How are we to understand or restore complex ecosystems when we are ignorant of the majority of their functioning parts?
This could provide an explanation for the fact that CD25+ Treg cells are totally functional before immunisation but lose (part of) their function after immunisation.
He continues: "Newspapers don't just sell news; in fact, that has been an increasingly small part of their function in the last century.
As we walked toward the sticks, it became clear that there were more of them than we'd realized, though it was difficult to say how many, because many were hard to see and some were not seeable at all, and it is probably only in retrospect, once we understood that their being invisible was part of their function, that we knew they were there.
Of course, it can be claimed that such expenditures are essential for advertising and networking, which is unquestionably part of their function.
Thus, this table shows that 22.22 % of the innovating firms declare having outsourced a part of their functions during the survey period.
Mechanical devices are ubiquitous in our daily lives, and the motion they are able to transmit is often a critical part of their function.
Precise characterization of at least one part of their function in these respects comes from theories originating in statistics, operations research, and engineering, and computational theory ties together neural, psychological, ethological, and even economic notions.
Certain non-inhibitory serpins also use the serpin conformational change as part of their function.
Certain serpins spontaneously undergo the S-to-R transition as part of their function, to form a conformation termed the latent state (Figure 8).
