At Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, where Ms. Goterch receives care, staffers do initial patient screenings to assess health status and functional ability and offer coping strategies and advice.

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"We have responded to a need for people to undergo a lifesaving operation but without suffering the detrimental setback to their lives and their functional ability to take care of their jobs or their loved ones or their families, " Suri said.

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Our confidence level in our ability to create a functional, fun game is high.

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Without the ability to become a fully-functional laptop, the surface is a tablet like any other.

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And the other tweaks are nice, including a far more comprehensive Settings section, a functional lock screen and, finally, the ability to adjust the size of applications that you've snapped to either side of your screen.

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This provides users with the ability to access approved applications that will make their MyLink system even more functional, while assuring that driver's maintain eyes on the road and hands on the wheel.

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The key to achieving true business value, Wang added, lies in the ability of a company to exploit its cloud apps not just within a narrow departmental silo but across functional units enterprise-wide.

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