The phrase "a close linkage" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a strong connection or relationship between two or more things.
Example: "There is a close linkage between education and economic growth in developing countries."
Alternatives: "a strong connection" or "a tight relationship".
A major feature of premodern prose literature in Arabic was adab, a term that in modern usage is translated as "literature" but that in origin is closely connected with the English concept of "polite letters" and the French term belles-lettres, both of which imply a close linkage between the act of writing and the manners and norms of a community.
It has a close linkage to land use types and is a reduction factor in soil erosion vulnerability.
The research is important, he says, because scientists recently have uncovered "a close linkage between permafrost and climate," says Vieira.
Because the EOB is marked by an abrupt increase in marine oxygen isotopes that most likely reflects the formation of permanent Antarctic ice sheets, this result suggests a close linkage between global cooling and the aridification of inland Asia.
Resolution of the conflicting interpretations of discontinuities is important because (1) it affects how investors, regulators, and scholars view earnings management and (2) it demonstrates the importance of a close linkage between theory and research design choices.
This know-how-based technique may provide a close linkage in terms of performance prediction, system modeling, and scaling-up between the lab-scale research and industrial-scale membrane systems for gas separation.
(2001) conclude that their results demonstrate a closer linkage between manager compensation and performance, Göx (2008) argues that an increase in variable pay does not necessarily imply improved incentives but may instead reward the manager for luck.
This variant is common in LGV strains, which may indicate a closer linkage of particular genital tract strains to LGV than others.
Their peak locations suggest a closer linkage of the QTL in Hort5-3 withethe lower two resistance QTL in LFRes5-2 than with the uppermost QTL.
Attention to sustainability, replicability and mainstreaming: Future initiatives similar to AGEI would benefit from a closer linkage between central government actions in support of girls' education and the wide variety of innovative strategies being promoted at the community and school levels.
For a successful purging strategy where a transgene is placed in close linkage with a gene or genomic block that causes a lower fitness in the wild habitat (Gressel 1999; Stewart et al. 2003), clear indications are needed of those negatively selected regions.
