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n. 1 (plural of connection English) 2 People with whom one is acquainted who can offer help and influence.
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Connections is a 10-episode documentary television series and 1978 book (Connections, based on the series) created, written, and presented by science historian James Burke. The series was produced and directed by Mick Jackson of the BBC Science and Features Department and first aired in 1978 (UK) and 1979 (USA). It took an interdisciplinary approach to the history of science and invention, and demonstrated how various discoveries, scientific achievements, and historical world events were built from one another successively in an interconnected way to bring about particular aspects of modern technology. The series was noted for Burke's crisp and enthusiastic presentation (and dry humour), historical re-enactments, and intricate working models.
The popular success of the series led to the production of The Day the Universe Changed (1985), a similar program but showing a more linear history of several important scientific developments. Years later, the success in syndication led to two sequels, Connections (1994) and Connections (1997), both for TLC. In 2004, KCSM-TV produced a program called Re-Connections, consisting of an interview of Burke and highlights of the original series, for the 25th anniversary of the first broadcast in the USA on PBS.
Connections is a British television game show. It was produced by Granada Television and aired on the ITV network from 1985 to 1990.
Connections is a quarterly peer-reviewed open access academic journal covering security, defense, armed forces, conflict, intelligence, history, war, and related issues. It was established in 2002 by the Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes and is published in English in both hardcover and PDF. The journal is also published in Russian. Editorial decisions are made by the journal's editorial board. The journal is indexed by EBSCO databases, Columbia International Affairs Online, and the International Relations and Security Network.
Connections: An Investigation into Organized Crime in Canada was a two-part television documentary program, created and broadcast by CBC Television in June 1977 and March 1979. It covered the growth of organized crime in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. Each part ran for 90 minutes. The series was commissioned by Peter Herrndorf from Bill Macadam of Norfolk Communications, written and directed by Martyn Burke, and research directed and associate produced by James Dubro.
The series was notable for its use of advanced equipment - including high speed film and hidden microphones - and for interviews with criminal leaders.
The show received an honourable mention from the Michener Award in 1977, as well as an Anik Award and ACTRA Award.
Connections is a compilation album by A. R. Rahman. It is his personal handpicked favorites in a Collector's Edition Pack of various films that he worked. A fresh track titled "Jiya Se Jiya" was composed for the album. It was released in 2009 under the label of Universal Music Group.
Connections is the plural of connection.
The term may also refer to:
- Connections (Canadian documentary), a documentary on organized crime in Canada
- Connections (game show), a British game show of the 1980s
- Connections (journal), a military/defense periodical
- Connections (TV series), and Book by science historian James Burke's documentary television series
- Connections Academy, a free public school that students attend from home
Usage examples of "connections".
During these two weeks their brains grow rapidly, and by the time their eyes open almost all the neurons and glia are present, and a myriad of synaptic connections have been formed between the neurons.
Naturalistic inquiry aims at empirical explanation, conceived of as the development of theories that identify lawful or lawlike regularities and causal connections between variables.
If there were only a horizontal dimension of pure heterarchy, where everything exists solely by virtue of its internal connections or relations to everything else, then if I destroyed all of one type of anything, I would simultaneously destroy all types of everything, since there is no ontological gradation of any sort in a pure heterarchy.
At the time, however, lacking these connections, the physiosphere and the biosphere simply fell apartin the sciences, in religion, and in philosophy.
Such meanings cannot be reduced to the identification of causal connections and require accounts making use of intentional language rather than simply descriptive language.
That would indeed show some of the connections between the Big Three, but that could not finally integrate them, an integration that would demand not an intermediate but a yet-higher level.
But our own human memories are not embedded in a computer, they are encoded in the brain, in the ten thousand million nerve cells that comprise the human cerebrum - and the ten million million connections and pathways between those cells.
If it is hard to envisage such a great number of cells, it is enough to note that each human brain contains getting on for three times as many nerve cells as there are people alive on the earth today, and that if you were to begin counting the connections between them at the rate of one every second, it would take you anything from three to thirty million years to complete your tally.
During a human lifetime every molecule of our body is replaced many times over, cells die and are teed, the connections between them are made and broken thousands, perhaps millions of times.
Can we be at peace with ourselves if we recognize that our deepest, most sacred feelings, of love for others and awe at the universe in which we find ourselves, are at the same time represented inside our own heads by patterns of connections between nerve cells and the electrical flux between them, the synthesis of particular proteins and the breakdown of others?
Like the earlier one, they are based on the idea that the brain is composed of ensembles of neurons with multiple connections between them.
Early brain development in the foetus and newborn is itself associated first with a massive proliferation of cells, and then by a steady drop in number, but the space once occupied by the lost cells is taken up by an increase in the branching and synaptic connections made by those that remain.
The neurosurgical approach is to locate the offending cells and isolate them or remove connections between them and other brain regions, so as to try to prevent the electrical spread.
As a consequence, the mapping cannot be done once for all, with individual cells assigned functions at birth and connections that will last them a lifetime.
To retain the mapping relationship the connections involved in the pathways from eye to brain have continually to be broken and remade.