Examples of deficient

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In this sense, any normative scheme that fails to take feasibility seriously is seriously deficient.
Although this outbreak was not necessarily due to poor pool maintenance, deficient maintenance is reported to be widespread in pools nationwide [36].
The induction of these antibodies does not confer immunity in complement-deficient individuals [27].
The economy was in shambles, with no reliable currency, a deficient transportation network, persistent problems of food supplies and schools closed during prolonged periods.
The results of this meta-summary indicate that by neglecting spiritual work, the frameworks may be deficient in guiding end-of-life research and clinical care.
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor-deficient mice develop aggressiveness and hyperphagia in conjunction with brain serotonergic abnormalities.
The deficient institutional environment leads large enterprises to develop their own infrastructure and services, either in-house or in collaboration with selected other enterprises.
Most disappointing is the evaluation of men's ways of talking as somehow deficient.
We hypothesized that adults aged 16 to 64 with deficient social support and social networks would have higher rates of neurotic symptoms.
We might, in some circumstances, have to regard such practices as manifesting only partial or deficient corrective justice.
Such a behavioural inhibition may certainly be deficient in catatonia as it is reflected in perseverative-compulsive behaviour and uncontrollable emotions.
The technique of cordal transposition is used when cords are deficient, particularly on the aortic leaflet.
When leaflet tissue is deficient, it is mandatory to remodel the annulus at the site of deficiency.
Rather, sensory cortices may receive input normally but fail to send and receive inputs from higher order association regions, due to deficient long distance connectivity.
Such biventricular connection can only be found when the ventricular septum is itself deficient.
Here it is implied that disadvantages that arise from deficient input will persist due to influences that remain from the cognitive implications of this deficit.
Like an orphan son its arches did not reach the prime of manhood, instead remaining deficient and incomplete.
The study revealed that accurate and holistic pain assessment for older people was deficient in the acute surgical setting.
Reduced cardiac conduction velocity and predisposition to arrhythmias in connexin40-deficient mice.
Color-deficient individuals have difficulty judging differences in color, and confuse colors which appear quite distinct to color-normal individuals.
Females with known color deficient relatives were excluded from the study.
Mutant mice (quaking and jimpy) with deficient myelination in the central nervous system.
In addition, appropriate selection of red-green channel noise predicts the relatively normal red-green matches made by some color deficient observers.
The combination of these two tests, employing the established criterion, gave the percentage of color-deficient males as 8.09%.
An argument persuasive to the theist will need to begin by accepting that theistic belief system and then showing some part of it deficient.
High faecal counts in juvenile lynx samples may reflect transient deficient immunity to hookworms and/or the effects of a larger exposure to infection.
Based on multidisciplinary research, they are methodologically sophisticated, but generally deficient from the theoretical point of view.
If a principle fails in a basic case in the core of its domain, then the principle is deficient.
In telomerase-deficient mice, telomere shortening affects the function of epithelial stem cells.
The solution obtained above is therefore deficient and must be augmented by consideration of the effects of fluctuating circulation about the wing.
The present model is clearly deficient in regard to this coupling in that it precludes any energetics of the seiche field.
In this experiment the transgene was backcrossed into each of four selected lines, so that the performance of thyroid-deficient animals could be assessed.
The state of preservation was generally deficient, and depended on the location of the samples.
French liaison is possible only with deficient pronouns.
They then tested this result in vivo by transplanting poorly invasive breast cancer cell lines into the cleared mammary fat pad of immune-deficient mice.
The average length of each sieve element salivation period was significantly longer on nitrogen-deficient seedlings.
The time taken for the aphid to show sieve element activities from the start of the experiment was greater on nitrogen-deficient seedlings.
Annual evaluations of each child are used by school districts to determine risk for deficient school functioning.
The amount of nutrition available in these households was woefully deficient.
The development of naming skills in normal and language deficient children.
Another characteristic is the deficient or absent punctuation between sentences.
If not, then either neuronal development is not a selection process or our analysis is deficient.
From observation, the diet seemed deficient in quantity.
The second central finding of this study was that the response inhibition deficit that occurs in patients with schizophrenia is due to deficient inhibitory control.
In recent studies, we demonstrated alterations in extracellular space, potassium regulation and seizure duration in aquaporin-4-deficient mice (2, 3).
Anaemia in this study population was probably due to protein deficiency caused by both a protein-deficient diet and intestinal helminth infections rather than iron deficiency.
