Professor Smith says that the intensity of those ties, whether mostly a function of athletics or something broader, is one of the distinctive things about American higher education.
In the second part, using patent data integrated with information collected through interviews, we measure the extent and intensity of the ties of academic with industrial researchers, and apply social network analysis to reconstruct the network of collaborations.
Mexico and the United States are profoundly integrated - the depth and intensity of the ties that bind the two countries are unarguable.
"Cristiano Ronaldo was fine, we didn't want to risk him, because of the intensity of the tie, and we didn't have to.
The soggy conditions did not dampen the enthusiasm of the two sets of fans packed into a sold-out Leigh Sports Village, nor spoil the intensity of a tie played at breakneck speed.
It was a night of struggling, of suffering but at the end we are just happy to have made it into the semis". "Cristiano Ronaldo was fine, we didn't want to risk him, because of the intensity of the tie, and we didn't have to.
Even if the Obamas lift that rule in Washington, newcomers are unlikely to replicate the intensity of this group's ties, formed over more than a decade by births and deaths, Scrabble games, barbecues and vacations, but also by shared beliefs about race, success and responsibility.
Another metric that has been largely used to measure the intensity of co-authorship between ties is the absolute frequency of interaction (the number of publications between pairs of researchers) [29, 32].
Its peak intensity of 910 mbar was tied for the fifth most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Australian basin.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld indicated last month that he was leaning toward scaling back the 24-hour fighter jet patrols, and raised the possibility of tying the intensity of the patrols to different levels of threats against the United States, as assessed by the government.
