Sentence examples for an undesirable consequence from inspiring English sources

Short reports demand less time of authors, reviewers, and readers, but an undesirable consequence is that findings are less likely to be replicated even by the investigators who first publish them.

Now the response of salivating to the metronome is followed by an undesirable consequence, the cancellation of the food that would otherwise have been delivered on that trial, but the dog still cannot help salivating (at least sometimes) to the metronome.

Root resorption is an undesirable consequence of orthodontic tooth movement.

Increased residential mobility has been proposed as an undesirable consequence for the victims of sexual victimization.

Udayana claims that tarka is of five types, namely 'self-dependence' (ātmāśraya), 'mutual dependence' (anyonyāśraya), 'circle' (cakraka), 'infinite regress' (anavasthā), and 'having an undesirable consequence' or reductio-ad-absurdum (aniṣṭāprasaṅga).

Regulating the days that an automobile can be driven logically would result in a good consequence, the reduction of exhaust pollutants; but in practice the fact that drivers avoid the regulation by purchasing a second older vehicle with a different license number resulted in an undesirable consequence, a net increase of exhaust emissions.

Secondary salinization of soils has become a major undesirable consequence of this agronomic activity.

In the same way that students rated poorly in TOSBA were given a 'wake-up call', some of the students who had performed satisfactorily at TOSBA may have adopted a more complacent approach – an unintended and undesirable consequence.

The result of this, Butterfield argues, is the creation of a "self-perpetuating prison class" that is an unexpected, and presumably undesirable, consequence of our get-tough-on-crime philosophy.

The overall objective of quantifying occupational risk through detailed logic models in WORM is twofold: First from a qualitative point of view the model helps in identifying the specific factors that contribute to the risk by outlining the sequence of events that constitute an accident, starting from the undertaking of an activity by a worker to the final undesirable consequence.

It has been suggested that the reduction of end-diastolic volume might be the undesirable consequence of an adaptive mechanism of stiff myocardium, in an effort to compensate for poor contractility by increased pressure during experimental cardiomyopathy [ 22].