Sentences with phrase «local function rather»

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Three people familiar with the commission's deliberations told Capital that rather than an income - tax cut, which was hinted at by committee co-chair and former governor George Pataki, committee members are instead focusing on some sort of property tax «circuit - breaker,» where individuals would get a break on local levies if their property taxes were adjudged to be too high as a function of their income.

The researchers advocate a conservation strategy that emphasizes global representation, i.e., the planetary safeguarding of species function or evolutionary heritage planet - wide, rather than local representation.

Certain particle compounds may directly generate ROS in vivo because of their surface chemistry (eg, metals, organic compounds, and semiquinones) or after bioactivation by cytochrome P450 systems (eg, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon conversion to quinones).6, 290 a, 290 b A particle surface or anions present on otherwise more inert particles may disrupt iron homeostasis in the lung and thereby also generate ROS via Fenton reactions.291 Other PM constituents may do so indirectly by the upregulation of endogenous cellular sources (eg, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate [NADPH]-RRB- oxidase) 292,293 or by perturbing organelle function (eg, mitochondria) by taken - up PM components.261 Particle stimulation of irritant and afferent ANS fibers may also play a role in local and systemic oxidative stress formation.294 Given the rich antioxidant defenses in the lung fluid, secondarily generated oxidization products of endogenous molecules (eg, oxidized phospholipids, proteins) or a reduction in endogenous antioxidants per se may be responsible at least in part for the state of oxidative stress in the lungs (along with instigating the subsequent cellular responses) rather than ROS derived directly from PM and its constituents.

Research indicates that people who suffer migraines show adverse changes in blood vessel function throughout the body, which suggests migraines are «a local manifestation of a systemic disease rather than a primary brain phenomenon» (10).

While touching lightly on all, this article focuses mainly on state reforms that take over schools, rather than districts, and that assume «LEA» functions for those schools — the mundane routines of oversight, administration, and finance that a local education agency (aka a conventional school district) ordinarily performs.

Section 21 of NAA 1948 provided: «(1)... a local authority may... make arrangements for providing --(a) residential accommodation for persons... in need of care and attention which is not otherwise available to them...» Section 6 of HRA 1998 identified two types of public authority — «core» public authorities which were to be so regarded in relation to all their functions and «hybrid» persons with functions both of a public and of a private nature which were only to be so regarded when the nature of their particular act under consideration was public rather than private.