The move to mobile has set off a debate between privacy advocates and online businesses, which consider the accumulation of personal information the backbone of an ad-driven Internet.
Mr. Schiffmacher's personal artifacts are the backbone of the collection; he donated tattoo machines, artwork and ephemera like the skin from the arm of a Boston whaler, preserved in formaldahyde, which was not buried in the hopes that its tattoos would help identify him.
The film is also available in a spectacular box set which includes two more of Del Toro's more personal films, The Devil's Backbone and Cronos.
Much of this secret torture — whose causes he perceived as impossibly complex and protean and involving both normal male sexual drives and highly abnormal personal weakness and lack of backbone — was actually quite simple to diagnose.
Public and private investment in "gerotechnologies" should be encouraged, but not to the detriment of more important strategies aimed at recruiting and retaining well-trained, well-qualified nursing assistants, home health aides and personal attendants, who are the backbone of a humane, quality long-term care system.
Liberman's personal history forms the narrative backbone of "It's Modern," but the book is primarily about his work, with equal attention given to his innovative editorial design and the rather less celebrated painting and sculpture he considered his true calling.
After 1992, we took this same porous network and turned it into the backbone of international finance, personal finance, controls on critical infrastructure, virtually all our communications including military command and control, and much else besides.
For that full-motion video, high bandwidth, global technology we will need all new infrastructure, from backbone to servers to personal ports.
El Triunfo's social development council has been able to maintain a stable participation process that has engaged local, national, and international stakeholders thanks to the contextual and personal elements that serve as the backbone to their work.
In this paper, we consider the design problem of allocating the backbone links in ATM-based personal communication networks (PCNs) that are survivable under single backbone link failures.
