The 135 regional representatives are selected by the 27 provincial parliaments, and the 65 functional-group representatives by the National Election Commission.

ECONOMIST: Indonesia

The Corporate Operations segment encompasses management and other functional activities such as group financing, asset management, information technology, collection, personnel, and accounting services.

FORBES: #444 Talanx

These are identified through a series of pre-enrolment Functional Literacy Tests (FLT) and group-based activities.

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Applying an electric current and getting a muscle to jump is easy. (Alessandro Volta jolted a frog's legs 218 years ago.) Peckham is harvesting the body's own electrical signals to control muscles that have been cut off from the nervous system, a process called functional electrical stimulation, or FES. Peckham runs a group called the Cleveland FES Center, a collaboration among Case Western Reserve and two Cleveland hospitals.

FORBES: Technology

The development of Sensus Connected Touch gained momentum late in 2011 when Volvo Car Group started sourcing a powerful hardware platform with first-class functional and graphical features and the capacity to handle future expansion.

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Since then, the group has expanded mostly because once-poor states have grown richer, but no more functional.

ECONOMIST: Wealth, poverty and fragile states