Shipping eco-rating schemes fall short of best practices for design and governance, and this hampers improvement efforts.
The constant increase of cancer cell resistance to radio- and chemotherapy hampers improvement of patient survival and requires novel targeting approaches.
Confined spaces, substandard working conditions, high labor intensity, high heading rate, and complex field management have hampered improvements in thin-seam mining technology.
In addition, stakeholders who are most familiar with the problems that hamper improvements in health are usually not members of academic communities.
Many different scales have been used to measure eczema, making it difficult to compare trials in meta-analyses and hampering improvements in clinical practice.
However, she argued that there is "a real lack of children's rights awareness" in social work training and recruitment is hampering improvement.
If the assessment of the HR needs was based on the actual workload, it is possible no substantial gap was determined because most of the current diagnostic and treatment tasks are carried out satisfactorily by existing staff, but an unrecognized HR gap could hamper improvement in case detection rates.
Patients' silence about abusive events is alarming as it is not only directly harmful to patients, but a lack of patient feedback also hampers structural improvements.
In some industries, although modifying the payment system can be the key to increasing industry profitability, mistrust between growers and millers can hamper such improvements.
The lack of molecular markers and comparative whole genome sequence analysis for this family severely hampers crop improvement efforts as well as QTL confirmation and validation studies.
When rainbow trout from a single breeding program are introduced into various production environments, a genotype by environment (GxE) interaction on growth performance and its uniformity may occur, which hampers genetic improvement of these traits across multiple environments.
