The nearest relative is a designated relationship defined in the legislation of England and Wales through the Mental Health Act 1983, as amended by the...

important factor in assessments is the role of the Nearest Relative. Which person qualifies as the Nearest Relative is determined according to a hierarchy outlined...

Nearest neighbor search (NNS), as a form of proximity search, is the optimization problem of finding the point in a given set that is closest (or most...

person's Nearest Relative under the Act is not necessarily their "next of kin". A mentally disordered person is not usually able to choose their Nearest Relative...

childless, the Jacobite claim was then notionally inherited by Henry's nearest relative (a second cousin, twice removed), and then passed through a number...

in the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic Judaism, is a person who, as the nearest relative of someone, is charged with the duty of restoring that person's rights...

corpse cake is placed on the breast of the dead and then eaten by the nearest relative, while in the Balkan peninsula a small bread image of the deceased...

the most derived members of the family by cladistical analyses. Its nearest relative might have been Aucasaurus or Majungasaurus. A 2008 review, in contrast...

of nearest giant stars List of nearest supergiants List of nearest bright stars Historical brightest stars List of nearest exoplanets List of nearest terrestrial...

Petersburg in 1754. The true origin of the word appears lost, but its nearest relative appears to be the German pforte, for "gate" or "gap". Someone referred...

2013 took effect in all Commonwealth realms in 2015, Senna became the nearest relative of the reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, to be affected by the...

study of the bird's skeletal features led to the suggestion that the nearest relative was the Harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja). The species was included in the...

pigment; the species is nearly transparent and closely resembles its nearest relative, the Alabama cave shrimp. The habitat of the Kentucky cave shrimp is...

somewhat smaller (50–54 cm in length) than the common raven or its nearest relative, the thick-billed raven C. crassirostris. The white-necked raven has...

evolution, reflecting similar contextual development. The swifts' nearest relatives are the New World hummingbirds and the Southeast Asian treeswifts...

later, at about the time of European contact and colonization. The nearest relative of the Khoe family may be the extinct Kwadi language of Angola. This...

that the important genera Aquila and Hieraaetus are not composed of nearest relatives, and it is likely that a reclassification of these genera will soon...

stillbirth, raising the prospect of a succession crisis. The Queen's nearest relative was Prince Heinrich XXXII Reuss of Köstritz, whose close ties to Germany...

species T. laticephala may represent the same taxon as T. frangens. Its nearest relative is the extant T. rugosa, which is half the size and lacks the bony...

Cleombrotus I, were both placed under the guardianship of Aristodemus, their nearest relative. Agesipolis came to the crown just about the time that the confederacy...

regions and a Bayesian analysis. Romanichthys valsanicola is the nearest living relative of the genus Sander and is used as an outgroup to root the tree...

American dog fossils with Siberian dog fossils and modern dogs. The nearest relative to the North American fossils was a 9,000 BC fossil discovered on Zhokhov...

unable to state their next-of-kin, hospitals will usually list their nearest blood relative, though there are no specific rules. Doctors attempt to seek the...

Jewish law. By marrying a relative of Mahlon's, she ensures that Mahlon's paternal lineage is remembered. The nearest relative declines, however, giving...

purely morphological characteristics pictures the Placozoa as the nearest relative of the animals with true tissues (Eumetazoa). The taxon they share...

common ancestor, which is itself a chordate) and that the vertebrates' nearest relatives are tunicates. Recent identification of two conserved signature indels...

in South America, along the Pacific coast of Peru and Chile. Its nearest relatives are the African penguin, the Magellanic penguin and the Galápagos...

Section 3 detention can be applied for by the person's nearest relative or, if the nearest relative agrees, by an approved mental health professional (AMHP)...

he no longer had any legal need for a regent. Since Raymond was his nearest relative in the male line with a strong claim to the throne, there was concern...

family of Old World warblers, the Sylviidae. The blackcap and its nearest relative, the garden warbler, are an ancient species pair which diverged very...