Sentences with phrase «rather than functional»

The storage that's there created 3 junk drawers and a useless cabinet rather than functional space.

My boys both took lessons for several years so it was always littered with music books, a metronome, etc., but now that they've «retired», it can be a focal point rather than a functional space.

The limitations on LinkedIn are that it only allows you to show a chronological resume rather than a functional resume.

As a pure store of value rather than a functional token, bitcoin is arguably in competition with any other coin that's being bought as an investment or for transactional purposes.

The top glass section looks and feels like an accent rather than a functional part of the design, with only the large rear - facing camera, flash and accompanying sensors sitting within it.

Marking Feinstein's first public art exhibition in the U.S. and comprising her largest sculptural works to date, the installation consists of three follies structures that were popular in eighteenth - and nineteenth - century architecture, built with decorative rather than functional purpose.

«Comprising her largest sculptural works to date, the installation consists of three follies — structures that were popular in eighteenth - and nineteenth - century architecture, built with decorative rather than functional purpose,» the release for the exhibition states.

There are times when you can't answer a question because it deals more with balancing issues rather than functional issues.

Generally, this game doesn't review well but a lot of that is based around lack of the graphical veneer in the eyes of the Western press rather than the functional elements.

In particular, pumps and filters seem to be taking the route of becoming glamorous rather than functional.

That's unnecessary, and the web site designer should have known better than to create something cute rather than functional.

Most of the 30 - 40 cat breeds recognized today originated within the last 150 years, and were selected mainly for aesthetic traits rather than functional ones.

It's so easy to load your precious countertops with these items, turning your kitchen into a cluttered mess rather than a functional work space.

Not exact matches

You can find updates like an ergonomic 180 - degree visible hood, 2 - way front zippers, and oversized back zip pockets with inner media sleeves that, on first glance, look ornamental rather than hyper - functional.

We need a functional standard of orthodoxy: one supple enough to do justice to the sorts of nuances Griffiths introduces, but one real enough to help us understand when theological speculation, novelty, and critique undermine rather than enrich the faith of the Church.

@ total non sense Perhaps we're splitting hairs here, but I was trying to be kind by implying that rather than treating religiosity as a mental disability, for which the supposedly clinically sick can receive insurance benefits and evade personal actionable responsibility by claiming illness, it would be better to treat religiosity as a societal functional disorder which can be addressed through better education and a perceptional shift towards accepting scientific explanations for how the world works rather than relying on literal interpretations of ancient bronze age mythologies and their many derivations since.

When these two healthy individuals relate, then, it is functional rather than dysfunctional.

We have here an updated version of Kant's criticism of the Leibnizian monad in the «Amphiboly» in the Critique of Pure Reason: the spatially situated existent is indeed made up of relations rather than being a substance containing its «inhering» attributes internally as predicates which are part of its concept; only the relations are no longer those of the synthetically connected manifold, but the relational connections between the particulars of modern functional or mathematical logic, expanded to include within itself the spatial and temporal relations which Kant could only account for by means of the synthetic a priori.

Starting backwards with Coll's fourth point, that it is what deacons and deaconesses are rather than what they do that is significant for the Church, Coll explains that on the issue of ordination generally, the «ontological» versus «functional» debate continues (p207).

The principal difference between this and the irenic - arms image is that functional ability within the context of law is shown as the reconciling medium, rather than charisma.

rather than rearrange them for an otherwise functional existence.

The origins of language are predominantly functional rather than representational.

A legal system is generalized, Parsons says, to the degree it is «an integrated system of universalistic norms, applicable to the society as a whole rather than to a few functional or segmental sectors, highly generalized in terms of principles and standards, and relatively independent of both the religious agencies that legitimize the normative order of the society and vested interest groups in the operative sector, particularly in government.

Although the packaging is clean, contemporary and factual, it is also clinical, cold and does more to position the product as a modern version of the functional meal replacement drinks the unwell and undernourished rely on, rather than a truly desirable «food» proposition in line with other contemporary food brands.

A major advantage of enzymes in foods is that they are largely categorized as processing aids rather than ingredients and are generally minimally functional in the final product.

The company has developed proprietary software technology, rather than using off - the - shelf point of sale (POS) software like their competitors, thus allowing 365 to continuously improve it and adapt it to a customer's functional needs, whether it's back - end reporting or upfront POS design.

