The phrase "act as the direct" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe a role or function, but it lacks clarity and completeness.
Example: "In this project, I will act as the direct liaison between the client and our team."
Alternatives: "serve as the direct" or "function as the direct".
Downing Street also confirmed that Lt Gen Sir Simon Mayall, the Ministry of Defence's Middle East envoy, had arrived in Irbil to act as the direct representative of the prime minister.
Men such as John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts Bay, believed that it was the duty of the governors of society not to act as the direct representatives of their constituents but rather to decide, independently, what measures were in the best interests of the total society.
On Friday, in the midst of the least productive Congress in history, that changed when legislators passed the "Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act" as the direct result of an online petition.
Corporate Software Sales (CSS) will act as the direct sales arm of a software manufacturing firm based in Oregon.
The structural differences of 1 4 may be attributed to the difference of the spatial positions of the terminal N donor atoms in the pendant pyridyl groups in L1 and L2, in which the pyridine rings may act as the directing group for coordination and the benzimidazole rings act as the directing group for π⋯π stacking and C H⋯π interactions.
According to its Constitution, a principal function of WHO "is to act as the directing and coordinating authority on international health work", in support of which it "may make suitable arrangements for consultation and cooperation with NGOs in carrying out its international health work" [4].
It also acts as the direct model for Peter Ackroyd's novel Hawksmoor.
Perhaps the last word should go to Dr Buckman, who in his role acts as the direct link between the government and profession.
And hexokinase 1 (HXK1) acts as the direct glucose sensor mediating multiple functions in the glucose repression and glucose promotion of transcription and growth (Cho et al. 2006).
This suggests that a global force acts as the direct agent for change in genome size.
In summary, the suppression of RhoA/ROCK1 cascade results in apoptosis in leukaemia cells, and ROCK1 acts as the direct effector of RhoA in cell death progression.
