This is the ability to change the function of a chip while it is working.

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Consider the recent droughts and hurricanes that have swept the United States: Insurance carriers have calculated that weather events are a function of climate change and they are now pricing those risks into policies.

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The reason for this choice of strategy is simply that if you change the future of a young person, the impact as a function of years, is much higher.

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Depending upon how an application is combined with elastic infrastructure, the function of the cloud service could change from Infrastructure as a Service to Software as a Service.

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Such an approach may aid in fundamental organizational change by providing objective evidence for the gender-specific biomarkers of brain function that may underlie above-mentioned behaviours.

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Furthermore, there's no shuffle function, so unless you do manually change the names of your tracks you're always going to be stuck listening in the same old order.

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However, the Tories argue that this change should be part of a full-scale review of the role, function and composition of the House of Lords.

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Which ever department was considering a policy change would carve out a group of 20 to 200 drivers, make them function as a separate business and test the results.

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