This decline has been blamed on an influx of foreign and designer breeds, and the Sealyham's reduced usefulness as a working dog.
The good news for the dollar is that the Chinese yuan is not yet widely accepted and suffers from higher inflation, reducing its usefulness.
Yet an intemperate outburst by his prime ministerial boss, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who called Israel a "terrorist state", eroded the chances of restoring Turkey's once-warm relations with Israel, reducing its usefulness as a mediator.Hamas puts its highest hopes on Egypt, whose Muslim Brothers have for decades posed as comrades-in-arms to the Palestinians.
In this context, the plateau in oxygen uptake (V̇O2) is inconsistent in its frequency, reducing its usefulness as a robust method to determine "true" V̇O2max.
On one hand, features thought to be unique to the human lineage find parallels in some fossil ape species, reducing their usefulness for identifying fossil humans.
However, cone [cGMP]i is likely to decrease in saturating light, reducing the usefulness of this pathway for extending the operating range of cone neurotransmission.
Cell lines are often poorly characterized from a genetic point of view, reducing their usefulness as tumor models.
Antibody response can take 4 6 weeks to develop, reducing its usefulness in the acute setting and requiring the collection of a convalescent-phase specimen for confirmation.
Vault smear tests undertaken in asymptomatic women can have a high false positive rate thus reducing the usefulness of the test [ 8].
In such a sample, heterozygote deficiency generated by the interfamily Wahlund effect may mask the heterozygote excess, reducing the usefulness of the heterozygote-excess method (Luikart and Cornuet 1999).
In many cases, however, cell lines are poorly characterized from a genetic point of view, reducing their usefulness as tumor models and making more difficult the recognition of mistaken identities.
