However foam cushions are often squeezed by the repetitive thermal axial forces and the soil reactions, it loses its function to secure the expansion space of pipes.
This, of course, is also true of Frege's judgement stroke, which loses its function when it is not used to make an assertion.
Segmental duplication of functional genes generates two copies, one of which generally loses its function rapidly through pseudogenization.
If the stored energy is depleted, the node is an energy-unavailable node and thus loses its functioning.
This is not meant to say that truth loses its function as a normative concept in science, nor that all scientific claims are equally acceptable.
Most studies have shown that the thymus loses its function during old age.
The evidence that CD-zTERT significantly loses its function in hematopoiesis further suggests that TR-independent unknown (catalytic) activities of TERT may be involved in hematopoietic cell differentiation and survival.
The BCSFB increasingly loses its function to support CNS homeostasis (CSF production, macrophage recruitment and paracellular transport).
On the other hand, a single gene may reside in multiple complexes; if this gene loses its function, all of its complexes will be influenced.
It has been suggested that this allelic variant of the inhibitory receptor loses its function because of the inability to associate with lipid rafts [ 40, 41].
