As it happens, we live not only in the era of the abbreviated attention span, but also in the era of the book group, whose members often set a strict page limit.
But regardless of how Varroa mites kill bees, the mites' abbreviated life span allows them to rapidly develop resistance to the synthetic chemicals that are used to control them.
Similarly, knocking down sNPF in the same sets of neurosecretory cells led to flies with abbreviated life span at starvation (Fig. 8B), although less pronounced at about 15% (P<0.001 compared to each control, Logrank test; n = 166 247 for each genotype).
Tiny Mix Tapes also gave it four stars out of five and stated: "While the elders will rejoice [in] this sober, satisfied, and craftily subdued effort, the younglings of the bunch, with their abbreviated attention spans, iPod shuffles, and demand for instant gratification, will declare the album a boring and lethargic affair".
For example, short or abbreviated duplication spans are less likely to duplicate an ancestral ORF in its entirety.
Very short-lived mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish generally do not show clear signs of AD pathology [ 7], and this may be because their brains are far smaller, their learning arcs are much abbreviated, their life spans are typically much shorter and their life histories are much different.
Students completed an abbreviated School Physical Activity and Nutrition (SPAN) survey.
CS names end with an abbreviated indicator of the taxonomic span of conservation: (S) shared among Sauropsida, (M) shared among Mammalia, (B) shared among Batrachia, and (G) shared among Gymnophiona.
The filmmakers' underestimation of the audiences' attention span leaves us with an abbreviated version of the story.
Some abbreviations are best kept abbreviated, such as GCSE.
In a cross-sectional study on healthcare costs in the elderly, Heinrich et al. assessed resource use over various time spans and extrapolated the data to annual costs by assuming that the documented resource use over abbreviated periods would also be found over a 12-month period [ 16].
