It is probably not the function of the author to answer a question like that.
That's a function of the author's own enthusiasm: his excitement for science on the threshold of vital breakthroughs is supremely contagious.
To some extent, the length of this book is a function of the author's premise, that juxtaposing the biographies of the two men is more illuminating than examining each by itself.
His dialogue throughout "Time Stands Still" crackles with bright wit and intelligence, but it is almost always an expression of the characters' personalities, not a function of the author's need to dazzle and entertain.
False alarms were most frequent early in the time period where targets could appear, but hit rate grew steadily as a function of time (Author response image 1, blue line).
14 The questionnaire consisted of 30 questions about the corresponding author, the contributions and functions of all authors, and writing and editing assistance and other contributions from unnamed authors and other individuals (see web extra questionnaire on bmj.com).
We also introduce an aggregate function for the generation of author ranking based on publication ranking.
The same sensor was used in [40] to investigate classification performance of a k-NN classifier as a function of what the authors named "clusters", for recognition of gender and for biometric.
"This is a function of government," said one author of the legislation, Senator Ernest F. Hollings, the South Carolina Democrat who heads the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
The keynote of the book is the presentation of the main features of plant form from the viewpoint of function, and the author has touched upon various matters not usually discussed in works of this limited size, instead of simply going over ground already covered in numerous books of this scope.
