Hub-and-spoke networks, often found in air freight, have not been favoured by railways in the past.
Spoke, a networking site for salespeople, has boasted that it has 15 pending patent applications, although the applications have not yet been published, and the company has not disclosed details.
The Royce institute will have not only its main £235 million 'hub' at Manchester and 'spokes' at the Universities of Sheffield, Leeds and Liverpool but will also have additional spokes at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial College London.
When I was in Denver, my wife and I were trying to find a charity that kind of spoke to us and, fortunately enough, we haven't had any major health issues or anything in our family.
… The Spoke has not changed much in 48 years.
"There are a lot of tall buildings around it, too, but when you open the door and go inside, you don't see them — you say, 'I'm in the Alamo.' When you open the door here, you think, 'I'm in the best honky-tonk in Texas.' " The Spoke has not changed much in 48 years.
Commemorative-edition Corvettes haven't always been subtle, but the 50th Anniversary Edition is a model of restraint, painted a deep burgundy -- not gold, thank goodness -- with Champagne paint on the spoked wheels.
When you run into someone you haven't seen in a while and ask them 'what's up?', they'll typically tell you about the most important life events that happened since you last spoke.
When someone you haven't seen in a while asks you "What's up?" or "How are you?", you probably give them a high-level summary of the major life events from the months since you last spoke.
In Caenorhabditis elegans, however, the SAS-6 headgroup-CC orientation is altered, and SAS-6 dimers appear to oligomerise into a spiral, rather than a flat-ring (Hilbert et al., 2013), potentially explaining why a classical cartwheel with nine spokes has not been visualised by EM in C. elegans centrioles (Pelletier et al., 2006).
It turned out that some of the spokes-celebrities themselves had not bothered to vote for years.
