Ultimately, computing systems will be comparable to, for instance, biological systems that regulate basic body functions such as the heart rate without conscious intervention by humans.
As they lose control of basic body functions, such as eating, toileting, bathing and breathing, the body can feel like a burdensome, run-down shack and not the sacred home that it is.
The basic body functions, such as strength, endurance, balance and flexibility in upper and lower extremities, are all important to maintain physical independence in older age [ 24].
Seeing such gross abnormalities makes it easier to understand the dysregulation of basic body functions like eating, sleeping and sexuality that often accompany depression.
It is, however, a plausible hypothesis, and there is some evidence that their autonomic nervous systems (which control basic bodily functions such as heartbeat and body temperature) have not been working properly.As so often, these findings raise as many questions as they answer.
Your basal metabolic rate or BMR is how many calories your body burns per day performing basic metabolic functions, such as breathing, digesting food, etc.
Ectotherms rely on external sources of heat to regulate their body temperature, thus ambient temperature has a strong influence on many of their basic physiological functions such as metabolism, growth, and reproduction [ 19], as well as on their phenology (e.g., [ 20, 21]), and geographic distribution [ 22].
"These forms are often engaged in basic physical functions such as appearing, eating, resting, leaping, nudging, prying into other affairs and so on".
Meprin metalloproteases are thought to be involved in basic physiological functions such as cell proliferation and tissue differentiation.
Aneuploidy would be expected to have dramatic consequences on basic cellular functions such as proliferation.
We study basic visual functions, such as color appearance, without reference to any objects.
