Sentence examples for instruments poor from inspiring English sources

The grouping of port access in SPA procedures, however, raises a number of challenges, including tunnel vision due to the in-line arrangement of instruments, poor triangulation of instruments, requiring crossing of instruments to obtain proper retraction, and increased risk of instrument collision due to the close proximity to other surgical devices.

However, in the beginning of the past century, the deficiency of standardized disease criteria, absence of consensus in MDD and TRD definitions, lack of diagnostic instruments, poor follow-up clinimetric evaluations, and high rates of mortality led in many cases to misuse or abuse of these techniques.

A general criticism of the HADS in cancer screening has been issues relating to the instruments poor sensitivity (ability to detect true cases) and specificity (ability to detect true non-cases) when tested against a 'gold standard', typically, a structured clinical interview [ 24, 32].

Vertical, radial, and transverse components were quite coherent over the aperture of the array (> 100 m), indicating that the transverse motion of the compressional wave is a property of relatively large (106m3) volumes of rock, and not just an anomaly caused by a malfunctioning instrument, poor instrument-rock coupling, or outcrop-scale effects.

It has remained her inclination, ever since, to stick up for lesser-loved and quirkier instruments ("The poor viola!").

Health specialists in this case assess the risk of infection through contaminated instruments or poor hygiene control as low, but say they cannot be 100% sure.

The field is currently limited by a lack of longitudinal studies, limited psychometrically validated exposure instruments and poor conceptualisation and definition of racial discrimination.

However, effective targeting in the context of early childhood development is problematic, with many instruments providing poor predictive reliability.

This supports data suggesting that hospital admission is difficult to predict and most instruments have poor accuracy in identifying hospitalization and readmission [ 5].

Spoons, rolling pins and other blunt instruments make poor cutting tools.

Results: There was excellent agreement between the SpinT measurements of rotation about the Y axis compared with the readings from the testing platform regardless of the angle of tilt, whereas the CROM instrument displayed poor concordance when the tilt exceeded 5°.