As shown in the figures, whenever the quantization step increased, the fragility of the watermark decreased.
Thus, increasing the amount of auxiliary data will increase the fragility of the reversible watermarking methods.
Specifically, throughout this period retail deposits funded a decreasing fraction of the loan portfolio and this, of course, increased the fragility of the Spanish banking system.
Conclusions cryopreservation in both the solutions employed, followed by rapid thawing, induce changes in the permeability which increase the fragility of the cryopreserved arterial wall.
In the Financial Times last week, Martin Wolf wrote about how "the financial sector seems to be a machine to transfer income and wealth from outsiders to insiders, while increasing the fragility of the economy as a whole".
Mutations in the lamin A/C gene may cause cardiomyopathy by weakening nuclei, which increase the fragility of nuclei and could be particularly harmful to muscle cells.
All elements of communication, what is said and the way it is said, non-verbal communication, and thoughtless comments can increase the fragility of these patients.
These parenchymal injuries possibly increase the fragility of brain tissue around the ventricle, which may lead to the hemorrhagic transformation of the tissue in the most susceptible patients.
Expression of the self-lysis system with green-light illumination was also found to greatly increase the fragility of the cell membrane, as determined by subjecting the induced cells to detergent, osmotic-shock, and freeze-thaw treatments.
The deficiency of thiamine in clinical diabetes may increase the fragility of vascular cells to the adverse effects of hyperglycaemia and thereby increase the risk of developing microvascular complications.
