potential limitation

collocation in English

meaningsofpotentialandlimitation

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potential
adjective[before noun]
uk
/pəˈten.ʃəl/
us
/poʊˈten.ʃəl/
possible when the necessary ...
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limitation
noun
uk
/ˌlɪm.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/
us
/ˌlɪm.əˈteɪ.ʃən/
the act of controlling and especially ...
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A secondpotentiallimitationinvolves the sample.
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This also highlights apotentiallimitationof the contingent valuation method.
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Apotentiallimitationis that diagnoses were based on case notes rather than on research interview.
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Apotentiallimitationfor this study is its sample size and sampling techniques.
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Apotentiallimitationto this study concerned the use of best-estimate diagnoses in the children.
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Apotentiallimitationof the model is that it assumes that producers are risk neutral.
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We comment briefly on a particular strength and apotentiallimitationof their provocative account.
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Apotentiallimitationof this new tool is that it is restricted to evaluative items.
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Apotentiallimitationof this approach is that by classifying neuroticism into broad groups, statistical precision may be lost.
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Anotherpotentiallimitationof this study is the use of a cross-sectional approach to estimate incidence.
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Anotherpotentiallimitationof the study relates to the observed discrepancies between responses to the postcard and follow-up questionnaire.
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Anotherpotentiallimitationof the study was that the number of cases was small and detailed risk-factor data was missing for one case.
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Apotentiallimitationof the present study is that actual map errors might differ from the types or in degree from those considered here.
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A secondpotentiallimitationof the present study is the modest sample size of the cohort, limiting power in statistical tests performed.
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Apotentiallimitationof the analysis is the high variability of the data, apparent from the considerable scatter of the data points above and below the fitted curve.
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The fact that the radar may be subject to disruptions of this type precisely when important migratory movements are taking place is apotentiallimitationof the technique.
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However, the extent and the pattern of incomplete case ascertainment confounded by other cohort, survivor, or period effect cannot be independently measured or adjusted, which constitutes anotherpotentiallimitation.
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Anypotentiallimitationposed by the natural world was felt to be surpassed using human ingenuity.
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Professorial staffing to serve the burgeoning student enrollments and course offerings was apotentiallimitationduring this period.
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The collateral contact layers (schoopage) with the electrodes can be apotentiallimitationof peak current carrying capacity.
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Lithium has antidepressant properties, but does not inhibit muricidal behavior, which suggests apotentiallimitationagainst using it as an antidepressant screening test.
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In the later stories he has limited success in overcoming his agoraphobia, which he recognizes as apotentiallimitationto his species and more directly his son.
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