These letters can reduce information asymmetries and can function as a type of deal insurance.
When long-chain alkanethiols are exposed to metallic gold, they bind to the gold surfaces, functioning as a type of "molecular alligator clip" and forming self-assembled monolayers (SAMs), of interest in the field of nanotechnology.
A connected spherical cavity, forming what is called a band-pass filter, actually functions as a type of band absorber or notch filter, removing a band of frequencies around the resonant frequency of the cavity (see below, Standing waves: The Helmholtz resonator).
This key will facilitate tunneling between devices, as well as functioning as a type of license to use the AGN.
In this way, supervised discretization can also function as a type of feature selection [4].
These molecules, which absorb both ultraviolet and visible light, can function as a type of "sunscreen" for their planets, protecting them from interstellar radiation.
Respondents stated, in varying levels of detail, that egao could connect netizens at an individual, group, or even societal level and could function as a type of personal, societal, or, in some instances, political critique.
The comment in Example 4 is explicitly framed with the words tongue in cheek, a lexical metaphor which also functions as a type of engagement, a matter of indicating dialogic position with respect to the audience: the writer declares that what s/he is saying here is not serious.
The cold store would thus function as a type of energy store.
These genes encode a system that functions as a type of bacterial adaptive 'immune' response.
It has been suggested that holins may function as a type of lysis clock, governing the timing of lysis of the host [ 26].
