Sentences with phrase «simple function in»

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If you think of the assembly line in a fantastic manufacturing plant or the global presence of McDonald's, they both seem complex, but in reality, they are a series of incredibly simple functions.

In recent weeks, we have seen how, in politics, X does not always equal Y, but rather some function thereof, as the traditional political pressures that have been brought to bear on the healthcare fight have not yielded simple resultIn recent weeks, we have seen how, in politics, X does not always equal Y, but rather some function thereof, as the traditional political pressures that have been brought to bear on the healthcare fight have not yielded simple resultin politics, X does not always equal Y, but rather some function thereof, as the traditional political pressures that have been brought to bear on the healthcare fight have not yielded simple results.

Exactly when a founder is likely to max out his or her skills, he says, is not a simple function of the number of employees at a company, the sales volume, or how long the entrepreneur has been in business.

With a built - in clock and easy - to - read LCD screen, this feeder is simple to operate and reliable in terms of its function.

When you log in, you're greeted with a simple dashboard that uses a sidebar menu divided into categories: Sales, Purchases, Accounting, Banking, Payroll and Reports, so you can quickly find core functions without difficulty.

With a simple command, I can request that the video lights and camera functions in my office turn on for a video conference.

At most simple levels of material synthesis, individual nodes of organization like subatomic particles are only determinate as functions within a bigger framework, so it is perhaps not surprising that their behaviour can only be expressed in terms of statistical probability.

However, the continuity of structure and function from nonliving matter to living and from the simplest forms of life to the most complicated strongly suggests that even the most characteristic human activities such as thought and consciousness have an explanation, as yet only partly known, in chemical and physical phenomena.

We have organic church, simple church, and missional communities, but even here, in most of the books and blogs I read about this, the emphasis always seems to be that the church is only functioning when the people gather in a certain place at a certain time, usually in a house on Sunday morning.

It may simply mean that in that denomination evangelism is a separate function — and therefore needs to develop a holism of its own — or that the materials sent me represent a larger slice of that denomination's life than what others would call «evangelism pure and simple.»

12 Even on the assumption of a Vitalism of essentially higher principles of that kind, which raise the organic, as an intrinsically higher level of reality, above merely inorganic matter, and constitute biology as an independent science, and even if we regard the entelechy factor as simple and indivisible, there would only be an eductio e potentia materiae when a new living being came into existence, if we excluded creation in this case in the way it is exemplified in the human soul, though that is not very easy to prove, and at the same time rejected the not at all absurd supposition that in the generation of new life below the human level what happens is only the extension of the entelechial function of one and the same vital principle to a new position in space and time within inorganic matter.

Stating the issue as a sharp either / or question is hardly fair, of course, demanding as it does a simple response to a body of literature that is rich in varieties of forms, moods, and functions.

For simple machines like a bicycle we also find the earliest stages of an explanation, which can be classified as mechanical and which looks away from a self - propelled movement and switches over to external influences; from seven to eight years of age the child is, in the realm of mechanical things, capable of understanding movements in function of transmissions (RME 221 - 266).

This is different in analogue systems (for example a simple thermostat) that have few discontinuities and that are unlikely to stop functioning totally or to operate in totally unpredictable ways.

I am asking also, and more particularly, Where in nature is there feeling, perceiving, remembering, desiring, liking and disliking, not necessarily in the higher forms of these functions that we human beings are capable of, but in some form, however primitive and simple, however odd or strange, when compared to our human forms?

Therefore, he believes that he has a logically impregnable position in affirming that the zero case of mind would also be the zero case of reality.26 Hence, either we must talk about matter in terms of the infinitely flexible «psychic variables» of human mental experience, or we can not talk intelligibly about it at all.27 Thus Hartshorne feels justified in the following caustic comment upon Santayana's defense of materialism:» «Matter» is the asylum of ignorance, pure and simple, whose only useful function is to postpone for a more convenient occasion the specification of the type of psychic reality required in the given case.

In simpler cases it is possible to judge the course of the brain functions.

What all these have in common is that, without any central control, individual units (genes, cells neurons or workers) respond to simple, local information, in ways that allow the whole system (cells, brains, organisms or colonies) to function: the appropriate number of units performs each activity at the appropriate time.

The critique of simple location finds positive expression in the thesis that differences in spatiotemporal relations entail lack of qualitative identity in a non-vacuous sense — a lack of identity which can not be the function of some mere accident, external to the concrete entities involved.

According to the Tea Association of the USA, sales of tea in the US are growing 3 - 5 % annually, which the co-founder and CEO of Pique Tea attributes to rising consumer interest in plant - based diets, convenience and function beyond simple hydration.

It can function as a simple base for a whole range of toppings and mix - ins, all of which can be thrown together in just a few minutes.

Having Giroud in your team is like having dial up internet in 2015 (my apologies to anyone who still has, but it gets better as soon as you upgrade) and in case you're wondering how the analogy links to what I was saying overall in terms of ambition its simple, much like dial - up, Giroud functions at a limited capacity if you need to send an email its good (Score a goal), wanting to stream a movie is a stretch to far (Giroud doesn't win titles) and if, at the end of the day, showing ambition is showing an intent of doing better than before, taking risks and learning from your mistakes, and how not to repeat them again.

