Some researchers state that the evidence-based approach to defining CAM is problematic because some CAM is tested, and research suggests that many mainstream medical techniques lack solid evidence.

The lack of artifacts caused concern for some archaeologists and the petrofabric analysis was inconclusive, but further research at Maes Howe and on the Bush Barrow Lozenge led MacKie to conclude that while the term ' science ' may be anachronistic, Thom was broadly correct upon the subject of high-accuracy alignments.

Experimental research on consciousness presents special difficulties, due to the lack of a universally accepted operational definition.

Although his work has been criticized for the lack of candor in checking the " facts ", some of his text has been confirmed by recent research, like the spectacular remains of Roman gold mines in Spain, especially at Las Medulas, which Pliny probably saw in operation while a Procurator there a few years before he compiled the encyclopedia.

The main challenge in this research is the lack of empirical data: spoken language leaves practically no traces.

While some experts point to statistics in support of the idea that a lack of adoption of research findings results in suboptimal treatment for many patients, others emphasize the importance of the skill of the practitioner and the customization of the treatment to fit individual needs.

More specifically, Italian economy is weakened by the lack of infrastructure development, market reforms and research investment, and also high public deficit.

A 1949 report noted the lack of " any great slackening in the pace of life at the Institute " to match the return to peacetime, remembering the " academic tranquillity of the prewar years ", though acknowledging the significant contributions of military research to the increased emphasis on graduate education and rapid growth of personnel and facilities.

) and lack of research for this disorder.

In recent research done in mice, it was found that the cleavage of PrP proteins in peripheral nerves causes the activation of myelin repair in Schwann Cells and that the lack of PrP proteins caused demyelination in those cells.

However, lack of research and scientific testing compromises its status as an effective treatment.

Furthermore, the ' diversity ' of claims made by various disciplines begins to lack any unifying principle or intuition as objects of study become more and more specialized due to the emphasis on specificity, precision and uniformity of reference that competitive, database-oriented research implies.

Many university laboratories in the United States have closed, citing a lack of acceptance by mainstream science as the reason ; the bulk of parapsychology research in the US is now confined to private institutions funded by private sources.

Due to the lack of information on this whole time period in Roman history, there has not been much further research on Antipope Boniface VII.

The relative lack of debris around the Sun may be the unusual case: one research team member suggests the Sun may have passed close to another star early in its history and had most of its comets and asteroids stripped away.

This particular application has fallen out of favor as research has shown a lack of efficacy and a lack of scientific basis for proposed biophysical effects.

A lack of data from Thailand, Russia, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa makes it difficult to lay out a clear map of the spread of chickens in these areas ; better description and genetic analysis of local breeds threatened by extinction may also help with research into this area.

There is a general lack of consensus in the diagnosis and treatment of DID and research on treatment effectiveness focuses mainly on clinical approaches described in case studies.

As an area of research and development, arid-zone agriculture, or desert agriculture, includes studies of how to increase the agricultural productivity of lands dominated by lack of freshwater, an abundance of heat and sunlight, and usually one or more of extreme winter cold, short rainy season, saline soil or water, strong dry winds, poor soil structure, over-grazing, limited technological development, poverty, political instability.

The dangers of unrefrigerated sashimi were not brought to light for decades due to the lack of research and healthcare distribution across rural Japan.

In Inward Hunger ' ms recounts that in the period following his graduation: " I was severely handicapped in my research by my lack of money ...

That aggressive research — tracking rebel guerrillas in the Peruvian jungle at age 67 for The Evening News ( 1990 ), or reading 27 books on the hotel industry for Hotel — gave his novels a realism that appealed to readers, even as some critics complained that he used it to disguise a lack of literary talent.

The tension between the soldiers and the scientists is worsened by dwindling supplies, loss of communication with other survivors, and a lack of progress in research.

Its name means " no feet " in Greek, and it represents a bird-of-paradise ( which were once believed to lack feet ).

Salieri is characterized as both in awe of and insanely jealous of Mozart, going so far as to renounce God for blessing his adversary ; " Amadeus " means love of God, or God's love, and the play can be said to be about God-given talent, or the lack thereof: Salieri is hospitalized in a mental institution, where he announces himself as " the Patron Saint of mediocrity ".

A deeper criticism of Green archaeoastronomy is that while it can answer whether there was likely to be an interest in astronomy in past times, its lack of a social element means that it struggles to answer why people would be interested, which makes it of limited use to people asking questions about the society of the past.

