In an Australian survey [ 16], the most commonly reported impediments to expanding home dialysis services were operational and infrastructural factors such financial disadvantage for home HD patients, and lack of physical infrastructure for training, support and education.
In addition to allowing people to report impediments to voting quickly and easily, the application maps election trouble spots and allows observers, from the news media or from good-government groups like Common Cause, to alert the Board of Elections and to dispatch their own monitors to affected polling places.
Project Managers/Supervisors reported more impediments due to working practices, but a greater preference for a collaborative working style than Junior/Student researchers (Figure 13).
Ill-conditioning was previously reported as an impediment to applying the theory to problems of practical importance.
The difficulty of finding an Indigenous person with the skills and time to contribute was reported as an impediment by some respondents, although it was not possible to assess the extent to which this had been strenuously pursued.
Poor organization (26%) and insufficient opportunities for professional development (15%) were also reported as major impediments to being an emergency service provider.
Whilst 28.7% of participants in study 1 saw this as a barrier, only 20% reported this as an impediment in study 2 (28.7%; p=0.02).
Some authors (Chabari and Njiru 1991; Noor 1999) have reported a number of impediments to livestock marketing in the ASALs of northern Kenya including poor quality roads, lack of reliable market information, stock rustling and general insecurity, absence of consistent livestock marketing policies and hence dependency on private traders.
There is only one reported case of a speech impediment secondary to an electrical injury in the literature.
Romney was originally in support of a more lenient policy toward abortion rights because, as Salon.com reported, he had a personal impediment: Ann Keenan, the sister of his brother-in-law died at the age of 21 from an unsafe abortion.
