The discipline that has emerged now seeks to understand the human mind as a set of functions carried out by the brain.
All of the functions carried out in eukaryotes by these membrane-bound organelles are carried out in prokaryotes by the bacterial cell membrane.
Under Mr. Negroponte and his principal deputy, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the four appointees will have broad power to oversee functions carried out by 15 intelligence agencies whose operations have until now been loosely coordinated.
The surgical and experimental techniques Sperry developed from the late 1940s laid the groundwork for much more specialized explorations of the mental functions carried out in different areas of the brain.
However, with the New York Stock Exchange's hegemony threatened by electronic trading, with other global financial centers becoming more powerful, and with back-office functions carried out as easily in low-cost Asia as in Jersey City, these gains may turn out to be fleeting.
Third, the number of 'important species' is increased by the multiplicity of functions carried out by soil biota.
It supports three principal planning functions carried out by local authorities: pre-planning enquiries, development control decisions and strategic planning.
Finally, they forecasted how the range of ecological functions carried out by primates in a particular region might change as species die out.
What instead becomes obvious when studying the different functions carried out by the two groups of managers is that there are more similarities than differences.
Structural equation modeling approach revealed strong relationship between the relative abundance of phylum Actinobacteria and soil functions carried out by soil microbial communities (soil functioning) with pathogen inhibition.
This then adds up to exactly the same distribution of time and functions carried out by the managers, which is 70%% of the time they spend on the same five functions.
