The phrase "a specific function for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a particular purpose or role that something serves.
Example: "The software was designed with a specific function for managing user data efficiently."
Alternatives: "a particular role for" or "a designated purpose for".
A group of sociologists, such as Parsons, believed that the division of gender roles is natural, or consider a specific function for it, like the school of structural functionalism.
Voet explains that each drug has a specific function for the various parts of a stage race: thus, sprinters would take trinitrin five or six kilometres before the finish to help them launch their final attack.
Scientists believe there are some 30 types of retinal ganglion cells, each of which performs a specific function — for example, some fire when objects are moving upwards, while others recognize movement in any direction — to preprocess visual information before it reaches the brain.
"Our experiments here reveal a specific function for the cellulose in which it serves a mortar-like role to enhance the adhesion strength of bacteria with bladder epithelial cells," said study co-leader Gerald Fuller, the Fletcher Jones II Professor in the School of Engineering.
This study reveals a specific function for an RNA structure in the enzymatic action of telomerase.
As the Hamptons serve as a summer destination for many of New York's residents hoping to escape for the warm months, its relaxing role does not prevent them from serving a specific function for the individual buyer.
Was it made for a specific function or for status?
There is no clear mechanistic argument for a specific function, and for mathematical convenience we choose to use the following function where ω=0.9 is a constant estimated from the data and p e is the P-value of e.
SFA assumes a specific function type for the efficiency frontier and estimates the efficiency frontier parametrically.
Moreover, some housekeeping genes may have a specific function essential for the tumour metabolism and therefore be up or down regulated [ 8].
Next, the composite network, along with the function labels, are given in input to a network (or kernel) based classification algorithm [ 5, 14- 16] to compute the likelihood of a specific function label for a protein.
