The amphipathic agents surround the hydrophobic segments of MPs, thus serving as a membrane mimetic system.
Many adult tachinids (e.g., Paradejeania) obtain nectar from flowers, thus serving as pollinators.
We also show that our nanoformulation exhibits no apparent toxicity, thus serving as a versatile biophotonics platform for diagnostic imaging.
The threat of shareholder litigation can help constrain managerial opportunism and deter misconduct, thus serving as an important governance mechanism.
This means that although refiners might make more money by opening new facilities and thus serving more customers, they'd rather take the sure money than gamble.
The BBC could reasonably claim that moving BBC3 to the web is simply moving the channel to its audience's natural home and thus serving it better.
An identical section of aquifer was similarly contaminated and allowed to self-remediate by natural attenuation, thus serving as a control.
It can be specifically targeted to minimize the negative impact on the civilian population and maximize pressure on the government, thus serving as a tool for positive change.
If carefully planned, this smoothing also can prepare the land for surface irrigation, thus serving two purposes by one earth-moving operation.
The symmetry is broken by the use of electrodes with different catalytic properties with one enhancing the reduction of oxygen and thus serving as the cathode and the second enhancing the oxidation of the fuel and thus serving as the anode.
In particular, experimental evidence is provided here that toluene, o-xylene, and styrene can be a starting point for PAH formation, thus serving as first aromatic rings besides benzene.
