Nuclear opponent Eisaku Sato, governor of Fukushima Prefecture from 1988 – 2006, said a conflict of interest is responsible for NISA's lack of effectiveness as a watchdog.

The initial drop tested the ability of the bomb to clear or breach mine fields ; however, no reliable assessments of mine clearing effectiveness are publicly available.

There is little sympathy by the Chinese public for corrupt officials who get caught up in the system, but also skepticism regarding its effectiveness.

There are five levels defined along the continuum of the model and, according to the SEI: " Predictability, effectiveness, and control of an organization's software processes are believed to improve as the organization moves up these five levels.

Pie menus take up more screen space than linear menus, and the number of slices in an individual menu must be kept low for effectiveness by using submenus.

The President's continuing strength is due also to the army's continued loyalty and the effectiveness of Syria's large internal security apparatus, the top leaderships of which are largely made up of members of Asad's own Alawi sect.

After Mick Dumke, a reporter for the Chicago Reader, questioned the effectiveness of the city's handgun ban, Daley picked up a rifle with a bayonet from a table of confiscated weapons and told him, " If I put this up your butt, you'll find out how effective it is.

Patients were followed up over a long term and evaluated based on several criteria: 1 ) how many of them were responders after a period of 6 months, 2 ) how many cingulotomies had a patient undergone before the examination of the effectiveness of the procedure, 3 ) did the patient show any significant change after the most recent procedure and 4 ) what were the side effects related to the procedure.

This is not only because of the effectiveness but also because this material would be easy to clean up.

The effectiveness of the Auld Alliance with France had virtually ceased after Verneuil and its renewal in 1428 did not alter that — James adopted a much more non-aligned position with England, France and Burgandy while at the same time opening up diplomatic contacts with Aragon, Austria, Castile, Denmark, Milan, Naples and the Vatican.

" By June 11 the effectiveness of the 352nd was regarded as " very slight ", and by June 14 the German corps command was reporting the 352nd as completely used up and needing to be removed from the line.

By moving the guns from point to point during the battle, enemy formations could be broken up to be handled by the infantry wherever they were massing, dramatically increasing the overall effectiveness of the infantry.

Increasingly used by advertisers and advertising agencies to research the effectiveness of their proposed storyboard before committing to a ' full up ' television advertisement.

If the effectiveness of the decollement becomes reduced the thrust will tend to cut up the section to a higher stratigraphic level, until it reaches another effective decollement where it can continue as bedding parallel flat.

India was one of the first countries in Asia to recognize the effectiveness of the Export Processing Zone ( EPZ ) model in promoting exports, with Asia's first EPZ set up in Kandla in 1965.

Power is given to the leader to evaluate, correct, and train subordinates when productivity is not up to the desired level, and reward effectiveness when expected outcome is reached.

Other widely mentioned elements of a SLAPP are the actual effectiveness at silencing critics, the timing of the suit, inclusion of extra or spurious defendants ( such as relatives or hosts of legitimate defendants ), inclusion of plaintiffs with no real claim ( such as corporations that are affiliated with legitimate plaintiffs ), making claims that are very difficult to disprove or rely on no written record, ambiguous or deliberately mangled wording that lets plaintiffs make spurious allegations without fear of perjury, refusal to consider any settlement ( or none other than cash ), characterization of all offers to settle as insincere, extensive and unnecessary demands for discovery, attempts to identify anonymous or pseudonymous critics, appeals on minor points of law, demands for broad rulings when appeal is accepted on such minor points of law, and attempts to run up defendants ' costs even if this clearly costs more to the plaintiffs.

In open terrain, up to can be covered by an effective team, although detection range limits effectiveness beyond or so without special equipment.

I raised in the previous chapter the problem of what Wigner calls the " unreasonable effectiveness " of mathematics ; here I want to take up another equally puzzling phenomenon, the unreasonable ineffectiveness of philosophy.

This number tells how much cash / goods are tied up waiting for the process and is a critical measure of process reliability and effectiveness.

The scoop was low enough that its effectiveness was questionable ( it was unlikely to pick up anything but boundary layer air ), but it allowed more of the engine's roar to escape.

Note also that more segments are not always bad for compression effectiveness: many images are most effectively compressed using 4 to 6 segments ( for megapixel images ) because disparate regions of the image end up in different segments.

By mid-1776, a number of ships, ranging up to and including the thirteen frigates approved by Congress, were under construction, but their effectiveness was limited ; they were completely outmatched by the mighty Royal Navy, and nearly all were captured or sunk by 1781.

