Sentence examples for serve to modify from inspiring English sources

Accordingly, GO sheets serve to modify the microstructures of two domains of Nafion.

Taken as a whole, the series of studies are a marked departure from earlier research on buying behavior and could serve to modify the strategies used by marketers.

These results are interpreted in terms of the formation of crosslinks during irradiation which subsequently serve to modify the melting behaviour of the polymer extensively, but which do not disrupt molecular correlations (as sampled by WAXS) to the same extent.

Appraisals of such consequences serve to modify desires so that they are coordinated with one another.

These observations suggest that APs propagating back into dendrites serve to modify single active synaptic connections, depending on the pattern of electrical activity in the pre- and postsynaptic neurons.

Affixes serve to modify or elaborate the meaning of the root.

In all these cases, it appears that instrumental conditioning serves to modify, via the law of effect, initial responses that owed their origin to Pavlovian conditioning.

Such solvents have strongly stabilizing adsorption energies onto the fast-growing crystal faces, and their presence in solution thereby serves to modify the acicular habit of 5-ASA.

Furthermore, inspired by the notion that until an agent notices that a set of beliefs is contradictory, that set seems consistent (and the agent therefore reasons with it as if it were consistent), we introduce an "apperception function" that represents an agent's limited awareness of its own beliefs, and serves to modify inconsistent belief sets so as to yield consistent sets.

Dispersed TiO2 nanoparticles were confined by mesoporous carbon pore walls, which prevented their aggregation during heating, and served to modify their surface and electronic structure.

"This map depicts the complicated sequence of geologic processes that have served to modify ancient, rugged highland terrains surrounding the Hellas impact basin and shows evidence for the persistent effects of water and ice in degrading the Martian surface," David Crown, of the Planetary Science Institute (PSI) in Tucson, Arizona, said in a statement.