I know some very productive pessimists, but progress is usually a function of first believing that things can be better.
Bai was the informal leader of a group of poets who rejected the courtly style of the time and emphasized the didactic function of literature, believing that every literary work should contain a fitting moral and a well-defined social purpose.
They not only failed to understand how local telephone networks really function, but made the mistake of believing they could ignore voice and concentrate solely on shipping data.
After all, even Blagrove, who is not convinced of the function of dreams, believes in their usefulness.
"The relation between morality and imagination may be a complicated one, but it does exist," she writes, analyzing the narrowness of Dorothy Parker's vision, a function, she believes, of her selfishness.
In addition, he's against all forms of gun licenses, wants to cut education funding "which I don't consider a proper function of government" and believes "the EPA, FDA, OSHA, etc".
Over time, sea temperatures have steadily risen, a function, scientists believe, of increasing global temperatures due to the greenhouse effect.
The ice sheet covering Greenland has been melting at an increasing rate since 2003, a function, scientists believe, of a change in wind patterns.
Functionally, WHIM-associated CXCR4 mutants display enhanced and prolonged responses to SDF-1/CXCL12, and this CXCR4 gain of function is believed to contribute to increased neutrophil retention to the bone marrow, their reduced release to the peripheral circulation leading to senescence and apoptotic death within the bone marrow [20], [22], [23].
If we interpret evolutionary conservation as an indication of function, we believe the conserved sites listed in Table 4 represent those miRNA target sites that are most likely to regulate opsin expression in African cichlids.
