"We want to work with whomever becomes the owner of Global Crossing," says China Netcom's boss Edward Tian and no wonder, since the two networks were built to function as one.
It's how human beings were built to function".
A logistic regression model was built to analyse cure as a function of sex, age, initial body weight, previous treatment history, and the region where the patient was treated.
The Utah Olympic Park was built to stage the 2002 Salt Lake Games, but now functions as an enormous adrenaline amusement park.
Founded by a family of hunters, fishermen and adventurers who tired of flimsy things, Yeti coolers are built to also function as seats, standing platforms for fishing, and have repeatedly starred in YouTube videos being dragged - undamaged - behind pickup trucks.
In our case, angular functions and radial functions are built to define basis functions.
As they are built to recognize specific functional entities, such as individual protein families or particular functional domains, matches to signatures are highly accurate predictors of function.
To confirm this assumption, organic field-effect transistors (OFET) were built to measure the electron mobility as a function of (PCB 2C2 loading.
A miniaturized MFC is built to characterize its current output capability as a function of the temperature.
The pipe bombs, which Farook and Malik appear to have assembled themselves, thankfully did not detonate, but the guns functioned just as they were built to.
Computers were largely specialized machines that were built to perform a very narrow range of tasks, like scientific computations or back office functions such as handling payrolls.
