The phrase "alone functions" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe functions that operate independently, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The software has several features, but the alone functions are not as effective as those that work together."
Alternatives: "independent functions" or "standalone functions".
It also appears that neither signaling cascade alone functions as the permissive factor for non-retinal to eye conversion.
As predicted, the N-domain of the fusion protein alone was shown to act as a mitochondrial targeting signal, whereas the C-domain alone functions as an export signal.
Although most prokaryotes and eukaryotes require ATPase loader for loading helicases to origin DNA, archaea do not have a specific loader for helicase, but instead the initiator protein alone functions as the loader (Barry & Bell 2006).
Because ankyrin repeats often serve as a protein interaction site (Li et al., 2006), we hypothesized that the ANKR2 domain of Varp also binds a specific ligand(s) and that the ANKR2 domain alone functions as a dominant negative construct that disrupts the endogenous ANKR2 ligand interaction in melanocytes.
There is little, if any, electricity, let alone functioning movie theatres.
If security training is seen as a stand alone function it will limit staff's understanding of security and therefore limit informed security practices.
Regardless the value of their stand alone function, as a networked infrastructure they are far more valuable than the sum their independent features".
China has spent billions of dollars building up its internet firewalls, in addition to developing policies that make it effectively impossible for Western internet companies to compete in its market, let alone function at all.
At the same time as these developments in the form of philosophical/speculative thought, philosophy also becomes itself as the enterprise of reason alone, functioning independently of theology in the arts faculty.
Do you think some of these places would still be open, let alone functioning, without huge injections of charity cash?" "Come on –" "Go on, then.
I wish more app developers would think this way: Instead of trying to combine everything on the Internet into one mobile interface, create separate apps for stand-alone functions that people perform often and want to do in a hurry.
