"Creating a ring-fence increases some of the systemic risk and decreases the ability of banks to withstand the risk and has significant costs," said Hester.
A pilot safety brochure from the Federal Aviation Administration notes that "alcohol decreases the ability of the brain to make use of oxygen" — an effect that can be magnified by altitude.
The lack of control groups in the presented studies decreases the ability to evaluate relative efficacy of the procedures.
"Nervios" are characterized by a "state of bodily and mental unrest", which decreases the ability to achieve daily goals.
While employment protection decreases the risk of unemployment for those employed, it also decreases the ability of firms to adjust employment, thereby increasing their costs, even given wages.
We all know that if catalyst's Y zeolite content decreases, the ability of heavy oil cracking will decline and the product distribution will deteriorate.
Loss of NAD decreases the ability of NAD-dependent cell survival factors to carry out energy-dependent processes, leading to cell death.
At the concentration levels used in this work, the addition of salt decreases the ability of the polymer to produce a more uniform solids distribution.
However, this design decreases the ability to draw causal inferences about the impact of treatment on HRQoL and work-related outcomes, and the mechanistic role of disease activity, on these outcomes.
Poorly managed evacuations tend to lead to a strong resentment of government which, in turn, decreases the ability of emergency management organisations to act effectively in the future (MCDEM 2008).
Consequently, the economic intervention increases the level of economic development (with weight 0.5) whereas the security interventions decreases the ability of insurgents to control the population (with weight 0.5), and the combination does both.
