Word: functionally
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...discovery that could help bed-ridden patients get back on their feet faster, a research team led by a Harvard Medical School (HMS) professor has found that a protein once associated only with liver function also plays an important role in muscle formation...
...Omen A U.S. entrepreneur plans this fall to begin selling to individuals their personal genetic codes on a CD. The information will be nearly useless, critics say, since so much about gene function remains unknown...
Gusmorino said yesterday he was unaware the council had decided to discontinue the service. But he added that the website had to be updated each semester, meaning that the site would cease to function without deliberate effort...
...judicial process. Arbitrary conviction based not on factual guilt, but on a jury’s collective opinion of a law’s fairness, encourages disobedience to the legal code because the certainty that proven guilt results in criminal penalties is weakened. Deterring crime—a major function of the law—can only be accomplished with the universal recognition that criminal action results in punishment. Interrupting that direct link between crime and punishment weakens the deterrent effect of the legal code, thereby increasing criminal action...
...meet Roomba, a new housecleaning robot spawned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Artificial Intelligence Lab and built by a Somerville, Mass., company called iRobot. Roomba's function is a humble one: it's designed to vacuum your living room while you're otherwise engaged. But Roomba also represents a technological watershed: it's the first robot ever built that is designed to live in your home, serve a useful purpose and be priced for the mass market--at $199, it costs about the same as a mid-range vacuum cleaner. Roomba isn't quite Rosey the Robot...