In fact, one of the major reasons for the failure of the ill-starred expedition appears to have been a lack of full information on the extent to which Cuba has been getting this Russian military equipment.

To interpret, indeed, the era from 1000 to 800 as a period mainly of consolidation may be a necessary but unfortunate defect born of our lack of detailed information ; ;

One of the major weaknesses of GPWS is the lack of " look-ahead " information, because it only provides altitude above terrain " look-down ".

This was based on lack of intelligence information and reflected the American nuclear warfare theory and military doctrines.

The date of composition is disputed and is difficult to determine due to the lack of personal information about Obadiah, his family, and his historical milieux.

Other examples could be inefficient or inappropriate information systems, a lack of supervision or training, and a lack of clarity in roles and responsibilities which can lead to staff being uncertain about what is expected of them.

A review of fourteen studies on the subject in sub-Saharan Africa, covering insecticide-treated nets, residual spraying, chemoprophylaxis for children, chemoprophylaxis or intermittent treatment for pregnant women, a hypothetical vaccine, and changing front – line drug treatment, found decision making limited by the gross lack of information on the costs and effects of many interventions, the very small number of cost-effectiveness analyses available, the lack of evidence on the costs and effects of packages of measures, and the problems in generalizing or comparing studies that relate to specific settings and use different methodologies and outcome measures.

Historically, there has been a lack of information and reliable statistics about Afghanistan's economy.

Among these assumptions are several which are impossible to fully achieve in a real market, such as complete information, interchangeable goods and services, and lack of market power.

This is done to avoid catastrophic accidents caused by lack of knowledge / skill as much as possible, and also allows the government to maintain information on who reloads their own cartridges.

The argument went on to note that profit-maximization was not accomplished, in part, because of the lack of complete information.

Scholars lack information on this period.

Regardless of the lack of information about homosexuality in scholarly texts, another forum for learning about lesbianism was growing.

The result of the lack of medical information on WSW is that medical professionals and some lesbians perceive lesbians as having lower risks of acquiring a sexually transmitted disease or types of cancer.

Monaco did not appear in the list of these territories until 2004, when OECD became indignant regarding the Monegasque situation and denounced it in its last report, as well as Andorra, Liechtenstein, Liberia and the Marshall Islands, underlining its lack of co-operation as regards to financial information disclosure and availability.

Many thousands of meteorites have been distributed in this way, most of which lack any information about how, when, or where they were discovered.

The disadvantage of MDI usually cited is its lack of information about the currently opened windows: In MDI applications, the application developer must provide a way to switch between documents or view a list of open windows, and the user might have to use an application-specific menu (" window list " or something similar ) to switch between open documents.

Thus, lack of complete information on the part of survey participants may have skewed the results.

However, since to date no extraterrestrial life has been confirmed, both theories still suffer from lack of information and too many unidentified variables.

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.

Such an approach may be limited by lack of competition in a market, by enterprises not offering privacy options favorable to the user, or by lack of information about actual privacy practices.

Critics from the neoclassical school of economics criticise state-ownership and centralisation of capital on the grounds that there is a lack of incentive in state institutions to act on information as efficiently as capitalist firms do because they lack hard budget constraints, resulting in reduced overall economic welfare for society.

Scientists discount the existence of Bigfoot and consider it to be a combination of folklore, misidentification, and hoax, rather than a living animal, because of the lack of physical evidence and the large numbers of creatures that would be necessary to maintain a breeding population

Scientists discount the existence of Bigfoot and consider it to be a combination of folklore, misidentification, and hoax, rather than a living animal, because of the lack of physical evidence and the large numbers of creatures that would be necessary to maintain a breeding population.

Black is the lack of all colors of light, or an exhaustive combination of multiple colors of pigment.

Several modern theories have ventured to explain this decline, including the breakdown of trade routes to supply the needed metals, the lack of trace impurities in the metals, the possible loss of knowledge on the crafting techniques through secrecy and lack of transmission, or a combination of all the above.

The strong creditor protections afforded to derivatives counterparties, in combination with their complexity and lack of transparency however, can cause capital markets to underprice credit risk.

Through a combination of poor judgment, lack of oversight by the bank's management and regulators, and unfortunate events like the Kobe earthquake, Leeson incurred a US $ 1. 3 billion loss that bankrupted the centuries-old institution.

The value of the pearls in jewelry is determined by a combination of the luster, color, size, lack of surface flaw and symmetry that are appropriate for the type of pearl under consideration.

It is instead defined by a combination of the features it has and the features it lacks: reptiles are the amniotes that lack fur or feathers.

Thus, the combination of poor harvests, the hardships of the peasants, high taxes, lack of representation of the people, and kingly ineptitude are among the causes of the French Revolution.

These problems, in combination with the lack of suitable targets, resulted in the Sheridan's deployment to South Vietnam without the complex missile system.

This is possibly the only use of such a combination, due to the lack of such requirements for other train systems.

The combination of economic and demographic factors led to hunger, housing shortages and a lack of work for young people.

The city and county councils suffer from a combination of a lack of power to raise their own taxes and a gradual and persistent erosion of their powers over time.

Obesity is most commonly caused by a combination of excessive food energy intake, lack of physical activity, and genetic susceptibility, although a few cases are caused primarily by genes, endocrine disorders, medications or psychiatric illness.

A combination of hardware and operating-system software design considerations determine the symmetry ( or lack thereof ) in a given system.

Running between the 1st of November and 4th of November 1996, the combination of several other gaming expos and the lack of support from Japanese game manufacturers meant the turnout was reported as ' poor ', and as such no further E3 / Tokyo events have taken place.

Sex reassignment surgery can be difficult to obtain, due to a combination of financial barriers and lack of providers.

The lack of heavy rainfall arises from high atmospheric stability caused, in term, by the combination of cool waters from semi-permanent coastal upwelling and the presence of the cold Humboldt Current ; and warm air aloft associated with the South Pacific anticyclone.

The reasons for this are probably a combination of the high cost of living and the lack of other young adults.

Most individual loudspeaker drivers are incapable of covering the entire audio spectrum from low frequencies to high frequencies with acceptable relative volume and lack of distortion so most hi-fi speaker systems use a combination of multiple loudspeakers drivers, each catering to a different frequency band.

Post-war tower blocks were compromised from the outset by a combination of faults: local authorities advocated impractical architectural methods ; design and construction faults were frequently reproduced ; and there appeared to be a lack of understanding about the social consequences of certain design features.

The effect could be felt under maximum speed and tilt, when the combination of tilting outside view and lack of corresponding sideways force can be disconcerting to passengers, like that of a " thrill ride ".

With IBM suffering its greatest ever public humiliation in the wake of the PS / 2 disaster, massive financial losses, and a marked lack of company unity or direction, Microsoft's combination of a soft marketing voice and a big financial stick was effective: Windows became the de-facto standard.

In Revolving Culture: Notes from a Scottish republic ( 1992 ) he described the development, during the early stages of the Union with England, of an " intellectual republic " forged by a combination of insularity and lack of English interest in Scottish affairs.