The phrase "acts as a parallel" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when drawing a comparison or highlighting similarities between two concepts, situations, or entities.
Example: "In this study, the economic model acts as a parallel to the environmental impact assessment, illustrating the interconnectedness of both fields."
Alternatives: "serves as a counterpart" or "functions as a comparison".
This was the largest single assault on the federal government since Felipe Calderón declared war on drug gangs upon taking office as Mexico's president in December 2006.While rival mobs focus on smuggling and selling drugs, La Familia has quickly turned itself into a much more ambitious and sinister organisation which acts as a parallel state in much of Michoacán.
The overall operation of the board is controlled and supervised by a DSP tightly interacting with an FPGA that acts as a parallel co-processor.
However, inhibition of PKCε did not attenuate HO-1 induction by VEGF (not shown), suggesting that additional PKC isoforms may be involved, or that PKCε activity is not predominant for HO-1 regulation by VEGF and acts as a parallel pathway.
He has set up a series of councils of advisers to act as a parallel source of thinking to the ministries, but has left even the councils baffled as to who is in charge of what.
This model act as a parallel with MLR since they all take in similar inputs and estimate parameters by optimizing the same objective (10), and merely consider temperature uncertainty.
There is also speculation from The Leaky Cauldron's podcast, PotterCast, episode 115 entitled "Those Deathly Hallows," in the Canon Conclusion segment with Steve Vander Ark, that the Hallows act as a parallel to the Holy Trinity; Harry accepts death as did Jesus, they both come back from death, and defeat the Devil/Voldemort.
Also referred to as cochleotopy, it arises in the cochlea of the inner ear, which acts as a bank of parallel filters that are sharply tuned to neighboring frequencies (von Bekesy 1949).
However, if the material has some permittivity, the slope of V may be greater or smaller at various frequencies of the input field; at very high input frequencies, the system acts like a parallel plate capacitor, as it must, and the slope of the potential (V) across the plates approaches zero.
They act essentially, analysts say, as a parallel government.
The upper layer results in a fourfold increase in hole size compared to a matched square hole parallel-hole collimator with an equal hole and pixel size, while the lower layer also consisted of fourfold holes size and pretty acts as a matched square hole parallel-hole collimator.
Thousands come by the bus-load every year to see the four-kilometre-wide strip of land that acts as a buffer around the 38th parallel, which, despite its name, is one of the most highly-militarised areas in the world.
