Sentence examples for dysfunctional elements from inspiring English sources

And not the dysfunctional elements.

Therefore these functional explanations are sustained by a complex causal feedback loop in which dysfunctional elements tend to be filtered out in competition with better functioning elements.

In gender violence predominates control, domination, submission and asymmetry of functions as dysfunctional elements of a relationship, which should be symmetrical.

The purpose of this article is to propose a model to clinicians designed to highlight the dysfunctional elements responsible for the appearance and continuation of Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder.

For Elisenda Paulize, dean of economics at Barcelona University, should Catalonia secede, it would be able to strengthen its export-driven economy, but also affect more fundamental changes and overhaul dysfunctional elements of the Spanish state.

Kriegseisen notes that the institution of the sejmik gained a negative reputation following the partitions of Poland, and it has been described as one of the dysfunctional elements of the Polish political system that contributed to the fall of the Commonwealth.

Bruce Cain, at the University of California, Berkeley, and Roger Noll, at Stanford University, identify it as the "distinctively dysfunctional element".

Mr. Ben-Veniste said, "There's general agreement that despite the extraordinary individual efforts of F.B.I. agents, there is a dysfunctional element in the operation that interfered with its efficient counterterrorism functions" before Sept. 11.

This places activated mast cells in direct contact with these dysfunctional airway elements, allowing the specific delivery of detrimental cell cell signals.

Burden of Treatment Theory suggests that interventions that will improve patient experience are those that acknowledge and attack dysfunctional structural elements of healthcare utilization.

The system has become increasingly dysfunctional; its poorest elements­ -- the low-wage workers and contingent faculty (who now constitute more than 75percentt of all higher-education faculty) -- are given short shrift, while top administrators reap the benefits.