They serve as functions relating the reliabilities of the individual components of the system to the overall system performance.
Dually, t-conorms serve as truth functions of disjunction.
The CORE group, a collaboration of health professionals from international development NGOs, has proposed a broader conception of "scale", defined as "widespread achievement of impact at affordable cost", with "impact" serving as a function of coverage, effectiveness, efficiency, local ownership promoting sustainability, and equity [ 15].
Because a prisoner's time on the project was counted as part of his sentence, and because serving on the project could shorten one's sentence, the project must be seen as simultaneously serving the functions of research and punishment.
In Western art music of the late 19th century, seventh and ninth chords, serving as expressive reinforcements of basic harmonic functions, often replaced the triad altogether.
siRNA knockdown of the ADD3 transcript led to a similar impairment of actin capping (Supplementary Fig 2), suggesting that the p.G367D variant serves as a loss-of-function mutation.
These results demonstrate the utility of this method in providing a point mutant shRNA vector that can serve as a loss-of-function control for gene knockdown by wild type shRNAs.
Say what you will about President Obama, but how can this guy serve as a functioning chief of state when our congressional reps are just eating each other's lunch?
We reported previously that blood glucose fluctuations, as evaluated by continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), correlate with vascular endothelial function, serving as a marker of vascular endothelial function.
The most designable folds (such as β/α-barrel and Rossmann fold) apparently served as scaffolds for biochemical functions of the first enzymatic domains.
These proteins serve a secondary function as part of a mixture or concoction of skin secretions that is used for defense.
