Sentence examples for impair the reliability from inspiring English sources

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation says in a report scheduled for release Monday that unless appropriate measures are taken to improve transmission of electricity, rules reducing carbon dioxide emissions by utilities could impair the reliability of the power grid.

However, scoring such complex and open-ended responses is laborious especially in large-scale assessment and may also impair the reliability of the assessment (Wilson 2008).

The results showed that non-uniform corrosion is the critical factor affecting the time-dependent reliability of a reinforced concrete beam; moreover, changes in the failure mode of a corroded steel bar may severely impair the reliability of a reinforced concrete beam.

These harsh conditions, however, do not impair the reliability of the measurement.

These preliminary results suggest that arrhythmia does not impair the reliability of automated cuff measurements of MAP.

These abnormalities are frequently present in cirrhotic patients and consequently are likely to impair the reliability of CysC-based equations.

From a learning-theoretic perspective, dismissing complex hypotheses impairs the reliability of inductive methods.

Such method is subject to multiple factors potentially impairing the reliability and validity of the results, such as algometer application rate, potential variability in the precise location of the stimulator, algometer stimulator dimensions, and experimenter factors (e.g. training in the technique).

This problem is particularly important in bioinformatics, given the volatility of tools (especially web-based), impairing the reliability of biological data processing.

Although item 2 (I know my way around this community) showed only fair agreement between the two measurements, retention of item 2 did not impair the overall reliability of the instrument.

Poorly understood questions, or underutilized rating scale categories can seriously impair the accuracy and reliability of PRO measurements [ 6- 8].