Assumptions such as uniform parallel road marking, continuity of road texture, and operational vehicle head or tail lights are somewhat utopian and real world variability serves to diminish reliability.
On the other hand, using high values of the clustering parameter yields many possible transitions, but diminishes reliability (Additional file 2).
It is expected that a significant proportion of the fluid samples may give false negative results, limiting the usefulness of testing fluids to assess the infectious status of individual animals, or at least diminishing the reliability of a negative result.
Correspondingly, an uneven temperature distribution may decrease reliability and diminish the life of a power module in long-term operations.
It is far from clear that this would produce a more reliable determination of guilt or innocence, since the passage of time only diminishes the reliability of criminal adjudications.
The American military didn't like the idea of these coded switches, fearing that mechanical devices installed to improve weapon safety would diminish weapon reliability.
For instance, an emphasis on VA could lead teachers to cheat or teach to the test, which would then diminish the reliability of VA as a measure of teacher quality.
Apart from this limitation, the sample size was lower than the estimate, so it is a factor that may diminish the reliability of our findings.
Further, participants were asked to recall information on a variety of practices over a year's time, which might diminish the reliability of the results.
There is some evidence that suggests that labels distract respondents from job attributes and thus may diminish the reliability of estimates of attribute preferences [ 18].
Unlike computer-based assessment, CAT selects items for administration based on item parameters that, if not accurate for CAT mode of administration, may diminish the reliability or efficiency of CAT [ 5, 6].
