A mean person could sniff out the signal and send code to the devices, that include implanted defibrillators, that could cause them to not function when needed, basically stopping the devices from saving a patient's life.
Family are often expect to socialize at holidays or times when social functions cause them to be at the same event.
But if psychotherapy is thought of as a form of learning, then when therapists talk to patients, they cause them to learn, perhaps changing their brain function and, perhaps, for the long run.
In severe cases, it can stop people functioning in life altogether and cause them to become reclusive.
Malware could easily infect hospitals' heart monitors, causing them to stop functioning and leading to patients' deaths.
More than a third of them (1,001 people) reported being constipated — often to the point that caused them to miss work or skip social functions.
It is well-known that the function of isolated primary hepatocytes is hard to maintain; when cultured in vitro, these cells readily undergo dedifferentiation, causing them to lose hepatocyte function.
Originally introduced by Sergei Natanovich Bernstein to facilitate a constructive proof of the Weierstrass approximation theorem, the leisurely convergence rate of Bernstein polynomial approximations to continuous functions caused them to languish in obscurity, pending the advent of digital computers.
They indicated that fatigue had made a significant impact on their lives, affecting mental health and physical functioning and causing them to limit or give up activities.
As a driver's mental workload increases, their reaction time slows and brain function is compromised, causing them to scan the road less and miss visual cues.
The functioning condition of redundant systems causes them to undergo failure at different times.
