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the maladjustment
noun
A poor or faulty adjustment, especially of a mechanism.
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Purifying selection results in the reduction of genetic variation through the elimination of maladjusted alleles and consequently of the mutations that caused the maladjustment.
The maladjustment of reactive oxygen species production and the endogenous antioxidants has been involved in the pathogenesis of several obstinate diseases, such as cancer, asthma, pulmonary hypertension, and retinopathy [28].
This pump breaks through the banal definition of conventional pump and driving source, and eliminates the maladjustment between conventional pump and new driving source, as well as between new function and old principle [3].
By enhancing the activity of metabolizable enzymes, H. armigera conquered the maladjustment of normal metabolizable balance that resulted from NSFV, NFr-1, and NFr-2.
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This causes serious problems, since children inherit the maladjustments of their parents and immediate family.
The landlady, aroused by the commotion, protested, pointed to the broken balustrade, the torn stair carpet, and the obvious maladjustment of the whole thing, and asked the man, confidentially, just why he had seen fit to shut a horse in the common bathroom.
The validity was also supported by the correlation with the convergent measures: the social maladjustment factor correlated 0.82 with the dieting concern factor of the Eating Attitudes Test-26 and the mental health and functionality factor correlated -0.69 with the mental summary component of the Short Form-12.
Apart of the hypothesized concurrent correlations between the HeRQoLED-S and specific domains of the EAT-26 and SF-12, the social maladjustment factor of the HeRQoLED-S correlated highly with the second factor of the EAT-26, bulimia and food preoccupation.
Based on content similarity between subscales of different questionnaires, we hypothesised the following correlations for the analysis of concurrent validity: The social maladjustment factor would correlate positively and moderately, by means of the Pearson correlation coefficient, with the dieting concern factor of the EAT-26.
The Cronbach alpha was 0.91 for the social maladjustment domain and 0.90 for the mental health and functionality domain.
However, our first hypothesis was to correlate the social maladjustment domain with the dieting concern factor because questions pertaining to it inquire about restrictive behaviors and body image, and are more similar in content to those covered by the social maladjustment domain.
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