They question the range and the number of courses they must take, the extent and the particulars of the materials in a given course, the paper assignments, the function and benefit of examinations, the propriety of grades and records...
Regardless of the function and benefit of the microbiome to its host, some bacterial populations can be the source of pathogenic infections or carcinogenesis (5).
These arguments on the function and benefit of models and modeling in biology show the importance of identifying the models within introductory biology.
According to the most accepted view, these compounds are produced due their ecological or physiological function and benefits for the producer organisms [ 60].
Policy analysts seek the "sweet spot," where the marginal costs of lead reduction equal the marginal benefits (i.e., where the slopes of the cost function and benefits function are equal) (Pacala et al. 2003).
In mental health care settings, sleep disturbance has a unique association with quality of life, symptom severity, disorder severity, level of functioning, and benefit from treatment over and above the effects of age, gender, time in treatment, type of care, and primary diagnoses.
The aim of the current study was thus to test the hypothesis that sleep disturbance, independently of the patients' primary mental disorder, is associated with variations in quality of life, disorder and symptom severity, level of functioning, and benefit from treatment in a large, heterogenous, clinical sample.
The core-area, additive benefit function and targeting benefit function variants of Zonation have interesting conceptual differences in how they treat and trade off between species in the planning process.
The paper concludes that investment in urban GI that is visibly greener, that facilitates access to GI and other amenities, and that is perceived to promote multiple functions and benefits on a single site (i.e. multi-functionality) generate higher WTP values.
