'deficient competence' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone who lacks the skills or experience necessary to do something. For example, "A company needs to hire employees with higher levels of deficient competence if they want to improve their productivity."
This is the theoretical premise behind the hypothesis that a child's alexithymia may correspond to a mother's deficient emotive competence.
Moreover, treatment with pertussis toxin to inactivate signaling via G alpha i-protein-coupled receptors restored egress competence to S1P1-deficient lymphocytes.
We would expect (although we did not test this) that enhancing proliferative competence of SIRT1-deficient cells by reintroducing wild-type SIRT1 would have the additional effect of reinstating replicative senescence.
At 36 hpf however, dll4 transcripts could be detected in the PHBCs irrespective of Gpr124 function and accordingly, mosaic endothelial-specific overexpression of Dll4 was not sufficient to restore brain angiogenic competence to Gpr124-deficient PHBCs, while in a similar setting Gpr124-positive tip cells led new brain vascular sprouts.
He also seems oddly deficient in irony, style and dangerous competence — those essential Bond traits.
Many of these mutations were unable to restore respiratory competence in m-AAA-deficient yeast strains, providing additional evidence for their deleterious nature in humans (Di Bella et al., 2010).
The competence needs (i.e., deficient knowledge and skills) identified at the individual level in the e-assessments were the basis for implementation of a professional e-training program tailored to every individual's needs.
It would also be very informative to determine if depletion of Bok, another multi-channel pro-apoptotic member of Bcl-2 gene family, could rescue the developmental competence of Mcl-1-deficient oocytes.
The lack of available p300 in CSB-deficient cells may also explain the general loss of the transcriptional competence that characterizes CSB mutated cells after genotoxic attack.
Their proposal will equip health professions students to prepare for clinical work, but currently practising HCPs who are products of deficient curricula will also require structured and ongoing in-service training to improve their competence in TDT.
