Currently, there is no FDA-approved treatment for cancer cachexia; a contributing reason for the lack of progress has been a lack of consensus regarding standard and appropriate end points for clinical studies.
Characters from shows like Will & Grace, Modern Family and The New Normal have done wonders for changing hearts and minds on LGBT equality, but they have also contributed to the lack of visibility for non-white LGBT people.
Nevertheless, technical challenges in MRV [4, 5] have, thus far, substantially contributed to the lack of progress for implementation of REDD+ on the ground.
The rise of HIV, worries about coercive practices, and the sense that high fertility and rapid population growth were no longer pressing issues all contributed to the lack of support for family planning.
The reported low levels of anxiety at both clinics may also have contributed to the lack of fit for the 3-factor PCS anxiety measure.
As expected, due to the pilot nature of this work (n = 16), type II errors likely contributed to the lack of significance for many of the other outcomes.
In terms of source characterization, missing low-traffic hours as well as morning and evening rush hours limited the range of traffic conditions and may have contributed to the lack of significance for traffic predictors.
Though families often sought multiple levels of care, delays in seeking medical treatment and the inaccessibility of services for NCDs may have contributed to the lack of effective treatments provided to patients at advanced stages of disease.
As IIT is a complex treatment to administer, it is possible that the limited number of patients treated at each site was responsible for, or at least contributed to, the lack of treatment effect; this phenomenon has been observed in at least one prior trial in patients with severe sepsis [ 32].
