If you've been reading about the appalling inadequacy of the Toxic Substances Control Act or TSCA (such as here and here), you already know the answer to that question: Not well at all.
However, we do observe a few very large events (deletions in excess of 1 Mb), which are likely explained by the presence of dispersed duplicates on the same chromosome arm, chimeric sequences produced during adapter ligation (a problem for all singleton reads), or an inadequacy in our filtering or pipeline.
The professor often talked about the inadequacy of published translations, reading us passages from novels in French and Russian to show how bad the translations were.
A quick demise lets me dodge reading a home inspection report or discussing the intricacies of a plumbing's inadequacies.
Which brings me to the real lesson I took from reading every last word of Bon Appétit: how to suppress feelings of inadequacy and shame for 160 pages.
Many had pointed out the same inadequacy of their changing pad's design and some had suggested giving the baby a toy or reading or singing to the baby during the diaper change, but I knew this would not help keep my baby still.
The author (and I can send him the paper) should read the remarkable paper of Rolf Landauer " Inadequacy of entropy and entropy derivatives in characterizing the steady state " published in Physical Review A, in august 1975.
One wonders if they will wish to read the many details of Leo's sexual inadequacies; this reviewer certainly didn't.
It was difficult to read Giles Foden's article squarely blaming the attack on the Westgate mall in Nairobi on alleged inadequacies of the Kenyan government and, as he puts it "rampant corruption" (Behind terror is corruption, 24 September).
Each time I read an uplifting book by a brilliant writer (aka Elizabeth Gilbert), I find myself wrestling with inadequacy.
And while his tales of sexual inadequacy and frustration have the ring of comedic, if not literal, truth, you have to read carefully to learn that he is married — by my count he mentions his wife exactly twice, and the second mention is a thank-you on the last page.
