Sentences with phrase «unreliable methods for»

Through interviews and site visits, Byrd noticed that firms were often using unreliable methods for capturing billable time.

Wind and solar are intermittent and unreliable methods for generating electricity that requires backup, usually with natural gas turbines, which increases costs.

Not exact matches

The latter two methods for identifying the right way to prepare teachers are obviously unreliable.

If the American public knew how inaccurate and unreliable these methods are, both for children and for teachers, it would be hard to sell the corporate idea of reform.

Veterinary technicians must be aware that normal methods for assessing hydration may be unreliable in sick neonates.

Often justified largely on the basis of junk science they have come up with such wonderful policy prescriptions as using only unreliable sources of energy because they are «sustainable,» keeping natural resources in the ground rather than using them to meet human needs, having government tell manufacturers what requirements their products must meet to use less energy rather than encouraging manufacturers to meet the needs of their customers, all in the name of «energy efficiency,» substituting government dictates for market solutions on any issue related to energy use, and teaching school children junk science that happens to meet «environmentalists» ideological beliefs in hopes of perpetuating these beliefs to future generations even though they do not conform to the scientific method, the basis of science.

Antarctic ice cores have no to little problems from (sea salt) dust, Greenland ice cores are unreliable for CO2 due to frequent acidic dust from Icelandic volcanoes which react in situ (and during abandoned wet measurement methods) with carbonates from sea salts.

Calculations to resolve the anthropogenic component of CO2 are remarkably difficult for the coastal ocean, where the assumptions of the various methods (Sabine and Tanhua 2010) are not met, thereby precluding a direct calculation of the effect of anthropogenic CO2 on observed trends in coastal pH. Calculations based on mixing between an open - ocean end - member displaying the trajectories predicted from OA and the freshwater end - member are also unreliable because pH and the carbon system do not necessarily behave conservatively within the coastal zone and because the freshwater end - member may also shift into the future.

But until now, paying for and getting paid for these shares has been a cumbersome experience, held back by slow and unreliable middlemen and uncertain, inconvenient payment methods.