The phrase "assumption of lack" is not commonly used in written English, but it is grammatically correct.
You can use it in contexts discussing presuppositions or beliefs regarding the absence of something, such as resources or qualities.
Example: "The assumption of lack in this analysis may lead to misguided conclusions about the project's potential."
Alternatives: "presumption of absence" or "belief in deficiency".
Olfactory genes (n = 166) containing 138 CnSNPs were found within the Mrips, but were excluded from further analysis because of an assumption of lack of functional relevance.
A limitation to the current implementations of species-tree methods is the assumption of lack of gene flow among lineages, yet in empirical studies this assumption is often violated, especially at the taxonomic level these methods are designed for.
Considering that the free protein concentration is likely to be much smaller than the total protein concentration, and that the dissociation constant increases for suboptimal binding sites, we believe that our assumption of lack of binding saturation is valid.
But there's also the whiff of an assumption of a lack of ambition in the mind of the work's beholder.
The ongoing design and implementation of international protected area management systems in general, and the one described in this paper, continue to be based on a foundational assumption of a lack of community capacity for governance of the resources on which they depend, the "deficit" model.
Therefore, even before people are tortured, there is a superficial assumption of their lack of humanity, and a justification that divides people into categories: human and inhuman, the former that cannot be tortured and the latter that can.
The assumption of a lack of homogeneity between patients seeking public general dental treatment by NSW Oral Health Branch was a unique public health policy decision.
Although the clustering results provided good fits to these known phenotypic partitions, the implied assumption of the lack of other subtypes or subtle DLBCL groups might not be true.
Recent studies have experimentally challenged both the assumption of a lack of carcinogenicity in a long-term DEHP bioassay in PPAR-α null mice and the hyPPAR-α nullat PPAR-α activation is the sole operant micefor hepandcarcinogenesis.
Consistent with our assumption of a lack of significant clonal expansion of cell subpopulations over a two-week transposition period, the transposon integration profiles for all of the normal tissue samples were strikingly different from those typically obtained from tumor samples.
Assumption for lack of over dispersion was respected for all analyses.
