The spill-over effect implies a gradual delegation of functions from the national to the supranational level taking place as a result of the functional spill-over creating integrative pressures in one policy area through integration in another, and the political spill-over shifting the level of attention from the national to the supranational level.
For decades, it has been argued that the real engine driving European integration were the functional spill-overs mainly set by economic integration.
Niemann and Schmitter (2009: 57) argue that through a process of functional spill-over, elites act as agents which sell the necessity, urgency and compulsion to act through highlighting issue salience.
We studied the temporal (i.e., during vs. after mass flowering in adjacent shrublands) and spatial (i.e., inside crops, adjacent and distant shrublands during mass flowering) functional pollinator spill-over.
Is the influx of leukocytes in asthma or sarcoidosis functional or just a spill over?
Eventually, the undifferentiated, and abnormally functional, cells in bone marrow spill into peripheral blood and become the predominant cells there (Irons and Stillman, 1996; Aster and Kumar, 1999).
The "Protei 002" project seems to skirt this approach, creating DIY sailboats that could potentially be used to clean oil spills, which remains a functional design rather than a truly provocative piece.
Etac, a Mexican company from Culiacan, has few details on its site, but SOA's press release says the company "designs and produces functional nanomaterials for energy and environmental applications, such as oil spill and wastewater cleanup".
Whether the overdue arrival of an ostensibly functional government has any effect on the violence spilling across the border remains to be seen.
Drunk people have their own rhythm, which, for all the spills and accidental ass grabs, conforms to a functional sense of collective motion which makes a large mass of them difficult to navigate using regular human ambulation.
This problem spills over into emails, where the layout is unlovely but functional; at least it auto-senses setup for Google Mail.
