As a result, the fatigue life of the solder joints could be over-designed with added cost or time, or under-estimated with a compromised reliability performance.
These controversial results could perhaps be ascribed to the lack of standardization of the pre-analytical phase related to the serum separation time and the clotting temperature, which can influence platelet activation and, consequently, compromise reliability and reproducibility of the determinations [ 15, 17- 19].
Little work has been done to investigate the suggestion that the use of selected scales from a multi-scale health-status questionnaire would compromise reliability and validity.
Therefore, a principal component analysis was performed to reduce the number of correlated variables, yet the limited sample size adequacy compromised the reliability of this test.
As our studies were within-subject designs, differences in scale use are less important and we do not believe that the use of the 0 10 intensity scale compromised the reliability of our results.
Therefore, AT content, codon usage, and other molecular evolutionary biases do not appear to have compromised the reliability of the nucleotide-based results.
Recently, Ibberson et al. reported that RNA degradation compromised the reliability of miRNA expression profiling and stated that total RNA degradation with RIN values less than 7 should not be used for analysis of individual miRNAs [ 30].
A 2005 World Health Organization (WHO) study to assess workforce capabilities in countries with a high burden of tuberculosis determined that poorly developed human resources information systems compromised the reliability of data on tuberculosis workforce, and that wide variation in training course duration and staff numbers were poorly correlated with tuberculosis programs' performance [ 3].
However, very short scales can in fact seriously compromise the reliability of the instrument (Raykov 2008).
In addition to that cost, metrological problems may bias the crawling process and compromise the reliability of the data.
Unfortunately, industrial environment may compromise the reliability of PLC technologies due to noisy communication channel and interfering/competing PLC systems.
