Function
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A reproductive system that fails to
function
produces an individual that has no offspring, and that individual is then kicked out of the gene pool.
I really believe that we still have a lot to learn about the normal structure and
function
of our bodies.
Because after all, they learn about the world almost, like, about it, rather than learning how to
function
in it.
Now, this thing has a
function.
All right, thus form and
function
interact dynamically and reciprocally.
Form and
function.
So it's like form and
function.
But most importantly, what we are trying to do right now is we are trying to scale this up, because there are over 250,000 ASHA workers on the ground who are these amazing foot soldiers, and if we can give at least a fraction of them the access to these things, it just changes the way the economics of public health care works, and it changes the way systems actually function, not just on a systematic planning level, but also in a very grassroots, bottom-up level.
"You don't belong here" almost always means, "We can't find a
function
or a role for you."
I don't have to use the executive brain
function
... Ha, ha, ha, I win! (Laughter) And I am so grateful to you.
If they
function
as if they're twice as big, we can get 28 units in.
In the past decade or so, mainly due to advances in brain imaging technology such as magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, neuroscientists have started to look inside the living human brain of all ages, and to track changes in brain structure and brain function, so we use structural MRI if you'd like to take a snapshot, a photograph, at really high resolution of the inside of the living human brain, and we can ask questions like, how much gray matter does the brain contain, and how does that change with age?
Wealth is a
function
of income, and income comes from you finding a profitable trading opportunity or a well-paying job.
The first thing I'm going to tell you about this mammal is that it is essential for our ecosystems to
function
correctly.
Now as I said before, bats are essential for our ecosystems to
function
correctly.
So indeed, we need them for our ecosystems to
function
properly.
Your genome is made up of your DNA, your DNA codes for proteins that enable you to
function
and interact and be as you are.
So through natural selection, over time, mutations, variations that disrupt the
function
of a protein will not be tolerated over time.
And so therefore, if you look at the same region of a genome in many mammals that have been evolutionarily distant from each other and are also ecologically divergent, you will get a better understanding of what the evolutionary prior of that site is, i.e., if it is important for the mammal to function, for its survival, it will be the same in all of those different lineages, species, taxa.
So if it is the same, this indicates that that site is important for a function, so a disease mutation should fall within that site.
So these kinds of crises might serve the same
function
as the two world wars in the 20th century.
So this is a project I'm working on, and this is a series of front covers to downgrade our super, hyper — (Laughter) (Applause) to downgrade our super, hyper-mobile phones into the essence of their
function.
Well, the problem was in thinking that the insect wings
function
in the way that aircraft wings work.
Now several people at this conference have already suggested that fruit flies could serve neuroscience because they're a simple model of brain
function.
We tend to infer the normal
function
of something by what doesn't happen when we take it away, by the opposite of what we see when we take it away.
So when we take away the dopamine receptor and the flies take longer to calm down, from that we infer that the normal
function
of this receptor and dopamine is to cause the flies to calm down faster after the puff.
When the malfunction is in a circuit that regulates your mood, you get things like depression, and when it is in a circuit that controls your memory and cognitive function, then you get things like Alzheimer's disease.
We're going to place electrodes within the circuits that regulate your memory and cognitive
function
to see if we can turn up their activity.
We are going to operate on 50 patients with early Alzheimer's disease to see whether this is safe and effective, whether we can improve their neurologic
function.
We can turn them down if they are overactive, if they're causing trouble, trouble that is felt throughout the brain, or we can turn them up if they are underperforming, and in so doing, we think that we may be able to help the overall
function
of the brain.
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