Sentence examples for a fully competent from inspiring English sources

Imagine, for example, a fully competent patient who, in anticipation of developing Alzheimer's disease, espouses a strong conviction, perhaps documented in an advance directive, that she does not wish to have her life prolonged in a demented state.

The discovery that the Murphy Roths Large (MRL) mouse strain is a fully competent, epimorphic tissue regenerator, proved that the machinery of regeneration was preserved through evolution from hydra, to salamanders, to mammals.

Contact between the valve leaflets during diastole is handled automatically by the IB method, yielding a fully competent valve model that supports a physiological diastolic pressure load without regurgitation.

Because LL2 cells are syngeneic with their hosts, their tumorigenicity can proceed in the presence of a fully competent host immune system.

In this scenario, a fully competent implant produces a gland with full secretory lobule development filling the fat pad.

It is known that a fully competent immune system is necessary for early detection and destruction of tumor cells.

The results presented in this study show that LC generated in the presence of Activin A are fully competent to undergo a maturation process, as evaluated by the expression of CCR7 and the downregulation of CCR6, the expression of CD80 and CD83, the ability to induce T cell proliferation and to secrete high levels of chemokines (i.e. CCL20 and CCL22) and cytokines (TNF-α, IL-12p70).

Experimental infection of two genome-sequenced ST-21 strains in chickens revealed that a ST-21 strain isolated from a human was fully competent to colonize chickens, albeit to a slightly lower density than a chicken isolate inoculated in a parallel experiment.

Textualists proceed "on the basis of how a reasonable reader, fully competent in the language, would have understood the text at the time it was issued".

This apparent effect of reduced PDR throughout the work day has been superimposed on top of the difference in performance between endoscopists, which has been reported on multiple occasions; even within a group of fully competent endoscopists there appears to be spectrum of polyp detection rates.

These include the presence of an actively replicating, fully competent virus; the presence in the cells of a persistent virus infection; or the presence of a replicating but defective virus (14 ).