I don't know whether it was a function of time or place or context, but for some reason I couldn't keep my brain stuck for very long on any page, and began to believe I could understand to some extent how reading has been dying: There is so much you almost can't remember where to look, and when you do figure out where to look, it's hard to keep your brain there.
Yet it does us good, for it is a citadel of beauty, the building as a flamboyant work of art, without function or respect for place, soaring away on a magic carpet of Arabian Nights escapism.
These modifications include acetylation, methylation, phosphorylation, sumoylation, and ubiquitination, and various families of proteins which function to place or remove these PTMs have been identified.
These modifications include acetylation, methylation, phosphorylation, sumoylation and ubiquitination, and various families of proteins have been identified which function to place or remove these PTMs.
Other unusual places where people are using their smartphones include during a dinner date (33%), during a child's school function (32%), at a church or place of worship (19%), and, perhaps most alarming, while driving (55%).
It was once common in England for areas to be given names that reflected their function or the activity taking place within them.
This is the sine or y function in place of the x cosine function just done.
Thus, functionalist architectural doctrine places function or utility at the heart of the architectural enterprise, with other aspects of architecture subordinate thereto.
Gropecunt Lane was a street name found in English towns and cities during the Middle Ages, believed to be a reference to the prostitution centred on those areas; it was normal practice for a medieval street name to reflect the street's function or the economic activity taking place within it.
It was normal practice for medieval street names to reflect their function, or the economic activity taking place within them (especially the commodities available for sale), hence the frequency of names such as The Shambles, Silver Street, Fish Street, and Swinegate (pork butchers) in cities with a medieval history.
