This passage can be read to mean that speaking of a substance's representation acting (as an efficient cause?) is only a loose way of speaking; strictly speaking, it is the substance, or better, power of the substance, that acts in accordance with this representation (functioning as a final cause?).
Our results demonstrated that in the hypothalamus, the β-EP mainly functions as an analgesic substance.
We hypothesized that dietary phosphatidylcholine may potentially function as an anti-inflammatory substance and may decrease inflammatory activation in a chronic murine model of rheumatoid arthritis (collagen-induced arthritis).
In this respect, targeted nutritional interventions have many advantages, and various experimental and clinical data have indicated that dietary phosphatidylcholine (PC) may potentially function as an anti-inflammatory substance [ 8- 11].
These molecular groups are all located at the interface between the cell surface and the extracellular environment, and they may function as a gate of chemical substances and signals (Supplementary Tables S4 S7).
Thus, a subject of causality is a substance that functions as a cause when it is in a certain state.
Recent evidence suggests that vasoconstrictive substances, including angiotensin II (Ang II), may function as a vascular smooth muscle growth promoting substance and may contribute to vascular hypertrophy in hypertension.
Addiction is not an illness, but rather a fixed, static identity that functions as a protective shield against using substances.
From that thinking springs phrases like "once an addict, always an addict". Addiction is not an illness, but rather a fixed, static identity that functions as a protective shield against using substances.
Alternative coatings may, however, influence bone remodeling around the prosthesis and may function as a carrier of bone-active substances.
Since the Sunrise Movement and Ocasio-Cortez first raised the idea, the Green New Deal has mostly functioned as a rallying cry with little actual substance.
