The phrase "a lack of accepted" is not complete and may not convey a clear meaning in written English without additional context.
You can use it when discussing the absence of something that is generally recognized or approved, but it needs to be followed by what is lacking acceptance.
Example: "There is a lack of accepted standards in the industry, which leads to confusion among consumers."
Alternatives: "a deficiency of recognized" or "an absence of approved".
On the other hand, the evaluation of economic and, especially, social sustainability suffers from a lack of accepted and well-grounded frameworks (Chatzinikolaou and Manos 2012).
Most stem from a lack of accepted diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers of disease.
In ER+ve disease there is a lack of accepted biomarkers/signatures to distinguish endocrine-sensitive patients from those with intrinsic insensitivity or who will develop early or late resistance.
CCCP and Valinomycin are the only known inducers of Parkin-mediated mitophagy, yet there is a lack of accepted methods to assess Parkin translocation following induction with other toxins such as rotenone.
In relation to these factors, one may also argue that, unlike the clinical sciences domain, there is a lack of accepted, comprehensively-validated methods tailored to gene expression data.
Because there is a lack of accepted SES measures in China, we referred to the socioeconomic measures of "percent of the population living below poverty line" and "percent of the population ≥ 25 years of age without a high school diploma" in the United States [ 31] to devise our own socioeconomic indicators (SEIs) reflecting the economic and education status of the seven areas.
Investigations of new treatments have been hampered by a lack of universally accepted diagnostic criteria.
Research into apathy has been hampered by a lack of broadly accepted diagnostic criteria.
However, there is a lack of widely accepted indicators and criteria to assess the performance of collaborative designs.
Due to the complex nature and widespread impacts of drought, there is a lack of universally accepted definition of drought, which also affects the development of drought indices to characterize drought conditions.
Unfortunately, despite the continuous evolution of the knowledge on this matter, there is a lack of widely accepted and standardized procedures to perform a risk assessment of process plants subjected to Na-Tech hazards.
