Mr Molina claims that the upstream Jirau dam will silt up, shortening its useful life.
In part, that's because drug-resistant bacteria have evolved, shortening the useful life and effectiveness of all sorts of antibiotics (and making hospital trips riskier, as drug-resistant staph can gather on medical equipment).
Cyberthreat intelligence is also shortening the useful lives of attacks and is putting a heavier burden on attackers who want to stay in business.
In Zimbabwe, sediment load has exceeded normal design limits in many reservoirs, thus reducing storage capacity and shortening their useful life for human benefit.
This may accelerate the emergence and spread of resistance, thereby shortening the useful life of the drug, but it is an inevitable consequence of the current imprecise method of dose finding.
In addition, the existence of cross-resistance, based on the activation of general detoxifying mechanisms in the vector, can shorten the useful lifespan of alternative insecticides or even prevent their implementation [ 189].
Indeed, such efforts would be detrimental in the long-term, as exceeding the minimum target coverage imposes stronger selection for resistance, thus shortening the useful life-span of a product unnecessarily (Fig. 1B).
Leaving your brushes in solvent continuously will greatly shorten their useful life.
Do not, however, make a habit of soaking wood utensils, as soaking can shorten their useful lives.
But there are lingering concerns that technical glitches have shortened Suomi's useful lifetime, perhaps to just three years.
