• Those are vital functions that cannot be maintained if hospitals develop a factory mentality across the board.

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  • It is, quite simply, a slave to its handset for vital functions.

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  • France's Le Point magazine said Mr Bouteflika, who was treated for cancer in 2005, was in very poor health, with some of his vital functions damaged.

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  • Not that I'm thinking of anyone in particular, but for a sadly obsessive cricket fan who may or may not be awarding himself a week off between Christmas and New Year's, the timing of the two matches affords the opportunity to do little except watch cricket, sleep and keep other vital functions ticking over.

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  • As the brain is squeezed it compresses vital regions regulating functions such as breathing.

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  • And the researchers believe it is possible that this interaction may change vital nervous system functions, including how quick it is to react to external stimuli.

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  • Its functions are vital to the regulation of the body's "circadian rhythms", whose powerful clock-like mechanisms synchronise the body with the 24 -hour period that is day and night.

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  • Neurophysiologists have recently discovered that Nitric Oxide (NO) plays a vital role in many brain functions, including learning and memory.

    BBC: Robot brains become more human

  • The ability to integrate computing and communications functions will be vital as the PC industry stagnates and the market for smartphones and tablets is turning into a battle royale that has sucked in everyone from PC software titan Microsoft and online bookseller Amazon to search advertising titan Google, Korean tech conglomerate Samsung, and, of course, Apple.

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  • According to Volcker, the rationale for limiting the size of institutions arises from the vital capital intermediation and payment system functions they provide for the real economy.

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