"Given the continuing disproportionate delays at the Gibraltar-Spain border and the continuing incursions into British Gibraltar territorial waters by Spanish flagged vessels, I would expect a ministerial level visit from the UK Foreign Office to have already taken place," he said.
In fact, disproportionate radiotherapy delays might explain diminished survival rates [ 10].
There are clearly cultural difference between the West and the Muslim world, but the nature of the current furor — delayed, disproportionate and violently political — makes it look to me less like the spontaneous, righteous anger of a cultural clash than an organized, cynical move by Islamists to manipulate ignorant, unstable masses.
Compared to age- and cognitively matched controls, children with CIs had significantly lower language levels with delays disproportionate to their cognitive potential.
In conclusion, for socially disadvantaged children, having resulted from an unplanned pregnancy does not seem to increase their already disproportionate risk of cognitive delay.
(Here I might add, however, that the U.S. mainland, especially the Southeast, could be among the earliest regions hit, so policymakers stateside should not feel emboldened to use the disproportionate impacts argument as a delaying tactic).
Critical illness typically induces a catabolic stress state proportional to the severity of injury, predisposing patients to serious nutritional deficits coupled with multiple organ dysfunction, delayed recovery and disproportionate mortality [ 5].
Further investigations revealed macrocephaly with patent and abnormal skull sutures, delayed tooth eruption and bone age, disproportionate short stature, and epiphyseal dysgenesis with delayed mineralization of secondary ossification centers.
Of particular import, Genachowski noted that too much delay "would also have a disproportionate impact on minority and low-income groups who are more likely than the average American to access the Internet through a mobile device".
He said: "We feel these delays are politically motivated and totally disproportionate".
