Compared to Whites, Black Caribbeans (odds ratio (OR): 1.27, (95% confidence interval (95%CI) 1.04, 1.56), Nigerians and Ghanaians (OR: 1.56, 95%CI 1.24, 1.95) and Other Africans (OR: 1.33, 95%CI 1.04, 1.71) were significantly more likely to have unsatisfactory measures of FVC.
Of course, more occasional worshippers contribute only fractionally to average attendance, which was always an unsatisfactory measure of the deep and persistent thirst for spiritual nurture met by the rich diversity of churches up and down the land.
"Once they are out of the institution, they continue to be excluded from society," says Babaeva. "Institutions are an unsatisfactory measure that do little for these children".
Data on NS-SEC are only available from special surveys and the Townsend score, as an example of an area deprivation index, is an unsatisfactory measure when ascribed to individuals due to ecological bias.
The office for Manhattan and Staten Island, one of four in different boroughs under Mr. Scoppetta's direct control, was rated unsatisfactory on measures like how often caseworkers visited children, how swiftly families were reunited and whether children received needed medical care.
The enveloping technique is revisited for defect identification but is found unsatisfactory in measuring the angle between two faulty teeth.
In such situations, the best test developers can do to ensure reliability is to strictly adhere to detailed test specifications and/or resort to unsatisfactory ad hoc measures such as adjusting cut-off scores so as to ensure the percentage of test takers who pass remains constant (McNamara [1996]).
In addition, national data showed that oral health in the general population and children was unsatisfactory and preventive measures among children in the first grade of primary school have been carried out since 2005.
PET has low spatial resolution and its accuracy in excluding early gallbladder neoplasms may be unsatisfactory in lesions measuring less then 1 cm.
Recorded crime has always been an unsatisfactory way to measure crime trends and it is a mistake to think that improving recording practices will make it a more accurate indicator of whether particular crimes are rising or falling.
Even beta seems to have lost some of its forecasting ability: small-company shares have not produced higher returns than big-company ones over the long bull market of the 1980s and 1990s.Yet even if these valuation measures are unsatisfactory and sometimes contradictory, they do have at least one thing in common.
