"The difficulty was probably harder, [and] it was more clinically relevant" than the old board's exam, said Marc Jones, an eye doctor in Bedford, Ind. Jones was certified by the new board in 2003.
No doubt the greatest of all the problems attendant upon the distant-station policy was that of communications, and this difficulty was probably felt more on the Pacific Station than on any of the others.
As the experiment was scheduled early in the new competition period, we assume they still did not achieve their optimal level of performance, and therefore the level of difficulty was probably set slightly over 90% of their personal best previous performance.
Then, in 1999, the Florida Supreme Court said "there is no doubt that the defendant has serious mental difficulties, is probably somewhat retarded, and certainly has learning difficulties and a speech impediment".
Algorithms other than the AI-REML algorithm might have converged (e.g. the EM-algorithm, which is known to be slow), but the convergence difficulties are probably due to the small size of the dataset, thus resulting variance component estimates would have been unreliable.
The lack of technical difficulties was probably due in part to the use of late model computers that could accommodate the modeling software and the use of Internet2, a national high performance research and education network, to communicate between end points.
But U.S. officials concede that the notion of bypassing Karzai poses enormous difficulties and is probably not a viable solution to the standoff unless Karzai himself accepts the idea.
Likewise, chronic pain has been associated with sleep difficulties, which is probably a reciprocal relationship [ 39].
It would be easy for Martínez to try to use Saturday's game and another possible Cup run as a useful distraction from league difficulties, though he is probably aware Everton supporters would not swallow that.
