Sentences with phrase «so as a function»

If the hippocampus shrinks after the trauma, especially if it does so as a function of the ongoing post-trauma period, the extent of atrophy should be more dramatic in survivors of older disasters than of recent ones.

-- Existing clean energy technologies have fallen in cost and will continue to do so as a function of their deployment, which implies that they are sufficient to achieve ambitious climate goals.

I argued, to use Sivaram's words, «Existing clean energy technologies have fallen in cost and will continue to do so as a function of their deployment, which implies that they are sufficient to achieve ambitious climate goals.»

Not exact matches

Though many of them have technically launched before, few have had much interaction with the public or media, so the event functions as a kind of coming - out party.

The old model calls people with equal skills «ambiverts,» but can't distinguish between people who can't function as either so - called introverts or so - called extroverts and people who can function equally well as both.

An added benefit is that they function as savings vehicles, so unused funds can later be drawn from for retirement.

Novice mobile users will feel alienated by anything too complex so try to emphasize a design that reads easily and functions as clear as day.

Agrawal is so comfortable talking about bodily functions that it'd be tempting to dismiss her as a provocateur, someone who likes to make the suits sweat for the fun of it.

In addition to functioning as support groups, ERGs may help employees gain access to a broader network, to mentors, to training programs, and so on.

It goes like this: first of all, the bank is constantly scanning the horizon for smoke signals, looking for possible incipient trouble in big banks as well as the so - called «shadow banking system» (non-bank institutions that perform some bank - like functions) and trading information with other regulators.

«You learn to write copy simply as a function of what works and what doesn't,» he told a private audience after his keynote, and therefore so can an algorithm.

Cameron adds that some cloud storage systems offer server backup and encryption so identify the company's needs so as to not buy unneccessary functions.

Ciccarelli realized that the future lay in the exchange service, not the recording function, so he sold all his studio equipment and invested the proceeds in bolstering the company's website so it can function as a true online market place geared to the needs of both the actors and the companies looking for voice talent.

So there's a big cultural component of that and as well we have some forcing functions in the business that look for every year where can we drive efficiencies, where can we drive more effectiveness, where can we invest ahead of the curve?

Nootropics have been around since the 1970s, but apparently the Silicon Valley «biohacking» movement — in which workaholic techies attempt to optimize their bodies and basic functions, such as eating, for maximum productivity — has given these so - called brain enhancers a new life.

So, the true «automation» of bitcoin functions that integrate with the economy as a whole may require a reconciliation with existing trading platforms.

How do we go about changing ourselves so we can have a fully empowered, fully integrated, and committed workforce, sowe all function as a team rather than «us versus them»?»

So when thinking about quotas, it's often best to start thinking of them as a function of capacity — and then start thinking about things like revenue and closing ratios.

The Army functions this way so that it can work as a team — when you are loyal to those around you and those you serve under, you think in terms of the plural rather than the singular.

There are already some great ideas submitted such as the ability to place your phone into «desktop mode» so that it can function as a PC too.

So, when it got really rough a few times this year at our Kabul office, we could leave everything in Kabul and move those 125 staffers north and have them functioning and operational instantly, as opposed to a week or two.

On the basis of the above facts, GEI acknowledged in its settlement agreement that the consulting agreements, even those pursuant to which no amounts were actually paid, violated the anti-bribery provision of the CFPOA, as they constituted agreements to provide, directly or indirectly, a benefit to a foreign public official so as to induce the official to use his position to influence decisions of a foreign state for which he performs duties and functions.

Even as he insisted the payment was solely for a personal purpose, Giuliani suggested that it served another function: to quash an embarrassing story so close to the presidential election.

Bitcoins are actually generated by the routine functions of a computer that is processing large mathematical problems (known as «Bitcoin mining»), so the supply is controlled, and will never exceed 21 million.

The same thing that makes Bitcoin able to function as a decentralized cryptocurrency so successfully is the same thing that upholds the business practices from a software perspective.

This was largely a function of the coincidence of high real interest rates and high asset price inflation over much of the period — more so, perhaps, than the exercise of exceptional investment skills as such.

They should be there to function to allow the economy to operate — the extension of credit, the availability of credit when money gets turned off, the economy shuts — and so I actually think that banks might be getting a pass to be able to develop using these technologies to bolster their economic utility to the rest of the economy as opposed to being disrupted away.

So quit whining about rope and arrests for him and start calling for the people who are truly responsible for the fiasco — he is NOT the one who functioned as CEO, he is not the one who sat on the board of directors, he is not the one who set up the trading programs and loan product matrices that loaded IMB with toxic crap loans.

