Sentences with phrase «become less efficient»

As these filters collect dirt and other particles, they become less efficient to the point of impacting air flow.

As a building ages, its major building systems (including the central plant) steadily become less efficient due to things like tenant or use changes, schedule modifications, equipment failures, sensor failure or poor maintenance and management.

And I become less efficient and effective.

What is more, as we move toward lower grade fuels, the process of extracting the energy will become less efficient — resulting in higher CO2 emission per joule of energy than we have at present.

Simply put, by stressing over things like what to eat or wear every day, people become less efficient at work.»

The first is that the turbines become less efficient over time as a result of mechanical wear and tear, erosion of the turbine blades and related factors.

As dogs and cats age, their organs may become less efficient and they may be less able to resist infections and other diseases.

An older cat's claws become more brittle and may not fully retract as the muscles become less efficient.

At the same time, pets» digestive tracts may become less efficient and absorb fewer nutrients.

Another study shows that cats over 12 years of age, just about the time that their kidneys may be working less well, become less efficient at metabolizing fat and protein.

When pets get older, their bodies become less efficient in absorbing nutrients, just like humans.

Bladder control may be an issue as muscles become less efficient.

They are actually always there but as the animal gets older they become less efficient at producing IgA and mucin in the digestive tract.

Over the next year or two, the heart will enlarge and become a less efficient pump, causing the signs of congestive heart failure, which include:

If the well - informed active managers turn passive, then markets could become less efficient.

It's interesting Seth Klarman apparently made a comment recently which highlighted that with the rise of indexing, the market will become less efficient.

But long before this even occurs your furnace will struggle, become less efficient and, as a result, your heating bills will rise.

They become less efficient in very cold weather, and they lose charge capacity as they age.

Concern: Without the appropriate text stamping, someone could add the wrong type fluid to the brake master cylinder causing the brakes to fail or become less efficient than normal.

In serious competition, inferior brake calipers can heat up, warp, and cause the brakes to become less efficient.

By viewing too many antagonizing or even similar information / activities we learn slower, become less efficient and make more errors.

The cells which rely on the lymphatic system for elimination become less efficient and sluggish as they fill with their own waste.

Going into midlife with a sedentary lifestyle causes the heart to stiffen, shrink, and become less efficient at pumping blood and oxygenating the body.

These stresses can cause cortisol levels to rise, which in turn causes our bodies to become less efficient at its fat burning processes.

Adults: As we age our bodies become less efficient at absorbing protein.

As your ovaries become less efficient, you will not produce an egg each and every month.

• Our heart muscle thickens • Arteries stiffen • Lung capacity reduces • Our kidney and bladder become less efficient • Our immune system declines • Body fat increases • Cognitive function reduces • Muscle tone declines • Bones lose density • Hearing and sight decline

In other words, consuming a predominately «enzymeless» diet of over-cooked foods taxes the pancreas and, eventually, it will become less efficient at enzyme production.

The results show that tropical forests continue to accumulate carbon through to the end of the century, although they may become less efficient at higher temperatures.

In addition to becoming more prone to catastrophic failure, the turbines also become less efficient at higher speeds because they become more like a wall than a rotor, blocking the wind from flowing past the rapidly rotating blades, says Asfaw Beyene, a professor of engineering at San Diego State University in California, who was not involved with the work.

The fertilizers farmers use on their crops today may become less efficient if carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere keep rising.

Autism risk mutations inactivate this gene and, in the absence of their own ability to produce carnitine and without adequate outside supplementation, neural stem cells become less efficient at self - renewal.

The simulations also suggest that the removal of excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by natural processes on land and in the ocean will become less efficient as the planet warms.

The accepted idea before this study was that microbes would become less efficient at warmer temperatures.

However, the value of T - bills as a risk - free benchmark will remain intact - without it, risk premiums can't be calculated and the allocation of capital become less efficient.

Kelleher notes that when a bank exceeds $ 100 billion in assets, the economies of scale actually start to move in the wrong direction and banks become less efficient.

You become less efficient as you move down that chain.

The difficulty of the crypto problems that mining solves starts to increase, and the older graphics cards become less efficient and slower at solving them, all while consuming the same amount of electricity.

There's a lot to consider, like the uncertainty of bitcoin's value — and there's the risk that the extra graphics cards you buy will become less efficient at mining when newer models are released.

Lastly, as your milk regulates, it's not uncommon for the shape and size of the nipple to change from what it was in the beginning; this may mean your pump becomes less efficient as the breastshield size you need may have changed.

As new oncogenic driver genes are identified, the testing process becomes less efficient because more genes need to be analyzed in limited amounts of tumor tissue.

Because diffusion becomes less efficient as the tubes get longer, the atmospheric concentration of oxygen is a powerful constraint on body size, especially for active insects that fly.

If your profit margin is shrinking as you're growing, you may be becoming less efficient.

Previous Baycrest studies have demonstrated that older adults unknowingly pick up information from their surroundings, which is linked to their brains becoming less efficient at ignoring distraction, but young adults don't have the same tendency

«There's emerging research that a past history of depression can change the oxytocin receptor in such a way that it becomes less efficient,» she said in a university news release.

Once you lose muscle, your body becomes less efficient at burning fat.

As we grow older the body becomes less efficient at building new protein.

The body continuously detoxifies itself naturally, but when this mechanism is overloaded, the process becomes less efficient and symptoms like allergies, PMS, indigestion, headaches or skin problems may occur.

Also, as you age, your body becomes less efficient at absorbing calcium and other nutrients.

As you get older, your body becomes less efficient at absorbing protein.