Volkswagen said that its 2014 iBeetle, to be unveiled at the Shanghai auto show this weekend, is the company's first model offered with a built-in iPhone dock, custom Beetle app and smartphone functions intertwined with the car's onboard electronics.
The functions of both symbiotic organisms are so closely intertwined that they function almost as a single organism; in most cases the resulting organism differs greatly from the individual components.
This function is intertwined with the role in energy homeostasis and supported by the observation that subjects with narcolepsy tend to be overweight and by an animal model of narcolepsy develops early-onset obesity.
"It has a light frame structure, the fabric and the string, and once those three things are put together, you have the form and the function intertwined".
The perspective given here, which sees TEs as a systematic part of the organism's genome, encourages us to consider the possibility that at the origin of viruses were elements much more intertwined with the functioning of the organism.
In many incomplete injuries, stimulated and voluntary functions are intertwined, making outcome assessment more difficult.
But in pumps, these functions are intertwined, as the ion-binding pocket is remodelled with each alternation of access.
Known collectively as the gut microflora (or microbiota, a term Gordon prefers because it derives from the Greek word bios, for "life"), these microbes have a Star Trek analogue, he says: the Borg Collective, a community of cybernetically enhanced humanoids with functions so intertwined that they operate as a single intelligence, sort of like an ant colony.
These observations already imply that bacterial colonization and critical aspects of gut (immune) homeostasis and/or barrier functions are intertwined with each other.
