No one is going deny that South Sudan has many serious problems, a fragile future at best, and no one is saying that English will solve these overnight.
This is an admission that there are serious problems, a rare acknowledgement from a country so characteristically precious about its internal affairs.
And calling these serious problems a "correction" in the market, or a "cycle" of the economy, doesn't make their situation any better, their jobs and homes any safer, their lives any easier.
The initial tests, performed for more then a month of work, seem indicate that the extractive fermentation increases the specific production rate, but the alginate matrix shows many serious problems: a low mechanical resistance, the leakage of viable cells, a not negligible internal mass transfer resistance and the decrease in viability of the entrapped microorganisms.
On a darker note, Uganda also has many serious problems: a president in power for 26 years, millions in stolen funds and missing medicine, oil wells soon to begin flowing (with the potential for further corruption) and one of the world's youngest populations facing high rates of inflation and rising unemployment.
Montgomery is Maryland's most populous and prosperous locality, but it has missed out on boom times and now faces serious problems: a virtual standstill in job and business growth this decade, a gap between haves and have-nots and an anemic revenue outlook.
To put it somewhat differently, scoring at Level 1 on the third-grade test is a sign of serious problems: a child who can read the words of an age-appropriate book, for instance, but not really grasp what they mean or the story they tell.
The conflicting university demands cause the academics serious problems: a recent study from the UK shows serious motivational and even mental problems in the complex and ill-defined and 'non-caring' academic performance environment (cf. Shaw and Ward 2014).
Consulting an irrigation and drainage specialist can short-circuit any serious problems a heavy storm might cause.