But this season, as well as in - game goal clips (from all Premier League matches outside the Saturday 3 pm window) for Sky Sports subscribers, our timeline function for Sky Sports» live Premier League matches allows you to navigate to the match incident you want to watch with a simple swipe.

However, these proposals offer a simple way of making the law function as it is intended to do: in the interests of the child.

Called tubular (or tuberous) breast deformity in the plastic surgery literature, hypoplasia of the mammary gland (also called insufficient glandular tissue or IGT) was previously thought to be a simple issue of cosmetics — corrections addressed the appearance of a woman's breasts, with little regard for their function.

But to function well, her developing mind needs a sense of close connection with you as surely as she needs food, shelter, cleanliness, and sleep,» Patty Wipfler says, in the opening chapters of her book, Listen, Five Simple Tools to Meet Your Everyday Parenting Challenges.

Properly - functioning smoke detectors in the home provide an inexpensive and simple way to save lives, particularly as most severe burns and deaths occur in residental fires.

It's the perfect synergy of outstanding function and good looks in one diaper pail — the new Dékor Kolor with totally hands - free simple «Step and Drop» function.

MSRP: $ 44.95 It's the perfect synergy of outstanding function and good looks in one diaper pail — the new Dékor Kolor with totally hands - free simple «Step and Drop» function.

THE KIDS ARE AT IT AGAIN Parenting Press, 1997 In this simple and well - focused book, Crary looks at sibling conflicts as a function of developmental stages and learned «people skills» rather than jealousy.

Some applications (like Instagram) DO create mobile - centric outreach opportunities (particularly if you generate a lot of good pictures), but most of them — at least in the short term — require us to take simple steps: we need to go out of our way to make sure that our emails (and landing pages) display and function well on mobile browsers, and that our Facebook content is the kind of image - heavy materials that mobile users can see easily.

Learning to operate this drone is very simple thanks to the built - in «Headless / IOC» function that allows it to move forward in any direction and automatically stabilizes the drone.

Two preset functions, including frozen drinks and food chop, make for simple, one - button operation when you're in a hurry or unsure of which setting to use.

Lightweight, durable, simple to use and able to function underwater, the GoPro Hero Session has everything you'd want in a water proof camera.

In principle, the wave function, denoted by Greek letter psi, can be used to reveal these energy levels for any given atom or molecule, although in practice this has only been done for the very simplest — the hydrogen atom and molecule (made of two hydrogen atoms bonded togetherIn principle, the wave function, denoted by Greek letter psi, can be used to reveal these energy levels for any given atom or molecule, although in practice this has only been done for the very simplest — the hydrogen atom and molecule (made of two hydrogen atoms bonded togetherin practice this has only been done for the very simplest — the hydrogen atom and molecule (made of two hydrogen atoms bonded together).

Far more than a simple «love hormone,» it is involved in many biological processes, including cardiovascular, gut and kidney function, wound healing and bone formation.

As simple in design as they are sophisticated in their programming, they usually look and function much like ATMs, with touch screens that are nearly impossible to misunderstand.

The Arabidopsis thaliana plant root, used in these studies, is a quite simple organ, in which cells with different functions are separated.

But in this moment, with scientific success being in part a simple function of math — is an idea gaining or losing adherents?

«Many studies show the integrative function of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in relatively simple cognitive tasks, and we believe that this relatively basic process forms the foundation for far more complex forms of behavior and decision - making, such as norm enforcement,» said lead author Joshua Buckholtz, now an assistant professor of psychology at Harvard.

Miller's lab has been able to tune the bond - forming functions in peptide - based catalysts, which are similar to nature's enzymes in that they are composed of amino acids, but are orders of magnitude simpler in terms of their molecular size.

This means that its components and functions are similar in diverse species from simple organisms like fruit flies to mice and even humans.

They then attached strips of gold to both ends of each nanotube, creating a transistor, and linked up to three such devices in various ways to make circuits that would execute simple logical functions: flipping a signal from off to on or vice versa, turning two off signals into an on, storing a unit of information or creating an oscillating signal.

Together with Jerison, Douglas Arnold of the University of Minnesota and Guy David of the University of Paris - South, they are now finishing work on a paper that describes a new version of the landscape function — which, in simple terms, is the reciprocal of the original one — that exactly predicts where electrons will localize and at what energy level.

What's more, the mitochondria in cells that generate energy can, in many simple animals, function without oxygen for substantial periods of time.

James Christiansen, professor of biology at Drake University in DesMoines, is studying how telomeres, the simple, non-genetic DNAsequences that sheathe the ends of chromosomes, function in reptiles.Each time a healthy human cell divides, it loses a little bit of thetelomere, until the strands are too short to protect the chromosomes.At that point the DNA in a cell begins to break down, which triggerssenescence and death.

«We believe our study has the potential to open a complete new field of investigation in modern neuroscience by demonstrating that even the simplest functions of the motor cortex, such as creating body movements, are heavily influenced by the type of social relationships among the animals participating,» said senior author Miguel Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D..

It may be that researchers were trying to find simple explanations for phenomena that, in nature, have lots of different functions in different animal groups.

In this week's Nature, however, a team of researchers describe a simple, solid - state device that functions as the key component of a quantum computer.

If we put the galaxies for which we have the relevant data into a graph relating the mass of stars in each galaxy with the star formation rate of that galaxy, most of them would appear as a compact cloud, which could be described by using a simple function.