We conclude that patients with Wernicke's aphasia have two types of semantic access impairment both difficulty with initial conceptual activation (ameliorated by repetition) and difficulty in the face of strong competition (increased by repetition), whereas patients with semantic aphasia show the second type of semantic access deficit in isolation.
These developments have challenged WHO, which although retaining unique credibility and convening authority, is hampered by funding shortages and donor-imposed earmarks, an inflexible bureaucratic and governance structure, and difficulty prioritizing in the face of unrealistic demands.
Giambattista Piazzetta, who was 14 years older than Bortoloni but had difficulty establishing himself in the face of Ricci's dominance, was then making his way as the founder of an alternative "tenebrist" school.
But the difficulty of restructuring in the face of declining margins has proven tricky recently for BT, with wholesale revenues down last quarter on the back of cut-price broadband, and a decline in low-margin business.
The difficulty arises, however, in the face of a human resource shortage, with many having clinical duties, post-graduate students and teaching commitments in the traditional programme.
We expect them to be dispassionate in times of difficulty, equable and unruffled in the face of setbacks, slights, and partisan attacks.
In the past few years NATO and Afghan forces have had extraordinary difficulty securing Musa Qala in the face of a resurgent Taliban.
Their ability to retrieve conceptual information is related to the executive demands of tasks (Jefferies and Lambon Ralph 2006; Noonan et al. 2009; Corbett et al. 2009b)—for example, they have difficulty selecting appropriate concepts in the face of potent distractors.
79 However, the difficulties of using probabilistic methods in the face of substantial uncertainty are not avoided by substituting an uncertainty model where the choice of the substitute is similarly difficult and influential.
During the private meeting with Democrats in the Cannon Caucus Room, the president acknowledged the political difficulty of supporting major legislation in the face of unanimous Republican opposition and tough criticism from conservatives.
