The phrase "academic defects" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to shortcomings or weaknesses in academic performance or abilities.
Example: "The study aimed to identify the academic defects that hindered students' success in mathematics."
Alternatives: "academic shortcomings" or "scholarly deficiencies".
Rajiva Wijesinha, a parliamentarian and former academic, defected in November.
Academic researchers later showed that defects in this gene cause a form of childhood epilepsy.
Shortly before he defected to an academic job in Canada, the excellent Ronald Bryden, then critic of the Observer, wrote of Walking Like Geoffrey: "If there's a future for British theatre, it must lie here".
Like other popularizing tomes by specialists who, in promoting controversial theses, have done what amounts to an end-run around the academic establishment, this one has the defects of its virtues.
"One of the things in Libyan politics is that it helped if you defected early," says Dirk Vandewalle, an American academic until recently on the staff of the UN's special envoy to Libya, Ian Martin.
A growing body of Congressional testimony, academic research, court cases and other evidence suggests pervasive defects, and potentially vast lawbreaking, in the securitization and foreclosure process.
The relation between the two defining pathologies in AD, and their relative contribution to cognitive defects, clinical symptoms, neurodegeneration, brain atrophy and dementia remains subject to academic debate, obscures early diagnosis and hinders development of effective therapy.
The other driving force which attracts also academic institutions and research institutes is the high complexity of the phenomena, involving the interaction of dopants, intrinsic point defects, extended defects and impurities like carbon as well as the interactions of mobile defects with surfaces and interfaces and their redistribution in multilayer structures.
Environmentalists and anti-nuclear academics counter that the original tests used ultrasonic technology which would have detected the defects, unless they emerged and grew bigger later.
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