The Syrian National Council, formed last fall, has been plagued by infighting and has been criticized as ineffective, amounting to little more than a front for the long-exiled Syrian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood with little influence inside the country.
Although the proportions of GPs who believe that NRT is ineffective amounts to only around one-tenth [ 9, 20], this finding is surprising given the clear evidence of the effectiveness of NRT [ 4].
9, 10 This was evidence not only that leptin was crossing the BBB in ineffective amounts, but also there existed a phase in which resistance at the BBB (termed peripheral resistance) was functionally dominant to resistance at the receptor/postreceptor level (termed central resistance).
Homeopathic treatments are generally regarded to be ineffective and amount to little more than water, though some people claim to gain comfort from them.
It makes the chemotherapeutic treatment ineffective and required amount of drug could not reach into the brain after its delivery [ 25].
In its judgment, the supreme court reiterated that the American Bar Association guidelines requiring mitigation specialists and the fullest possible investigation must be followed – and failure to do so would usually amount to ineffective assistance of counsel.
The question in the case, Padilla v. Kentucky, No. 08-651, whetherther bad legal advice about a collateral consequence of a guilty plea could amount to ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment.
But he said they were increasingly receptive to arguments that a defense lawyer's failure to present evidence of brain damage during the sentencing phase can amount to ineffective assistance of counsel, which is a ground for reversing a death sentence.
On the contrary, other studies [ 13, 16] did not find any influence on the amount of ineffective effort when the PEEPe was applied as a "fixed" value (that is, 5 cmH2O).
For example, improper adjustment of pressure support in a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease can lead to Cheyne-Stokes breathing; can induce recruitment of abdominal muscles causing the patient to buck the ventilator; or can escalate the amount of ineffective triggering [ 7, 8].
