Activists reported casualties though the numbers were difficult to ascertain, given the difficulties in communication and the Syrian government's suppression of independent news gathering.
However, radiography is severely limited by its inability to visualize cartilage, the difficulty of ascertaining the optimum and reproducible positioning of the joint in serial assessments, and the difficulty of grading joint space narrowing visually.
Radiography is severely limited by its inability to directly visualize cartilage, the difficulty of ascertaining the optimum and reproducible positioning of the joint in serial assessments, and the difficulty of grading JSN by visual evaluation.
The limitations of this study include the difficulty to ascertain the evidence whether the women started or quit smoking in Sweden or in their countries of origin as well as the difficulty to interpret the concept of acculturation since we lack data on numbers of years lived in Sweden and age of immigration.
The proliferation of counterfeit realities underscored the difficulty of ascertaining the truth in a country where there are so few arbiters of it.
The difficulty of ascertaining the objective worth of women's work, in this interpretation, is further complicated by issues of status and class.
But an even larger source of misunderstanding has come from the difficulty of ascertaining the amount of all United States stocks held by people who will have to pay the new, higher tax rates.
Determining when the line between cultural diffusion and cultural appropriation has been crossed presents several challenges, starting with the difficulty of ascertaining the difference between the two.
Due to the difficulty of ascertaining the offender's subjective motivation, bias is to be reported only if investigation reveals sufficient objective facts to lead a reasonable and prudent person to conclude that the offender's actions were motivated, in whole or in part, by bias. 1.
Given the difficulty in ascertaining the species identity of below-ground material collected from the field, BGCN and root porosity were quantified by growing the 11 species in the greenhouse under conditions designed to replicate temperature, humidity, and photoperiod at the field site.
