But these plumbing systems weren't purely functional: Being surrounded by water may have boosted their well-being.
This is really a travel and portability lifesaver in terms of external display solutions, especially if what you're aiming for isn't just a purely functional secondary display, but a quality Retina-capable additional monitor with faithful color rendering.
Finally, some results from case studies made in Europe are quoted, with the intention to contribute some more evidence supporting the fact that human-centred systems design is superior not only from the purely functional viewpoint, but also can be justified in factual bottom-line (i.e. economic) terms.
They therefore looked to cognitive psychology, which had developed such models – albeit at a purely functional, not physiological or anatomical, level.
He isn't content with understanding electronic music as a purely functional medium, or at least not as a medium whose performative function is limited to any one thing.
Such models can – in contrast to purely functional controller models – not be analyzed with hybrid verification engines relying on explicit representations of modes, but require fully symbolic representations for both the continuous and discrete part of the state space.
However, due to the focus on endoscopically-confirmed GERD (LA grades A D), patients with endoscopy-negative GERD or those with purely functional symptoms were not included in our investigation.
"This is a purely functional organization that does not exist for their livelihood or enjoyment".
This of course does not go well with referential transparency and purely functional programming.
It might be regarded as one of minimal techno's definitive labels, but, insists label boss Michael Mayer, "Guys with machines can be very boring, and there's a lot of serious, purely functional techno I don't like.
