Sentences with phrase «obvious function of»

Eksts removes the obvious function of things we take for granted and flips them around to offer instead a sense of infinite, open - ended possibilities.

«The most obvious function of glial cells has been related to their role in forming scar tissue to prevent the spread of injury and neuronal degeneration, but so much about their role in the brain is unknown.»

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While information respective to a customer profile about background, job functions with related titles, reporting, motivations, pain points, needs, fears, and wants can be derived with some degree of research, the real value is in uncovering profound unarticulated insights and not - so obvious goals that lead to a winning customer strategy and a competitive differentiator.

Some of the counselor's functions are obvious.

The subtle as well as the more obvious techniques of persuasion, coercion and legal controls are part of the functioning of morality.

It is obvious to me that I altered my brain significantly after years of intense / deep prayer and meditation and that as a result of these contributory experiences I was a high - functioning schizophrenic for a good portion of my life — there were things going on in my biology which predisposed me to being a depressive and a high - functioning schizophrenic but engaging in intense / deep prayer and meditation was only exacerbating this problem by altering my state of consciousness which precipitated the psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena which I experienced.

The shortage of firewood is not a function of obvious injustices in ownership and distribution.

It is obvious that the media of communication have some role to play in the development and shape of a society's life and functioning, but how can that role be adequately conceptualised in order to formulate policy that protects the social fabric from abuses while enhancing positive aspects of the relationship?

Since it is the function of the intellect, and accordingly science, to grasp relations, the obvious point to be examined is the nature of these relations.

When Liverpool can get their game going they can beat any of those teams, because when the team is functioning it's red hot and Klopp's end game is obvious.

We live in a society of busy - ness, with so mich expected of parents and so much to get on and do and so much pressure, that a EC is an inconvenience of having to go against the perceived norm, having to pay much more intimate attention to our babies, having to deal with bodily functions, having to wake ourselves up a bit to what our culture has conditioned us to and having to go against the grain — all of which take effort and all of which take time and / or energy away from other mummy efforts that bring more obvious and societally rewarded benefits.

«It is obvious and crystal clear that the Kaduna State government has usurped the functions of the so called Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission and rendered its independence doubtful.»

Postinjury, the progressive brain deterioration that may occur likely reaches a tipping point, after which the loss of function «suddenly» becomes obvious.

A puzzle posed by segments of «dark matter» in genomes — long, winding strands of DNA with no obvious functions — has teased scientists for more than a decade.

Therefore, starting an exercise program, regardless of one's age, can not only contribute to the more obvious physical health factors, but may also contribute to memory performance and brain function,» explained corresponding author Scott Hayes, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and the Associate Director of the Neuroimaging Research for Veterans Center at the VA Boston Healthcare System.

They beat the antennae of other wasps, lick them and bite them, behaviors that don't serve any obvious function.

The functions of the prefrontal cortex are still little understood, because people who have an injury to this part of the brain do not display obvious mental deficits.

It's not always obvious, looking at the sequence of a given mutation, how it's going to affect NMDA receptor function.

To understand the function of such silent genes, it will be necessary to obtain null mutations, just as in the case of genes causing obvious mutant phenotypes.

Although there is obvious variation in brain organization across vertebrate species, the basic brain blueprint has remained remarkably stable for millions of years, as have the mechanistic principles associated with how it regulates various functions, including behavior.

Given the multiple PDZ domain structure and the ability to interact with a wide range of different proteins, an obvious primary function would appear to be as a scaffolding and targetting protein, taking receptors and other proteins to their final destinations within synapses and anchoring them there.

The London study, led by Dr. Claire Steves, concluded that age - related changes in mental function were more closely associated to the subjects» leg power than any of the other lifestyle factors tested — including the more obvious ones like their heart health.

GAP Syndrome establishes a seemingly obvious, but often ignored, connection between the function of your digestive system and the health of the rest of your body.

While it has commonly been thought that Americans» intake of essential micronutrients is adequate, evidence indicates that damage occurs at nutrient levels higher than those known to cause acute deficiency disease and, in some individuals (e.g., those with SNPs resulting in lessened KM), it is obvious that higher than DRI levels of the associated enzyme co-factors are necessary for optimal function.

When art, by sheer dint of its existence, can, at its best, genuinely function as a tool of ennoblement, of resistance, as a bulwark against the noxious ooze pouring out of Washington, it's frustrating to watch same old practices played out in the face of obvious opportunity to do something better.

