"acquire connections" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to establishing relationships, usually outside of one's immediate circle - such as networking for business or personal reasons. For example, "John has worked hard to acquire connections across multiple industries to further his career."
However, they can acquire connections to stimuli (or other behaviors) as a result of conditioning.
This is substantially lower than the average connectivity for the 295 ancestral proteins, suggesting that proteins that have been in the network for longer have more connections, possibly because they acquire connections over time.
Proteins resident in the network acquire connections over time, but we find no evidence that 'preferential attachment' – the phenomenon of newly acquired connections in the network being more likely to be made to proteins with large numbers of connections – influences the network structure.
For each zone three locations are arbitrarily selected, so in total 36 locations are analyzed (of which some of them did not acquire connection).
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The line shows the regression of gains onto initial connectivity (slope = 0.018), which although statistically significant, accounts for approximately 3% of the variation in newly acquired connections.
The greatest number of newly acquired connections occurred among the proteins with the fewest to start with – the opposite of that predicted by preferential attachment.
However, adopting an age of approximately 1.5 × 109 years [ 15], the 74 newly acquired connections translates to approximately 1.6 × 10-4 new connections per protein (n = 295) per million years, comparable to Wagner's [ 6] estimate of 5.9 × 10-4 based on paralogous genes.
I typically try to send my follow up email the morning after meeting my newly acquired connection, but early enough so that it can be one of the first emails they come across during their morning routine.
Many young South Africans plainly join the party to acquire business connections, not to serve their country.The ANC is sure to win its fifth democratic election in a row next year.
These results indicate that horizontally transferred enzymes in the metabolic network of E. coli are either introduced into the repertory of the organism as a comparatively high connectivity enzyme or acquires many connections during the evolution of the network.
