In this paper we revisit concepts in a graph such as domination, independence, restrained domination and define the concept of restrained independent domination in a connected graph G. We give some characterizations involving this newly defined concept and its relationship with some of the variants of the standard domination concept. It is shown that given positive integers a, b, and c, where 1 < a ≤ b ≤ c,
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