Sentence examples for prevented understanding from inspiring English sources

Much as with Venus before the Space Age, the dense opaque atmosphere prevented understanding of Titan's surface until new information accumulated when the Cassini–Huygens mission arrived in 2004, including the discovery of liquid hydrocarbon lakes in Titan's polar regions.

The participation rate in the school survey was 77%% (n = 715); one subject was excluded after survey administration due to cognitive impairment that prevented understanding of the questionnaire.

Lack of a control group prevented understanding whether improved HbA1c levels were in part due to other factors than melatonin administration, such as better pharmacological and diet compliance due to study participation.

The lack of genetic tools to follow lineages in these species, however, was a long-lasting limitation to validate putative RSC-specific markers, which in turn prevented understanding the regulatory framework that generates and maintains this stem cell fate.

Other exclusion criteria were: hepatic artery embolisation or radionucleotide therapy in the preceding 3 months or scheduled during the study; SSA treatment in the preceding 6 months; or radiotherapy, chemotherapy or interferon in the preceding 4 weeks or scheduled during the study; and comorbid disease that prevented understanding of and/or compliance with treatment.

Words can be used as bridges to understanding or as barriers to prevent understanding.

It is a dialect continuum, in which neighbouring dialects are mutually intelligible but the cumulative differences impede or prevent understanding between groups that are some distance apart.

Another salient issue is that the opaqueness of trained networks prevents understanding the underlying models.

However, a general lack of accurate long-term in situ measurement of groundwater depth and analysis of trends prevents understanding of the dynamics of these systems at landscape scales.

A major problem that prevents understanding the space use of small organisms such as bees is that adequate long-distance tracking methodologies for such taxa have not been available (but see [2], [16]).

The paucity of these data additionally prevents understanding whether the VAP is endogenous or exogenous in origin.