Various researchers treat context as an unspecific setting parameter that concerns environmental and situational aspects and limit its conceptualization to its facilitating and hindering functions [ 7, 18, 21].
Mental health symptoms spanning the previous 12 months was used to define a patient's experience of prolonged periods (at least one year) of troubles within herself/himself that had hindered functioning [ 24].
So the idea is that perhaps hypertension could hinder that function, Dr. Kershaw said.
Dr. Majzoub and his colleagues are now trying to determine whether additional mutations in the gene they discovered — ones that hinder its function but do not completely disable it — might explain why some people gain weight.
So Zollman prescribed an anti-anxiety drug that wouldn't hinder the function of Shurvon's brain, and her staff combined a gradual process of conditioning, beginning with the cap in place for just five minutes at a time, along with an effort to awaken his brain's authority over the back of his throat.
Impaired fluid handling can hinder pulmonary function and increase the susceptibility of the lung to injury [22].
The failure resulting in a piping system is a situation that can hinder its function, change its configuration, jeopardize its integrity, and potentially endanger the environment.
We suggest that binding of Na+ ions to cell wall components might influence the passage of Na+ and that Na+ can influence the binding of other ions and hinder the function of pectin during cell growth.
Instead, they demonstrated that C60 fullerenes bind strongly to the hydrophobic residues of the extracellular loops in the three potassium channels they examined, namely KcsA, MthK, and Kv1.2, and suggest that these fullerenes may hinder the function of potassium channels [13].
