Sentences with phrase «decreased ability»

Instead, eliminating affirmative action has decreased the ability of black students to attend public colleges across the board, with a pronounced effect in less selective institutions.

When you're sedentary for an extended length of time, your core begins to weaken, which decreases your ability to move efficiently.

This legislation also decreases the ability for those in the sex trade to screen their clients prior to meeting, which increases the risk of violence.

Low white blood cell counts — if seen, occurs 7 - 10 days after treatment, and can result in decreased ability to fight infection.

This can be challenging as aging changes associated with decreased ability to smell and taste can cause appetite to decline.

Every time you go on a diet and reduce your food intake your leptin levels go down and it significantly decreases your ability to burn body fat.

This has even greater implications for children who have experienced trauma and may feel constantly threatened and unsafe, further decreasing their ability to access the parts of the brain that manage rational thought.

It occurs when increased demands on one's attention decrease the ability to notice something unexpected.

Not understanding how they influence our structure decreases our ability to control them.

However, the buildup of these toxins decreases our ability to clear the burden effectively and may affect our immune system function, mood, metabolism and ability to fight disease.

This is almost a 2 % difference and drastically decreases your ability to purchase a home.

The elevation is caused by insulin resistance (decreased ability of the body to respond to insulin) and by decreased insulin production by the pancreas.

It also decreases your ability to concentrate on tasks, and creates a mental and physical imbalance.

Seen 7 - 10 days after and sometimes up to 16 days after treatment — resulting in decreased ability to fight infection, and possibly bleeding.

D - mannose is a simple sugar that works in a similar way to cranberries by also decreasing the ability for bacteria to adhere to the bladder wall.

For rare cell populations, these losses in recovery and viability present challenges for end users performing research on a process with potential for transfer to clinical scale by decreasing the ability for process time and cost efficiency.

Research over the years has shown that abusive workplaces add insurmountable amounts of stress on employees, greatly decreasing their ability to focus and be productive.

The previous fall, an ad campaign sponsored by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) had warned, «Advancing age decreases your ability to have children.»

In the future this may cause coral reefs to erode faster than they can calcify, thus decreasing the ability of coral species to compete for space.

The substances created during the breakdown of ibuprofen reduce blood flow to the kidneys, as well as decreasing its ability to filter out other toxins.

The adverse effects of malnutrition increase the body's exposure to infection while at the same time decreasing its ability to fight the infection.

This can cause decreased ability to fight infection and can possibly inhibit the blood's ability to clot resulting in bleeding.

When milk is heated, some of the whey proteins denature and form complexes with casein, thereby decreasing the ability of the casein to be attacked by rennet and to bind calcium.

However, the reduction in the numbers of stomatal pores decreases the ability of plants to cool their leaves during a heat wave via water evaporation.

The SMARt - 420 could periodically clear out bacteria that had developed resistance to ethionamide through ethA, and the intermittent exposure would «dramatically decrease the ability of bacteria to develop resistance,» predicts senior author Alain Baulard, also of the University of Lille.

Distracting the mice decreased their ability to collect the food reward to 70 percent from nearly 90 percent, even if the distracting stimulus was removed later.

«They show that microplastic [tiny plastic] debris decrease the ability for a fish to hatch from its egg.»

«A hole in your eardrum decreases its ability to take a sound and magnify it,» Dr. Mukhija says.

In the pancreas, elevated free fatty acids decrease the ability of two proteins called FOXA2 and HNF1A to travel to the nucleus and bind to DNA.

Anxiety and fear decreases the ability to learn.

Cold weather also decreases circulation to the toes, and surface of the skin which then decreases the ability to carry the medication, or natural fluids in the body to help the joints work better.

You've only got four slots in which to equip these skills, with basic versions of a skill being stackable with the advanced versions, so I could equip an advanced skill which decreases my ability recharge time, and then equip a basic version of the same skill as well, thereby decreasing recharge time by quite a bit.

The exotic perk, Praise the Sun, while being a little tip of the hat to the Dark Souls series, decreases all ability cooldowns while Radiance is active, as well as greatly increasing your agility.

Traffic school teaches the dangers of driving while under the influence of any mind altering substance, whether it's allergy medicine, cough syrup or something else, these things decrease your ability to think clearly, react quickly or make good decisions.

In other words, fathers appear to be more sensitive to emotional displays by children, and that sensitivity is associated with decreased levels of testosterone (in fact, other work has shown that administering testosterone to participants decreases their ability to empathize with others).2

With the onslaught of acidity from foods and stress along with decreasing ability of the body to keep up with buffering all this acidity our bodies often can not keep up adequately with sufficient production of bicarbonates (especially true as we age or if we have a chronic stress).

Low white blood cell and / or platelet counts — can result in decreased ability to fight infection and possible secondary bleeding.

Marx claimed that the introduction of more and more advanced machinery would lead to unemployment of workers, which decreases the ability of the society to buy things, which is a vicious cycle.

Make sure your grooming schedule is regular enough to keep your dog's hair from getting matted, which significantly decreases the ability of your dog's fur to keep him insulated.

Wind chill — A brisk breeze can quickly cut through a dog's coat and greatly decreases its ability to insulate and protect against cold temperatures.

The previous fall, an ad campaign sponsored by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) had warned, «Advancing age decreases your ability to have children.»

We only included women aged 40 — 60 y that further decreases the ability to extrapolate our findings to the whole population.

High levels of cortisol also decrease the ability of osteoblasts to synthesize new bone and interfere with absorption of Ca2 + from the gastrointestinal tract.

In the past few years, there have been increasing evidences that inflammatory factors released in the tumor microenvironment are able to redirect the differentiation of immune - promoting dendritic cells to myeloid - derived suppressor cells, which decrease the ability of the cancer patient immune system to fight against the cancer cells.

«It can also reduce your options and can make dating more difficult, because you're narrowing your field of opportunities and decreasing the ability for the laws of average to work for you.»

Finally, the DF - 41 carries up to 12 large nuclear Multiple, Independently targeted Re-entry Vehicle (MIRV) warheads, increasing its effectiveness against multiple large, hardened targets and decreasing the ability to intercept it after re-entry into the atmosphere during its terminal attack phase.