The mechanisms by which Candida biofilms resist the functions of antifungal agents are therefore poorly understood.
It isn't that Augie resists every function — that would make him a tramp; and while I would not hesitate to write about tramps if I were called to it, Augie is something different.
Individuals with insulin resistance may produce sufficient insulin, but can't effectively reduce blood sugar level because of resisting the function of the insulin, which mainly involves an impairment of insulin signaling pathway.
Lynch's mistrust of words means that his films often resist the expository function and realist tenor of dialogue, relying instead on intricate sound design to evoke what lies beyond language.
But my argument is that the castles resist a commemorative function because of their bifurcated architecture: At the top, the visible castle is a replica of European domestic spaces at the dawn of modernity; at the bottom, underground, are "medieval" dungeons where the repressed bodies that enable the civilizing process are kept out of sight.
The role of the periodontal ligament (PDL) is to support the tooth during function and resist external forces applied to it.
The best, made around 1935, depict tabletop arrangements of organic forms (recalling Arp and Miró) that resist recognition, but imply function; one biomorphic blip sports a circle inscribed with a dash that looks uncannily like the head of a screw.
As in a usual smeared truss modeling (Hsu 1993), the stress field in the beam segment shaded in Fig. 2a can be idealized to have three discrete elements with each having a different function to resist the applied loads as shown in Fig. 3a.
Interestingly, gene expression levels and aggregation rates of the accordant proteins are inversely correlated, indicating that proteins have evolved to resist aggregation and to function efficiently.
Thus, aldehyde dehydrogenase may function to resist ER stress.
