Consequently, patent and intellectual property laws were greatly strengthened, universities demanded patents on the discoveries of their faculty, information sharing among researchers was impeded, and the line between universities and corporations began to blur.
The album's development was impeded by a dispute between Big Boi and his former label, Jive Records, over creative and commercial differences.
She argued that psychological differentiation between mothers and daughters was impeded by social factors, leading to women's fears of autonomy, achievement and others' envy.
Over the years, there have been complaints that the American effort in Vietnam was impeded by flaws in the chain of command between Washington and Saigon.
Rescue and relief work was impeded by overloaded telephone communications, and consequentially, Telecom ceased telephone service between Townsville and Ingham.
Furthermore, the OA progression was impeded efficiently.
Communication was impeded by severe dysarthria.
Furthermore, meta-analysis is impeded by incompatibilities between different versions of genome annotations, microarray technologies, file formats, experimental designs, data processing pipelines and statistical analyses.
Background: Homology-based taxonomic assignment is impeded by differences between the unassigned read and reference database, forcing a rank-specific classification to the closest (and possibly incorrect) reference lineage.
American officials and diplomats trying to establish a framework for what they call a "managed transition" that would ease Mr. Assad out of power say the effort has been impeded by the antipathy between Saudi Arabia and Iran, which has never been worse.
