Although α is the most commonly used reliability estimate, it has long been pointed out by several authors that α is not a dependable estimator of scale reliability when the above assumptions are not met and that several alternative reliability estimates exist that obviate the difficulties encountered with the use of α and that can be more easily interpreted [68], [78], [79].
It could obviate the difficulties in reconciling the different proportions of Aβ species found in diffuse, primitive and mature dense-core plaques (Fiala, 2007) believed to represent different stages of extracellular plaque maturation (Armstrong, 1998) with observations that senile plaques themselves contain primarily Aβ1 42.
Our method, instead, obviates these difficulties and, indeed, transforms problems and/or limitations into advantages.
The data presented here show that overexpression of the potato SBEII gene can be achieved in potato, and that a relatively small single-intron construct obviates the difficulties of either manipulating a very large genomic fragment or cloning a functional SBEII cDNA gene in bacteria.
Now that civil war and the Voting Rights Act have allegedly "obviated this difficulty" for good, it might be time to liberate ourselves from that voters should be subjected to an elaborate process of "substitution".
By rejecting the substantiality of both minds and bodies, and by regarding them both as modes of a single substance, Spinoza obviated this difficulty.
Influential studies in this population therefore increasingly involve multicentre, collaborative efforts using rigorously defined inclusion criteria and outcome measures – such projects aim to obviate the aforementioned difficulties and to reduce the influence of individual intensive care units (ICUs) and case-mix variations on the findings.
According to Daniel, understanding what patients expect may obviate some of the difficulties and disappointments revealed by complaint surveys [ 2].
Such difficulties are obviated here.
Moreover, prophylactic interstitial laser therapy in early pregnancy might obviate the technical and clinical difficulties in the presence of fetal decompensation in later pregnancy.