Then there's a bit about how the «incentive program» in Alpha's plan is based on metrics so easily met that it functions as «a disguised retention program,» which is «prohibited in bankruptcy cases absent extremely specific and unusual circumstances that do not exist here.»

And by finding HEEB and SQUAW VALLEY disparaging, the PTO necessarily did so based on its finding that the marks convey an expressive message over and above their function as source identifiers — namely, an expressive message disparaging Jewish and Native American people.»

A greater amount of favorable stories also function as a reputation management safety net so when potential clients search online, they only see good things.

And if this be so, our work as educators and as advocates of a well - functioning American educational system is to develop citizens who are at home in the canons that comprise the formal reality of their heritage, who are equally at home with the varied individual things that comprise the material reality of that heritage and of their present life, and who are able to devise constantly new frames that are adequate to both, that marry ancient canon and novel particular in a new canon which integrates as fully and complexly as possible all its participant elements.

While introducing his project of comparing Whitehead and Heidegger on time, Mason suggests that the paucity of previous efforts is «a function of the assumption that their modes of philosophizing are so different as to render the thought of the one completely irrelevant to that of the other» (p. 83).

So long as the cultural revolution has the initiative, the social imagination of the masses overcomes even technical backwardness and transforms the function of the old media so that their structures are explodeSo long as the cultural revolution has the initiative, the social imagination of the masses overcomes even technical backwardness and transforms the function of the old media so that their structures are explodeso that their structures are exploded.

Perhaps the major difference is that, whereas the dominant traditions see this critique as freeing theology to function as an independent discipline with little attention to the sciences, the process tradition sees this as an opportunity to reconstruct both theology and the sciences so as to bring them into a new synthesis.

As «form follows function,» so Jesus, «who had no beauty that we should desire him» (Isa.

So long as he discharges his functions within the framework of God's orders, the nation aids and obeys him — and it deposes him if he deviates from the right course.

When Whitehead describes the approach to intellectuality as a gain in the power of abstraction, so that «the irrelevant multiplicity is eliminated, and emphasis is laid on the elements of systematic order in the actual world» (PR 388), we take this to mean that mentality becomes habitually effective when its potentially anarchic initiatives are both nourished and preserved at lower, more reiterative levels of conceptual functioning.

Comes very near to the position of Tödt, so far as the authenticity of sayings is concerned, but argues that Jesus thought of himself as Son of God and used the Son of man idea to denote himself «reinstalled in his heavenly seat... exercising his intercessory or judicial functions».

This sense of internality in mathematical functions is not particularly strange or unusual, and something like it is recognized by so different a mathematical philosopher as Wittgenstein: «The internal relation by which a series is ordered is equivalent to the operation that produces one term from another» (TLP 5.232).

To a notable degree even yet, the unmodernized Indian's life is corporate, and the individual exists only in his tribal relationships and functions, so that when the Government, even with good intentions, has tried to serve the Indian on a different basis, taking him away from home for education, discouraging old folk - ways as heathenish, assuming individualistic thinking in his treatment, the result has commonly been the disintegration of the Indian's life.

This does not mean, of course, that other staff people are not involved, but it does mean that the staff clergyman can help to integrate and focus the information so that the community clergyman is functioning as an effective clergyman and not as a clergyman with some mental health information.

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.

As emotionally compelling of an idea as a soul may be, there is absolutely no evidence what - so - ever that a soul exists outside the cognitive functions of the very material human braiAs emotionally compelling of an idea as a soul may be, there is absolutely no evidence what - so - ever that a soul exists outside the cognitive functions of the very material human braias a soul may be, there is absolutely no evidence what - so - ever that a soul exists outside the cognitive functions of the very material human brain.

Ultimately, of course, beauty is a function of experience, but we commonly use the term to refer to objects so structured as to stimulate such experience.

Our genome is nearly identical to the chimpanzee genome, a little less identical to the gorilla genome, a little less identical to the orangutan genome, and so on — and this correspondence is present in ways that are not needed for function (such as the location of shared genetic defects, the order of genes on chromosomes, and on and on).

The goal is to help the person's adult side (which, as Eric Berne shows, (Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy [New York: Grove Press, 1961] even the most inadequate person possesses) gain strength by functioning, so that it will rescue control of the person's relationships from his child side.

Just as these are able to function, so also is the will.

The trick is that members must learn to function and observe as if they were outsiders so that they see afresh the myriad matters about the congregation that they now take for granted.

As mentioned before, the specialness will be only partially a function of God's doing; the creature must actualize God's aim for it to a sufficient degree, so the specialness will also be partly a function of the creature's free response.47