The phrase "a deficit of knowledge" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a lack or insufficiency of understanding or information on a particular subject.
Example: "The team's performance suffered due to a deficit of knowledge regarding the new software."
Alternatives: "lack of knowledge" or "shortage of knowledge".
After 9/11, the idea of helping to change the context of Arab politics and address the root causes of Arab state dysfunction and Islamist terrorism — which were identified in the 2002 Arab Human Development Report as a deficit of freedom, a deficit of knowledge and a deficit of women's empowerment — seemed to me to be a legitimate strategic choice.
The report, written by Arab experts, said the Arab states suffered from three huge deficits: a deficit of freedom and respect for human rights as the bases of good governance, a deficit of knowledge in the form of decent schooling and a deficit of women's empowerment.
Both scientists and practitioners affirm such a deficit of knowledge (White et al. 2001; Weber 2006; Frommer 2011).
The idea that the non-expert, the public in particular, may be biased due to a deficit of knowledge and a lack of expertise on the subject is typical to this style of governance.
"How do you help them practice without their peers noticing that they're so far behind, and teasing them?" But if a student is playing a fun game that enables him to catch up at the same time, his classmates will focus on the game, not the fact that the student might have a deficit of knowledge.
As there is a deficit of knowledge and skills considering this special task, the aim of the current pilot study was to develop a canine muscle cell culture system derived from muscle biopsies of healthy client-owned dogs, which allows sampling of the biopsies under working conditions in the daily veterinary practise.
Put in another way, the deficit model assumes that public opposition to, or skepticism of, scientific ideas, is rooted only in a deficit of scientific knowledge.
The problem now is that I am suffering from a real deficit of knowledge and authenticity as a football fan.
He soon realized there was a huge deficit of knowledge about personal finance among college students, and in 1999, "Funny Money" was born.
Low awareness of the partograph itself was an issue [ 17, 32, 34], and lack of knowledge was widely reported, often within a wider deficit of knowledge and skills in maternity care [ 1, 15, 16, 18, 19, 32, 34, 35, 39– 46].
In the case of semantic dementia, this interpretation is constant with a multimodal deficit of knowledge stores anticipated by substantial neuropsychological evidence; in the case of PNFA, it raises the possibility that a generic derangement of complex sound analysis might underpin at least a proportion of cases of progressive disintegration of speech processing.
