The capacitors, which control the flow of electricity to various components, were prone to leaking fluids that could cause malfunctions in Dell's OptiPlex desktop computers, sold primarily to businesses and government.
The nation's largest maker of implanted heart devices, Medtronic, said yesterday that it was urging doctors to stop using a crucial component in its most recent defibrillator models because it was prone to a defect that has caused malfunctions in hundreds of patients and may have contributed to five deaths.
Smoke can cause malfunctions in the appliance mechanisms, so clean and test until the appliances run smoothly.
Microorganisms in general possess an extraordinary ability to settle and survive in precisely programmed regions of hosts and cause malfunction in biological routine.
However, the DER will provide fault current from the reverse direction of protection 4, due to the non-consideration of phase angle in over-current protection, which may cause malfunction in distribution network.
Sophisticated variation of the attack in Fig. 1 includes (1) bias-injection cyber-physical attacks, in which the new data injected by the adversary corresponds to a bias from the legitimate data, with the aim of leading the system to wrong control decisions (e.g., to cause malfunction in the long-term); and (2) geometric-injection cyber-physical attacks, in which the bias is gradually injected.
Given the central role of VILIP-1 as a calcium sensor in mediating cAMP response, deregulation of VILIP-1 expression may cause malfunction in multiple organ systems.
TM endothelial cells secrete a number of factors, such as enzymes and cytokines, which modulate the functions of the cells and the extracellular matrix of the conventional aqueous outflow pathway [10] Damage to TM endothelial cells causes malfunction in the homeostasis of the outflow of the aqueous humor.
They need to be accumulated in some particular fashion and amount so as to cause malfunction in a biological system.
Modifications in vital cellular molecules can provoke alterations in the cellular structure causing malfunctions that may finally result in apoptosis or necrosis.
