"Why do people find the subletting-allowed system so unacceptable?" Dr. Nozick writes, and he provides a shrewd answer: "Its defect is that it makes explicit the partial expropriation of the owner".
These results show that the RB-K or the RB-N mutant retains growth suppression activity, but the RB-KN mutant is defective in growth suppression, consistent with its defect in repressing transcription from the Cyclin A promoter (Fig. 2A).
Compared with QMS and FTIR, GC operation is more accurate and reliable for quantitative analysis, but it has always to be off-line performed for compromising its defect of batch sampling.
On Thursday, the Transportation Department said that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration had completed its defect investigation of Firestone tires and informed the company of the results.
In its defect report (PDF), the automaker said the crash sensors were incompatible with the software and may turn the air bags off.
Mr. Mills acknowledged that the test was technically flawed, but declined to say whether its defect lay in the phrasing of its questions, the level at which its passing score was set, or in some other feature.
