In this study, we employed a simple lexical decision paradigm to investigate whether the regular practice of meditation can affect the dynamics of implicit conceptual processing and, more specifically, to test whether experienced meditators would display the ability to abbreviate the duration of neural processing triggered by semantic stimuli during meditation.
The results of this study suggest that the introduction of enteral methadone during the weaning process from sedation and analgesia for mechanically ventilated patients may abbreviate the duration of weaning from MV.
The issue is further complicated by the fact that effective therapy can abort or abbreviate the duration of a cough, whereas failure to institute effective therapy can convert what might have been an acute cough into a sub acute or chronic one.
Under the electrophysiologically remodelled conditions, the AP is drastically abbreviated with an AP duration (APD90) of 106 ms as compared to control conditions where APD90 is 302 ms [ 31].
Besides abbreviating the trial duration, the new information coming out from other trials led to a lot of additional work: we had to thoroughly analyze the data and consider its impact on our study protocol, to inform both women and the clinical staff, as well as to monitor news reports.
Low back pain (often abbreviated as LBP) may be classified by duration as acute (pain lasting less than 6 weeks), sub-chronic (6 to 12 weeks), or chronic (more than 12 weeks).
Fig. 3 Survey results: a duration in minutes of hot aches; b abbreviated numerical pain rating scale (1 = not very, 5 = very severe); c local symptoms reported during hot aches; d systemic symptoms reported during hot aches.
The course content was modified to meet the role expectations of teachers and the duration of the training had to be abbreviated from 14 hours to 7 hours for the majority of staff to fit in with the scheduled staff training days available to schools.
For example, Day and Walter (1984) used screening results of breast cancer to simultaneously estimate false negative cases (cases missed at screen) and the mean sojourn time (the average duration of the screen-detectable phase (PCDP), abbreviated as MST hereafter) based on prevalent screen-detected cases and interval cases (clinical cases occurring between screens) [ 5].
Three slag slurries with different fineness were prepared through milling with varying duration (20 min, 40 min and 60 min, abbreviated as S2, S4 and S6, respectively).
Pressure waveforms were significantly abbreviated with dobutamine compared to high perfusate calcium (total waveform duration: 100 ± 15 vs 125 ± 0 ms, p < 0.01).
