Sentence examples for immaterial functions from inspiring English sources

Finding and structuring elements of permanence allow students to notice the elements that could keep their stability over time, both physical (like religious sites, historic buildings,…), and immaterial (functions, meanings, values), or that change in time according to patterns and rules.

The technologies for sharing informations tend to transfer in the immaterial space of the Net functions and places that needed physical spaces to be realized until now.

Despite their immaterial and often intangible nature, these functions provide many socioeconomic benefits which might be assessed through both qualitative and quantitative evaluation methodologies.

The specific shape of our utility function (10) is actually immaterial and was chosen to ensure fast convergence of the iterative algorithm that will be introduced later on.

Nevertheless, a source immaterial continuant can be part of either an immaterial or a material continuant.

For Descartes, sense and imagination are, as in Hobbes's story, closely connected to the workings of the brain, but higher cognitive functions are performed by the immaterial mind.

Hobbes denies the existence of that immaterial mind, and needs other accounts of those functions.

"I firmly believe that the idea of function should be redefined to include immaterial uses," said Mr. Boym.

The SNP substitution sites in MHC suggest they can infiltrate domains that are engineered by evolution to be "too-robust" to be disturbed by otherwise intrusive sequence changes, and, "function-neutral" sites where substitution is immaterial.

To the Stoics all living animals were compelled to respond to stimuli by their psyche, a mix of fire and air that was responsible for the functions of living animals (they held that the psyche was not immaterial and could be physically damaged).

The curator is to be Christopher Eamon of New York's Whitney Museum, who with an art consultant, Thea Westreich, helped build the Kramlich collection.To serve the house's dual function, the designers have used what they call "material and immaterial architecture".