Sentence examples for whether it is competent from inspiring English sources

This is because it is impossible, without such a control, to definitively differentiate whether a silent gene is in the occluded state or whether it is competent but not expressed simply owing to the lack of a conducive milieu.

Whether certain pathways are equivalent (permissive) or not depends, on one hand, on the cell type (whether it is competent to offer a robust plasticity network to buffer signalling changes) and, on the other hand, on the nature of the biological outcome.

The presence and absence of a water molecule in the active site have both been considered, as it is not known whether it is present in the catalytically competent Fe(II -AO complex wII -AObstrate.

It's clear now there are open concerns in Washington and London over whether this guy is competent enough, whether he's undermining a relationship that they value.

It is up to an immigration judge and not a licensed psychologist to determine whether someone is competent.

"The appropriate question is whether he is competent to choose the endeavor," said the court, which ruled that he was.

Mr. Loughner is being evaluated at a Missouri prison to determine whether he is competent to stand trial.

Such reviews are conducted by neutral doctors to discern a defendant's mental state at the time of the crime and whether he is competent to stand trial.

He was tasered by a guard a few hours after being booked, and his combativeness kept a mental-health expert from even completing her assessment of whether he is competent to stand trial — a question that remains.

An 89-year-old white supremacist charged with killing a security guard at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, James von Brunn, has arrived at a federal prison in Butner for an evaluation of whether he is competent to stand trial.

A study [ 20] hoped to assess whether hSSTr2 is competent to act as a reporter of gene transfer.