Body weight is modulated by interrelated systems that function on different temporalities, a shorter one modulating blood sugar levels and a slower one modulating adiposity.
But this is a club that functions on an annual budget of £40m and will struggle to punch their weight.
"Nano-" comes from the Greek word for dwarf; nanotech refers to machines that function on a molecular, even atomic, level.
These are the utilitarian meditators, the business leaders and stockbrokers who want to be efficiency machines that function on four hours' sleep.
Much of the apparel is by Cloudveil, the Jackson-based performance-wear line that functions on the slopes and impresses the après-ski crowd.
Sun Microsystemsrolled out the first phase of its Sun One, or Open Net Environment, software platform, a suite of products that are designed to let customers create and deploy Web services that function on a range of devices.
Loving its own kind, the show reserves its harshest judgments for the entitled, the uptown moneymakers inspiring our collective rage and, here, caricatures that function on a "Trading Places" level of genius.
A policeman trying to find a serial killer who is slaughtering dozens of children comes up against a Soviet system that functions on the assumption there is no crime unless it is committed by 'deviants'deviants
Some arts professionals have said the job of Lincoln Center president is a no-win position because of the complicated relationship between the center and the 12 often powerful independent arts groups that function on its campus.
Mr. Jacobsen later caught an F train, the only subway line that functioned on Tuesday in the southeast reaches of Brooklyn.
