mechanism
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Lacking funding, Iranian banks have relied on borrowing from the central bank through an emergency liquidity mechanism that charged high interest rates but lent money without requiring collateral.
There’s an elegant economy to Lucia’s prose that reads as both skill and survival mechanism.
From Salon
The authors also point out that "high humidity significantly reduces the effectiveness of evaporative cooling -- the primary mechanism honey bees use to regulate hive temperatures -- potentially making thermoregulation even more difficult."
From Science Daily
"Now that we've uncovered beta event features that predict Alzheimer's disease progression, our next step is to study the mechanisms of generation using computational neural modeling tools," Jones said.
From Science Daily
The two antivirals have a different mechanism of action.
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