Sentences with phrase «less than optimal»

They assume the condition will be less than optimal.»

This helps both the couple and myself to understand relationship models that were developed early in life, which are brought in to every relationship in a non-conscious way to help the couple see how their relationship models interact in less than optimal ways.

An important problem in implementing parent - centered interventions, however, is that engagement and participation rates are often less than optimal (DeMarsh & Kumpfer, 1986; Kazdin, 1993; Perrino, Coatsworth, Briones, Pantin, & Szapocznik, 2001).

Children in families with disadvantaged backgrounds and living in poor neighborhoods are known to be at high risk for poor health and less than optimal usage of health care.

When those feelings surface during a divorce, it leads to unproductive conflict and often results in a less than optimal settlement.

Now issued bimonthly, the INFANT MENTAL HEALTH JOURNAL publishes peer - reviewed research articles, literature reviews, program descriptions / evaluations, clinical studies, and book reviews that focus on infant social - emotional development, neurobiological correlates of emotional development, caregiver - infant interactions, contextual and cultural influences on infant and family development, and all conditions that place infants and / or their families at risk for less than optimal development.

The authors reasoned that this could be due to a «poor match effect»: As women still single in their thirties or later begin to hear the biological clock tick, they may settle for a match that is less than optimal, resulting in a higher probability of a subsequent divorce.

Some people retreat into silence as a way of coping with circumstances that are less than optimal.

You may have symptoms such as anxiety or depression, perhaps with less than optimal means of coping.

Our ongoing support from the Australian Department of Health and Ageing's Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health has been crucial in getting us to where we are, but some topics, such as disability and family violence, are largely outside the responsibility the health sector; our coverage of these areas is less than optimal.

It is a 12 - item tool with dichotomous scoring method (0 -0-1-1), which determines the point prevalence of psychological distress or «caseness», with the most widely used threshold being ≥ 4.37 The scores, relating to symptoms over the previous «few weeks», range from 0 to 12, with 0 indicating no evidence of probable mental ill health, 1 — 3 indicating less than optimal mental health and 4 or more indicating probable mental ill health.

Excellent in bringing less than optimal operations and disparate teams together to create exceptionally efficient organizations.

If the compensation package, growth options, work - life equation, and scope of the role are less than optimal, it's time to move the ball back into your court.

Prospective employers tend to look negatively on employees who disparage their former colleagues, so keep any notation about less than optimal circumstances as positive as possible.

So those who are not on LinkedIn, and just as importantly, those who have less than optimal LinkedIn profiles, are not taking advantage of an important tool.

It has the ability to become an icon on the homescreen and send push notifications, and it's also optimized for developing countries that have less than optimal internet connection.

As we mentioned in our Galaxy S6 review and rebuttal, the battery life on the GSM variant of the GS6 is less than optimal.

In low - light it does struggle a little, and once lighting is less than optimal, you will notice some noise and graininess creeping in.

Its weaknesses are generally in the areas in which the Note8's camera shines, with a slower autofocus and less than optimal results in low - lighting conditions.

Because SmartDevice's SmartQ U7 runs version 4.1, you're going to be stuck with a less than optimal user interface.

Yes, there were Android phones available at around or even below that price, but they came with significant trade offs: poor design and less than optimal hardware (read «slow processors, inadequate RAM, poor displays and so on).

The Idol 4S did a terrible job of maintaining a Bluetooth connection and even syncing was a hit and miss affair so the experience was less than optimal.

If you ask anyone else, however, it's pretty apparent that an ecosystem where the vast majority of users are forced to use versions of Android that are two or three generations old is... well... less than optimal.

Taking the course on the iPhone requires some scrolling that can be less than optimal, but you can use either device to take the course.

It's natural to want to get a good deal, but it's not worth it if the coverage is less than optimal.

Despite the crisp weather and less than optimal course conditions, a new half - marathon course record was set by Francois Leboeuf at 1:12:54.

If you choose to disable the cookies feature on your browser, some of our websites might not work properly and your experience may be less than optimal.

If the information is significantly different than that which was reported, the agent may have inadvertently placed your coverage on a less than optimal pricing track.

Prioritizing identified challenges (e.g., less than optimal collaboration, limited use of sex offender - specific risk assessment tools to inform judicial decision - making, non-specialized supervision conditions).

Therefore, the cost and ineffectiveness of monitoring leads to less than optimal protection of individually identifiable health information.

You will inevitably see less than optimal results.

That may seem surprising, considering that most clients are also dissatisfied with the cost of legal services, and oftentimes the outcome of the service is less than optimal.

Putting your average lawyer in a cubicle to deal with people walking in off the street is a less than optimal solution.

Why put yourself in a position where the outcome of your case is less than optimal?

With technology constantly evolving to make our lives easier, it's shocking that so many lawyers still use old - school, less than optimal processes to get stuff done.

Trying to make your case management system do something it isn't designed to do is sure to result in frustration and a less than optimal result.

It can be frustrating when a client comes for trade - mark advice, but has already started down a less than optimal path with their branding from a trade - mark perspective.

Felix Matthes, responsible for energy at the think tank Öko - Institut, says the law is guided by abstract principles rather than experience, which might «set us up for a less than optimal development in the future.»

This is in part associated with balancing the less than optimal volume - to - floor area of the overall design, and the high spec required to manage airtightness.

This process is working at less than optimal levels right now, due to micronutrient (iron) limitation in the Southern Ocean, and can be substantially boosted by increased availability of iron in the surface ocean.

Those of us who try to bike in the city often find that even the dedicated bike lanes are less than optimal.

However, if that dataset is not large enough or does not have sufficient depth, then the conclusions will be less than optimal.

Unfortunately, optimizing it provincially means it's less than optimal on a national basis.

But obstacles remain: Bolivia, Chile, and China have less than optimal political leadership and minimal infrastructure to safely mine and process the poisonous ore.

Often developers will be stuck with several less than optimal lots in an area with curbs and utilities right there already and easy to patch into.

Incidentally, I wouldn't say that averaging the data before linear regression is frowned upon (although it's less than optimal).

Ponying up tens of thousands of dollars for a rooftop solar installation simply isn't an option for many of us, and if you don't own your roof, or your roof is less than optimal for producing solar energy, there really isn't a simple way to purchase solar electricity for your home otherwise.

It was initially pulled for being a broken mess that ran like hot garbage on most systems, and despite being taken down for fixes, it's returned in a less than optimal state.

Also, the sound quality is less than optimal in this video, I have since fixed this issue and the audio will be better in the next video.

Other less than optimal consequences of its new structure come from how the game handles a lot of its lore.