In addition, compared with the conventional lens, the transverse imaging spot size and the imaging efficiency of the designed LID lens have exhibited weaker reliance on the longitudinal position within the LID region.
Particular problems included weak study designs, reliance on self-report measures, highly variable consent and follow-up rates, and the absence of economic or cost analyses.
Alongside its partner Nissan Motor, Renault is investing 4 billion, or $5.2 billion, in the sector as it tries to move away from reliance on weak Western markets and combustion engines.
North Korea and Iran are much tougher cases and ultimately a far more important test of the Bush administration's efforts to roll back weapon programs through a mixture of force and diplomacy, rather than the more traditional reliance on weak international treaties and policing.
In contrast, but also consistent with prior work, rape-supportive attitudes showed a weak positive association with reliance on clothing style that was not statistically significant (d = 0.15).
People without a spouse also demonstrated greater reliance upon weak social ties for emotional support and social connection and often developed friendships with formal caregivers.
Despite this, there have been very few systematic descriptions of the clinical characteristics of patients with eating disorder NOS, and those that exist have had shortcomings including the use of relatively small and unrepresentative patient samples, the collection of a limited range of descriptive information, and reliance on weak or unstandardised measures.
NBC announced a fall television schedule yesterday with six new programs and additional reliance on "Weakest Link," a game show that network executives once vowed not to use more than once a week.
Moody's, a credit-rating agency, downgraded the bank by two notches earlier this year to low AA, partly because of its weak profitability and over-reliance on volatile trading revenues.In this section Man of the hour Knowledge gap Blossoming in Japan Britain's banking battle Bugs The trader's lament Sliding Basle bust-up ReprintsBut another factor in the downgrade was strategic wobbling.
Cell line work demonstrates that Akt activity increases during androgen ablation to stimulate cell growth and survival when androgen reliance is weaker, and therefore promote development of HRPC (Gao et al, 2003; Ghosh et al, 2003; Lin et al, 2003).
