Domestically, recent supreme court rulings greatly enhance the already enormous political power of corporations and the super-rich, striking further blows against the tottering relics of functioning political democracy.
Furthermore, among these 30 expressed relics, we found one brachypodium relic, two rice relics and two sorghum relics may function as ceRNAs, indicating a potential contribution of unitary gene loss to the origin of functional non-coding RNAs.
Interestingly, within these 30 reliable expressed relics, we found there were one brachypodium relic, two rice relics and two sorghum relics may function as ceRNAs and undertake the role of microRNA decoys, suggesting a source of novel non-coding RNAs.
More interestingly, we found that there were totally five expressed relics may function as competitive endogenous RNA in brachypodium, rice and sorghum genome.
More importantly, in terms of synapse evolution, a sponge 'proto-synapse' would suggest that latent within the synapse lies an ancient relic capable of functioning on its own.
He's like the rusted-out robots in Stephen King's Dark Tower series, ancient relics of another time, still speaking and walking around yet barely functioning as they move through a world that has "moved on".
The town's monks, Xuanzang noted, shrewdly charged visitors to see their relics, and their monasteries functioned as dormitories, bazaars and banks for merchants.
What purpose does this relic serve?
The sale signs -- along with miniature porcelain mannequins and wooden display cases -- remain scattered around the inside of the storefront, relics from a retail age that functioned in a subterranean trolley station.
I had this weird sense then that this is how the mob relics of the neighborhood will continue to function— as a culinary institution, not a hangout while organized crime becomes less and less compatible with the city in 2015.
