Incompetence

Screened or screened and gravel-packed in incompetent sands and gravels... 

Fully cased and cemented with the casing perforated in either competent or somewhat incompetent formations... 

Dixon, N. F. (1976). On the Psychology of Military Incompetence. London Jonathan Cape. 

Mayer returned to Heilbronn in 1841, began his medical practice, and eventually became chief surgeon of the town. In his free time he did some experiments and struggled with difficult, abstract concepts in an attempt to understand the nature of energy. He knew so little physics from his one semester of the subject at Tubingen that many of the papers he submitted for publication were rejected as incompetent by the important scientific journals of the day. He was forced to publish most of his writings at his own expense, and so their circulation was confined primarily to Heilbronn residents. 

Intermediate casing strings are cemented to seal off abnormal pressure formations and cover both incompetent formations, which could cave or slough, and lost circulation formations. 

When a contractor indicates that he is or may be delayed, take him seriously and solve the problem immediately. Do not interfere with the way in which the contractor carries out his work, unless he is patently incompetent. 

This class of lymphocytes differentiates from immuno-logically incompetent hematopoietic stem cells of the bone marrow within the thymus - hence, the name thymus-dependent (T-) lymphocytes. Two major subclasses develop simultaneously, T-helper lymphocytes (Th) and cytotoxic effector lymphocytes (Tc). The cytotoxic T-lymphocytes (carrying on the surface the differentiation marker CD8) destroy cells, which cany their cognate antigen bound to MHC class I molecules on the surface by inducing apoptosis. From an evolutionary point of view Tc cells appear to have developed predominantly to cope with vims infections. As vituses can only replicate within cells, Tc eliminate them by destroying their producers. 

V-Surficial, weakly coherent, alluvial deposits readily eroded by water. (Vj-<3 percent slope V2-<12 percent slope). I-Incompetent, or weakly coherent, bedrock such as shales and tuffs readily eroded by water and (or) prone to mass movement on steep slopes (li-<12 percent slope l2->12 percent slope). C-Competent, or strongly coherent, bedrock such as layered lava flow rocks and igneous intrusives not readily eroded by water, nor generally prone to mass movement except for rockslides and rockfalls from very steep slopes and cliffs (Ci-<12 percent slope). 

If I receive mentoring, will people think that I am incompetent or inferior ... 

Data derived from analysis of RMs in EQA schemes may be informative and, as discussed above, help to direct and stimulate the laboratory towards providing results in the day to day work, which are accurate, precise and appropriate to the needs for which they were requested. Alternatively a scheme may operate simply to identify poor performance, so as to prohibit laboratories from carrying out certain tasks. The disadvantage of just an educational objective is that there are no sanctions to ensure that poor performance does not continue without being corrected. With licensing, if a laboratory is seen to fail, they wiU lose income and, to avoid controversy, the analytical standards may be set at a very low level so that only the grossly incompetent are eliminated. 

The pathophysiology of GERD is a complex process. It is difficult to determine which occurs first gastroesophageal reflux leading to defective peristalsis with delayed clearing, or an incompetent lower esophageal sphincter pressure leading... 

CLL is a cancer that results in the accumulation of functionally incompetent lymphocytes.15 CLL is considered an indolent, incurable disease in which treatment should be initiated when patients have symptoms. However, some patients have aggressive disease and need to be treated with intensive therapy. 

CLL is characterized by small, relatively incompetent B lymphocytes that accumulate in the blood and bone marrow over time. The exact cell of origin is controversial but has been described as an antigen-activated B lymphocyte.3... 

As Frankland sent his report on valency to the Royal Society on May 10, 1850, fame and success seemed assured. Sadly, incompetence intervened the society s secretary inadvertently laid [Frankland s report] aside in his private drawer —and forgot it for a year. The German chemist Friedrich... 

Although iron-sulfur proteins are found in various cellular localizations in eukaryotic cells, mitochondria are the major site of Fe-S cluster biosynthesis (Lill et ah, 1999). Deletions in nuclear genes involved in mitochondrial iron-sulfur cluster formation lead to massive accumulation of iron in mitochondria (Chapter 7). For example, deletion of ATM1, a mitochondrial ATPase, which seems to be responsible for the export of Fe-S clusters, leads to respiratory incompetence, excessive iron accumulation and leucine auxotrophy (Kispal et ah, 1999). In Ayfhl cells there is only partial loss of mitochondrial Fe-S enzymes and the cells are not leucine auxotrophs. 

Sometimes the so-called problem could just be an artifact of the instruments being used to characterize or test the converter. That can be really embarrassing to find out, especially after alerting everybody from Design to Production Backtracking too many times, especially in the course of a single day, can become a rather overwhelming declaration of incompetence. So it is extremely important we understand our instrumentation well. 

Michael SI, Huang CH, Romer MU, Wagner E, Hu PC, Curiel DT (1993) Binding-incompetent adenovirus facilitates molecular conjugate-mediated gene transfer by the receptor-mediated endocytosis pathway. J Biol Chem 268 6866-6869... 

No catalyst has an infinite lifetime. The accepted view of a catalytic cycle is that it proceeds via a series of reactive species, be they transient transition state type structures or relatively more stable intermediates. Reaction of such intermediates with either excess ligand or substrate can give rise to very stable complexes that are kinetically incompetent of sustaining catalysis. The textbook example of this is triphenylphosphine modified rhodium hydroformylation, where a plot of activity versus ligand metal ratio shows the classical volcano plot whereby activity reaches a peak at a certain ratio but then falls off rapidly in the presence of excess phosphine, see Figure... 

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