Gossip fuels the stock market and has other beneficial functions.
Do PMS and postpartum depression have specific, maybe even beneficial, functions?
During the past fifteen years, however, Blaser and a growing group of colleagues have shown that H. pylori performs beneficial functions that begin in infancy.
These processes evolved rapidly in man's primate ancestors but are now under strong purifying selection to maintain their beneficial functions.
On purpose or not, the council's criteria have set up a perverse incentive for such spires to rise atop supertall structures while intentionally forgoing potentially beneficial functions.
Hence, the true value of functional biodiversity on the farm is often inadequately acknowledged or understood, while conventional intensification tends to disrupt beneficial functions of biodiversity.
So, rather than the 1920's view that working muscles make and release a metabolic poison, those working muscles make a substance, lactate, that has several beneficial functions, one of which is to serve as an important energy source.
The family additionally provides such other socially beneficial functions as the rearing and socialization of children, along with such humanitarian activities as caring for its members when they are sick or disabled.
While they are associated with many beneficial functions such as nutrient cycling, bioremediation and colonization resistance, adverse effects including recalcitrance, their involvement in industrial fouling, contamination and infection have made biofilms a priority research topic.
Ms. Profet's work inspired later research showing that people with allergies seem to be at lower risk of various cancers, and she also argued that other biological annoyances — like menstruation and morning sickness — are beneficial functions that protect the body from germs and other dangers.
These beneficial functions have been attributed to polyphenolic compounds such as anthocyanins [3],[4],[7].
