"remain deficient" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which something has not improved or has worsened. For example: "Despite efforts to address the issue, the school's science department budget continues to remain deficient."
In particular, quantifying environmental impacts is a key aspect of achieving improved product sustainability performance that has garnered much attention over the past two decades, but tools remain deficient to assist manufacturing decision making.
Unlike consumer facing booking engines such as Opentable or Priceline, many business-to-business purchases remain deficient of transparency or even online transactability.
The latest travel ban says that the countries "remain deficient at this time with respect to their identity-management and information-sharing capabilities, protocols, and practices.
We continue to remain deficient in effective methods to understand sources of disparities.
In this article, we argue that many popular decoy sets remain deficient with regard to the second, third or fifth of the above criteria.
Nevertheless, serum concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH D) remain deficient ( < 50 nmol/l) in 40 100 % of senior populations globally.
Picea energy remained deficient for two rotations and overall deficient on low productive sites on medium slopes.
Therefore, at a carbon price of zero (Figure 4a) all forestry options remained deficient with respect to the net revenue throughout the first rotation.
"Before 1994, the national priority was not focused on meeting the needs of the majority". But PAC officials warned that as long as the government's land restitution process remained deficient, landless people would continue to invade government and private property, and the issue would escalate.
The DSB repair function was completely restored in MCF-7/IKKβ after transfection with either WT-IKKβ or SSEE-IKKβ compared to MCF-7 cells, while MCF-7/IKKβ/K44M-IKKβ cells remained deficient in the repair of IR-induced DSBs as vector-transfected MCF-7/IKKβ cells (Figure 5 C and D).
The cells remained deficient in IL-17, regardless of proliferation.
