functional

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Estimates suggest that the utilization rate of household cars is around 5% — meaning that a car sits unused for 95% of its functional life.

From MarketWatch

In mice, the treatment also improved functional recovery and showed no obvious toxicity.

From Science Daily

From there, the researchers build the structure in stages, adding chemical functional groups, including alcohols, ketones, and amides, while carefully controlling stereochemistry at each step.

From Science Daily

"The less functional the NPT becomes, the harder it is to forge collective solutions in the event of a crisis."

From Barron's

"These findings suggest that similar studies in other brain cell types are needed to highlight the functional enhancers in the vast space of non-coding DNA"

From Science Daily