It is designed to quickly assess the impact of the emotional/neuropsychological and physical aspects of the disease that can highly affect patients' lives, but that are difficult to quantify in a fast, standardized manner in routine clinical practice.
Yet danger is difficult to quantify in a sport with few regulations and no governing body.
"However, the complexity, uncertainty and the escalating nature of these costs present tail risk that is difficult to quantify in any stress test".
In many of the towns along the Hudson, the damage from PCBs is diffuse and difficult to quantify; in Fort Edward, however, it is pretty straightforward.
What they need is something that is difficult to quantify in a box score, but easier to find in a bottom line.
Just as success is increasingly difficult to quantify in a sport so brutally stratified by money (are Newcastle succeeding? Are Arsenal? Are Manchester City? Nobody knows) so Pardew's success or failure at Newcastle is unlikely to become any clearer with the passing of time.
The impact on the electric system is difficult to quantify, in part because the administration is moving forward on two other major rules affecting power plants, one for plants east of the Rockies that send pollution across state borders, and another governing discharges of warm water.
Furthermore, some indicators, such as "biodiversity", are difficult to quantify in the first place.
The benefits of a well-maintained airfield pavement are numerous and may be difficult to quantify in monetary terms.
However, colorimetric LFAs are binary, i.e. yes-or-no assays, thus difficult to quantify in a reproducible manner.
However, the effect of each is difficult to quantify in practice as these two parameters are usually interrelated.
