In the competent phase of regenerating HFs, BMP signalling is turned off while Wnt/b-catenin signalling is turned on to reach its optimal activity in early anagen.
In the competent patient scenario, ventilator assistance was due to severe cancer and pneumonia, a situation shown to be more frequent in patients with decisions to limit therapy [ 2].
In the competent state, a gene is capable of responding to trans-acting transcription factors of the cell such that it is active if appropriate activators are present, though it can also be silent if activators are absent or repressors are present.
A competence, in turn, "is a disposition, one with a basis resident in the competent agent, one that would in appropriately normal conditions ensure (or make highly likely) the success of any relevant performance issued by it" (Sosa 2007, 29).
There are warning signs even in the competent, occasionally fine "Antony and Cleopatra" that Michael Attenborough has just staged in Stratford's Royal Shakespeare Theater.
He is compelled therefore to put himself in the competent hands of a plain chauffeur, a woman with ears "like satellite dishes placed in some remote landscape" (the glee with which Murakami alights on such similes is infectious).
