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- noun Plural form of
effector .
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Examples
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The variety of the effectors is astonishing, as will be seen from the following list of those promoting the outbreak of herpes:
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Giraldo is involved in research on understanding the mechanism by which a fungal pathogen delivers proteins, called effectors, inside living rice cells to take control of the cell and block its defenses.
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The researchers have revealed how special disease-related proteins, known as effectors, blaze a trail into cells.
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010
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All authoritarian governments, and some not so authoritarian on occasion, have the need to become cultural "effectors", to launch a cultural revolution, be it from the extremes of Mao's ill named and disastrous Cultural Revolution, to the German Kulturkampf of Bismarck's Germany.
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All authoritarian governments, and some not so authoritarian on occasion, have the need to become cultural "effectors", to launch a cultural revolution, be it from the extremes of Mao's ill named and disastrous Cultural Revolution, to the German Kulturkampf of Bismarck's Germany.
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If it has no physical effectors on the environment, why should it develop a brain stem and a motor cortex?
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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To maintain a constant internal environment requires control mechanisms: sensors, effectors, information processing and feedback systems.
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Paired enzymes are unrelated enzymes that influence metabolic cycles by the same allosteric effectors only in opposite ways at branch points.
Assessing Fault 2009
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If it has no physical effectors on the environment, why should it develop a brain stem and a motor cortex?
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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That is, they are manmade devices with three key components: "sensors" that monitor the environment and detect changes in it, "processors" or "artificial intelligence" that decide how to respond, and "effectors" that act upon the environment in a manner that reflects the decisions, creating some sort of change in the world around a robot.
Wired Top Stories 2009
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