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For any new requirement, you have a dedicated
function
in charge of aligning engineers against the new requirement.
If repairability is the new requirement, the solution is to create a new function, Mr. Repairability.
And all of this matters greatly, because public safety to me is the most important
function
of government.
In space, size drives cost, and we had worked with these very small, breadbox-sized satellites in school, but as we began to better understand the laws of physics, we found that the quality of pictures those satellites could take was very limited, because the laws of physics dictate that the best picture you can take through a telescope is a
function
of the diameter of that telescope, and these satellites had a very small, very constrained volume.
The rest of them, it's all about application, and at the end of the day, everything we design and produce in the economy or buy as consumers is done so for
function.
We have to think about
function
as well, and when it comes to sex,
function
relates to the contributions made by the gametes, or the sperm and the eggs.
We're just beginning to understand what exact
function
these cells have, but what it implies is that the brain is capable of extraordinary change way into adulthood.
Today, I'm going to tell you how my legs function, how they work, as a case in point for this center.
So on the left, you see the bionic device worn by a lady, on the right, a passive device worn by the same lady, that fails to emulate normal muscle function, enabling her to do something everyone should be able to do: go up and down their steps at home.
Basic levels of physiological
function
should be a part of our human rights.
Regardless of where you are, in New Hampshire or outside of New Hampshire, you can sign up and directly be informed where the candidates are on this issue so you can decide who to vote for as a
function
of which is going to make this possibility real.
As a researcher, a professor and a new parent, my goal is to conduct scientific research that helps us understand how kids
function
in a legal system that was designed for adults.
So there are important changes happening in the structure and
function
of the brain during adolescence, especially in the prefrontal cortex and the limbic system, and these are areas that are crucial for things like self-control, decision-making, emotion processing and regulation and sensitivity to reward and risk, all of which can affect how you
function
in a stressful circumstance, like a police interrogation.
The thing I design is manufactured, and it has a function: to be read, to convey meaning.
So interactions
function
to activate foragers.
We talk about the brain, but of course every brain is slightly different, and maybe there are some individuals or some conditions in which the electrical properties of neurons are such that they require more stimulus to fire, and that would lead to differences in brain
function.
The other reason given is that most of those changes are a loss of function, and it's actually really hard to develop drugs that restore
function.
People narrow the world and
function
in discrete groups without empathy for one another.
So to give you an idea of how bad guys go about cracking passwords, they will steal a password file that will have all of the passwords in kind of a scrambled form, called a hash, and so what they'll do is they'll make a guess as to what a password is, run it through a hashing function, and see whether it matches the passwords they have on their stolen password list.
By the one-year anniversary of quitting, heart disease risk plummets to half as blood vessel
function
improves.
It's a long story, but the core idea is just that what you get from purely reductionist explanations in physical terms, in brain-based terms, is stories about the functioning of a system, its structure, its dynamics, the behavior it produces, great for solving the easy problems — how we behave, how we
function
— but when it comes to subjective experience — why does all this feel like something from the inside?
It doesn't have a brain, yet it can perform behaviors that we associate with brain
function.
Somehow, through some miraculous synaptic
function
of the human brain, it's impossible to stutter when you sing.
When it doesn't function, then it shows up in your body temperatures, they tend to be lower than normal or very erratic.
And something as complex as the
function
of our brains is shaped by the interaction of thousands of genes.
To tell if a part of the brain is necessary for a mental function, you need to mess with it and see what happens, and normally we don't get to do that.
But importantly, I don't think we have specializations in the brain for every important mental function, even mental functions that may be critical for survival.
I knew nothing about Wofford and even less about Methodism, but I was reassured on the first day that I taught at Wofford College to find, among the auditors in my classroom, a 90-year-old Hungarian, surrounded by a bevy of middle-aged European women who seemed to
function
as an entourage of Rhinemaidens.
We've talked a little about the heart, and let's now talk about another function: the liver!
In nature, all that is organized in extraordinary structures has a
function.
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