As radiation-induced degradation occurs, the ability of a coating to provide chemical and corrosion protection also degrades, and this degradation can include chalking of the coating as well as coating delamination.
This nutrient enrichment damages aquatic life there too, and degrades drinking water.
This week the NBER released a paper by Jonathan Gruber, a health economist at MIT, that lays out the many ways the employer-sponsored insurance tax exclusion distorts and degrades the health-care system.Despite our ostensibly private health system, almost half of medical spending is done by the government, primarily through the $400 billion Medicare program and the $300 billion Medicaid program.
Few would have predicted that crystallin, a clear protein in the lens of the eye, is a slightly modified version of the enzyme that degrades alcohol.That used to be as far as you could go in silico.
This, as its name suggests, degrades proteins that make the gut wall elastic.
They point out that glyphosate, the herbicide used with GM crops, is safer than the alternatives and degrades on contact with the soil.
Planting sugar on 700,000 acres of it was the next mistake.Soil in the converted wetlands is fibrous, made chiefly of rotted-down vegetable matter, and therefore degrades easily.
The policy of firing ministers just as they begin to acquire experience on the job seriously degrades dictators' ability to govern.
The library's boffins are busy converting analogue formats to modern, digital ones, hoping to do so faster than material degrades to become unplayable.
Tasmania's agriculture, for instance, is likely to improve even as farming degrades elsewhere.
In 1994, his worst mistake, he agreed to invade Chechnya, starting a conflict that still scars, degrades and endangers his country.Most unusually, he admitted those mistakes.
