Dame Mildred in The Bright One ( 1958 ); Mrs. Vincent in Look on Tempests ( 1960 ); Mrs. Gantry ( Bobby ) in The Bird of Time ( 1961 ); Mrs. Moore in A Passage to India ( 1962 ); Mrs Tabret in The Sacred Flame ( 1966 and 1967 ); Prue Salter in Let's All Go Down the Strand ( 1967 ); Emma Littlewood in Out of the Question ( 1968 ); Lydia in His, Hers and Theirs ( 1969 ); and others.

Relative colorimetric is the default rendering intent on most systems.

Another set of his poems on the Five Positions ( Five Ranks ) of Absolute and Relative is important as a set of koans in the Rinzai school.

Her early essay on The Relative Social Position of Mothers and Governesses was the work of one who knew both sides ; and in no respect does she more clearly prove the falseness of the position she describes than in the certainty with which she predicts its eventual reform.

" Some Notes toward Theory on Relative Deprivation, Social Movements, and Social Change.

Relative humidity can also be determined by locating the intersection of the wet-and dry-bulb temperatures on a psychrometric chart.

Relative to life on NowWhat, living on an affluent world in the North West ripple of the Galaxy is said to be easier by a factor of about seventeen million.

* Relative part of the Roman Catholic Directory for the Application of Principles and Norms on Ecumenism

Francis Lieber's thoughts on parole later reappeared in the Declaration of Brussels of 1874, the Hague Convention, and the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War.

# Relative value models determine value based on the observation of market prices of similar assets.