Sentence examples for features that serve from inspiring English sources

Natural materials, such as dental enamel2 and nacre3, often have evolved to contain such hierarchical nanostructures with distinct interfacial features that serve to dramatically influence their performance.

In the writing of our case descriptions, our aim has thus been to draw attention to the generalizable features, that serve as illustrations of how the key functions in organisations: planning, organising, leading and controlling [38] can be arranged without resorting to hierarchical practices.

Evolutionary theorists also have a criterion for judging whether adaptation is the product of natural selection: natural selection favors those features that serve the common good of the autosomal genome, the common interest of those genes on chromosomes with homologous counterparts (as opposed to genes on the 'sex chromosomes').

William speaks of the intellect as able, under the prompting of the senses, to consider the substances that underlie sensible accidents, and speaks of the intellect as "abstracting" from sense experience in the sense that it forms concepts of so-called "vague individuals" by stripping away perceptible features that serve to distinguish one individual from another.

That order, if upheld, would dangerously extend of the government's power over private industry, establishing a precedent for courts to require companies to create features that serve the government's interests, not the public's.

Prediction of long-term survival in healthy adults requires recognition of features that serve as early indicators of successful aging.

Cache pits were emplaced features that served to enhance community well-being in the increasingly restricted socioeconomic context of Late Precontact.

Although it was often said that as a master of disguise he was an actor with no face of his own, it was, in fact, the intelligent use of his malleable features that served him so extraordinarily well.

The Nike+ iPod Sport Kit for runners talks to you during your workout, a feature that serves as both a reminder of how much farther you need to run and a little pick-me-up if you feel like you're ready to give up.

Certain objects and characters become animated and display sound effects when they are selected, a feature that serves as the main selling point of these programs.

And each of these passions, except for wonder, have a built-in direction of motion, either appetitive or aversive depending on how they evaluate their objects – a feature that serves as an important organizing principle for Descartes.