Deciphering their whereabouts requires an encyclopaedic knowledge not of»80s pop culture, but of all the things Halliday used to manufacture depth that were actually functioning as coping mechanisms for someone with an obvious social disorder.

For all of his obvious skills and uncommon talent as a visual storyteller, Kosinski's first two films were short on character depth and emotional engagement, but whether a function of Kosinski's innate preferences for spectacle over substance or simply script - related issues, Kosinski's feature - film output made him an odd, left - of - field choice to direct a film about American firefighters and the Yarnell Hill Fire of 2013 that resulted in the greatest loss of firefighters since 9 - 11 more than a decade earlier.

Produced in 1949, the vintage Technicolor short «Mighty Manhattan, New York's Wonder City» functions as an obvious travelogue for both American and foreign audiences, particularly post-war nations in the process of rebuilding shattered governments and cities.

In the grand tradition of «Night of the Living Dead» comes a film, from writer - director Jordan Peele, that functions as both frightening horror thriller and racially conscious satire that confronts the dark underbelly of American racism in its more insidious, less obvious forms.

But Jonathan spends the majority of his time away from his father's bedside, as the clock ticks down with two women who function even more as obvious, screenwriterly ideas than full - fledged people.

An obvious comparison would be to the Farrelly Brothers» surprise sensation There's Something About Mary, but the brands of humor are distinctly different; whereas the Farrellys dabbled in «gross - out» bodily function humor, Berg's violent variety of comedy can best be described as «shock» humor.

The erosion of standards was painfully obvious to me the other night when I attended an after - hours school function.

But getting charter law right is an obvious prerequisite for enabling the market to function as it should — a market, we now understand, that consists not just of schools and parents, but also of authorizers, support organizations, information providers, and more.

Mobile learning as performance support is what many refer to as the obvious implementation of a mobile strategy, but there can be other effective uses, thanks to the multitude of features and functions of mobile devices, e.g., GPS, cameras, and apps.

It's somewhat obvious that these are required so the semi-autonomous and fully autonomous driving features can function properly, but why one at each corner instead of one, bigger radar in the middle of the car?

Aside from the obvious concern of being stranded without fuel, consistently allowing your car to run on fumes can actually be detrimental to its function.

The exclusivity of the Mercedes - AMG S 65 Cabriolet is also obvious in the cabin: occupants sit on sports seats wrapped in design exclusive Nappa leather with a diamond - pattern layout, which are electrically adjustable, have a memory function and climate control.

The actual download function of this probably needs a little more attention from ManyBooks to make it a little more obvious.

This has caused a loss of contrast in the text itself, which isn't obvious but becomes apparent once the new Nook GlowLight is compared with other devices without the anti-glare function.

If the sedation is too deep for the diagnosis to be obvious, a respiratory stimulant called Dopram ® (doxapram hydrochloride) is given intravenously to stimulate several deep breaths so that the function of the larynx is clear.

And I'll try to remember to eyeball the driver and the vehicle to check for obvious deficiencies, like lack of functioning eyes, limbs, brakes and lights.

I've had a quick look on FlyerTalk and I can't find any mention of this anomaly (which in itself is strange and actually makes me feel a little better — FlyerTalkers would be up in arms by now if there was an obvious rip - off in the works) but then the search function on FT isn't the best so I may be missing something obvious.

So he will stick in a bunch of recognizable icons and a bunch of obvious in - joke references and will call back on the older movies semi incessantly, but he does not really get why or how those things functioned the way they did in their original contexts, and he kind of flails when it comes to improvising something new.

The obvious irony of a dinosaur functioning as the analogue for Yooka - Laylee's key inspiration defines the unfortunate identity crisis that plagues much of the overall experience.

Faced with the obvious risk of romanticization, it appears all the more important to pursue an understanding of how American Fine Arts, Co. functioned as a gallery.

The presence of such obvious citations exposes a problem at the heart of Gates» practice as a maker of art objects whose production functions subversively as the financial engine for his more ambitious community projects in Chicago and elsewhere.

Model results don't depend critically on resolution — the climate sensitivity of the models is not a function of this in any obvious way, and the patterns of warming seen in coarse resolution models from the 1980s are very similar to those from AR4 or the upcoming AR5 (~ 50 times more horizontal grid points).

The situation with the F distribution is less obvious because the density function is more complicated and the distribution of L would be more difficult to derive explicitly.

Even if it does hold without knowing the true nature of the response function it is not obvious that late onset effects can be taken into account.

The appropriate form of the prior distribution for the Bayesian analysis is more obvious if the bounds are thought of as applying to the likelihood function, rather than to the prior.