When designing a home, Simmons creates a lighting plan for each space depending on the function of each room.
Each team has a specific function, such as building engines or doors, and each team member is trained to do approximately 30 different jobs in that area, so that people don't get stale from doing repetitive tasks.
Unfortunately, to do this, scientists need to know the function of each of the 100, 000 or so genes nestled in the human genome.
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The U.S. averages 87 gun deaths each day as a function of gun violence, with an average of 183 injured daily, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab and the Centers for Disease Control.
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Wells was born with a rare condition that left her without several fingers on each hand and with limited function in her lower legs.
Before Obamacare, health care insurance regulation had been a state function, and each state had written laws mandating that all health insurance policies written in the state must cover certain services.
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However, if you have an understanding of the roles of each aspect of your organization and let each role fulfill its intended function, your business will have a sound structure and flow.
With applications for nearly 2, 000 new domain names outstanding, each one of which will function as a miniature .com registry under the control of the winning bidder, the new territories will be exponentially harder to monitor than the existing world of .com, .edu, .gov and a handful of generics like .travel and .museum.
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While each app arguably has a different function, a well-designed video hub app would have been more elegant.
Yet the commitments, for all their weakness, serve a crucial function: They prevent each side from using the other as a foil to justify inaction.
If the DNA of a human being or any other organism resembled a carefully constructed computer program, with neatly arranged and logically structured modules each written to fulfill a specific function, the evidence of intelligent design would be overwhelming.
Just as with the XZ-2, a function can be selected for each shooting mode and assigned to the control ring.
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It, like schools, is highly interdependent--you can't build or change one component unless you build or change the others, because each component affects the way the others function.
Each unit is custom-built to ensure superb form and function.
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As a startup founder who handled the public relations in-house for my own business as well as someone who plays the outsourced function to other founder teams, I can identify with each perspective.
"Transport and industrial emissions generate smog that destroys sensitive tissues (in people and animals), as well as producing fine carcinogenic particles that reduce lung function, and are ultimately responsible for many untimely deaths each year, " Manins wrote in the report.
Although more complicated to use than Napster, they perform the same function of allowing people to exchange music and other files with each other over the internet.
As in the original Borderlands, there are four different character classes, which function largely identically in terms of weapon usage and health, but each have their own unique power.
Each user receives a professional score, based on peer feedback, which is expected to function as a huge source of motivation to commit to their projects and coworkers.
They will organize calculations running on more than 2 million personal computers, each of which will see if potential drugs block proteins that the smallpox virus requires to function.
Like all Garmin products, the BarkLimiter Series is simple to use, with a set-it-and-forget-it "autorise" function that automatically programs the stimulation intensity level based on the barking behavior of each individual dog.
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Best Face is a function that allows multiple people take multiple pictures and select the best facial feature for each one to create a picture that can satisfy everyone.
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According to Cisco, one function will be centered around minimizing driver distraction, something likely to be differ according to each manufacturer.
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The photos at the top of each summary add colour, but they suggest an obligation to aesthetics more than the fulfilment of any sort of function.
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