Sentence examples for problematic methods from inspiring English sources

"Piraeus has long used problematic methods that call for investigation," said Costas Lapavitsas, a political economist at the University of London who follows banking and politics in Greece.

Extrapolating highly variable estimates produced using problematic methods in time and space creates extreme uncertainty and low confidence in these scaled estimates.

The authors' decision to withhold these data resembles scientific malfeasance, especially when coupled with the previously discussed problematic methods for counting autism cases.

The diversion of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) with shunts has proven to be an effective but problematic method to treat hydrocephalus [ 1].

Hence, in the absence of a unified species concept, counting species will always be problematic, method-, mander-, and possibly sample-dependent.

This can be a problematic method in some circumstances [ 18, 19] when one considers that the benefits of contemporary methods like parallel analysis and bootstrapping for factor retention have been shown.

Racial bias in a tough sentencing environment, botched and problematic execution methods set against a backdrop of constitutionally banned "cruel and unusual punishment," not to mention the men and women who have been wrongfully executed, all point to the fact that a civilized society should work toward dismantling the death penalty.

It may therefore be useful to consider these descriptive uses of thresholds differently from the problematic prescriptive methods mentioned above.

Estimating species trees for these taxa can be problematic; these methods could prove to be useful for closely-related asexual fungal taxa.

Comparisons with other published values for pQCT measured bone parameters are problematic as methods, scan sites and threshold settings vary greatly.

This imbalance is particularly problematic in methods based on pairwise associations between proteins, where the expected number of protein pairs sharing functional relationships is an even smaller fraction of all possible protein combinations.