Although the CRED statistics are questionable in that they exclude small-scale disasters, which might well add up to a large proportion of the total, they do help us to understand the scale of the threats posed to lives and livelihoods, and thus the importance of the implementation of the SFDRR.
Although the lower base lesion levels presently obtained are not surprising because of pollution controls affecting the contaminant status of the DR (U.S. EPA 2001), any direct comparison of the 1993 and 1995 data with the results obtained in 2000 would be questionable in that the earlier findings involved phenol/chloroform extraction of DNA.
It also sacrifices a major vessel of the lower extremity, requires immediate postoperative monitoring of circulation to the graft, and its success is questionable in areas that have undergone previous irradiation or severe trauma [21].
Furthermore, the safety of placing the rod at the front of the foot is questionable: in the event that an individual lost balance during the test, the rod could prevent stepping off the device with ease.
An analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Company, Ronny Gal, summed up Merck's decision this way: "You've got a drug that is questionable in a toughening regulatory environment going into a market that is a lot smaller than people originally thought".
We're going to analyze it, and I'm warning right now that Ecuador doesn't have the $13 billion for a project that is questionable in terms of its economic and financial worth".
The leaks "guarantee that even if exonerated and never charged, Armstrong's reputation will have been permanently damaged," the filing said, adding that the information has been leaked to elicit public support for an investigation that is "questionable in both its motive and its merits".
"That said, there is much that is questionable in the new programme.
Further, the reproducibility of data from microarray is questionable in spite of the fact that this is the most common expression profiling technique used [ 5- 9].
While thinking of mutation as abnormality is questionable in the context of natural selection, that is nonetheless the common implication.
