But that's fitting, because the company we were visiting is a unique combo of both worlds: Lit Motors, the startup that made it to the Battlefield finals at the most recent Disrupt SF conference with the C-1, the sleek self-balancing fully electric car that is so plugged into the latest digital tech that it purports to function like a "rolling smart phone".
They differentiated between architecture that purported to serve its function but was actually more concerned with its symbolic form, and what they called "decorated sheds" - a purely functional form to which external ornament had been applied independently.
Urotensin-II is purported to influence pulmonary function by modulating smooth muscle tone/growth.
This formulation is purported to improve immune function and showed significant reductions in the risk of developing infectious complications and in hospital stay.
If it functions (or purports to function) as a viable linguistic operation, it appears somewhere in this juxtaposition-happy assemblage: stage directions, mailing addresses, quotations, footnotes, cross-outs, untranslated foreign-language bons mots -- you get the picture.
BORG1 and RCAN3, which are highly expressed in the heart and purported to have important functions related to cell shape and cardiac muscle contraction, respectively, are also significantly diverged in giraffe32,33.
None of the five tasks purported to require parietal functioning (motion coherence detection, apparent motion 2-dot/4-dot detection, spatial misalignment task, length discrimination task, and attentive tracking task) showed predicted significant differences between dyslexic and age-controlled children.
Based on the well-recognized phenomenon of pulse wave reflections, these harmonics are purported to play important physiological functions and form the basis for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) pulse diagnosis.
Traditional thinking has suggested that IPC transiently elevates blood flow, which is purported to relieve ischemia, improve vascular function, and promote vascular remodeling.
Gel spots 11, 13, and 14 were also found to contain proteins, whose functions are purported to be involved in wound healing.
