The principal drawback of this approach is the high rate of false positive or equivocal levels due to the imprecision of the currently available meters: both physician and patient need an accurate understanding of what a meter can and cannot do to avoid frustrating and inconclusive results.

The principal drawback of the one way time transfer system is that propagation delays of the communication channel remain uncompensated except in some advanced systems.

George Prescott wrote: “ The principal drawback at present is the large size of the apparatus .”

The principal drawback is that it can be considered crude or unhygienic – it litters railway lines and can produce health risks if the train is passing over a public waterway.

The combination of heart output ( cardiac output ) and systemic vascular resistance, which refers to the collective resistance of all of the body's arterioles, are the principal determinants of arterial blood pressure at any given moment.

Elevated blood levels of the principal thyroid hormones ( i. e. free T3 and T4 ), and a suppressed thyroid-stimulating hormone ( low due to negative feedback from the elevated T3 and T4 ), point to hyperthyroidism.

Blood pressure ( BP ), sometimes referred to as arterial blood pressure, is the pressure exerted by circulating blood upon the walls of blood vessels, and is one of the principal vital signs.

Three of the four principal hobbit characters in The Lord of the Rings ( Frodo, Pippin and Merry ) certainly had Fallohide blood through their common ancestor, the Old Took.

Red blood cells, or erythrocytes, are the most common type of blood cell and the vertebrate organism's principal means of delivering oxygen ( O < sub > 2 </ sub >) to the body tissues via the blood flow through the circulatory system.

The natural foreskin has three principal components, in addition to blood vessels, nerves and connective tissue: skin, which is exposed exteriorly ; mucous membrane, which is the surface in contact with the glans penis when the penis is flaccid ; and a band of muscle within the tip of the foreskin.

His blood was offered to the principal deities in order to please and placate them.

The studies comparing the levels of sertraline and its principal metabolite, desmethylsertraline, in mother's blood to their concentration in umbilical cord blood at the time of delivery indicated that fetal exposure to sertraline and its metabolite is approximately a third of the maternal exposure.

Fibrinogen, the principal protein of vertebrate blood clotting, is a hexamer containing two sets of three different chains ( α, β, and γ ), linked to each other by disulfide bonds.

The principal major complication of all types of orchiopexy is loss of the blood supply to the testis, resulting in loss of the testis due to ischemic atrophy or fibrosis.

The principal biochemical features of the illness are reduced hair cystine levels, increased copper / zinc ratio, and presence of arginosuccinic acid in the blood and urine.

By applying principal component analysis to data from " classical genetic markers " ( protein polymorphisms from ABO blood groups, HLA loci, immunoglobulins, etc.

The theory stated that within every individual there were four humours, or principal fluids-black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood, these were produced by various organs in the body, and they had to be in balance for a person to remain healthy.

The principal buffers for increased volumes include both CSF and, to a lesser extent, blood volume.

Bagian was the principal investigator and performed Detailed Supplementary Objective 470 which described, by the use of transcranial Doppler, the changes of cerebral blood flow and its relationship to Space Adaptation Syndrome ( SAS ) and Space Motion Sickness ( SMS ).

* Gyromitrin ( deadly: causes neurotoxicity, gastrointestinal upset, and destruction of blood cells ) – principal toxin in genus Gyromitra.

These studies also helped establish that ENaC is the principal channel involved in blood volume and blood pressure regulation in humans.

The principal features include congenital heart defect ( typically pulmonary valve stenosis ) also ASD, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, short stature, learning problems, pectus excavatum, impaired blood clotting, and a characteristic configuration of facial features including a webbed neck and a flat nose bridge.

If the Alexander ideal is principal, take a generator ; this is called an Alexander polynomial of the knot.

Since the Alexander ideal is principal, if and only if the commutator subgroup of the knot group is perfect ( i. e. equal to its own commutator subgroup ).

The principal defender of this view of primary experience as `` causal efficacy '' is Alfred North Whitehead.

but his principal theme is that the intrigues of the Tories, `` our Popish or Jacobite Party '', pose an immediate threat to Church and State.

This is the principal point made in this final section of Englishman No. 57, and it caps Steele's efforts in his other writing of these months to counteract the notion of the Tories as a `` Church Party '' supported by the body of the clergy.

But when the situation was so complicated that even Nogaret, one of the principal actors in the drama, could misinterpret the pope's motives, it is possible that Othon and his companions, equally baffled, attributed their difficulties to a more immediate cause.

We submit that this is a most desirable effect of the law -- and one of its principal aims.

A primary function is the operation of a Government Bid Center, which receives bids daily from the Federal Government's principal purchasing agencies.

Subject to the limitations hereinafter provided, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, as prescribed by Section 8 of this Title, an amount not exceeding the principal of each award, plus accrued interests on such awards as bear interest, certified pursuant to Section 5 of this Title, in accordance with the award.

The Strategic Air Command is the principal element of our long-range nuclear capability.

If your principal place of abode for the tax year is outside the United States ( including Alaska and Hawaii ), Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands and you have no legal residence or principal place of business in any Internal Revenue district in the United States, you should file your return with the Office of International Operations, Internal Revenue Service, Washington 25, D.C..

But in such an important question, we would be satisfied if the judgment were that the principal objection to the identity of forces which produce electricity and magnetism were only a difficulty, and not a thing which is contrary to it.

There are three principal feed bunk types for dairy and beef cattle: ( 1 ) Fence-line bunks -- cattle eat from one side while feed is put in from the opposite side of the fence by self-unloading wagons ; ;

This is a pilot operation sponsored by a new entity chartered in Delaware as the Tri-State Pipeline Corporation, with principal offices in New York State.

Miller ( '50 ) is the principal antagonist of this viewpoint.

Emotional maturity is the result of many factors, the principal ones being the experiences of the first few years of the child's life.

Perhaps one way to sharpen our sense of the modernity of Utopian communism is to contrast it with the principal earlier types of communistic theory.

-- One of the principal aims of anionic polymerization techniques is the synthesis of polymers of extremely narrow molecular weight distribution.

If it is owned, taxes must be paid, and if the place is not free of mortgage, there will be interest and payments on the principal to take care of.

The role of an earthquake in starting the destruction of whole cities is tremendously frightening, but fire may actually be the principal agent in a particular disaster.

In general, friendly contact with a member followed by contact with a clergyman will account for a major share of recruitment by the churches, making it quite evident that the extension of economic integration through co-optation is the principal form of mission in the contemporary church ; ;

The new school superintendent is Harry Davis, a veteran agriculture teacher, who defeated Felix Bush, a school principal and chairman of the Miller County Democratic Executive Committee.

The principal of the school announced that -- despite the help of private tutors in Hollywood and Philadelphia -- Fabian is a 10-o'clock scholar in English and mathematics.

While it must be said that these same Protestants have built some new churches during this period, and that religious population shifts have emptied churches, a principal reason for this phenomenon of redundancy is that fewer Protestants are going to church.

However, my principal objection in this sort of novel is to the hackneyed treatment of race-drivers, pilots, submariners, atomic researchers, and all the machine-masters of our age as brooding mystics or hysterical fatalists.