Sentence examples for are barely understood from inspiring English sources

Functions and mechanisms underlying this regulation are barely understood.

As a result, there are many different algorithms adopted in both commercial and open source players while the detailed algorithms and their performance are barely understood.

It is estimated that perhaps half of Africa's remaining elephants are of the forest-dwelling subspecies, and thus live largely out of sight and are barely understood.

The promise of Humes's bioartificial organ is to deliver the full range of kidney functions, even tasks such as regulating the immune system that are barely understood by medical science.

These are still wearily trotted out in the grudging rhetoric of a non-taxpaying corporation throwing a Christmas party in an orphanage, and are barely understood by their alleged proponents.

We were reminded of the new Indonesian species of ray and shark and the two recently identified (1991/2002) species of beaked whale, inhabiting a deep-sea niche: the deep sea and its inhabitants are barely understood.

Yet who makes the decisions in China is barely understood.

Back in the early 1950s, the metallurgy of metal fatigue and crack propagation was barely understood.

That was more than 40 years ago, when autism was barely understood, much less recognized, as a standard diagnosis.

It is barely understood by the general public, its value is in freefall and it has a serious image problem.

While both solid Lewis acids and bases have been extensively studied, the role of redox catalysts for the production of lactic acid is barely understood.