"showed shortcomings" is correct and is commonly used in written English.
You can use it when talking about situations in which the flaws or weaknesses of certain people, ideas, plans, or systems are revealed. For example, "The research project showed shortcomings in the proposed design."
IBM's programme was bred out of an internal survey that showed shortcomings in the training of new employees.
Results also showed shortcomings in the description about the patient population, with less than 10% having reported on the functional level and the stage of disease progression and only half reported on the disease duration.
When interpreting the studies with the aid of the QUADAS tool [ 30] it could be established that some studies showed shortcomings in describing the selection criteria clearly and in describing the test method or the reference method in such detail that it could be reproduced.
"This paper, far from showing shortcomings in inclusive fitness theory, shows the shortcomings of the authors," said Frances Ratnieks of the University of Sussex.
Figure 5 Synthetic image patch showing shortcomings of NMI.
However, experimental methods still show shortcomings in the description of the dynamic properties of proteins.
However, LCE implementations show shortcomings due to a discontinuous integration in key business processes as well as separated tool environments between core engineering disciplines and LCE methods and tools.
They outline attempts at classifying these ideas, including through Weltanschauung ("world view") and Geistesgeschichte ("time spirit"), before showing shortcomings in these systems.
In the case of Tanzania previous studies have shown shortcomings of MTUHA at various levels [ 9, 10].
However, these models all show shortcomings in that they do not model the effect of the pulpal response to the carious lesion and the tissue fluid dynamics/re-mineralization phenomena within the dentin tubules.
Still, Ms. Lowry said her review of child fatality reports showed serious shortcomings in the way cases were investigated, even though deaths have declined in recent years.
