Rice fields were located >5 km away from villages to exceed the flight range of vector-competent, widely DDT-resistant anopheline mosquitoes, and larvivorous Gambusia affinis fish were continuously reared and widely introduced (5, 6 ).
In short, in dealing with someone who used to be competent, the widely accepted primacy of respect for autonomy over beneficence calls for Substituted Judgment.
Such practice violates the canons of both the World Medical Association and the American Medical Association; nonconsensual force-feeding of competent adults is widely regarded as a form of torture by professional ethicists and the broader medical community.
The detection of chikungunya fever cases in travellers returning from known outbreak areas to regions where mosquito species competent for CHIKV are widely distributed [20], [21], [22], together with the CHIKV epidemics detected during summer 2007 in the Emilia-Romagna Region, central Italy [23], indicates that CHIKV may become a general threat for human health in temperate areas.
Chemically prepared competent cells are more widely used and work well in most cases for penetration of the plasmids.
In the same study, we also show that repair competent cell lines differing widely in radiosensitivity repair 94 98% of their damaged DNA within 12 h with no apparent correlation between residual damage and radiosensitivity.
ICR mice are innate immune-competent and have been widely used in studying the innate immunity.
Replication-competent adenovirus, which is widely applied in gene therapy, not only serves as a vehicle for antitumor genes in tumor cells but also kills target cells by self-replicating within tumor cells.
Under an agreement dating from 1997, the United States captures drug suspects in Haiti without formal extradition proceedings.René Préval, who was elected as Haiti's president last year, is widely seen as competent, as are some of his senior officials.
The two bacterial species are highly competent strains that have been widely used with suicide vectors for mutagenesis purposes (Dong and Zhang 2014; Gao et al. 2014; Liu et al. 2015; Rahmer et al. 2015; Wenzel and Altenbuchner 2015).
The military was widely seen as respected, competent and able to oversee a peaceful transition to democracy.
