Cosmic rays lead to a plethora of radiation effects including Single Event Transients which can severely degrade microelectronic functionality.
Amelioration rates are typically lower at the first two positions where mutations are more likely to degrade essential functionality.
In semi-arid catchments around the world re-vegetation is often implemented to reduce quick surface runoff, combat severe soil erosion, restore degraded ecosystem functionality, and, ultimately, improve ecosystem productivity.
Removing these 'invalid codes' degraded the functionality of the application.
Environmental stability of the transparent, conductive PEDOT PSS films on NFC-G substrate is a key property for practical applications that can either degrade the electrical functionality or be utilized, for example, in gas or humidity sensing of the environment.
We are dependent on the interoperability of Facebook with popular mobile operating systems that we do not control, such as Android and iOS, and any changes in such systems that degrade our products' functionality or give preferential treatment to competitive products could adversely affect Facebook usage on mobile devices.
Their primary duty is to support the tissue for a defined period of time during wound healing and to degrade after its functionality is not needed anymore in order to avoid a chronic foreign body reaction towards the implanted material [ 2].
All you can do is hide particular ads you see in your feed, or turn off location services for Facebook entirely, which people who are pissed might do even if it degrades other Facebook functionality.
A crystal oscillator with an output frequency that deviates or is unstable will seriously degrade the quality and functionality of an expensive communications product.
The main benefit from the collaboration of the different WSNs, in this case, is the reduction of the number of sensors of each type without losing accuracy or degrading the required user functionality.
