Sentences with phrase «hampered by their material»

Not exact matches

The industry has been challenged by rising raw material costs over the past couple of years, which is hampering the profit margins of packaging manufacturers.

Among her reasons for leaving, Aquila said, was the fact that her ability to read large amounts of material has been hampered by macular degeneration.

And it has been hampered by intellectual property practices that can make it difficult to share genetic material and other resources.

However, biomedical applications are hampered by the insolubility of the materials, especially in water.

«Soft robotics are typically limited by conventional molding techniques that constrain geometry choices, or, in the case of commercial 3D printing, material selection that hampers design choices,» says Robert Wood, the Charles River Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at SEAS, Core Faculty Member of the Wyss Institute, and co-author of the paper.

Their method, published ahead of print in the Oct. 17, 2008 online edition of Nature Biotechnology, not only provides a practical and simple alternative for the generation of patient - and disease - specific stem cells, which had been hampered by the low efficiency of the reprogramming process, but also spares patients invasive procedures to collect suitable starting material, since the process only requires a single human hair.

The DTS - HD Master Audio 5.1 mix isn't as dynamic as one might hope, hampered as it is by twenty - five - year - old source material.

In short, good actors are hampered by an impossible script, and the only one given enough material to rise above the torrid muddle is Blunt, herself.

Notably, this time the bounty of material is handled with lightness and confidence, minimizing the sense of overload and hectoring that has hampered his other densely populated features — epitomized by the rhetorical uses of an American flag toward the end of Nashville, the pretentious or mock - pretentious uses of music in A Wedding, and an overreliance on 11th - hour violence to goose the dramatic effects of these and many other films, including The Long Goodbye and Short Cuts.

The cast is wholly unimpressive, though to be fair, their ability to shine is severely hampered by the poor material that has been dealt them.

everyone is hampered by the same capacity issues, though, and the ones I mean here are the time needed to really understand this stuff and figure out how to teach it, how to design materials for it, PD for it, etc..

These processes are often hampered both by the fact that learners can only pay attention to a few things at one time, and they process words and visual materials differently.