Perhaps there could be some merit in this position if any of this progress had actually functioned to benefit normal Paraguayan citizens.
Alternatively, the PhrB proteins may function to benefit T. adhaerens in its aquatic niche if it is vulnerable to substantial UV light.
Microbes, filamentous pathogens and insects deploy an arsenal of effector proteins in unique spatial and temporal patterns to suppress plant immunity or to influence plant physiology (ex. altering host cell structure and function) to benefit the colonization and spread of the parasite.
In a written statement, he said Tuesday that the nonprofits provide "critical functions to benefit the work force at the Department of Water and Power," and that the mayor and council had upheld funding the trusts when they approved a new contract for utility workers last year.
I was told I was "too high-functioning" to benefit from any autism services (not that there were any in the vicinity anyway) and that I must have worked it out by now.
What's actually going on is that the global system for international trade dispute resolution is functioning, to the benefit of the United States — contrary to so much rhetoric from Mr. Trump about how it is rigged against this country.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a liberal-leaning watchdog group, this month filed a complaint with the IRS asserting that the Conservative Solutions Project nonprofit is functioning basically to benefit the Rubio campaign and abusing IRS rules for "social welfare" groups.
In capuchins (Cebus capucinus), food calls are thought to provide ecological benefits, functioning to announce food ownership and a willingness to defend, thereby resulting in reducing foraging competition from others [46].
"It showed us that naps do have a function, and that function is to benefit learning," said Rebecca Spencer, Ph.D., an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a study co-author.
They were invited to participate in the intervention if they had suffered a stroke within the last eight weeks, were medically stable, were judged to have adequate cognitive functioning and to benefit from the intervention by their physician.
This demonstrates that even functions found to benefit from increased tree species richness in some forests42 may show deviating and even opposite relationships in other forest systems, which emphasizes the context-dependency of BEF and multifunctionality studies8,43.
