Your report of the National Transportation Safety Board's recommendation that shoulder belts be installed in the rear seats of all new cars because a board study had shown seat belts ineffective (news item, Aug. 12) is not conducive to the public good or understanding.
Regulators said some of the items were ineffective against any ailments, much less serious diseases, and could exacerbate the illnesses they promise to cure.
These five items were equally ineffective in demonstrating shared variance in the factor analysis.
However, questionnaires missing information on three or more items were considered ineffective and excluded from subsequent analysis.
Having single phones as the index items was found to be ineffective as it produced a lot of false alarms.
Both perceived effectiveness, and perceived cost-effectiveness were preceded by "NRT... .........., and "Bupropion... ........... Perceived effectiveness of NRT without behavioural support was measured with the item "NRT without behavioural support is ineffective at helping motivated smokers to stop smoking".
The service's big artillery piece — Lacey Act felony prosecution — would likely be ineffective against a company that attempts, however unsuccessfully, to delete illegal items.
The Unallocated segment items of revenue and expense of a corporate nature, ineffective hedging gains and losses, and minor operations within the company, including third party above rail provision of overhaul and maintenance services to external customers.
If these strategies are ineffective, households can experience significant declines in non-medical consumption, including expenditures on such items as food, education, housing and recreation.
However, the model also postulates that familiarity is ineffective when similar targets and lures are shown and subjects have to identify which items are old because the representations of studied items and lures overlap in medial temporal lobe cortex.
