It can lead to a downward price spiral which prevents profit making and results in manufacturers withdrawing from the market.
12.42pm BST What impact did a technical problem in January, which prevented customers making orders, have on profits?
The argument goes that by making drug use easier, the person using drugs is shielded from the consequences of their drug use, which prevents them from making necessary changes to stop drug use.
With its announcement on Monday, Rhapsody, a joint venture by RealNetworks and MTV Networks, became the latest digital music service to do away with digital rights management, or D.R.M., which prevents users from making unauthorized copies of songs and can also determine which electronic devices can be used to listen to the songs.
As he said in his farewell remarks to the Senate on Dec. 12, he is convinced that the greatest obstacle the nation faces in addressing its problems is "the partisan polarization of our politics which prevents us from making the principled compromises on which progress in a democracy depends and which right now prevents us from restoring our fiscal solvency as a nation".
She would impose new fees on risk; strengthen the Volcker Rule, which prevents banks from making potentially disastrous bets with government-backed deposits; and bring regulatory light into the so-called shadow banking system, where much of the 2008 financial crisis began.
The endoscopic ally implanted DJBL is a 60-cm impermeable fluoropolymer device, which prevents food from making contact with the proximal intestine.
The groups cited numerous neuroscientific and behavioral studies suggesting that brains continue to develop well into the mid-20s, and that the last region to develop is the prefrontal cortex, which prevents people from making rash, impulsive decisions (Science, 30 July 2004, p. 596).
Firstly, it is characterized by cross-sectional design which prevents us from making any causal statements about the association observed between organizational behavior variables and QOL.
Third, all measures were cross-sectional in nature, which prevents us from making causal inferences about the relationship between NSSI and SI; further longitudinal work is needed to understand whether these aspects of NSSI are actually predictive of later SI, particularly in light of research suggesting that cross-sectional correlates of NSSI may not prospectively predict NSSI behaviors [ 31].
