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It is impersonal to a degree that is not a mistake, but rather a function – it is just transition space, designed to move people with maximum efficiency.

This was not the result of duplicity, Charles Hazelcorn said, but rather a function of Scott's open heart and sunny nature.

This was not consciously macabre, but rather a function of my blindly following the shutterbug masses -- and here we found his massive Pleasuredome, this epic, Floridian palazzo and ode to material consumption, covered in plastic tarps, being deloused.

That Mr. Trump seems to have so much less debt on his disclosure form than what The Times found is not his fault, but rather a function of what the form asks candidates to list and how.

The unfolding disclosures about pedophile priests in the Catholic Church served to confirm to Ms. Roby that transgression was not the province of any one denomination, but rather a function of human nature.

I was a little surprised to find that most of them didn't see The Journal's article as a simple case of institutionalized sexism, but rather a function of traditional media's anxiety about independent online media.

We have chosen to work with the notion of a soft neighborhood by which we mean that the neighborhood of a gene is not a limited set of gene, but rather a weighting function that decreases monotonically as a function of the distance from the gene, but potentially covers the whole network (this idea is reminiscent of the idea of fuzzy membership in fuzzy c-means clustering).

In this context one could speculate that reporting was not seen as a primary function of the clinician, but rather an administrative function to be performed by non-medical staff or, as in the ED setting, junior medical staff.

Unease on this score is increased with the reflection that what qualifies a person as able or disabled (or for that matter as talented or untalented) is not simply a function of her natural attributes but is rather a function of the mesh between her natural attributes and the traits that are valued by people given the organization of society (Buchanan et al. 2000: chapter 3 and 7; Wikler 1983).

The lack of conserved catalytic residues rules out EssB-N as an enzyme, but rather suggests a function as a protein protein interaction module using the stable modular entity of the protein kinase fold.

Intellect is not regarded as a personality factor but rather as a function of intellectual ability; therefore, it was treated as a variable to be controlled [ 43, 44].