Sentences with word «vegetative»

Also, if I'm in vegetative state for more than six weeks, he can pull the plug.

The scientists, who wrote a case study in the journal Brain Stimulation, will continue to test the technique to help patients in vegetative states.

Recent research has revealed that about 40 percent of vegetative state diagnoses is incorrect.

In consequence of these two benefits, Lu et al. hypothesized that rising atmospheric CO2 is playing a significant role in the observed greening, especially in moisture - limited areas where soil water content is a limiting factor in vegetative growth and function.

Childs, et al, «Accuracy of Diagnosis of Persistent Vegetative State,» Neurology, 43 (August 1993): 1465 - 67, report that «of the 49 patients referred in coma or PVS, 18 (37 \ %) received a change in diagnosis at or shortly after admission» (1466).

Such stimulation had not worked very well in a trial conducted on vegetative patients in the 1980s by the medical device company Medtronic.

Once the bacteria is in the bloodstream it can infect other organs like the valves of the heart, resulting in a disease known as vegetative valvular endocarditis.

Better understanding of the coma - like state of general anesthesia could also shed light on patients who are in a more permanent vegetative state, who upon waking go through very similar stages as those coming up from general anesthesia — albeit much more slowly.

Give the guy a few tubes, an ultrasound probe, a scalpel and a rock star surgical team & watch him do what was considered impossible only a short time ago; surgical repair the ubiquitously failing mitral apparatus from vegetative endocardiosis in a King Charles Spaniel.

Developed by FM Approvals, LLC, FM Standard 4477 is the approval standard for vegetative roof systems.

All strawberry plants produce runners (vegetative part of the plant that is capable of producing a new identical plant), however, some types grow more than others.

Things take a major turn for Israel when Jackson suffers a catastrophic heart attack and goes into vegetative state.

Articles sometimes examine how vegetative greening and blackening are causing the Arctic ice cap to melt faster — involving a...

Cuttings, grafting, and budding are the usual methods of vegetative propagation.

The Sonoran Desert, where the saguaro live, is the lowest vegetative zone, and it resists burning.

yeah... maybe its time to acknowledge the positive effects of climate change... less death in the winter, longer growing seasons... increased vegetative cover for this good green earth, and stronger, healthier more productive plants.

The introductory wording slightly changed to «Farms with Agroforestry Crops located in areas where the original natural vegetative cover...» but that was minor.

However, most of these opportunities focus on carbon found in the above ground vegetative biomass and do not currently account for the carbon in the soil.

Prescribed fires are conducted when atmospheric and vegetative conditions will minimize the amount of smoke produced and its impacts on people.

Agro-ecological plots had over one - fifth more vegetative cover than conventional plots.

Fay said another possibility is a so - called vegetative roof, which uses plants to cool the rooftop and, as a result, the building.

Each island supports a unique assemblage of vegetative communities, which differ due to climate, microhabitats, topography, geology, soils, plant colonization history, isolation, and land use history.

The high nitrogen amount encourages vegetative growth, not flowering.

«I explained how we go through the assessment process, the importance of differential diagnosis, distinguishing between vegetative state and minimally conscious state.

Is, in Feser's view, all of evolutionary history only a build - up for the main event — the appearance and salvation of embodied spiritual creatures, after which vegetative and animal life will disappear, its purpose served?

Depending on crop load, reducing vegetative shoot growth in spring or summer could mitigate or initiate alternate bearing.

He found that the connectivity of people in permanently vegetative states turns out to be different from that of people who eventually regain awareness.

Vegetative compatibility (vc) systems are a fungal equivalent of the tissue rejection systems in humans, enabling the fungus to distinguish between self and non-self.

Vegetarians, whose only source of ALA is from vegetative sources, have no deficiencies in either EPA or DHA if they eat sufficient quantities of foods with ALA..

Two explanations have been proposed for this striking increase: competitive release due to decline of the island fox (Urocyon littoralis santacruzae) and vegetative recovery due to removal of feral livestock.

The chemical composition of wood fiber, including roots and the entire vegetative mass is roughly the same, ton for ton, as coal from the Powder River Basin.

The latest example to demonstrate such comes from a paper recently published in the journal Scientific Reports, where Lu et al. (2016) investigated the role of atmospheric CO2 in causing the satellite - observed vegetative greening of the planet that has occurred over the past few decades (1960 - 2015).

However, it's then revealed that this in fact was a delusion, and his wife's captivity actually has left her disfigured and emaciated almost beyond recognition to the point where she is in an almost vegetative state.

Uniconazole - P is used in «Hass» avocado production to stop vegetative shoot growth at the apex of indeterminate floral shoots to increase fruit set and yield and after pruning to maintain tree size, especially in high - density plantings.

Working with G.R.A.S.S. early on in the development process is the most efficient and cost effective way to incorporate vegetative roofing systems into your projects.

Improve the parking areas in the Lake Minnewaska to provide better organization and maximize capacity under the preserve's stewardship guidelines, while creating better vegetative screening of parked vehicles.