The so-called "pull factor" argument was first used by Theresa May, the UK home secretary, when Britain refused to take part in Triton last November on the grounds that it functioned as a draw for migrants.
He rejected criticism, voiced in an editorial in the journal Science and elsewhere, that boycotts are antithetical to science's function as a magnet drawing minds across political and national boundaries.
From now on, the tablet functions as a nunchuk, drawing power from the Wii Remote's batteries.
The story is slight, but the performances are engaging, the local color is eye-catching, and the short running time (just over 80 minutes) allows "Sin Alas" to function as a poetic character sketch drawn by a couple of rising cinematic talents.
Ultimately, the goal for the service is not to function as a standalone business, but to draw more attention to the company's Proto.io prototyping tool, and hopefully convert designers using Spaces to paying customers.
The basic idea behind FDA is to express discrete observations arising from time series in the form of a function (to create functional data) that represents the entire measured function as a single observation, and then to draw modeling and/or prediction information from a collection of functional data by applying statistical concepts from multivariate data analysis.
It makes sense to draw the wave function as a circle, because we do know that 1 s orbitals are spherically symmetric.
There's a line of thought out there, which I think is plausible, which says that ISIS and its previous incarnation, going back to 2004, 2005, 2006, that what they were very good at was operating in a state of war at sowing chaos, and using that chaos to draw recruits and function as a group.
"A deal of this size is a huge risk," said Harold Vogel, entertainment industry analyst at Cowen & Co. "It's true that an artist of Janet Jackson's stature adds prestige to a roster and functions as a magnet to draw other acts to the company.
The Great Barrier Reef has myriad functions, including providing a habitat for hundreds of fish and other species, protecting coastlines and acting as a draw for tourism.
The result of simultaneous reviews can be increased speed and better function, as engineers can draw upon the accumulated knowledge of the broader organization.
