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is maladjusted

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Badly adjusted to the demands and stresses of daily living; unable to cope.

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'I am the truth.' " A child psychologist determines that the boy is maladjusted: "The real... is what David misses in his life.

The year turns out to be a nightmare: the player does not play, is maladjusted and miserable, and begins to long for college.

Neuronal networks are robustly able to compensate for perturbations in activity or synaptic transmission by homeostatic plasticity mechanisms, to ensure that firing rates are maintained within functional range, irrespective of which parameter is maladjusted.

Strikingly, low annual increments detected in L. decidua corroborate findings of Eilmann and Rigling (2012) that L. decidua is maladjusted to dry conditions, which is possibly related to its deciduous habit and/or anisohydric strategy, i.e. high transpiration rates are maintained under drought (Leo et al. 2013) causing finally impairment of tree water status (Bréda et al. 2006).

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I would argue that not only should we be maladjusted, but we should actively engage this maladjustment in forming the foundation of a religious counterculture.

Do we, with jaded world-weariness, say along with the author of Ecclesiastes, even on New Year's Day, "There is nothing new under the sun?" Is the longing for the new a mark of failure, a sign that we are maladjusted to the world as it is and so give ourselves over to the counterfactual wish that the world would be otherwise?

As late as the 1950s, Ms. Coontz said, almost 90 percent of Americans believed that a woman who didn't want to marry was "maladjusted".

"So many people will want to say he was maladjusted or not socially adjusted, but that's just not so at all," Ms. Bremmer said in a telephone interview.

Alan P. Bell, a Kinsey Institute researcher who helped conduct a pioneering large-scale study that countered the notion that homosexuals were maladjusted, died on May 13 in Bloomington, Ind., where he lived.

Full of unattractive, acidly drawn characters, particularly those with money who are maladjusted or malignant.

They are maladjusted and marginalised as attempts at forced assimilation has not been successful.

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