Sentence examples for automatic functions of from inspiring English sources
The crew deliberately disabled the automatic functions of a gas alarm system that should have alerted the crew to hazardous gases rising from the well, Mr. Webster said.
First described in the mid-1990s, POrthostatichosTachycardiacardia Syndrome (POTS) is a malfunction of the autonomic nervous system (those automatic functions of our bodies like heart rate, blood volume and pressure, temperature control, and so on that most of us take for granted because they work without thought or deliberate intent).
The dependent variables were the social and automatic functions of NSSI, respectively.
Contrary to our hypothesis, symptoms of posttraumatic stress were not a significant predictor in the model of automatic functions of NSSI.
In the hierarchical multiple regression model of the automatic functions of NSSI, NSSI frequency was entered as step 1, explaining 24% of the variance in the automatic functions.
Although both models were significant, the predictors explained more variance in the automatic functions compared to the social functions, indicating that the predicting variables included in the model are meaningful constructs in relationship to the automatic functions of NSSI.
Michel Foucault described the purpose of the Panopticon -- to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power".
Cf. Michel Foucalt, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison 201 (Alan Sheridan ed., 1979) (a "state of conscious and permanent visibility assures the automatic functioning of power").
In Discipline and Punishment, he wrote that the major effect of the Panopticon was "to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power".
