Sentence examples for a functioning concept from inspiring English sources

Randall Stross' article (it's really an editorial, but not marked as such) rips into Tesla as "not much more than a functioning concept car" and suggests it would be foolish of the government to grant it a loan under a 2007 Federal loan program designed specifically to encourage development of vehicles that conserve fuel.

The corresponding programming codes for computing a function concept consistency score are available upon a written request to the authors.

The model is based on the water balance concept, and a linear function concept to approximate the cross-boundary flow from upstream areas to the administrative catchment under consideration.

This assessment tool has been obtained by using MIVES, a Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) model which considers the sustainability main plans (economic, environmental and social) and incorporates a value function concept in order to homogenize the indicators and consider the degree of satisfaction.

This requires a non-historical function concept, one that is at home in casual-mechanistic, rather than evolutionary, explanation.

Non stationary quadratic Lyapunov functions are derived for synthesis in a Poly-Quadratic Lyapunov function concept which avoids in a large extent the conservatism linked with the classical single Lyapunov function quadratic approach.

Although much is known about the physiological framework of T cell motility, and numerous rate-limiting molecules have been identified through loss-of-function approaches, an integrated functional concept of T cell motility is lacking.

Here, we took a different approach which consisted in applying the impulse response function concept to a dam site.

Its properties are calculated by using a generalization of the shape function concept from finite elements in which the shape functions (displacement fields) in the special element are determined by performing static stress analyses on the special element's substructure.

"For me, design should be an interplay between all of the elements — shape, materials, technique, function, concept and story — without one element dominating".

Dr. Church expects to have a proof of concept — a functioning mirror cell that serves some useful purpose — in two years.