He has certainly waged no campaign to bat down persistent questions about his competence to take on anything beyond a symbolic role, though several Western diplomats and one journalist who met him for the first time recently described him as remarkably fit, lucid and even something of a flirt.
Males' involvement in academic dishonesty may be explained by the gender role conflict that occurs when males are socialised into traditional roles of masculinity, underpinned by expectations of success manifested as persistent worries about personal achievement, competence, failure and career achievement (Cournoyer and Mahalik 1995; O'Neil et al. 1995).
The new guidelines permit state officials to boot private schools from the voucher program if they demonstrate "gross or persistent lack of basic academic competence".
Descriptive statistics for physical characteristics are given in table 2. Females obtained significantly higher mean scores for BMI, back endurance and the motor competence factors of Persistent Control and Bimanual Dexterity.
Also, persistent overemphasis on narrow cognitive competences negates research findings that conflict-affected pupils may value multiple forms of learning (Winthrop and Kirk 2008).
Cardiac operations in children are associated with impairment of immune competence, which is more severe and persistent in patients with postop complications.
That genome plasticity plays a role in bacterial persistence is further supported by the observation that natural transformation competence, which is upregulated upon DNA stress [ 8], promotes persistent colonization in mice [ 9].
Ardiles shared Maradona's dismay at the inability of one of the sport's leading nations to defend with competence or to live with the quick, persistent, devastatingly quick passing and movement of a team ranked 50 places beneath it in world status.
The patient described here developed persistent infection despite the presence of normal humoral immune competence and did not have anaemia but rather had hepatic involvement as the primary manifestation.
More than half of teachers who had been bullied say they experienced persistent, unjustified criticism and 45% reported intimidatory use of discipline and competence procedures against them.
The persistent implication is that, as with 9/11 or the attack in Benghazi, Libya, greater competence from trained professionals could have ensured tranquillity.
