What's the difference between bottleneck and impediment?

Bottleneck


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Getting them to safety is now vital.” While the EU’s hotspots approach improved the fingerprinting and security vetting of migrants, the auditors said that funding and relocation “bottlenecks” had extended the detention of migrants, with disastrous consequences for children.
  • (2) On the basis of this study the area of the right coronary ostium appears to be a bottleneck with regard to an adequate blood supply to a hypertrophic myocardium.
  • (3) We therefore postulate the presence of an as yet undefined Golgi or post-Golgi bottleneck representing a major obstacle in secretion of recombinant IGFI from S. cerevisiae cells.
  • (4) These results suggest that the use of spatial anatomic knowledge, when combined with good interactive tools, can help to alleviate the segmentation bottleneck in medical imaging.
  • (5) Muller's ratchet could have significant implications for variability of disease severity during virus outbreaks, since genetic bottlenecks must often occur during respiratory droplet transmissions and during spread of low-yield RNA viruses from one body site to another (as with human immunodeficiency virus).
  • (6) For the most part, their journeys pass unseen, until they hit a barrier – the English Channel; the lines of police at Ventimiglia on the Italy-France border; the forests of Macedonia – that creates a bottleneck and leads to scenes of destitution and chaos.
  • (7) The data are consistent with the fine-grained niche theory but difficult to reconcile with bottlenecks and genetic drift.
  • (8) Bottlenecks in service utilization were distance from PHC, and caste, education and income.
  • (9) To promote resilience, job creation and mitigate risks for development, we will prioritize action under the Seoul Consensus on addressing critical bottlenecks, including infrastructure deficits, food market volatility, and exclusion from financial services.
  • (10) Read more pieces like this: The great salty mess: pollution threatens US fresh water resources Climate change may ‘bottleneck’ the Panama Canal and disrupt world trade Advertisement Feature : The water, energy and food nexus - animation The water hub is funded by SABMiller.
  • (11) Experimental bottleneck lines were generated from a single outbred population of the housefly using one, four, or 16 pairs of flies.
  • (12) Indonesia is like a kind of bottleneck and asylum seekers there are trapped in limbo.
  • (13) The bottleneck of refugees in Greece escalated on Sunday as regional officials spoke of a humanitarian crisison the state’s northern border, where 14,000 men, women and children were estimated to be trapped as a result of Macedonia sealing the frontier.
  • (14) The new line would help unlock a bottleneck on the current rail network and a Crewe hub would bring HS2's benefits to places such as Liverpool and North Wales up to six years earlier than originally envisaged.
  • (15) Europe's migrant crisis will not slow and EU nations must share duties, says UN Read more Many of these migrants had spent several days in a bottleneck on the Greek-Macedonian border last week, when the latter country declared a state of emergency for several days before lifting the declaration on Sunday.
  • (16) Videodisc based expert systems help break the bottleneck in relevant medical knowledge representation.
  • (17) The bottleneck theory would propose that qO2 has a constant (maximum) value under these conditions.
  • (18) This restricted flux is also referred to as the respiratory bottleneck.
  • (19) No unique alleles and low heterozygosities were detected in Memphis, Evansville and Jacksonville suggesting that a population bottleneck may have accompanied the founding of these populations.
  • (20) There’s a lot of tension.” As well as a bottleneck on the islands, there is also a buildup of stranded migrants at Greece’s northern borders.

Impediment


Definition:

  • (n.) That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect.
  • (v. t.) To impede.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Impediments to the necessary growth of this subspecialty for the needs of clinical practice and research are outlined and criteria for certification are reviewed.
  • (2) An understanding of the possible psychologic impediments to weight loss can promote improved therapeutic intervention for the obese patient.
  • (3) The results suggest that chronic sunlight exposure may be associated with an impediment to normal maturation of human dermal collagen resulting in tenuous amount of HHL.
  • (4) In order to achieve palatal closure with the least possible impediment to maxillary growth, the two-stage repair seems to be the best procedure in our hands.
  • (5) Causes of these impediments to maintaining nutritional status are discussed, and suggestions to overcome them are given.
  • (6) The data are consistent with the hypothesis that there is a sequential increasing impediment of the programmed cascade for downstream heavy chain constant region gene rearrangements.
  • (7) Lack of reproducibility is a severe impediment of both current conventional and kinetic methods in the prognosis of gliomas.
  • (8) These organizations can greatly reduce the logistic impediments to evaluating EMS care and initiating improvements.
  • (9) Changes in the evaluation protocol could preclude existing impediments to provision of information and patient autonomy; however, certain intrapsychic issues must be recognized as ongoing clinical realities to be addressed as the doctrine of informed consent continues to evolve.
  • (10) This survey shows that the use of nondiagnostic mammography is still less than optimal, and identifies impediments to screening that need to be addressed in cancer control planning efforts.
  • (11) The most frequently listed impediments included patients' advanced age or fragility, inadequate health insurance, and excess travel distance.
  • (12) Major issues identified include operational specificity, mislabelling of procedures, relative contributions of components in multi-faceted treatment packages, and impediments to systematic replication.
  • (13) The clinics of a single university hospital center were observed to determine a practical rationale for and impediments to implementing a medical care evaluation program.
  • (14) Accurate assessment and effective response is rendered difficult due to underrepresentation or denial by the patient and countertransference impediments to recognition and limit setting by the therapist.
  • (15) One impediment to such a study is the absence of any identified gene whose transcription is directly dependent on the receptor-hormone complex.
  • (16) But, according to Ruddick, the state council is a “gerrymander”, with factional leaders creating new “on-paper” branches that meet at most once a year in order to elect a delegate to state council and keep hold of “the numbers” – presenting Liberal reformers with exactly the same structural impediment to change as is faced by Labor.
  • (17) Conroy said the Minchin protocol was “merely an administrative policy adopted by the Department of Finance” which was “no impediment to a police investigation into Ms Bishop’s conduct”.
  • (18) A significant impediment in determining the relative contribution of whole blood viscosity to the pathogenesis of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease has been the lack of an uncomplicated method to measure whole blood viscosity.
  • (19) However, the lack of data on the forms of chromium-absorption from foods by the gastro-intestinal tract, and our concomitant inability to obtain an accurate assessment of the daily mobile pool of metabolically active chromium in the human body continues to be an impediment in assessing the overall impact of chromium nutrition.
  • (20) The results of this study indicated that the use of a nonresorbable hydroxylapatite for grafting resulted in impediment of tooth eruption and distortion of crown development.