Sentence examples for by poor understanding of from inspiring English sources

Chronic hunger does not move the media: the main reason for the prevalence of undernutrition is inadequate purchasing power, and malnutrition is often caused by poor understanding of nutrition.

Conservation efforts are well intentioned, but severely hindered by poor understanding of the fishes' ecology and behaviour, and the same neglect of basic taxonomy seen in most plants and animals.

Until now, research efforts focused on electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide into stable carbon-based materials have been limited by poor understanding of catalytic effects occurring at surfaces.

The goal of generating organoids reproducibly and efficiently has been hampered by poor understanding of the exact nature of the intrinsic cell properties at the origin of organoid generation, and of the signaling pathways governing their differentiation.

While considerable effort and resources have been implemented into restoring these important environmental engineers, the success of oyster populations is often limited by poor understanding of site-specific dispersal patterns of propagules.

Development of high-capacity hydrogen-storage systems utilizing physisorption at high pressure and low temperature is hindered by poor understanding of the pore size/shape requirements for achieving the maximum hydrogen uptake.

Medical screening is characterised not by success, but largely by a poor understanding of sensitivity, specificity, receiver-operator curves and lead-time bias... Prof Easton: @scubadoc - It is true that these measures, like sensitivity and specificity, are important measures to consider in deciding whether a screening programme is worthwhile.

Eradication of tuberculosis is also hampered by our poor understanding of the strategies used by this pathogen for surviving in a dormant state within the phagosome following infection of macrophages [3].

Tinnitus treatment is complicated not only by a poor understanding of its mechanisms but also by the variations in individuals' reactions to its perception.

The development of novel drugs for the treatment of CAEBV has been hampered by a limited number of cases, and also by a poor understanding of the disease pathogenesis.

For centuries gambling was crippled by a poor understanding of probability, whose mysteries attracted thinkers like Blaise Pascal and Galileo.