For the NHS and the wider industry, procurement processes and cultural differences can create perceived obstacles.
The longer one looks, the more despondent one can get and the greater the perceived obstacles in the way may seem.
Companies are focused on jittery consumer confidence, an unstable stock market, perceived obstacles to business expansion like government regulation and, above all, swings in demand for their products.
The perceived obstacles are the high German taxes and strict labour laws, which are off-putting for some, as well as Frankfurt's reputation, albeit one it's trying hard to shake, for being a little dull.
Tim Rice, an adviser at ActionAid, said: "The summit organisers cheerily call this devastating trend an 'emerging and expanding asset class' and bill the summit as an opportunity to 'overcome the perceived obstacles to investment'".
In response to real and perceived obstacles in connection with their doctoral studies, women appeared to experience a longer-lasting and more severe erosion of their self-confidence than men.
Makers as big as Honda, the world's largest, and as specialized as Aprilia, a style-centric Italian brand, are working to eliminate the perceived obstacles of shifting gears and mastering a clutch with new models that let riders simply gas it and go.
Once the home of some of the nation's strictest prohibitions on contraception, the state has codified abortion rights granted by Roe v. Wade into state law and has regularly rejected perceived obstacles to abortion, like requiring 16- and 17-year-olds to undergo counseling before they can terminate pregnancies.
The paper first reviews such simulation in a manufacturing context and reports a survey of perceived obstacles to success.
In addition, Items Q6.2_2 and Q6.2_3 measured lack of confidence (indicated by their significant negative loadings on confidence) in addition to perceived obstacles to teaching evolution.
Item Q6.2_6, in addition to its expected relationship with perceived obstacles to teaching evolution, also had a comparatively small but significant positive relationship with confidence.
