So we are looking at bio-markers, we're doing sophisticated X-rays, like functional MRI and spec-scanning to understand what happens in the brains of patients with fibromyalgia when they have pain, what happens to their brains when we treat that pain."

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You need a functional form that connects the value at one state of matter, the freezing point of water to another phase change, the boiling point of water.

你需要一个函数形式来,连接物质某个态对应的温度值，如水的冰点，和另一个相变,如水的沸点。

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And again in one of the functional magnetic insonance image experiments, we could ask Mike to examine faces verse other things.

与在一个功能性核磁共振成像试验中一样，我们告诉迈克去仔细看人脸和其他东西。

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So this allows us to calculate all sorts of things to get these functional forms.

我们就知道要,如何计算出。

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It is an aspect of a text, the way in which it does communicate in other words, which has to be understood as existing in a dynamic, functional relationship with those aspects of the text in which literariness is dominant.

它是文本的一部分，它有生动的，交际功能，但是从文学根本上来说,但诗化语言支配着它。

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That would be a very straightforward functional way to do it, but you could imagine that that's very labor intensive because you've got to separate each individual cell, and you've got to nurture it and then keep track and study what it becomes.

这是一种非常直截了当的有效方法,但你能想象这得耗费海量的人力,因为你得分离每一个细胞,并进行培养,然后还得追踪和研究它们的变化

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