Nixon stated in a letter that he wrote to Congress for full support of this act " Our tactics for pursuing this objective are twofold: First, to accomplish much needed and long overdue reform of the manpower programs set up under the Manpower Development and Training Act and subsequent legislation and thus increase their effectiveness in enhancing the employability of jobless workers ; and, second, to move toward a broader national manpower policy which will be an important adjunct of economic policy in achieving our Nation's economic and social objectives ".

While earned run average ( ERA ) measures the runs a pitcher gives up, WHIP more directly measures a pitcher's effectiveness against the batters faced.

One might expect some spread of the disease in this case resulting in increased effectiveness of the attack.

Whether this abnormal TSH differs chemically from pituitary TSH, or is, alternatively, normal TSH with its period of effectiveness modified by some other blood constituent, cannot be decided without chemical study of the activity in the blood of these patients and a comparison of the substance responsible for the blood activity with pituitary Aj.

The effectiveness of the vests varied widely — some successfully deflected bullets and saved lives, but others were poorly made and resulted in tragedy for the soldiers.

However, like antidepressants, they have little evidence of effectiveness, although antipsychotics have shown some benefit.

The study used meta-analysis of over a hundred secondary studies to find some level of effectiveness that was either " proven " or " presumed " to exist.

Due to the rough terrain of Colombia communications between regions was difficult and affected the effectiveness of the central government creating isolation in some regions.

In addition, some studies on the effectiveness of prayer on recovering heart attack patients have shown a small benefit to prayer or other spiritual treatment in recovery.

Emergency insertion of a copper IUC is significantly more effective than the use of ECPs, reducing the risk of pregnancy following unprotected intercourse by more than 99 %.< sup > 2, 3 </ sup > This very high level of effectiveness implies that emergency insertion of a copper IUC must prevent some pregnancies after fertilization. Emergency contraceptive pillsTo make an informed choice, women must know that ECPs — like the birth control pill, patch, ring, shot, and implant ,< sup > 76 </ sup > and even like breastfeeding < sup > 77 </ sup >— prevent pregnancy primarily by delaying or inhibiting ovulation and inhibiting fertilization, but may at times inhibit implantation of a fertilized egg in the endometrium.

However, some neurons are directly connected to one another via gap junctions, and it is proposed that modafinil influences the effectiveness of these connections.

Preclinical and early clinical studies have been started to examine bortezomib's effectiveness in treating other B-cell-related cancers, particularly some types of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

There is some question as to the effectiveness of MIT.

Spitzer wrote that some earlier studies provided evidence for the effectiveness of therapy in changing sexual orientation, but that all of them suffered from methodological problems.

In function and effectiveness, the UN has been compared to the pre-Constitutional United States Federal government by some, giving a comparison between modern treaty law and the historical Articles of Confederation.

A vaccine for horses ( ATCvet code: ) based on killed viruses exists ; some zoos have given this vaccine to their birds, although its effectiveness is unknown.

There is some popular concern in countries with greyhound gambling regarding the well-being of the dogs ; the effectiveness of industry efforts to address these concerns is a topic of some debate.

The debate over teenage pregnancy and STDs has spurred some research into the effectiveness of different approaches to sex education.

The effectiveness of the tissue varies, with some sharks having stronger nocturnal adaptations.

The effectiveness of acetaminophen ( paracetamol ) alone as an antipyretic in children is uncertain, with some evidence showing it is no better than physical methods.

The effectiveness of the powerful Venetian fortifications of the island as well as the strength of some old Byzantine fortifications in Angelokastro, Kassiopi, Gardiki and others, was another strong factor that enabled Corfu to remain the last bastion of free, uninterrupted Greek Christian civilization in the southern Balkans after the fall of Constantinople.

However, its effectiveness depends on the number of spines, and since some of the desert hedgehogs evolved to carry less weight, they are much more likely to try to run away and sometimes even attack the intruder, trying to ram into the intruder with its spines, and rolling as a last resort.

Indeed, the following theorem holds true ( provided that the deduction apparatus of the considered fuzzy logic satisfies some obvious effectiveness property ).

In the following years the effectiveness may be reduced slightly since the fallopian tubes can, in some cases, reform or reconnect which can cause unwanted pregnancy.

Recently, concerns have been growing once more about the state of the West Front, as there has been some stonework falling, which has raised questions as to the effectiveness of the repairs carried out in 2000.