It is a signalling mechanism.
The guilty pleasure could then function as a signalling mechanism, an indicator that one takes pleasure in something but knows (the knowingness is key) that one really shouldn't.
"By the time of the Miers nomination, the Federalist Society had created a signalling mechanism within the conservative movement," Hollis-Brusky said.
Her subjects, she noticed, would tag friends in posts and in photographs as a signalling mechanism, as a way to say, "Look, I'd survive the Hunger Games.
Indeed, many of these services rely on e-mail as an underlying signalling mechanism.
The surge in the popularity of pamphlets in 1523-24, the vast majority of them in favour of reform, served as a collective signalling mechanism.
"Given the experience of the last few years' privatisation programme, these targets appear overtly optimistic, serving as a signalling mechanism of Greek government commitment to privatisation rather than a meaningful source of financing for bank recapitalisation, growth and debt reduction," said George Saravelos, a strategist at Deutsche Bank.
The signalling mechanism in response to glutamine apparently contributes to modulating plant growth.
Scheme 1 5-HT signalling mechanism from enterochromaffin cells located within the lumen of the ileum.
The novel probe comprising aminotriazole and hydroxyphenyl substituents is capable to operate simultaneously via ratiometric ICT and PET signalling mechanism.
Such alteration in mucosal signalling mechanism may potentially explain the variety of age-related gastrointestinal conditions observed in the elderly and the onset of anorexia with ageing.
