Despite this endorsement of the importance of health advocacy, and the related self-reported competencies, there was a marked deficit of self-reported engagement in health advocacy activities within the resident cohort.
In Experiment 2, where recognition memory was tested soon after pictures were viewed, a marked deficit in recollective experience, but not in familiarity, was observed in the subclinically depressed participants.
"Maybe I will be a marked man in the summer.
If he comes out, he would be a marked man.
The mean annual precipitation is between 40 and 55 inches (1,020 and 1,400 mm), but there is a marked moisture deficit because of the long, intensely dry season that follows.
With respect to small-animal imaging, however, there still seems to exist a marked deficit of validation studies demonstrating the quantitative accuracy of ASL, and reliable data are scarce [7, 13, 14].
In an injury-induced neointima formation model it was also found that NCX 4016, but not ASA, reduced neointimal expansion [20], [22] and this reduction was associated with a marked deficit in inflammatory cells recruited to the injured vessel [20].
The difference in the sex-specific overall risk was mainly due to the fact that smoking represents a smaller burden of cancer in women than in men, that the excess risk for breast cancer has a comparatively larger impact in women, and that a marked deficit was found among men for prostate cancer.
Mice lacking Nrf2 (Nrf2−/−) exhibited a marked deficit in postnatal bone acquisition, which was most severe at 3 weeks of age when osteoblast numbers were 12-fold less than observed in control animals.
A marked deficit in one of these factors may be sufficient to increase the risk of falling; however, a combination of minor or moderate impairments in multiple physiological domains may also increase the risk of falling.