«The wine gallery is a work of art, rather than just a functional space,» explained Harris.

This information will focus in four critical areas: Functional sports - specific training, core strengthening, proprioception, and improvements in flexibility (rather than just stretching as a warm - up).

Progression is based on meeting functional criteria, rather than the time elapsed since surgery.

Functional recovery can be considered sport specific and rather than analyze a change in static or dynamic muscle strength to determine recovery, functional recovery is measured by looking at completion of exercise specific to the athletFunctional recovery can be considered sport specific and rather than analyze a change in static or dynamic muscle strength to determine recovery, functional recovery is measured by looking at completion of exercise specific to the athletfunctional recovery is measured by looking at completion of exercise specific to the athlete's sport.

In my new book I spell out a vision of functional (rather than territorial) integration orchestrated and managed not just by states, but also major regions, cities, NGOs and firms.

This plan should envisage integration along functional rather than territorial lines.

CGA tools offer a useful way of making treatment decisions on the basis of functional status rather than chronological age.

To illustrate these two dimensions at work, Raz described how a functional product such as bread has its greatest environmental impact when it is manufactured rather than used or consumed.

The researchers showed that functional products in general will have greater investment activities in the manufacturing stage rather than the use stage, while makers of innovative products should focus their investment efforts in the use stage to create eco-efficient and value enhancing products.

The idea is to improve the functional vision of children who have sight issues due to a brain injury rather than damage to the eye itself.

«Symmetrization may provide a new avenue for thinking about biomaterials that could be designed to «heal» by regaining functional geometry rather than regenerating precise shapes,» she says.

The benefit of this approach over other gene therapy techniques is that the new method can permanently correct the «defect» in a gene rather than just transiently adding a «functional» one, said Dr. Eric Olson, Director of the Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine at UT Southwestern and Chairman of Molecular Biology.

Rather than regarding young brains as immature and less functional, a better perspective may be to regard them as constantly adapting to meet the key challenges they face.

Designers work to create a functional ecosystem or support ecosystem services under current conditions, rather than recreate a historical ecosystem.

Reconsolidation research has helped foster a growing sense that the flexibility of memory might be functional — an advantage rather than a bug in the brain.

Rather than listing specific genes that manifest themselves differently, or are differentially expressed, between queens and workers, the team looked for genes with similar expression patterns across samples that may be involved in maintaining the structural, behavioural and functional differences observed between queens and workers.

A large German consortium has been studying how land - use intensification affects functional diversity, and more work needs to be done on the role of spatial data and interactions at the landscape level, rather than in microcosms or individual study sites.

Rather than activity in isolated brain regions, we looked at functional connectivity, or coordinated fluctuations between pairs of brain regions over time,» explained Finn.

In terms of functional groups rather than individual genes, of the 51.4 % Bt genes with COG annotations, those related to carbohydrate transport and metabolism comprised 10 % of the input library.

37 patients received autologous MSCs via intrathecal injection, rather than direct spinal cord injection, in two monthly doses, and were then followed up at 6 months with responders (ALS - R) and non-responders (ALS - N) identified using the revised ALS functional rating scale (ALSFRS - R).

When it comes to the deadly skin cancer melanoma, studying functional tissue rather than cell lines may better provide insight into the disease's development, according to new research from a Howard...

Recent estimates suggest that as many as 1.9 million children younger than 18 years have a sport - or recreation - related concussion each year in the United States.1 This injury is biomechanically induced, with symptoms resulting from neuronal dysfunction due to functional and neurometabolic alterations rather than gross structural abnormalities.2 Compared with boys involved in similar activities, girls experience higher rates of sport - related concussion,3 - 7 report more severe symptoms,8 - 11 demonstrate worse cognitive impairment,8 - 10, 12 and take longer to recover.11 The neural mechanisms behind these postconcussion sex differences are poorly understood but have been attributed to differences in neuroanatomy and physiology, 13 cerebral blood flow, 14 and the female sex hormones estrogen and progesterone.15 - 17

Their sequence conservation likely results from their pleiotropic functional constraints (i.e. additional functions in non-reproductive tissues) rather than their reproductive functions.

Moreover, researchers can already interpret a person's neural activity from functional magnetic resonance imaging scans at a rudimentary level1 — that the individual is thinking of a person, say, rather than a car.