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.
Since the resulting increase in intracellular ionic strength is harmful for the function of cellular components, cells synthesize chaperones, such as Hsp70, as well as enzymes and transporters whose collective function is to increase the intracellular concentration of compatible organic osmolytes to normalize the ionic strength of the intracellular fluid [1], [2].
In contrast, we ask whether given the available information which is complex enough to preclude the simple hand-waving type of argumentation, yet too incomplete for a comprehensive model, any formal but minimal modeling approach can offer insights on the collective function of fate determining TFs.
Therefore, this network could be informative regarding the collective function of CISD2, PPT1 and CLN3.
A systematic study of their collective function, however, is lacking and forms the focus of this study.
