An epistemically temperate person desires, consumes and enjoys appropriate intellectual objects and activities; an epistemically self-indulgent person pursues intellectual objects to excess; an epistemically insensible person has deficient epistemic desires.
Kira Wizner New York, Nov. 19, 2007 To the Editor: Your article reveals that not only are American schoolchildren deficient in the desire and ability to read, for either pleasure or the purpose of achievement, but so are adults as well.
18 Third, HSDD: persistently or recurrently deficient (or absent) sexual fantasies and desire for sexual activity in men.
The former can be achieved when the covariance matrix of the desired signal is rank deficient, which is the case, for example, for voiced speech.
Don't let another person's unreasonable desires lead you to feel deficient in any way.
Donovan again showed that he is an elite international player, delivering three goals in four matches, epitomizing the spirit of a team whose desire prevailed even when tactics were deficient.
The solution is crucial to design and produce a Li-deficient MgO LiNbO3 crystal with desired Li2O-content profile.
Simon Barobserves observes that some people with autism and Asperger's syndrome, though typically empathy-deficient, are highly moral, owing to a strong desire to follow rules and insure that they are applied fairly.
Our CMV-based systems including CMViva, CMVarI and II and CMVinII are cell-to-cell movement deficient since they lack the CP and thus, desired recombinant proteins are produced only within infiltrated cells.
Public disclosure of audit malpractices and the auditee's intentions to signal a desire for audit quality may precipitate the dismissal of deficient auditors.
