Malawians, for example, have an attachment to nsima (maize porridge) that strikes outsiders as nearly religious in its intensity.
For example, instead of downloading an attachment from an email and importing it into a program for storage or processing, you could automate this process to save yourself time.
As an example, the attachment of magnetic beads to the target cells of interest is not a disadvantage in diagnostics, but it is a potential barrier in regenerative medicine.
You can also create rules to just save certain files to SkyDrive (Microsoft's example: "whenever John Doe sends me an attachment, save it to my "Files from John" folder in SkyDrive).
In contrast, a patient with an attachment to, for example, the Steelers might experience stabs of panic whenever he or she sees the team's offensive line try to protect its quarterback from a surging defense.
For example, the attachment shows a transition from compliant tendon, which contains no mineral, to stiff bone, which contains ∼50 vol % mineral, across a spatial gradient in mineral content.
Mounting evidence has confirmed that the adhesiveness of the pre- and post-synaptic compartment (for example, the attachment of pre- and post-synaptic membranes in a synaptosome preparation) is resistant to treatments such as calcium removal, high salt, or even low concentrations of urea treatment (Pfenninger, 1971; Cotman and Taylor, 1972).
Fernández-Armesto regards these practices as merely an extreme example of the attachment of symbolic meaning to food, and he compares them to contemporary "health" diets aimed at enhancing one's beauty or tranquillity or moral worth.
In the mounting fear at world airports after the 9/11 terror attacks, I stood at Heathrow behind a German man who was reduced to tears by the demand that he surrender his battered Swiss Army Knife – an extreme example of the attachment countless owners feel for this unique personal possession.
In some ways, localism is one of its strengths: for example, the attachment of Spaniards to the folklore and festivals of their home towns is an attractive part of their culture.
