The phrase "a function of living" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an aspect or role that is inherent to the experience of being alive.
Example: "The ability to adapt to change is a function of living in a dynamic world."
Alternatives: "an aspect of existence" or "a characteristic of life".
Call it recession politics, call it a function of living in the rich west and sensing a steep slide into relative decline.
Perhaps the scale of New York creates a sense of anonymity, or maybe it is just a function of living life stacked on top of one another, but after midnight in the city, revelers and the people who prey on them seem to worry little about public misbehavior.
Chan ethics is not a function of living in accord with predetermined means-to and meanings-of the good, but rather of improvisational genius a creative marriage of fluid vigilance and unwavering care: an ethics of ever-intensifying appreciative and contributory virtuosity.
We hypothesized that elevated blood pressure may be a function of living environment.
During each round, poverty status was established as a function of living in a household with an insufficient annual income.
As a sensitivity analysis, we also assessed Medicaid recipients' total health expenditures (not just those paid by Medicaid) as a function of living with a smoker.
Historically, standing dead tree C has been estimated as a function of live tree growing stock volume in the U.S.'s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory.
Finally, at the animal level, individual CH4 emissions and feed intake measurements to enable genetic progress on CH4 yield (MY; g CH4/kg dry matter intake (DMI)), or residual feed intake (RFI; MJ/day), which is the difference between net energy intake and calculated energy requirements for maintenance as a function of live weight and for fat and protein corrected milk yield.
Is that a function of cost of living differences?
Tools such as the atomic force microscope (AFM) provide an unprecedented view of the structure (and soon function) of living cells on the nanometer scale.
These approaches offer a powerful complement to traditional genetic engineering strategies for enhancing the function of living cells.
