Many times it works well for a short while, but most of the time the half-life of persistence is too brief.
Although, young adults with constipation in childhood report a good quality of life, persistence of childhood constipation into adulthood is associated with impaired HRQoL at adult age.
Follow-up of 24 seropositive infants showed that the half-life of antibody persistence was 35.5 days.
The domestication of sheep and cattle led to natural selection in favor of human populations able to digest milk throughout life through persistence into adulthood of lactase enzyme expression in the intestine, a major story of anthropology.
To benefit from the lessons both of the Grant Study and of life requires persistence and humility, for maturation makes liars of us all.
I see it less as a declaration of religious faith than the expression of a universal fascination with the origins of life and the persistence of creation myths in the absence of any credible scientific explanation.
In particular, he's intrigued by the ideas in the analytical psychology of Carl Jung, which he brings to sculptural life using the idea of persistence of vision and a zoetrope-type technique.
It is not clear why that initial trial showed a much higher protection in the first year of life and observed persistence of protection in the second year of life, whereas subsequent trials have not [55].
The 'thrifty phenotype' hypothesis suggests that the risks of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases are 'programmed' in early life through the persistence of endocrine, physiological and metabolic adaptations made in the face of undernutrition.
Since her return to the US in 2011, Knox has attempted to carve out a normal life despite the persistence of the paparazzi and the tortuous workings of the Italian courts.
It is no longer surprising that some on the far right are deluded into thinking that the U.S. is a tyranny seeking to take away their guns, property and way of life, but the persistence of this language, and the extent to which it continues to resonate with a segment of the population is something that should not be disregarded.
