The attempt to limit access to information was prompted by a meeting in May in which Mr. Maliki asked his ministers to develop methods to halt material entering Iraq — whether via the Internet or over its borders — that advocated violence or included sexual content.
Neuroprotection, methods to halt or mitigate secondary injury, have been the subject of great interest for their ability to limit the damage that follows TBI.
We sampled cells from a steady-state chemostat directly into four different cold (<−50°C) aqueous methanol quenching solutions (A-D see Materials and Methods) to halt metabolism.
Likewise, the process of certain cells becoming cancerous and methods to halt this process are still being investigated.
On the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, the specialist in the stock, who is charged with maintaining an orderly market in the shares, applied a method the exchange uses to halt trading effectively without actually doing so, spreading the bid and asked prices so that investors could see there was an influx of orders.
Click image above to enlarge graphic While the condition itself is rare, the success of the new treatment holds out the hope that similar methods could be used to halt the progress of other genetic causes of blindness – including age-related macular degeneration, the most common cause, which affects 500,000 people in the UK alone.
The study--carried out by TB experts from the CDC, the Central TB Research Institute in Moscow, the World Health Organization, the Public Health Research Institute (PHRI) of New York City, and others--indicates that traditional TB-fighting techniques are failing in Russia, and that new, more expensive methods will be needed to halt the epidemic.
Extreme methods were used to force the engineers to halt demolition, including underground tunnels with protesters secured within by concrete.
Patient isolation and contact tracing, barrier nursing methods, and safe burial practices have been used successfully to halt some outbreaks.
