### Instruction:

Extract the cause and effect entities from the following sentence:
Elapsed time or cycle indicators should be employed to accumulate operational time or cycles for limited-life items

### Assistant:

CAUSE_1: limited-life items
KEYWORD: for
EFFECT_1: Elapsed time
EFFECT_2: cycle indicators should be employed to accumulate operational time
EFFECT_3: cycles
OR: or
VARIABLE: items
CONDITION: limited-life

