At the local scale it fosters community vision, aspirational goals and place-making, along with defining pathways to achieve these goals.

"We think we will define key metabolic pathways that must be expressed in bacteria for them to be able to divide and multiply in their hosts," he said.

The process of transferring credits can be divided into four main parts: what transpires prior to a college transfer, what transpires during college transfer, what transpires after college transfer and what proactive efforts are managed to help define academic pathways and agreements between institutions to streamline college transfer.

An author of a hypertext document sets up a number of alternatives for his readers which define pathways among nodes.

A number of anatomically defined regulatory pathways in the central nervous system are involved in pain processes.

One garden includes more than a dozen species of Japanese maples; another tiny garden has an abundance of roses, perennials, boxwood, topiaries and herbs; and mature deciduous trees and evergreens, ginger, hostas and ferns define the driveway and pathways on a regal estate.

Although little is known regarding degradative pathways for G proteins, sα i2 and other mutants ( e.g., α i2 A327S) may be valuable tools for defining such pathways.

Additionally, MetaCyc, an encyclopedia of experimentally defined metabolic pathways and enzymes, contains 1,500 metabolic pathways and 8,700 metabolic reactions (Oct 2010).