Taking out those artillery batteries would degrade to some extent the government's conventional force — but would hardly cripple Mr. Assad's sizable military infrastructure and forces unless the air campaign went on for days or even weeks.
All classes of materials used in implants polymers, ceramics, metals, and composites would degrade to some extent owing to prolonged exposure to body fluids.
The problem with that inevitability is that the price of switching to IPv6 is going to be so high - in terms of reliability, backwards-compatibility, actual money and a hundred other potential issues, that before the bulk of the users of the Internet are finally forced to switch to IPv6, the existing IPv4 network will probably have to degrade to some extent.
When a car is closely following another, its tyres should not degrade to the extent their performance cannot be recovered.
All polymers degrade to some extent, but a polymer is only considered bioabsorbable if it is absorbed relatively quickly during or immediately after its intended application [ 17].
Such an activity has not been described before for this actinomycete but is in line with various reports that indicate that actinomycetes have the capacity to degrade to some extent complex molecules, e.g., lignin or lignin-derived compounds (Kirby 2006).
It can be clearly seen that MB dye is degraded to maximum extent in case of Zn0.9900Mn0.0100S nanocrystals, whereas it is degraded to minimum extent for Zn0.9000Mn0.1000S nanophoto-catalyst.
All transmitted signals are to some extent degraded by the environment through which they propagate.
"In fact, air quality may be degraded to the extent that many locales may no longer be able to meet EPA standards for acceptable pollution levels," Hess said.
