Function
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That's true in the molecular pandemonium that lets your cells function, the tangled thicket of neurons that produces your thoughts and identity, your network of friends and family, all the way up to the structures and economies of our cities across the planet.
And while any language needs consistent patterns to function, the study of these patterns opens up an ongoing debate between two positions known as prescriptivism and descriptivism.
What we can say is that aging occurs when intrinsic processes and interactions with the environment, like sunlight, and toxins in the air, water, and our diets, cause changes in the structure and
function
of the body's molecules and cells.
If mitochondrial
function
declines, then cells and, later on, whole organs, deteriorate, too.
Other changes revolve around cells' ability to
function
properly.
The frontal lobes are so sensitive to drops in glucose, in fact, that a change in mental
function
is one of the primary signals of nutrient deficiency.
The most basic
function
of bodily fat is self-storage of food reserves.
To date, there is no known
function
for hiccups.
Do such structures serve some hidden
function
that hasn't yet been discovered?
Now, for a system to
function
autonomously, it must collectively know the location of its mobile objects in space.
For instance, we could know every physical detail about the structure and
function
of someone else's brain, but still not understand what it feels like to be that person.
In other words, building a computer which mimicked the
function
of every single neuron of the human brain won't necessarily create a conscious computerized brain.
These procedures reestablish circulation to the cardiac muscle, restoring heart
function.
When bacteria digest fiber, they produce short chain fatty acids that nourish the gut barrier, improve immune function, and can help prevent inflammation, which reduces the risk of cancer.
After all, the
function
of genitalia seems simple.
In humans, exposure to arsenic can damage the way cells communicate and
function.
And here's the key; they get to spend it with your subtle guidance, your subtle mentorship, your subtle supervision, and whether you call it an allowance, you call it commission for chores or you call it a weekly stipend, every single child, from the age of five on up, needs to be given some tangible amount of money on a weekly basis so that they understand how to
function
in a cashless society someday.
As it turns out, these two abilities are also essential for all of us to
function
well in our society.
What if the parents' boycott was part of a larger strategy to identify and cut off the resources that ISIS needs to function; the skilled labor needed to produce food; the engineers needed to extract and refine oil; the media infrastructure and communications networks and transportation systems, and the local businesses that ISIS relies on?
We have it, and these species have it too, except one species has lost all
function
in that gene, and the other one maintains it.
And this has plunged journalism into crisis, forcing those institutions to reexamine how they
function.
And what we found is that those that experience incivility do actually
function
much worse.
We'll get people to give more and
function
at their best if we're civil.
The genetic instructions encoded in DNA inform how our bodies develop, grow,
function.
Many people don't know the location of their vital organs, or even how they
function.
Well, electronic circuits
function
about a million times faster than biochemical ones, so this machine should think about a million times faster than the minds that built it.
Trust is an elusive concept, and yet we depend on it for our lives to
function.
It's very active, it's governed by all kinds of treaties, and it has got that control
function
in it.
Especially at night, when commuters make these arteries look dramatically red and golden: the city's vascular system performing its vital
function
right before your eyes.
These institutions are really the grease that allow our economic wheels to function, and we can see this play out over the course of human history.
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