Sentences with phrase «relatively ineffective»

Mandated treatment of intimate partner violence (IPV), or batterer treatment, is (a) very costly, (b) generally focused on men, and (c) relatively ineffective, furthermore men also are victims of IPV, and women's IPV is little addressed.

For those who do, cognitive behaviour therapy using in vivo exposure and therapeutic modelling can be effective and is clearly the treatment of choice; psychotropic medication, in contrast, is relatively ineffective.2

Efforts to contain it have been relatively ineffective.

The result is an inefficient and relatively ineffective job search.

Whether «best - available - control technology standards» are crafted by the Congress or put in place by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the court - ordered mandate stemming from the Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. EPA and the Obama administration's subsequent «endangerment finding,» such an approach will be relatively ineffective and terribly costly for what is accomplished.

Per MW, PV and Wind are relatively ineffective at avoiding CO2 emissions since they require at some point in the grid — fossil fuel backup operated inefficiently.

«We find that even when applied continuously at scales as large as currently deemed possible, all methods are, individually, either relatively ineffective with limited warming reductions, or they have potentially severe side effects and can not be stopped without causing rapid climate change,» the authors write.

At the best, any attempt to geo - engineer the changing climate back to its starting point would be relatively ineffective.

The following target is relatively ineffective or there is large uncertainty regarding the benefit - cost ratio:

This paper finds that end - user financing (i.e. consumer subsidies and tax rebates) is relatively ineffective at enhancing sales of off - grid solar technologies in India.

First, it's an extremely expensive, and relatively ineffective method of cutting carbon — conservative estimates place it as costing $ 150 taxpayer dollars per ton of CO2.

I submit the engagement will remain relatively ineffective outside of two things: undeniable crisis (meaning something even Joe Average Just Let Me Get Through The Week would realize is some serious # $ # $) and or a response similar to that given to Monckton of late.

It is very important to know combos too, as shooting is relatively ineffective in short range.

For example, they reportedly stopped giving humane education talks at schools after a few months because they decided it was a relatively ineffective intervention, and stopped publishing an online magazine once they thought that it would be more efficient to direct readers to their website.137 They also report that they have changed the focus of several programs in response to new information.

They were relatively ineffective in keeping urine acidic but could account for temporarily lower urine pH readings.

The agency has recently implemented a minimum FICO credit score of 500, which is relatively ineffective as the average FICO credit score for FHA borrowers is approximately 620.

Among those who changed effectiveness ratings, some moved only moderately, but 8.1 % of those teachers identified as «more» or «most» effective under the alternative model are identified as «less» or «least» effective in the L.A. Times model, and 12.6 % of those identified as relatively ineffective under the alternative model are identified as effective by the L.A. Times model.

But consider a chronically low - performing school that is full of relatively ineffective (low value - added) teachers.

Although the similarity across measures suggests they are useful tools for decision - making, the variation suggests the benefit of being able to update decisions when new information becomes available; if a teacher appears relatively ineffective in one year, it is worth seeing her measure in another year as well.

Many relatively ineffective teachers whose probationary period was extended instead of being granted tenure voluntarily left their teaching positions.

The improvement in teacher performance from before to after evaluation is larger for teachers who received relatively low TES scores, teachers whose TES scores improved the most during the TES year, and especially for teachers who were relatively ineffective in raising student test scores prior to TES.

The type of analysis that most Instructional Designers participate in is relatively ineffective at building empathy.

I would expect IF to be relatively ineffective for someone on a consensus diet.

Unfortunately, blood tests are relatively ineffective in gauging magnesium levels as less than 1 % of magnesium is in the blood.

This topic is particularly relevant to PD patients, since existing therapies are relatively ineffective at addressing difficulties with walking and maintaining posture.

The drug L - dopa can replace lost dopamine and reverse symptoms — but medication needs to be taken regularly, can cause side effects and eventually becomes relatively ineffective.

Even though the regulatory institutions were stronger than those fostering Europe's carbon cap - and - trade system, the European Monetary Union proved relatively ineffective at keeping its powerful members in line when commitments grew inconvenient.

A crude and relatively ineffective light - sensing organ may be much better than none at all, and there may be thousands of different mutations that would slightly improve its functioning in different ways.

Americans spent $ 14.8 billion in 2007 on herbal supplements and other natural health products, even though numerous recent studies have shown that ginkgo, echinacea, St. John's wort and others are relatively ineffective against many of the ills they have claimed to help.

As far as bad laws go, it was relatively ineffective.

But wenger has also got to play the everyone in the right positions, like ozil should be played in his preferred central role rather than on the left wing where he is relatively ineffective, hopefully he will be once walcott is back.

Many of the so - called cures were relatively ineffective.

The church is relatively ineffective in mobilizing resources not only politically and socially, but pastorally and ecclesially.

Its relatively ineffective influence on geopolitics dismays many cosmopolitans.

The report briefly mentions that sub-national Canadian branding is currently relatively ineffective since the average Chinese consumer is likely unaware of any Canadian province.

Not exact matches

As a consequence, the reader is left with a partial view of Hua - yen thought, condensed to a closed, muffled, ineffective, and flat system, relatively speaking.

As I have long argued, on the basis of plentiful research, the answer has relatively little to do with policy, and constructing a UKIPesque manifesto would be not just ineffective but counterproductive, putting off potential voters who might otherwise be attracted from other parties.

Amyas Morse, the head of the National Audit Office, said the «relatively high risk trajectory» was met by «weak management, ineffective control and poor governance».

Legislators routinely urge agency officials to avoid «peanut buttering» their budgets — spreading cuts or increases relatively evenly across many programs instead of making the harder choice of boosting spending for the most deserving programs and shrinking or shuttering ineffective programs.

Nobody wants an appraisal system where teachers are wrongly deemed ineffective — but managing this challenge is relatively straightforward.

«On the problem with extending the tenure beyond two years... It's important that while we want teachers to at some point have due process rights in their career, that that judgment be made relatively soon; and that a floundering teacher who is grossly ineffective is not allowed to continue for many years because a year is a long time in the life of a student... having the two - year mark — which means you're making a decision usually within 19 months of the starting point of that teacher — has the interest of... encouraging districts to make that decision in a reasonable time frame so that students aren't exposed to struggling teachers for long than they might need to be....

During a relatively uneventful morning session, she offered testimony attempting to undermine many of the plaintiffs» key points, including the contention that school administrators don't have enough time to identify ineffective teachers.

There's nothing worse than sitting on hold or dealing with ineffective service reps for relatively minor issues.

Market forces are largely ineffective in mitigating against Global Warming since markets tend to be relatively short term in comparison to the slightly longer timescales over which we will feel the full effects of GW.

The first is that it is expensive, and it getting relatively more cost ineffective as the cost of renewables steadily decreases.

While these seem like relatively simple questions on the surface, they carry much more weight when you consider that an ineffective resume can prolong your search far longer than it needs to be and can be the cause of missed opportunities.