Equally troubling, enhanced security measures put in place in recent years cover only 40percentt of the potential bomb material in Russia, according to an authoritative report last week from Harvard's Project on Managing the Atom.
But in his book, Dr. Koch also raises the possibility of more troubling uses, including measuring the awareness levels of severely retarded children and elderly patients with dementia.
And in recent days, when tests of the processing plant of Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella, based in Terra Bella, Calif., found salmonella contamination and an inspection revealed troubling gaps in sanitary measures, agency officials urged the company to recall its entire 2008 crop, increasing tenfold the recall announced last week.
Any comparison I make between the two actresses will just propagate troubling paradigms about conventional measures of attractiveness, and given how gross the sequence made me feel, I just don't want to go there.
The inadequacies of the measures and the troubling motivations for these proclamations meant that countless numbers of freed slaves did not survive the war, despite the rhetoric employed to free them.
Since declines in casual and multiple partner sex appear to have been particularly important in explaining Uganda's historic HIV prevalence decline, any rise in this measure would be troubling and calls for further quantitative and qualitative investigation.
Other measures are even more troubling.
At their extreme, the measures have led to troubling incidents in which students have been harassed or detained by immigration officials.
This is not so troubling, perhaps, when the variance (a measure of the spread of the distribution of outcomes) is small, so that getting an outcome close to the expectation is probable; but what about when the variance is large?
