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The only major computer foul-up in the U.S., the papers report, was the temporary malfunction of a Pentagon spy satellite.
Eighty percent of pagers in the United States were knocked out by a satellite malfunction in space.
… The exact nature of the malfunction at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Y-12 nuclear weapons plant was not disclosed because the computer controls a classified function," the paper said.
Furthermore reversible inhibitors are less likely to cause enzyme malfunction [ 8 ] than irreversible ones.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by such a malfunction together with degeneration of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons, and it is thought that memory loss in this disease is partly caused by this cholinergic lesion [ 35 ] . In vitro studies point to two novel mechanisms that might cause dysregulation of PLD2 activity in AD.