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In the face of.
If people act in the face of something, they do it despite it or when threatened by it.
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Organelle size is an important determinant of organelle function, and for this reason cells have evolved mechanisms to control and adjust organelle size in the face of intrinsic biological fluctuations.
"Specifically, with Intel's transition to 65nm occurring roughly one year in advance of AMD's, its ability to contain die size in the face of a transition to higher performance, cache intensive, dual core products, should afford Intel a modest advantage as it relates to near-term trends in cost structure".
The relatively low statistical significance of individual gene differences in this cross-sectional analysis likely reflected limited sample size in the face of wide heterogeneity due to the high prevalence and variability of clinical and sub-clinical pathology in this population.
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These studies reveal an adaptive mechanism that helps to retain a functional visual system over a range of different brain sizes in the face of suboptimal nutrition.
This study reveals an adaptive mechanism that helps to retain neuronal diversity over a range of different brain sizes in the face of suboptimal nutrition.
These approaches would need to be balanced with the need to maintain effective population sizes in the face of a potential increase in variation in reproductive success.
Multi-functionality in individual proteins requires the maintenance of multiple biochemical domains; hence multi-functionality may be regarded as a possible selective force favoring large protein sizes in the face of the evolutionary pressure to reduce genome size and biosynthetic costs.
To our knowledge, there are few dynamic models that have been used to understand stockpile size requirements in the face of pandemic influenza uncertainty [ 26].
OCA emphasized the problem of one size fits all in the face of "asymmetric shocks" – the problem of how countries are supposed to cope if they're slumping while the rest of the currency area is booming.
An acquisition of this size by Google in the face of Microsoft's bid for Yahoo would show how swift Google can act while its competitors dither.
In practice, although the sample includes only software testing professionals, its size is reduced in the face of the real population.
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