Aside from the neurologist who periodically puts him through a standard battery of tests, which he dispatches with less and less competence, there is no obvious external measure of Jacob's decline.
In her research, after going through training in a lab setting, students tended to more strongly associate men with higher power and status, and women with lower power and less competence.
Hence, plants with elevated PsbS levels could have less competence to cope with other stresses, and recent data indicate that this is indeed the case (Frenkel et al, in preparation).
IL8 regulation is critical in a lung metastasis mouse model where it was shown that RCC cells with high IL8 have less competence to metastasize because they seem to attract tumor-cytotoxic neutrophils to the metastatic niche in the lung [ 19].
These cards are presented to a child in pairs, with one picture demonstrating task competency and the other demonstrating less competence.
The higher association is with age (older adolescents reporting higher school competence), and with FAS (more affluent adolescents reporting less competence).
Parents with less interactional competence often have less capacity for mental representations of their relationships with their children [ 88, 89].
Caregivers with less caregiving competence were more likely to continue service, and those with a more positive attitude toward technology were more likely to continue service.
He then described a new experimental study in which teachers, presented with hypothetical students new to their classroom, expected more behavioral problems and less competence from children whose fathers are in prison.
