What's the difference between sufficiency and unsufficiency?
Sufficiency
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being sufficient, or adequate to the end proposed; adequacy.
(n.) Qualification for any purpose; ability; capacity.
(n.) Adequate substance or means; competence.
(n.) Supply equal to wants; ample stock or fund.
(n.) Conceit; self-confidence; self-sufficiency.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even with hepatic lipase, phospholipid hydrolysis could not deplete VLDL and IDL of sufficient phospholipid molecules to account for the loss of surface phospholipid that accompanies triacylglycerol hydrolysis and decreasing core volume as LDL is formed (or for conversion of HDL2 to HDL3).
(2) The amino acid pools in Chinese hamster lung V79 cells were measured as a function of time during hyperthermic exposure at 40.5 degrees and 45.0 degrees C. Sixteen of the 20 protein amino acids were present in sufficient quantity to measure accurately.
(3) The direct monocyte source is not sufficient to insure the stability of this population.
(4) Duesberg contends that HIV is neither necessary nor sufficient to cause AIDS.
(5) testosterone, fentanyl, nicotine) may ultimately be administered in this way, important questions pertaining to pharmacology (tolerance), toxicity (irritation, sensitisation) and dose sufficiency (penetration enhancement) remain.
(6) The pathogenicity of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in atypical pneumonias can be considered confirmed according to the availabile literature; its importance for other inflammatory diseases of the respiratory tract, particularly for chronic bronchitis, is not yet sufficiently clear.
(7) The presence of a few key residues in the amino-terminal alpha-helix of each ligand is sufficient to confer specificity to the interaction.
(8) At sufficiently high field intensities, the reaction may approach a value equal to that of the free enzyme system.
(9) These levels are sufficient to maintain normal in vivo rates of mRNA and rRNA synthesis, but the average density of packing of polymerases on DNA is considerably less than the maximum density predicted by Miller and Bakken (1972), suggesting that initiation of polymerases of DNA is a limiting factor in the control of transcription.
(10) But because current donor contributions are not sufficient to cover the thousands of schools in need of security, I will ask in the commons debate that the UK government allocates more.
(11) Such a science puts men in a couple of scientific laws and suppresses the moment of active doing (accepting or refusing) as a sufficient preassumption of reality.
(12) Virus replication in nasal turbinates was not diminished while infection in the lung was suppressed sufficiently for the infected mice to survive the infection.
(13) Currently there are no IOC approved definitive tests for these hormones but highly specific immunoassays combined with suitable purification techniques may be sufficient to warrant IOC approval.
(14) Second, is it possible - by combining the two technologies of endoscopy and computers - to provide an individual patient with a short-term prognostic prediction sufficiently accurate to affect patient management.
(15) "There is sufficient evidence... of past surface temperatures to say with a high level of confidence that the last few decades of the 20th century were warmer than any comparable period in the last 400 years.
(16) This established that the Gly----Glu substitution at amino acid 142 is sufficient to abolish enzymatic activity and to result in the chylomicronemia syndrome observed in these patients.
(17) The results indicate that CRALBP X 11-cis-retinol is sufficiently stereoselective in its binding properties to warrant consideration as a component of the mechanism for the generation of 11-cis-retinaldehyde in the dark.
(18) Discussion deals with the plurality, specificity, variability, perceived necessity, sufficiency, international utility and career significance of British postgraduate qualifications.
(19) In a previous analysis of the Hox-1.1 promoter in transgenic mice, we identified sequences that were sufficient to establish transgene expression in a specific region of the embryo.
(20) The data indicate that activated helper T cells are required and sufficient to give rise to the inflammatory infiltrates that are characteristic of the inflammations and exacerbations in human rheumatoid arthritis.
Unsufficiency
Definition:
(n.) Insufficiency.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cause is considered being an unsufficient antibiotical treatment of maxillary sinusitis.
(2) In the sub-maxillary glands, cold exposure reduced the noradrenaline (NA) synthesis by 40% at times 24 and 48 h. In the spleen, NA synthesis was multiplied by a factor 1.6 at times 2.5 and 24 h and 2.8 at time 48 h. In the heart, it was increased by a factor 1.3 after 2.5 h, 2.8 after 24 h and 5.5 after 48 h: an important fall in cardiac NA level was observed during the first 24 h of cold exposure indicating that the synthesis capability was unsufficient to compensate the cold-induced NA release.
(3) Therefore 9 patients have to be excluded from the trial (5 unsufficient effects, 4 unreasonable side effects).
(4) The unsufficient treatment by X-ray seems to be a conditioning factor by injuring the surrounding stroma.
(5) As a result it could be shown, that the adolescents were very unsufficiently described, that they were treated without success in other institutions before, and that they grew up under bad conditions.
(6) As against the bourgeois nature healing movement, the Association searched for the reasons of the absolutely unsufficient protection of health of the working class in the capitalist society.
(7) The distribution of I. persulcatus and H. concinna further to the north is limited by an unsufficient heat for the development of eggs while for D. silvarum heat is not enough to complete its life cycle within a year.
(8) The results showed that either number of epithelial cells or degree of their specialization were unsufficient for Peyer's patch formation.
(9) It appears that the doses which have been used are unsufficient to use this medecine as a "monotherapy".
(10) The in vitro investigations revealed that under oral conditions the longterm durability of the bond strength is still unsufficient, unless care is taken that the debris layer which is caused by mechanical treatment has been removed.
(11) Small amounts of inactivates virus, which was unsufficient to evoke a primary response, could elicit a strong secondary response.
(12) The study detected some quantificational differences in morbid psychic anesthesia according to its volume (local, diffuse-partial and total), its actiality (unsufficiently actual, actual and acutely actual), structure (thymical, "reasoning", delusionlike), related to the depressive affect (parallelism with affect, relative parallelism, an absence of parallelism).
(13) Under certain, however unsufficiently understood, conditions CSF ex vacuo may develop expansive tendencies, most obvious in growing fracture of the skull vault or base.
(14) The later questioning of all patients showed only 4 patients (with unsufficient preoperative sedation) who could remember part of the terminal phase of the operation.
(15) The failure of post-schooling for alcohol conspicuous motorists as well as the unsufficient effectiveness of the whole relevant measure practice should be a reason for a new valuation and new orientation of all of the measures in the area of "alcohol in road traffic".
(16) It has been established that unlimited feeding of young rats with mother's milk has a positive influence in the early postnatal period on the general development, on the rate of twofold learning and the level of retention of a conditioned reflex, while unsufficient feeding has a negative influence on these characteristics.
(17) Increased levels of urine 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid was specific for CS but unsufficiently sensitive to detect all cases.
(18) Both groups are extremely unsufficiently provided with prosthesis.
(19) They probably identified the taste as salty owing to the lack of proper terms, and unsufficient experience with tasting monosodium glutamate and sodium hydrogen carbonate as substances possessing defined tastes different from the salty taste.
(20) This process can be regarded as an adaptation of cancer cells to a situation of unsufficient supply.