And larger particles in LDL appear to be less effective at causing it.
Cold-raised bees also were found to be less effective at learning to recognize flowerlike odors.
Big efforts are under way to try to understand why companies seem to be less effective at innovation than those in, say, Britain or America.
Brick, for example, is likely to become more saturated, particularly with increasing insulation standards, so it is likely to be less effective at keeping moisture out.
This may be less effective at limiting counterparty risk – banks and dealers which run their own centralised clearing may try to push clients to take more complex "over-the-counter" derivatives, which would have higher returns.
In general, traffic engineers say, traffic calming measures that try to narrow the width of a particular road appear to be less effective at reducing the number of speeders than those that work vertically, like speed tables and humps.
Although the vaccine may be less effective at preventing influenza in the elderly, Dr. Bresee said, that is the population most susceptible to the disease and at highest risk.
Minting a platinum coin, especially if it proved to be less effective at staving off financial panic than its advocates hoped, could look like a clumsy power grab by the White House, perhaps allowing the G.O.P. to stave off blame for the economic harm that ensued.
Besides protein degradation, older techniques may be less effective at separating different organelles from cytoplasmic components.
PVP was shown to be less effective at inhibiting hydrate growth as reactor pressure increased.
As a result, selection will be less "effective" at generating genetic change in the population over generational time.
