lack of specificity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofandspecificity
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specificity
noun[U]
uk/ˌspes.ɪˈfɪs.ə.ti/us/ˌspes.əˈfɪs.ə.t̬i/
the quality of being specific (= clear ...
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First, previously reported modest correlations andlackofspecificitymay be due in part to diagnostic heterogeneity within groups of depressed children.
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Thislackofspecificityresulted in an ambiguity over which level of government - state or municipal - was responsible for delivering a particular public service.
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The consequences of thislackofspecificityare side effects, because biochemical processes in these regions are altered.
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But thislackofspecificityis what permits his lover to accept the charge.
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Errors occur in both perception and performance, but the existence of errors does not imply alackofspecificity.
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In this paper, the vagal tone literature is reviewed, and discrepancies, including thelackofspecificityof vagal tone as a psychophysiological marker, are clarified.
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Early immunolocalisation data for polycystin-1 gave conflicting results because of thelackofspecificityof many antibodies.
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Thus, in our care staff group the problem was one of possiblelackofspecificityrather than poor sensitivity to the target condition.
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Thus, the multiple specification view appears to imply alackofspecificityand so implies a need for inferential processing to resolve conflict between inputs.
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Thelackofspecificitymakes room for others to step in and appropriate the contents for their own ends.
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Cases where discrepancies exist, such as driving, would appear to constitute input conflict, with its attendant implication of thelackofspecificityand need for inferential processing.
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Alackofspecificitymay be no more than a relative limitation if it can be shown that the system does not lead to too many false alerts.
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While this may be true in many circumstances, it does not, in general, rule out the possibility that some perceptual errors are due to alackofspecificity.
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Ambiguity, in this sense, describes an indeterminateness,lackofspecificity, or undifferentiated quality of system components.
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Thislackofspecificityis not surprising, given that most research to date has been based on aggregate measures of stress and, often, on nonspecific measures of psychopathology.
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This relativelackofspecificityis conducive to discretionary action - an expression of institutional autonomy - on the part of the supranational institutions that give meaning to these principles and objectives.
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There is a lamentablelackofspecificity.
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It was precisely that situation that led to a measure oflackofspecificityin my original answer.
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Thatlackofspecificityis causing carers a problem.
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Because of thelackofspecificityin diagnostic technique, coenurosis can be misdiagnosed as neurocysticercosis or echinococcosis, other parasitic diseases affecting nervous system tissue.
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