Examples of inadequate

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In addition, it is possible that if jurors feel their pay inadequate, they may be less willing to carry out their duties conscientiously.
Although she can eat and drink, the intake is fast becoming inadequate to sustain her life.
Probably, we selected a coil of inadequate size to occlude the residual leak and placed it in a wrong position.
The information available was inadequate for diagnosis in four cases.
There is inadequate support for relatives who care for dying patients at home.
Physically, a rendered block would suffice, yet to us, intuitively, this felt inadequate.
Widows and widowers are especially vulnerable to poverty, inadequate care and neglect in old age.
She has an inadequate social support system that is apparently the result of lifestyle choices throughout her life.
Inadequate integration would contribute to unstable cognitive processing in the interpersonal arena and impaired metacognition defined as immature or faulty analysis of interpersonal situations.
There have been an inadequate number of studies done on developing countries to date.
Preference reversals are often considered evidence that expected utility theory is descriptively inadequate, and that irrationality is systematic and widespread.
Conventional market mechanisms thus will be inadequate to address these challenges.
The true cost of inadequate training, however, may far exceed the cost of proper training.
How executive disorders can bring about an inadequate theory of mind.
Fourth, it had become increasingly obvious that the prevailing developmental theories were inadequate in a whole variety of ways.
The most accepted hypothesis to explain this disorder is fetal hyperinsulinsm due to inadequate control of maternal diabetes.
No amount of cosmetic improvement will compensate for an inadequate foundation, and problems will be apparent with increasing age.
All foster children experience disruptions in relationships with caregivers, all have temporary surrogate caregivers, and many have a history of inadequate care or maltreatment.
However, evidence of a trajectory leading from inadequate caregiving to self-dysfunction is mounting.
Unfortunately, nearly all of the relevant studies are flawed in some way, whether it be inadequate sample size, inadequate measures, or inadequate comparison groups.
There are two ways that existing efforts have been inadequate.
In this section, previous attempts to distinguish a separate class of relational nouns have been shown to be inadequate.
Though of some interest, her final chapter on translation theory is, in 2003, simply inadequate.
The psychological and neurophysiological methods currently available may be inadequate for the latter task.
Clinical audit and system analysis often identify inadequate operator knowledge and training as an important contributor to adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes.
When the initial state of the system is far from its equilibrium form, it has been found that such a truncation is inadequate.
Such responses are inadequate and imply approval or acceptance of domestic violence.
Linear analysis about the fixed point is inadequate to determine its stability.
A limitation to the present computational results is the inadequate knowledge of dissociation and recombination rates.
In general, though, infor mation on the optimum management of local tree crops under these conditions is inadequate.
In addition to inadequate attention to physical needs, forms of this subtype include lack of supervision, moral-legal neglect, and education neglect.
Aggressive behavior, in turn, may often result from inadequate or atypical emotion regulation.
Literacy is both a requisite skill for waging war and, finally, an inadequate one.
There was, however, evidence to suggest heating of the dessert buns was inadequate after they were produced.
By adding to the log-jam of patients we are increasing the hidden costs of an inadequate family planning service.
Discussions with medical practitioners, social workers and teachers all indicate seriously inadequate knowledge of effective contraceptive techniques among those at risk.
As will be shown, relational analyses alone may be inadequate in capturing lawful patterns of occurrence.
Many of the metaphors of the past are clearly inadequate, and we can no longer afford to rely on them if we are to progress.
Strictly, this definition is inadequate because it does not respect local scoping of variables.
With respect to the present studies, to what factors specifically should one attribute children's inadequate descriptions ?
Rather, the theoretical causal framework that is employed to model the science-society, science-culture relations is shown to be inadequate, or at least deeply problematic.
The level of reinvestment had been inadequate and copper production had declined by a quarter between 1982 and 1990.
However, inadequate resources and government restrictions have limited their success.
Factors that are known to precipitate fits, such as inadequate sleep or excess alcohol, should be avoided.
The research design was inadequate to evaluate the effectiveness of this therapy approach.
Prevention programmes for falls, education about chest pain and hospital-at-home have mixed effects or inadequate evidence.
However, because they require either an outright rejection or revision of (3), they are wholly inadequate at reconciling (3) with (1) and (2).
Clinically, malnutrition is characterized by inadequate intake of protein, energy, and micronutrients and by susceptibility to infection or disease.
A final finding is the inadequate reimbursement by social security funds for both types of intervention.
The quality of reporting in such sources may be inadequate, as they do not always contain the same methodological detail as a full-length article.
Thus, desiccation sensitivity may result from an inadequate provision of free radical scavenging mechanisms.
However, these error models are usually over-simplified and are thus inadequate to account for imperfections in the imaging device.
Unfortunately, adjustment to the new circumstances of his day was inadequate.
In addition, labeling can be a cause for medical vigilance when it is inadequate.
A low evaluation score may be due to poor method or analysis, inadequate reporting by the authors, or space limits by the journal.
Leopold feels socially inadequate in the company of aristocrats.
They are inadequate to cover all finance needs however, and are also seen to be biased toward acute care and medical needs.
The number of positive subjects might have been inadequate to provide sufficient power for statistical significance when analysed for clustering.
Premium rate restrictions in combination with open enrolment are inadequate tools to guarantee risk solidarity in competitive health insurance markets.
Without this knowledge base, individuals are likely to form goals that are unrealistic and find themselves with inadequate saving at retirement.
The archival revolution has shown that this picture is quite inadequate.
The arbitrary selection of topics and entries seems to result from inadequate editorial work, which is also apparent in a number of other features.
Given the errors, critical readers may suspect that it is rather the review which is ' inadequate and unscholarly ' (p. 146).
One could argue that using only eight probes with eight subprobes each is totally inadequate for exploring a whole galaxy.
I think the normal justification thesis is inadequate as a test of political legitimacy for the reasons we are in the midst of exploring.
However, it appears to be inadequate for the task.
Two of the most important limitations are the currently inadequate means for preventing islet rejection, and the limited supply of islets for transplantation.
Over time, policies and procedures may become inadequate because of changes in threats, changes in operations, or deterioration in the degree of compliance.
Understandably, the liberals felt more than a little nervous as they entered a period of dangerous possibilities with seemingly inadequate resources.
Early in the play, he presents us with a death-and-resurrection image that is clearly inadequate to problems it pretends to resolve.
Not every institution offered the same level of service, and some were in fact plainly inadequate.
Features associated with non-responsiveness included postpubertal status, inadequate dosage (5 mg or less daily) and deliberate misbehaviours.
To call the 1930s 'the era of the feuilleton' seems both unoriginal and inadequate.
The available material is here regarded as inadequate to base a taxonomic distinction between the two taxa.
I shall argue that this framework is explanatorily inadequate and that the inadequacy is inherited by theories developed within it.
Complications experienced by this patient group associated with recovery from surgery included postoperative nausea and vomiting, inadequate pain control, hypertension, hypoxia, and tachycardia.
The present data on only nine varieties are, however, inadequate to really shed light on these two possibilities.
Small studies with inadequate power are not good evidence.
On what authority does he critique formal reconstruction and objective science as in principle inadequate to knowledge?
Funding for translational research has been inadequate, as has a focus on sustainability of interventions that are implemented, once an evaluation has ended.
The evidence so far gathered is very inadequate, so we could not be sure, but there does seem to be some tendency to concentrate.
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