A few years back, testing revealed that a fire protection system for critical electrical cables was defective, subject to rapid disintegration and a potential threat to safe reactor shutdown in the event of fire.
The colour-defective subject is one whose wavelength discrimination apparatus is not as good as that of the majority of people, so that he sees many colours as identical that normal people would see as different.
More recently, he sided with plaintiffs against Honda and Takata in a class-action suit over defective airbags subject to recall.
In Britain up until 1970, a marriage could be annulled if "either party was, at the time of marriage, of unsound mind, mentally defective or subject to recurrent fits of insanity or epilepsy".
As late as 1858, the physician Edward Sieveking wrote that "we ought not to counsel epileptics to marry", and the 1937 Matrimonial Causes Act stated a marriage could be made void "if either party was, at the time of marriage, of unsound mind, mentally defective or subject to recurrent fits of insanity or epilepsy".
The frequency characteristics of vibration for a defective bearing subjected to various loadings are investigated.
Subjects defective in the genes for IFN-γ or IFN-γ receptor have been shown to be prone for MTB infections [ 31].
As further confirmation, it has recently been shown that Treg cells are defective in allergic subjects [ 32, 33] including asthmatics [ 30, 34, 35], and impaired regulatory T-cells were found in cord blood of newborns at hereditary risk of allergy [ 35, 36].
Similarly, trpv4−/− mice display defective osmoregulation when subjected to an osmotic challenge [16].
Similarly, trpv4− /− mice display defective osmoregulation when subjected to an osmotic challenge [ 16].
