Notably, parthenogenetic haploid ESCs possess robust germline competence enabling the production of transgenic mouse strains from genetically modified haploid ESCs.
These animals display a robust proliferative competence of cardiomyocytes in adult life, which provides a source to form a new myocardium after injury.
Ban foreign health professionals from working in the NHS unless they have passed "robust" language and competence tests.
Fictional male detectives in the past have often been robust figures of competence, standing at the centre of the plot, from where they make sense of the incomprehensible, turn chaos into order, join up the clues to find the criminal, restore normality.
Although this may be accomplished by audit and performance data, detailed and robust assessments of competence may be valuable in certain circumstances.
In knocking Mr Miliband, for example, top Tories hope to find a precedent in the 1992 election, when John Major, a respected, but not loved, Tory leader, with a similarly robust record for economic competence as Mr Cameron has, scored a last-ditch win over a similarly reviled Labour leader, Neil Kinnock.
Repeated measures in a control group design established the gains of TALK: It must be evaluated as a program which is successful in the robust enhancement of teacher competences and cooperation.
Its response was drafted before last week's disclosure that HSBC's Swiss subsidiary had helped clients avoid millions of pounds in tax, but the timing of the Treasury's robust defence of HMRC's competence is embarrassing.
Overall, robust quantitative information on reservoir competence is scarce and key hosts remain unstudied.
Hysteroscopy simulation may be supported ethically and pedagogically, but its role should be evaluated in pragmatic contexts, with robust interventional studies and broader competence-defining outcomes that include nontechnical skills.
Medical regulators and educational bodies are endeavouring to identify reliable and robust methods to routinely assess the competence of trainee and qualified doctors to contribute supporting evidence of ongoing performance [ 2, 3].
