Sentence examples for hampered determination from inspiring English sources

Although aggregation hampered determination of the solution structure for N-BP-2, a homology model was generated based on the high degree of sequence and structure homology exhibited by the IGFBPs.

The region around the palindromic sequence PrP has been predicted to form β-strands [ 60] but inherent disorder has hampered determination of its structure.

First, nationwide questionnaire surveillance hampered determination of detailed biological measures and comorbidities assessed in the previous study, such as serum potassium, congestive heart failure and atrial fibrillation, which are potentially confounding variables that should be considered in the accurate assessment of the relationship between dysregulated sMg and deaths [ 21, 22].

The sterile triploidy nature of these cultivars hampers determination of the genetic basis of the resistance trait.

One drawback of these databases, however, is that drug use information usually is limited to outpatient prescriptions hampering determination of medication applied in hospital [ 9].

Since proteins could only be identified with two or three peptides, it was not possible to discriminate well between isoforms of closely related proteins, hampering determination of the exact number of proteins in each sample (Additional file 3: Table S2).

Another important limitation was the availability of information on duration of gestation at pregnancy outcome, which hampered accurate determination of stillbirths.

A limitation of the rat model is the small size of the arthritic knee joints and, hence, a very small volume of inflamed synovia, which hampered exact determination of tracer uptake in synovial tissue.

Third, the telephone-based survey method hampered the determination of several biological measures in the previous study, such as body mass index and mobility problems (ie, TUG), which are potentially confounding variables that should be considered in the accurate assessment of the relationship between OAB and falls.

Richard Kuklinski — known as the "Iceman" because he froze his victims' bodies to hamper the determination of the time of death — claimed he had killed more than 200 people as a hit man for Newark's DeCavalcante crime family and New York City's mob families.

Chemical or magnetic domain alteration during heating and/or multidomain effects hamper the determination of paleointensities (e.g., Valet et al. 1996).