On the other hand, highly connected proteins may play a key role in maintaining the robustness of the network, thereby making networks fragile to mutation or loss of these genes (Albert et al. 2000; Jeong et al. 2001).
Fred Cohen, the computer security researcher who first applied the word "virus" to malicious software, said that the individual elements of the network were fragile but that the network over all was resilient.
Filming in black-and-white, Hong abstracts the tense network of fragile relationships to crisp, briskly sketched lines that he adorns with bubbly and self-deprecating humor as well as graceful wonders (including some of the most heartbreaking snowflakes in recent cinema).
For example, we could be stuck with a system like the one in Europe, where antiquated technology combines with nationalistic chauvinism to create an air traffic network so fragile that some indignant Frenchmen can basically shut it down like dairy farmers railing against European Union cheese quotas.
The intricate root network, sometimes fragile, yet fundamental to survival, growth, resiliency and production, was developing under the nurturing, persistent care of the planter.
Studies examining impairments of the parietal-prefrontal network in fragile X syndrome subjects suggest that synaptic malfunctions may result in an impaired neuronal system that is not able to recruit a sufficient number of neurons and leads to weaker overall activation [ 36, 55].
We find that the two-node transcriptional networks are fragile; very few parameter sets allow these motifs to function in a noise-resistant way.
Patient and relational networks are fragile.
Such networks remain fragile within our traditional pipeline, and indeed the economic downturn has significantly reduced funding for graduate education and innovative programs like we describe here at our and other institutions.
The result is a "robust yet fragile" network that they said was far more resilient than the network described by Dr. Barabási and colleagues.
