Yet until a few decades ago, the form and function of this crucial communications network remained elusive to scientists, even as it became clear that it held the key to critical mysteries in pharmacology and medicine.

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The Sun Ray appliance effectively becomes the end node of the network, and its function is to display pixels on the screen, capture keyboard and mouse clicks, and send them back to the server.

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In order to function, this point of sale equipment must connect to a network and interact with servers.

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The Youngstown facility will serve Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia and is designed to function as a proof-of-concept for an eventual network of 15 manufacturing innovation institutes around the country.

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The Internet portal, called a science gateway, will be open to groups of users who apply to TeraGrid, and will function on a secure network.

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Plans for a great network of urban motorways were frustrated, as were dreams of rigorously separating areas according to function employment here, shops there, houses somewhere else.

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The Low Power feature is a must-have function in Europe for managing the power-saving modes of Orange equipment as well as consumer electronics devices over the home network.

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