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When talking about the Internet, what is meant by the term "backbone?" A. Much like the nervous-system signals that are transmitted along the spinal cord, the backbone of a network is the pipeline that handles most of the major traffic for computers connected to it.
The roads are the backbone of a network based on which the operation is conducted.
A more principled approach is to extract the multiscale "backbone" of a network by retaining statistically significant edges through hypothesis testing on a specific null model, or by appropriately transforming the original weight matrix before applying some sort of threshold.
For these reasons it is often useful to extract the "backbone" of a network or to "sparsify" it by judiciously removing edges with the goal of elucidating underlying structure.
The hub nodes form the backbone of a network, they are considered to be an important measurement for the similarity between protein interaction networks.
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The highway is one of the major backbones of a network in the Great Lakes region, connecting the populous Quebec City Windsor corridor with Michigan, New York and central Ontario's cottage country.
Highly connected (hub) nodes constitute the backbones of a network structure.
WorldVistA's big promise is that it can become the nationwide standard for electronic medical records, the backbone of a national network of health care.
Pun (2002) describes an interesting experience in Nepal in using WiFi as a backbone of a rural network as well as the distribution mechanism.
But the company's larger goal has always been to create a global community of users who become the backbone of a distributed network that can be tapped into at anytime to help locate missing items.
Consider the fate of America's millions of truck/taxi/Uber drivers when, as the Financial Times suggests, the entire concept of a car as an appliance is replaced by cars as the physical backbone of a transportation network or cloud ….
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