Students from the origin groups Mediterranean, Caribbean and other non-western, face a similar level of disadvantage in degree performance although Caribbean students are in a less disadvantaged position regarding their relatively small cultural and linguistic distance from the Dutch society.
Even with a major disadvantage involving degree of hearing loss (children with hearing aids had a mean hearing loss of 68 dB, while children with CIs had an approximate hearing loss of 111 dB), the hearing aided group reported more symptoms of psychopathology.
Less than 60% of students graduate from public institutions in 6 years or less, resulting in millions in debt or disadvantage without a degree.
Although women cannot afford to shirk the conflict necessary to take what they're entitled to – an equal share in the running of their institution – they do so from a position of systemic disadvantage and varying degrees of precariousness.
Despite the disadvantages, the greater degree of augmentation, ease of prefabrication, and long-term maintenance of harmonious shape and consistency lead surgeons to use silicone implants.
The huge advantage of these designs is that they reduce the experimental cost drastically, but their critical disadvantage is the high degree of confounding among factorial effects.
The main disadvantage is a high degree of operator dependency.
Carling also feels New Zealander Gatland is at a degree of disadvantage because he cannot plan fully for the "unknown combinations" Lancaster has now named his team.
First, by circularity, the chromosome could evade the degradation starting from its chain ends, and this would compensate to some degree the disadvantage concerning degradation due to its longer chain.
In order to avoid this we anticipated a shortcut by using the corresponding β-cyano acids instead of the corresponding esters, despite the disadvantage of their lower degree of C=C-bond activation in comparison to carboxylic acids.[ 7] The latter strategy would furnish the final products in a single step by catalytic hydrogenation (Scheme 1).