The protein-deficient rats have reduced catabolic rates as compared with well-nourished rats, presumably to conserve its protein resources.
Such designs are deficient as an evaluation tool for complex and multidimensional activities.
A central part of this effort was directed to the primary care system where the diagnosis and treatment of depression are deficient in many countries.
In general the invertebrate faunas were also limited in diversity, deficient in host-specific species, and dominated by generalists.
Selective activation of the hypothalamic vasopressinergic system in mice deficient for the corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor 1 is dependent on glucocorticoids.
More than four-fifths (82 per cent) were satisfied with voting rights, although the institutional supply of liberal democracy is judged as greatly deficient.
Their respective holdings, or lack thereof, are to be treated as normative givens, and the only question is whether their interaction was morally deficient.
Law that fails to be morally obligatory will be viewed, from this central legal viewpoint, as defective, deficient, falling short.
The marginal zone was hygienically deficient both in the homes and the surrounding areas and also in the sanitary practices of the residents.
Therefore, we apply regularisation methods, that provide a stable way of treating rank deficient and unstable problems.
A group of cords supporting the mural leaflet is chosen opposite to the area of deficient support.
Perhaps our present schema of the sciences will become as obsolete and deficient as the former half a century from now.
Dependence of impaired eye tracking on deficient velocity discrimination in schizophrenia.
The purpose of the present work, therefore, was to test whether red-green color-deficient observers also per form better with natural spectra.
The color deficient subjects spanned the range of severity among people with red-green deficiencies except for one individual who had a mild congenital tritan deficiency.
As reported in this study, the inner zona surface is either totally lacking or very deficient in acrosome reaction-inducing ability.
Most likely, damage to the cell cytoskeleton could account for deficient reorganization of cell structures that in turn led to poor embryonic development.
Despite their appeal, subjective-attitudinal theories face significant problems in connection with deficient horizons.
A major purpose of the book is to counter misconceptions that dialect speakers are somehow deficient.
Both hordeins and zeins are deficient in the essential amino acid lysine.
Molecular characterization of the follicle defects in the growth differentiation factor 9-deficient ovary.
In addition, in a related comment he regards my work as being 'deficient in philosophical commentary'.
By contrast, 3% of females failed the criterion that gave a stable population of color-deficient males.
Even as compilations these works cannot be commended, for their authors are deficient in the understanding of principles.
In these and other examples, the new product was seriously deficient when it first appeared.
Underlying frontal dysfunction may be defective minicolumn microcircuitry, excessive but disorganized local and short-distance connectivity, and deficient longdistance reciprocal cortical-cortical connectivity.
Perhaps the major problem in providing accurate description at atrial level comes when the atrioventricular septum is deficient.
Annual evaluations of each child were used by the school districts to determine broad indicators of deficient school functioning.
The ferritin transgenes were delivered using a replicative-deficient adenovirus.
In this lucid book, teachers and language assessors are repeatedly warned against judging non-standard speakers as linguistically deficient.
In all cases with valvar insufficiency, the coaptation of the leaflets is deficient.
We have not yet investigated whether the iron deficient heart will similarly lose the augmented contractility response in time.
Her genius renders her deficient in representations of love, just as the effect of her acting resides in viewers' minds, not senses.
When blame, castigation, branding as deficient and dangerous, and exclusion from society's mainstream are added to the equation, the odds against rehabilitation are considerably magnified.
In the 1920s, delinquency was attributed, in part, to deficient or misguided character.
We argue that reflexive clitics are heads, object clitics are "deficient arguments" and subject clitics display the complete internal structure of noun phrases.
Furthermore, numerous studies have reported that high-risk children exhibit deficient age-related performance on standard tests of cognitive development.
Our thesis is that the nonreflective professionalism engendered by today's medical education is especially deficient in this respect.
The membranous atrioventricular septum can itself also very rarely be deficient in isolation.
When individuals perceive their current state of life as deficient and unsatisfactory they strive to restore the balance and to improve their life circumstances.
In instances in which selfrecognition is deficient or absent, there should be a corresponding deficiency or absence of mental state attribution.
If words are not completely encoded or retrieved, then language reception and production will be deficient.
Women may become deficient in thiamine in just a few weeks.
Just as an ideology-free explanation of institutional change is deficient, so is a hypothesis based solely on ideology.
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