Primary studies lacked protracted measurements of weakness.
In a recent series, The Times's Robin Pogrebin detailed many of the commission's dysfunctional ways, including inadequate record-keeping, protracted delays and a lack of transparency.
27 Moreover, a lack of motivation during protracted MVCs might reduce central activation to the appropriate motor neurons, resulting in the loss of tension.
For UNICEF itself, strategic planning for the transition from relief through recovery to development was compromised by the transaction costs involved in protracted infrastructure work and a related lack of capacity available to the Country Office.
He was the man who made it clear to the British that the only way they could hold on to Burma was by force, astutely and audaciously gambling that the British lacked the will for a protracted fight.
However, introduction of universal prophylaxis has been protracted in many developed countries, due to a lack of evidence regarding clinical benefits of prophylaxis initiation later into adolescence and adulthood, as well as the substantial per-capita costs associated with replacement therapy [11 13].
The WONCA International Classification Committee defined chronic disease as long in duration, often with a long latency period and protracted clinical course; having a multi-factorial etiology; lacking a definite cure; and as gradually changing over time with an asynchronous evolution and heterogeneity in the population susceptibility [ 23].
The inquiry, which also involves Justice Department investigators in Washington, began even as President Bush said on Tuesday that he had little enthusiasm for protracted Congressional inquiries into Mr. Clinton's activities, a lack of interest that officials said was shared by Attorney General John Ashcroft.
However, our data also demonstrate that MO inertia is idiosyncratic in that it stems from distinct MO characteristics, particularly a culture of consensus and an elitist identity, which in turn reinforce MOs' lack of champions, limited environmental intimacy, and protracted decision-making.
A number of factors have frustrated efforts to elucidate the disease, and to develop diagnostic and treatment approaches; these include conflicting observations in epidemiologic studies, protracted disease duration, poorly correlated symptoms and radiographic findings, and lack of effective therapies.
