Sentence examples for below optimal from inspiring English sources

The study also suggests that efforts to detect and treat to the targets those with the disease are still below optimal.

Although many positions have been replaced, overall numbers remain well below optimal.

All four of our acquisitions have similar characteristics — they're well occupied but operating below optimal level.

Although condom use has increased in much of East Africa, it remains substantially below optimal levels.

Screening to detect and prevent colorectal cancer (CRC) is well below optimal, contributing to needless CRC-related morbidity and mortality.

Although levels of preference for the sharing option were below optimal, participants chose it significantly more in the.95 and.65 conditions than in the 0 condition.

We have demonstrated the potential of E. crassipes for removing a range of toxic metals from polluted water in the below-optimal, temperate, maritime UK climate.

However, the limited validity of preclinical predictions of this enhancement in humans indicates that conventional screening for 'broadly active' compounds represents a below-optimal research strategy.

Compared with young adults who had below-optimal levels of the risk factors at the start of the study, those with above-optimal levels were one and a half to three times as likely to have coronary artery calcium 15 years later.

And a 2002 report from the Institute of Medicine on health disparities found that language barriers between patients and the professionals who care for them can result in poor, shortened or wrong communication, poor decision-making and below-optimal outcomes for members of minorities.

The calibration slope for this primer pair indicates below-optimal efficiency (Table  1), perhaps accounting for the discrepancy.