Sentence examples for act as a background from inspiring English sources

The outer layer is supplied with oxygen by means of air tubes (tracheae), and the reflector layer contains crystals that apparently act as a background, scattering the light and preventing its dispersion internally.

Findings of this study therefore, would act as a background for studies that have aimed at identifying risk factors for DIH while patients take ART and anti-TB drugs concomitantly.

Tape it up on a wall and have it act as a background.

I must confess to being a little tired of this wall plot by now, but if it acts as a background to jokes such as "Mr F" (For British Eyes Only!), I can deal.

The analytic signal of interest effectively acts as a background to the scatter peaks.

The answer is simple and concise, and acts as a background to all political studies that have dealt with the problem: the ideal, says Sartori (1993: 54) "remains a parameter that is expected to measure and press the real forward 'towards the best'".5 Namely, according to Lijphart (1984: 2): " the end of a scale on which the degree of democratic responsiveness of different regimes may be measured".

These games are exactly as they sound: heavy with text and supplemented by artwork that acts as a background and context for the story.

Functionally, K2P channels act as the classical background 'leak' potassium channels that contribute to the resting membrane potential in a wide variety of cells including neurons, skeletal and heart myocytes, glia and many different types of epithelial cells (Enyedi and Czirjak, 2010).

Developing a set of values should not be rushed, and once they were in place they should act as a constant background in day-to-day decisions – not forgotten about.

Yet his approach is to respond keenly to several aspects of the music while letting it act as a subconscious background to his prime subject, which is the poet Walt Whitman.

Automated detection of the floating mine is hard, because waves on the sea surface act as a dynamic background which is difficult to distinguish from the foreground mine.