Sentences with phrase «lack of data available»

Dr. Elizabeth Brownell, Director of the Connecticut Human Milk Research Center, and her colleagues also found a consistent lack of data available to hospitals who offer a donor milk program.
A special emphasis will be placed on quantification and measurement of food loss, since the lack of data available around this issue area is a major barrier to understanding what the best approaches for reduction are.

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However, they are not shown in our graphics because this may be due to a lack of available data (all four nations are actively pushing growth in renewable energy sources).
If you've been frustrated by the lack of actionable reporting data that's available for Facebook ads, the social - media company says improvements are on the way.
Even when companies have the right business intelligence information available, it may be inaccessible or erroneously reported due to a lack of real - time data.
The lack of data was out of step with a company that obsessively tracks and analyzes every bit of data it can get its hands on and other major tech companies, most of whom have been making annual reports available to the public since 2014.
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Now if the self's identity is narrow, lacking intensity and scope of feelings, the result of the exposure to varying data available for inclusion will be to deny habitually that which is novel.
It nevertheless concluded that the currently available data, combined with a lack of uniform safety standards and regulations, were «insufficient» to support a finding that soft helmets prevented head injuries such that universal support of soft helmets was «premature at this time.»
We calculated these transition probabilities using data from the longitudinal National Health and Nutrition Evaluation Survey, which assessed a cohort of women in 1987 and the same women again in 1992.25 Several limitations of these data affect our model: 1) because this national survey lacks data on women before age 35 years, women in our model could not develop hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, or MI before age 35 years; 2) because longitudinal survey data were only available for a 5 - year interval, we assumed that transition probabilities were stable within the 5 - year intervals and converted these probabilities from 5 - year to 1 - year intervals; 3) because the survey data were too few to provide stable estimates by year of age, we used transition probabilities for women in three age groups: aged 50 years and younger, 51 — 65 years, and 65 years and older.
But he added that there was still uncertainty and lack of detail on the question of timeliness, and the extent to which practically the data would be available free of registration through non-proprietary and license - free means.
The petrochemical and chemical industries are complex and diverse with lack of publicly available data on energy use, and varying production processes.
Given the medical and socio - economic difficulties often faced by people with mental illness, and the lack of research into the other medical conditions they might suffer from, the authors set out to discover, using publicly available data, what proportion of US adults experience each combination of mental illness, substance abuse / dependence and chronic mental conditions.
As no relevant study is available for comparison with the appropriate comparator therapy, the benefit assessment of the drug manufacturer is based on its own deliberations and assumptions, for which, however, a valid data basis is lacking.
With the exception of Finland, statistical data on liberal adult education is poorly available and the activities often lack a clear organisation, making the role of liberal adult education in educational policy and academic research less prominent than that of vocational non-formal education.
This lack of accessibility is mostly a matter of inadequate technology, because the data are already digitized — and in some cases even made available on unfriendly government Web sites.
Uncertain - Inconsistency with, or lack of, RNA - seq and / or protein / gene characterization data, in combination with dissimilar staining pattern if independent antibodies are available.
On the other hand, one study found that consuming essential amino acids and sucrose (sugar) before strength training did not increase muscle protein synthesis afterwards compared to fasting.15 These inconsistent results imply that ``... the available data lack any consistent indication of an ideal post-exercise timing scheme for maximizing MPS [muscle protein synthesis],» writes Aragon and Schoenfeld.3
A lot of available posts on the internet like to serve as romantic stories how we should eat like cavemen «Because that is how our ancestors ate», «it is the right thing to do», «we are not evolved to eat grains, because they did not eat them» we this and that and what not... The thing is, there is actually a substantial amount of direct, clear evidence that supports this eating pattern as one of the healthiest known to people (I dare not say healthiest due to lack of large scale and more long - term data).
We can't let the lack of perfect stop us from using the data that we have available.
Earlier this year, a National Academy of Sciences committee charged with evaluating education reforms in DC issued a report that included scathing comments on the difficulty of obtaining education data: «The lack of readily available data presented a significant challenge for our committee, and it is a source of frustration for some senior DCPS officials who would like to rely more heavily on data to support their decision making.
(Annualized data not yet available for OC classrooms; first - year data unavailable due to teacher privacy and lack of comparison data.)
The lack of teacher diversity was particularly high in the largest school districts in the three states where data were available.
And this data only looked at Florida public college enrollment rates — it did not examine out - of - state college or private college enrollment due to lack of available data.
What can be gleaned from available research and data is that patterns of giving have shifted in recent decades to include more efforts to fund disruptive or innovative approaches, signaling a belief among funders that problems in K - 12 education are not solely an issue of a lack of resources but also of a need to use existing resources differently.
