Yes, you read that right, but its function isn't actually as obvious as you'd imagine.
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The shape that the amino-acid chain wraps itself up into is critical to its function.
Researchers used x-ray technology to examine the structure of the enzyme, which changes depending on its function.
The company describes a key part of its function as helping homeowners avoid foreclosure and stabilizing communities.
It was very long at 348 feet and with a short wingspan of 131 feet, which suited its function.
It derives that meaning from its function as the foundation of the family.
Does the administration believe that emergency contraceptive, because of its function, is in a different category than those other OTC medicines?
But its function is two-fold: planning tool and beautifully photographed coffee-table book.
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But the subunits most critical to its function are mitochondrial in origin.
The term chief of staff is not as popular in corporate hierarchies as it is in government circles but its function is vital.
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My sense is that the human mind is not to be found in the structure of the brain, but rather in its function.
Using this data, Adams in 1995 concocted an unusual boron molecule that snuggled into one of the enzyme's active sites and blocked its function.
Its function is to enable the transfer of output from current workers to current retirees in a world where we are not all neighbors.
In its function as a medium of exchange, medium of payment and store of value, gold is thus, in a sense, a timeless classic.
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The word bulldozer is entirely invented and irrelevant to its function.
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When she neutralizes the amygdala in rats with a drug that halts its function, they no longer pig out even if their nucleus accumbens is stimulated.
He says, while the M1 has changed somewhat since the opening of that first stretch 50 years ago, it still performs its function very well today.
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If the gift succeeded - if the queen liked it and wore it - it had fulfilled its function of winning the queen's favour and confirming the giver's devotion and loyalty.
Yes, independent or no, governed by a cabal of financiers or a collection of fools, its function has grown way beyond simply raising money for the government or clearing debts between banks.
How, though, can all this modernisation be squared with the maintenance of what every senior official says is the capital's great quality, its function as the ancient vessel of Chinese history and culture?
Purser: As you correctly point out, the regulation states that the right to the protection of personal data is not an absolute right, but must be considered in relation to its function in society.
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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.
BP, which had been leasing the rig from Transocean, says the safety device that was supposed to cut oil flow on the ocean floor in the event of a well blowout did not perform its function.
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The Supreme Court last considered this question in 2005, when it decided that a marine dredge in Boston Harbor was a vessel for purposes of determining whether people essential to its function were covered by maritime labor laws.
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Professor John Dark, head of the heart and lung transplant unit at the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne, told BBC News Online that the solution used by the Swedish team to preserve the lung had probably also helped to improve its function.
Soon enveloped by an expanding city, the fortress lost its defensive function, and in its place came a royal palace.
"We saw that when the decoder rat committed an error, the encoder basically changed both its brain function and behaviour to make it easier for its partner to get it right, " he said.
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