The notion that basic elementary units serve as constituent building blocks (or primitives) for the composition of complex functional processes and behaviors, be they motoric, perceptual or cognitive, is widely adhered to in the biological and life sciences.
To this end, reversible buckling of slender, elastomeric beams serving as microscopic constituents of engineered material systems is shown to be effective to tune the mechanical properties.
After moving back to New York in 1998, she worked for several Democrats, at one point serving as a constituent services aide to Senator Charles E. Schumer, before taking the job with the Clinton campaign last June.
Ampère also offered a physical understanding of the electromagnetic relationship, theorizing the existence of an "electrodynamic molecule" (the forerunner of the idea of the electron) that served as the constituent element of electricity and magnetism.
She ended up with a career in Maryland politics, managing field offices and serving as head of constituent services for three members of Congress.
Since the ancients recognized four or five elements at most, Plato sought a small set of uniquely defined geometrical objects to serve as elementary constituents.
Lipids serve as membrane constituents and supply and storage of energy.
Proteins and amino acids are major biological macromolecules that serve as structural constituents, catalysts for enzymatic reactions, and energy sources.
Nevertheless, the existing illustrations outlined below acknowledge the potential for communities of practise to serve as valuable constituents of effective learning processes in a diversity of learning contexts within Medicine.
It was our belief that target sites or chemicals that demonstrated a substantial number of 'anticarcinogenic' effects in other hallmark areas would be less suitable to serve as instigating constituents in the design of carcinogenic mixtures (where procarcinogenic synergy was being sought).
