Some people with autism are able to live relatively independent lives but others may have accompanying learning disabilities and need a lifetime of specialist support.
Most of the successful equity funds rated in recent years by Morningstar, a tracking service, are either relatively small or are managed by relatively small independent operations.
Most are relatively affluent, independent women who need to travel alone a lot.
Perhaps most surprising is the relatively small amount of independent research and academic work that has been attempted on these funds, at least until very recently.
They'd operate as the sum of many independent, relatively dumb processes--just like the autonomic functions of the human central nervous system, from which they take their name.
So, for example, Frey and Stutzer have argued that the Swiss get a lot of procedural utility out of their relatively direct democratic institutions, which is independent of the results produced by those institutions.
It requires a big rise in circulation to offset that drop in ad revenue, and few popular broadsheet papers are likely to get the same boost as the Independent, which has a relatively small and young readership.
Once upon a time, publishers had relatively small lists of new authors whose books they distributed to independent bookstores and small-format mall chains like Waldenbooks and B Dalton.
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Mining fatalities at major companies are relatively rare in Indonesia, though each year dozens of illegal and independent miners are killed in accidents, often landslides.
But a more recent study of 12, 000 American men and women found that high Lp-PLA2 levels were an independent heart-disease risk factor mainly in those patients with relatively low cholesterol levels.
Research published this week by Mari Gallagher, an independent food researcher, suggests that the problem of food deserts may be relatively tractable.
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Many of the best acreage positions have been established by upstart independent companies that were quick to acquire land, but that now are constrained by their relatively small balance sheets from efficiently developing it.
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