The phrase "absence of specified" is not correct as it is incomplete and lacks clarity in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to refer to the lack of something that has not been clearly defined or identified.
Example: "The report highlighted the absence of specified guidelines for the project, leading to confusion among team members."
Alternatives: "lack of defined" or "nonexistence of specified".
Being fired may not be the consequence of refusing an employer's drug test, but it is probably the one most would assume in the absence of specified consequences.
Permian fossils that have been used as index fossils include brachiopods, ammonoids, fusilinids, conodonts, and other marine invertebrates, and some genera occur within such specific time frames that strata are named for them and permit stratigraphic identification through the presence or absence of specified fossils.
For example, neural networks have been touted as providing a means for allowing computers to "learn" how to categorize visual fields correctly, even in the absence of specified rules.
The absence of specified latent causal constraints on η3 in Figure 1 makes it comparatively easy for the Figure 1 model to estimate η3 as being η3B (to match the y5- y6 covariance) even if latent η3A was required to match η3's latent-level causal actions.
Furthermore, in the absence of specified legal limits for drugs in most states and countries, the value of DRE evaluation and drug testing results as evidence in court is limited.
In the absence of specified type or version number, a query retrieves data by default from the most recent configured (i.e. 'known') version of the appropriate database type.
However, we acknowledge that in the absence of specifying the type of cancer, participants may make various assumptions about possible prognosis and potential outcomes.
Expression of hfq was determined by comparing samples grown in the presence and absence of a specified stress condition.
Spermatozoa (0.5×106cells) were incubated with boiled EP (0.6 mg protein) in absence or presence of specified amount of MIF-II at room temperature (32±1°C) for 1 min in a total volume of 0.5 ml of Ca2+ free modified Ringer phosphate solution.
Each of the six transcript identifiers is then associated with its respective 3'UTR sequence via a one-to-one mapping matrix, and using a simple pattern matching function we determine the presence or absence of a specified nucleotide hexamer, in each of the respective 3'UTR sequences.
It will embrace those presumably causally linked, usually (but by no means always) but for causes to which, in the absence of certain specified defenses, a particular legal system wishes to assign at least partial responsibility for an accident...
