adjacency

Using the Facebook Social Connectedness Index as a measure of social network adjacency that mediates social learning behaviors, the researchers were able to attribute an additional 250,000 policy sign-ups in flooded counties and an additional 81,000 policy sign-ups in unflooded counties over three years, according to the paper.

The hexagon principle could be applied to optimize the self-organization of small structures into larger ones -- as regards the shape of the building blocks or the possibility of bonds and adjacency relations with other particles.

In other words, the kind of boy-mom power adjacency most women have had to be content with for centuries.

That, coupled with the way TMZ’s new tour pivots from one type of celebrity adjacency to another makes me think they’re onto something.

She joked about her “off-white” privilege, a sly nod to the white adjacency that we Indian Americans—and not American Indians—are sometimes afforded.