The four -- and up to 420,000 others like them -- are caught up in a labyrinth of immigration laws, Congressional politics, the competing forces of the high-tech industry and organized labor and a tortuous, dysfunctional process of gaining "green cards" that allow permanent residency here.
With representatives from Russia, Georgia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, the United States, the United Nations, the EU and the OSCE around the table, the talks aim at an agreement on security, stability and the return of the displaced.In practice, Russia dominates this dysfunctional process, according to Vladimir Socor of the Jamestown Foundation, a Washington-based think-tank.
In "Battle for Ground Zero: Inside the Political Struggle to Rebuild the World Trade Center" (Palgrave Macmillan, $28), Elizabeth Greenspan, an urban anthropologist, vividly recounts the dysfunctional process and controversies that put her favorite graffiti, "America the Re-build-iful," to a grueling test that is only now about to be graded by the public.
"Talent acquisition" is the most dysfunctional process in the corporate and institutional worlds (performance review systems come in second)!
With that action, Democrats could claim success in obstructing what they labeled a "dysfunctional process" on a bill that they viewed as "a step backwards" for DOE research.
A lot of the people who are leaving and have left recently were in charge of this dysfunctional process and are unable or unwilling or just plain sick of trying.
We acknowledge that the pathways with indirect interactions with AD pathway might also transfer potential dysfunctions to AD and then are important for the pathway clusters and dysfunctional processes.
Zebrafish are rapidly emerging as a powerful model organism in hypothesis-driven studies targeting a number of functional and dysfunctional processes.
Drawing on both pluripotent stem cell biology, hematopoiesis, and immunology, combined with novel high-content single-cell analysis (CyTOF – Mass Cytometry) and imagining (MIBI-Multiplexed Ion Beam Imaging) we are creating templates of 'normal' human cellular behavior to both discover novel regulatory events and cell populations as well as understand dysfunctional processes such as cancer.
The progressive accumulation of collagen develops a range of ventricular dysfunctional processes that generally affect diastolic and subsequently systolic function [4].
I am generally more interested in the dysfunctional processes that are set into motion in the makerspace: What happens when the provided technologies fail, either due to user error or mechanical malfunction?
