Eigenvector centrality places importance on being connected to other well-connected individuals; having well-connected neighbors gives a higher eigenvector centrality than having the same number of neighbors who are less well connected.
"People are realizing the importance of connecting their kids with their food source," said Kat Tholen, the director of the Edible Schoolyard at the North Country School in Lake Placid, N.Y.
The Connecticut Outdoor and Environmental Education Association annual conference that was held last month at Quinnipiac University in Hamden also was called No Child Left Inside and explored the importance of connecting children with nature.
The discredited actor Abbas al Nouri was also present, along with numerous other sycophants, and while there were many contrived statements feigning indignation and sadness at the blood of the martyrs, and even more contrived statements about the importance of connecting with "the youth", barely a mention was made of the real problem.
Davenport's theme is the importance of connecting with the child, but what I want to know, when I catch up with him later, is how crucial he thinks the whole toy-and-spinoff business is to making children's television programmes in the first place.
In his recent trip to India, Zuckerberg stressed the importance of connecting everyone in India online.
Serrao-Neumann et al. [50] discussed the importance of connecting land use and water planning.
After discussing the importance of connecting people in the world without internet access, Zuckerberg presented the Pope with a drone – but, alas, not a working one.
The importance of connecting professionally and socially with other teachers in the same discipline area seems to be recognised by teachers associations in Europe (Lamb 2012).
It was then opened up for discussion about what the participants chose and the importance of connecting to their values so that they could change some behavior.
