The phrase "and functioning of individual" is not correct as it is incomplete and lacks clarity.
It could be used in a context discussing the roles or behaviors of individuals, but it needs additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "The study focuses on the development and functioning of individual members within the organization."
Alternatives: "and operation of individuals" or "and performance of individuals".
Rather, harm reduction is an orientation and belief system that has widespread empirical support as a means to improve the lives and functioning of individuals who use and abuse alcohol.
The characterization of protein-protein interactions can reveal much about the structure and function of individual proteins and protein complexes.
Nevertheless, progress was steady and culminated in major insights into the structure and function of individual cell wall components and the cell wall as a whole.
In this review we will give an update on the knowledge of the structure and function of individual IFT proteins, and the way these proteins interact to form the complex that facilitates IFT.
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has been applied to the study of heterogeneity in the structure and function of individual biopolymers with complex structures such as glycoproteins, polysaccharides and nucleic acids.
However, due to the limited knowledge as to the roles and functions of individual species, within the mixed community, optimization of the production rate, through regulating the community mixture, is still a black-box operation (Song et al. 2017).
Overall, our results indicate that stand density and age explain much of the variation in tree characteristics and that 24 years after fire, the initial postfire regeneration density is still exerting significant influence on the structure and function of individual trees.
However, the genome encodes 40 insulin-like peptides, and the regulation and function of individual peptides is largely uncharacterized.
And even if such an experimental system were to become available, it is hard to imagine how it could be used to quantify effects of amino-acid replacements that affect fitness by altering in subtle ways the costs entailed by the amino acids needs of the expressed proteome [26], [27], [28] rather than the structure and function of individual proteins.
