CEOs could point out that profits should not be seen as an end in themselves, but rather as a signal from society that their company is succeeding in its mission of providing something people want and doing it in a way that uses resources efficiently relative to other possible uses.
Overall, thrombin does not simply act as a mediator of coagulation or anticoagulation, but rather as a signaling molecule to control inflammation.
Because a large number of safety parameters were evaluated, the Fisher's exact test is employed not for hypothesis testing but rather as an aid in signal detection to highlight differences requiring closer examination.
Taken together, these data suggest that in RA synovial fibroblasts, statins are inhibiting TNF-α regulated synovial fibroblast survival, enabling TNF-α to function as an apoptotic signal rather than as a survival signal.
Yet the Great Wall was not meant to be a purely defensive fortification; its towers functioned rather as a series of lit beacons and signalling stations to allow rapid warning to friendly units of advancing enemy troops.
What this means is that whatever problem you think you have in your life is not the problem, it's the fact that you see it as a problem, rather than a signal you refuse to respond to, or a product of over-ascribing meaning, extrapolation, irrational thoughts that created irrational emotions that continue to go unchecked, and so on.
The induction by Shh is likely a function of ligand-binding, rather than a signaling outcome, as the loop2 mutant Ptch1 that lacks the ability to bind Shh (Briscoe et al., 2001) completely lost the capacity to respond to ShhN treatment in wildtype MEFs, although it was more stable in Smurf-null MEFs.
Assumption 2 is not intended for a realistic description of gene expression signals but rather as a reference for measuring cross-hybridization effects.
Selenocysteine stop-codon readthrough is another example of rule-bending on a translational level: a UGA codon is read not as a stop signal, but rather as a 21st amino acid, selenocysteine (Sec; "U" in the single-letter code) (Castellano et al. 2001).
Yesterday, however, the share price rose $1.31, to $24.94, as investors considered the deal a vote of confidence by Liberty and Vulcan rather than as a bearish signal.
