The country was plagued not only by a sluggish economy but by violent crime (much of it drug-related), poverty, welfare dependency, problematic race relations, and spiraling health costs.
Long-term exposure to corticosteroids, however, is problematic due to dependency and/or the development of resistance [ 4].
In an IEC 61131-3 environment, cross-vendor reuse of modules is problematic due to dependencies in proprietary programming environments and existing configurations.
For example, there are a variety of tools investors can use to ask themselves if seafood companies in their portfolio are adhering to international best due diligence practices to surface potentially problematic impacts and dependencies on biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Internet dependency, or problematic internet use, has emerged as a new concept of addiction.
4.1 To capture differences at baseline and 12 months later between patients' and resident loved ones' perceptions of patients' health status, problematic ADLs, mood status, care dependency and daily symptoms.
Such local dependencies are not problematic for the current scoring of the ThyPRO, but may lead researchers to overestimate the precision gained by the instrument, because locally dependent items provide less measurement precision than assumed by standard psychometric analyses [ 41].
Care should be taken in drawing conclusions when DIF is found only for items 1 and 2. However, the presence of local dependencies is more problematic for parameter estimation since it may spuriously inflate the estimated item discriminations [ 68].
Kanter [ 46] suggests leaders may be fearful of confronting staff about problematic work practices due to a dependency on staff to achieve results.
Researchers also use Compulsive Computer Use [ 18], Problematic Internet Use [ 19], and Internet Dependency [ 20] to describe the same phenomenon.