By contrast, in civil law jurisdictions ( the legal tradition that prevails in, or is combined with common law in, Europe and most non-Islamic, non-common law countries ), courts lack authority to act where there is no statute, and judicial precedent is given less interpretive weight ( which means that a judge deciding a given case has more freedom to interpret the text of a statute independently, and less predictably ), and scholarly literature is given more.

In a classical description, the lack of an external field also means that there is no field between the plates, and no force would be measured between them.

If the gentry refused to collect the King's taxes, the Crown would lack any practical means with which to compel them.

As a means of overcoming objections to EVM's lack of connection to qualitative performance issues, the Naval Air Systems Command ( NAVAIR ) PEO ( A ) organization initiated a project in the late 1990s to integrate true technical achievement into EVM projections by utilizing risk profiles.

* Often used as a means to bleed money from customers through lack of defining a deliverable

The Oxford English Dictionary ( first edition ) associates it with such onomatopoeic words as flit and flick, emphasizing a lack of seriousness ; on the other hand, it has been attributed to the old French conter fleurette, which means " to ( try to ) seduce " by the dropping of flower petals, that is, " to speak sweet nothings ".

A repair of an integrated system, though, means complete lack of use of the system.

The lack of a decipherment means there is no definite evidence for this view, though there is support based on onomatopoeia ( for example: AB 23 ' mu ' from Hieroglyphic 12, a bull-head ; AB 80 ' ma ' from H cat-head ; AB 67 ' ki ' from H 57 a sistrum ( a type of rattle ); AB 60 ' ra ' from H 18 dog-head ; AB 50 ' pu ' from H 58 harp ).

Gandhi had a clash with Subhas Chandra Bose, who had been elected president in 1938, and who had previously expressed a lack of faith in non-violence as a means of protest.

H < sub > 2 </ sub >< sup >+</ sup > is composed of two positively charged protons and one negatively charged electron, which means that the Schrödinger equation for the system can be solved more easily due to the lack of electron – electron repulsion.

The lack of an estuary means that shipping cannot enter the Murray from the sea.

The lack of access to the foreign media and the tradition of secrecy in North Korea means that there is little news about political conditions, but Amnesty International's 2003 report on North Korea says that " there were reports of severe repression of people involved in public and private religious activities, including imprisonment, torture and executions.

These affordable dining shops evolved from American food rations after World War II due to lack of supplies, and they continue to be popular for people with modest means.

" Egyptian strongholds in Canaan are also mentioned, including a temple dedicated to Amun, which some scholars place in Gaza ; however, the lack of detail indicating the precise location of these strongholds means that it is unknown what impact these had, if any, on Philistine settlement along the coast.

This means that it is possible that most galaxies, including our own Milky Way, have gone through an active stage ( appearing as a quasar or some other class of active galaxy depending on black hole mass and accretion rate ) and are now quiescent because they lack a supply of matter to feed into their central black holes to generate radiation.

Oxygen serves as the limiting reactant in this scenario because the reaction that creates fire needs a constant supply of it to continue ; when the glaze and the clay come out hardened, this means that the oxygen was subtracted from the glaze and the clay to accommodate the lack of oxygen in the atmosphere.

Angelo S. Rappoport in his Dictionary of Socialism ( 1924 ) analysed forty definitions of socialism to conclude that common elements of socialism include: general criticisms of the social effects of private ownership and control of capital-as being the cause of poverty, low wages, unemployment, economic and social inequality, and a lack of economic security ; a general view that the solution to these problems is a form of collective control over the means of production, distribution and exchange ( the degree and means of control vary amongst socialist movements ); agreement that the outcome of this collective control should be a society based upon social justice, including social equality, economic protection of people, and should provide a more satisfying life for most people.

The lack of formal protection, however, means that a third party is not prevented from independently duplicating and using the secret information once it is discovered.

The characteristic features of the Turkic languages are vowel harmony, extensive agglutination by means of suffixes and other affixes, and lack of noun classes or grammatical gender.

In 2004, the UK charity WaterAid reported that a child dies every 15 seconds from easily preventable water-related diseases ; often this means lack of sewage disposal ; see toilet.

However, it has been theorized that the supremacy of the Communist Party means that the Constitution and law are not supreme, and that this perspective is the result of the Marxist view of law as simply a superstructure combined with a lack of recognition of rule of law in philosophical or historical tradition.