«Publicly available data and recent trends in space utilization indicate the Department of Education's arguments lack merit.»
[19] A number of possible causes have been explored but the general consensus based on the data available has been that the ride lift that was given to bypass the fuel regulations, and lack of load leveling, has been playing a major role in the issue.
Jaycee Adams said, Not even Victoria Strauss has enough cult of personality to overcome the lack of common experience and hard data available to the public at large.
What I find interesting about your questions is that each touches on an aspect of credit scoring — impacts of inquiries and zero - to - low balance credit utilization — where, due to a lack of information within the credit data itself, the scoring formula finds roundabout ways to extract the data it needs from the information that is available.
The ASPCA has data to show 1.2 million pets are euthanized in animal shelters each year, primarily due to the lack of resources that are available to support these pets finding a new home.
«More work remains to be done to both address the lack of available information on environmental policy issues and reduce serious shortcomings in the quality, geographical coverage, or timeliness of the available data
The amount of available data is very sparse, and so while these kind of «deep time» paleoclimate questions are a lot of fun, the lack of detail means that they have limited implications for today's climate.
In addition to the lack of due diligence packages, authors typically refuse to make their source code and data available for verification, even with a specific request.
The lack of archival of the GHCN - M V3.X and the global merged product is also in violation of Science policy on making data available [link].
Here, thickness data, which are sorely lacking but available in a few locations as the result of International Polar Year efforts and from satellite - derived estimates of ice age or type, constrain modeled thickness distributions.
A lot of the rest is just nit - picking, eg: «The data used in the K15 paper were only made available through a web site, not in digital form, and lacking proper versioning and any notice that they were research and not operational data
If Briffa felt that he lacked authority to distribute the data, he should have obtained the consent of the Russians at that time — which seems to have been readily available.
If NASA, NOAA or the UEA / CRU claims «lack of resources» for their failure to publish every scrap of available data, it is only fair to point out that the IGI database is already several orders of magnitude greater than all the climate records that have ever existed.
While Genevey et al. (2008) conclude that regional weighting can improve VADM results from the presently available data for the past 3 kyrs and acknowledge that, due to the lack of southern hemisphere data, VADM results might be geographically biased towards western Eurasia, Knudsen et al. (2008) consider the differences they find over the last 10 kyrs insignificantly small.
To date, Cranna says everyone involved in the legal aid crisis in Alberta has been reacting to problems as they arise, but a lack of consistent data poses a problem when it comes to determining exactly what resources should be available for legal aid.
The reality is we have no idea how many active criminal cartels are operating in Canada, given, among other things, the lack of available data and fact that the Competition Bureau in contrast to some other major jurisdictions such as the United States commences relatively few criminal cartel cases each year (based, in part, to its smaller budget and more limited resources).
The main difference between SBLI's Accelerated Underwriting life insurance and their traditional Level Term is the lack of an in person visit at home, though you'll still be required to give consent to information regarding your prescription use, MIB (Medical Information Bureau) and MVR (Motor Vehicle Records) history, and also a review of any available public data from the FCRA (Fair Credit Reporting Agency).
Psychographic targeting is made easy via big data analytics, the treasure troves of readily available metadata curated by dragnet surveillance capitalists, and a legislative body that lacks the understanding of the dangers of its weaponization.
They lack the time and expertise to leverage the treasure trove of data available in the Age of Information.
Limitations include the lack of a control group, the self - report nature of the measures, and the fact that follow - up data were available for only about 10 % of the participants with pre-post data.
Given the lack of scientific data available on the disorder, issues of classification, etiology, treatment, and prevention appear ripe for investigation.
Limitations include the lack of a control group and that a substantial percentage of available families did not fully participate or provided incomplete data.
Lack of up to date data available to schools relating to the number of and identification of Aboriginal students that have otitis media, conductive hearing loss and eye health problems within the region.
Limitations include that only half the data are available because the FAST intervention has been implemented in only the first 12 of the 26 treatment schools, generalizability due to ethnicity, and lack of follow - up.
Globally, the dominant economic intervention affecting food pricing is national taxation on food to raise general revenue.17, 18 In Australia, the basic foods required to maintain health were mostly exempted from the Goods and Services Tax (GST), and the price of these foods was expected to fall after the introduction of the new tax system in 2000.19 However, in Queensland from 2000 to 2001, the price of a basket of healthy foods increased by 12 %, more than twice that of less healthy options.20 This highlights the unpredictability of complex economic systems and the need for rigorous testing of economic solutions to increase access to healthy food.18 Such testing is imperative within remote communities, but baseline data are not readily available as Australia lacks a comprehensive food and nutrition monitoring and surveillance system.
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