Sentence examples for function is rather from inspiring English sources

These are intronless genes that encode a highly related RING finger domain, and yet during evolutionary history, their mode of gene expansion and function is rather different.

IT LOOKS rather like a futuristic stretch limousine, but its actual function is rather more populist: the Superbus is a novel public-transport system being developed in the Netherlands by the Delft University of Technology.

But the "Add To Faves" function is rather single serving, and not very social like the rest of Flickr.

This function is rather irrelevant for biomimetic applications: non-organic materials like metals and synthetic polymers provide better solutions.

The function is rather smooth, whereas its derivative undergoes a rapid change in the region around z 0, where the value of ( {n}_O^2 ) has a zero (z = z 0 = 209 km; the black circle shown in the figure).

This choice is appropriate here, since we operate our filter in an environment that is characterized by high measurement noise, such that the likelihood function is rather flat and the dynamics of the particles are more dominant with respect to the shape of the optimal proposal density.

However, the detailed mechanisms connecting sphingolipid metabolism to synaptic dysfunction remain poorly understood and the existing reports on the connection between S1P and sphingosine and synaptic function are rather contradictory8,26,27,28,29.

For example, during the underage period, differences in physical function are rather small among different SES groups, but as age increases, these differences become larger, a conclusion supporting the "Cumulative Advantage Hypotheses" (Ross and Wu 1996; Lowry and Xie 2009).

Communalities for oxygenation and vital function were rather low, but still above commonly accepted lower limits (0.3971 and 0.5364, respectively).

However, the effect on lung function was rather a reduction in lung function decline than a rise in lung function compared with the level of lung function at the start of the study.

Our finding that 8 items related to eating impairment, use of prostheses, general health, and inability to function were rather infrequent in this adolescent population, indicates that a number of items from the original OHIP representing severe impairment may be irrelevant for adolescents who have only experienced minor oral disease.