Sentence examples for collective function from inspiring English sources

While that function will vary from person to person, individual utility functions can be pooled into a single collective function for an entire population.

It should be noted that the latter approach makes an assumption of independence of these regions, which may not be the case considering their collective function in appetitive processing.

That the emergent properties derived from the collective function of many parts are the key properties of biological systems has been known since at least the first half of the 20th century.

This work contributes to the literature on participatory methods calling for more research on team function, and a corresponding framework incorporating participatory ergonomics and collective function is proposed for further study.

Note that my suggested metrics are not species-based, but rather based on how an area of landscape responds to the collective function of all the species that are present.

Surprisingly, few studies were devoted to the global changes induced in the susceptible host by a virulent pathogen, which should give important clues about the collective function of pathogen effectors.

Not only does Cotera center this archive on the women who participated in, contributed to, and in some cases, led a Chicana feminist movement, she points to their collaborative practices as the model for how the memory collective functions as a site of "encuentro" and exchange.

These collective functions of agricultural-sector management have to be guided by the strategic direction and measurable performance targets broadly shared among the actors and organizations.

Metagenomics invites us to replace this 'monogenomic' conception by an organism- and species-free context: by demonstrating how genes "influence each other's activities in serving collective functions", the field encourages us to "explain and predict the behavior of the biosphere as though it were a single superorganism (Committee on Metagenomics [2007], 13 & 139 – my emphasis).

In some ways, an art collective functions similarly to a religious institution: various individuals with a singular, unified end goal come together to create and support something they unabashedly believe in, an artistic "greater good" of sorts.

Theoretical studies might help to identify the link between mechanisms, spatial organization and the collective functioning.