The phrase "a less responsive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the responsiveness of two or more subjects, indicating that one is not as responsive as the other.
Example: "The new software update has made the application a less responsive tool for users."
Alternatives: "not as responsive" or "more sluggish".
This should not be surprising since it is difficult to imagine a constituency that would advocate poorly drafted legislation and a less responsive public administration.
The only differences I noticed between the tablet in show mode and an Echo Show is an inability to play music from Spotify and a less responsive Alexa.
Since the transporters ferry dopamine in and out of neurons, this decrease means less dopamine release and a less responsive reward circuit.
One is updating the governance of an organisation conceived 22 years ago - before the internet revolution, in a less responsive era of governance, and before attacking the science of climate change became such an important political strategy.
Down-regulation of these channels suggests a less responsive, more 'hard-wired' brain, which may be advantageous for certain aspects of reproduction.
It seems plausible that the gradient in amenable mortality reflects the earlier onset and treatability of multiple morbidity in a less responsive health care environment rather than a rise in the incidence of a single specific cause.
Our finding that expression of a cold dehydrin gene is less responsive to the growth conditions in the arctic species than it is in the temperate species is in agreement with reports on a less-responsive expression of "response to stimulus" genes in stress-adapted plant species, (Brosche et al. 2005; Taji et al. 2004).
We propose that women with a less-responsive HPG axis, leading to an increased risk of early menopause, may also have a primarily malfunctioning or "sluggish" HPA axis.
In support of this, it has been found that women who develop RA later in life have higher birth weight than do normal controls [ 29, 30], and some data link high birth weight with a less-responsive HPA function later in life [ 31].
This may make a patient less responsive to the endogenous compensatory response produced by the patient's own production of epinephrine as well as exogenously administered epinephrine given for therapy.
The limitation of the first trial that used a much less responsive generic instrument only becomes much clearer in a meta-epidemiological context.
