Preferential attachment means that new nodes prefer to attach themselves to highly connected older nodes in the network.
This suggests that growth of the number of scholars active in the field and so-called preferential attachment (i.e., scholars entering the field prefer to attach themselves to highly reputable existing members of the network) are characteristic of the nature of the underlying field.
Preferential attachment models generate networks by sequentially introducing nodes that prefer to attach to nodes with high degree.
Purple toothwort (Lathraea clandestina), also in the Orobanchaceae, prefers to attach itself to the roots of willow and alder but will grow happily on a range of hosts.
The cell culture studies reveal that neural cells prefer to attach, proliferate, and differentiate on the 3D printed conductive guidelines.
In dynein, monomers may prefer to attach to the nearest tubulin binding site towards the MT minus end, favoring a rightward step.
It appears as if the cells prefer to attach to the 'anterior' section of the aggregate, suggesting that there are differences between the two regions.
It seems rather silly to prefer to attach it to something of a so called 'concrete' nature inconsistent with thought, and then to wonder where the thought comes from".
To secure these contracts, smaller dispatchers submit low bids, but they are unable to secure a steady supply of taxis as licence-holders generally prefer to be attached to the incumbent.
In the White Sea, the non-colonial entoproct Loxosomella nordgaardi prefers to live attached to bryozoan (ectoproct) colonies, mainly on the edges of colonies or in the "chimneys", gaps by which large bryozoan colonies expel water from which they have seived food.
