The phrase "a failure to acquire" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing shortcomings or deficiencies in obtaining something, whether it be knowledge, skills, or resources.
Example: "The project's delay was largely due to a failure to acquire the necessary funding on time."
Alternatives: "an inability to obtain" or "a lack of acquisition".
For instance, Tallal 1980 , 1985argue that many SLI cases result from deficits in the processing of rapid auditory stimuli, giving rise to a failure to learn to distinguish phonemes correctly, which in turn leads to a failure to acquire other aspects of grammar.
These deficits appear to be linked to a failure to acquire songs' functions and may provide a model for abnormal development of communicative skills, including speech.
We provide data that suggest there is a failure to acquire or maintain allogeneic immune cells (FMc) transmitted from the fetus to the mother during pregnancy in women who develop breast cancer.
Moreover, the fact that song classes showing species-typical acoustic morphology were not found in their usual place in the experimental birds' song sequences suggests that the observed deficit in neuronal responses is likely to be linked to a failure to acquire songs' functions and may provide a model for abnormal development of communicative skills, including speech.
Morice and Delahunty [ 2], examining WCST, TOL and other tasks of working memory (WM) in schizophrenia, suggested a failure to acquire the ability to process complex information.
Abnormal accumulation of autophagic and endosomal vesicles relevant to AD neuropathology has been postulated to result from a blockage of vesicle fusion with lysosomes, resulting in a failure to acquire catabolic enzymes necessary for cargo degradation (Funk and Kuret, 2012).
Rayner treats ignorance "as a necessary social achievement rather than as a simple background failure to acquire, store and retrieve knowledge" (p. 108).
This defect in synthesis is the only means by which EBV plasmids are detectably lost from a population of proliferating cells; missegregation, however, can contribute to a daughter cell's failure to acquire a plasmid.
He roars over his wasted youth, his failure to acquire a braided waistcoat and - great line - complains: 'I wasn't old enough to be young.' And the play itself?
Today, organizers announced that their plan to take over the 100-year-old Knighstbridge Armory, one of the largest armories in the world, is a no-go due to their failure to acquire the no-go due permito from citheirfailure.
Failure to acquire a native conformation results in the absence of the functional protein from its designated cellular compartment, unwanted protein aggregation or secretion of defective proteins that might endanger the cellular protein homoeostasis and ultimately the biological function of the cells and the organisms.
