In early hydration kinetics, pastes with PCE retard hydration and the degree of retardation is further increased with LS SPs.
For years, affected Amish children who seemed healthy at birth soon suffered brain damage and other forms of retardation.
But in the sentencing phase, the jury considered evidence of retardation, and gave the defendant life in prison.
"Higher risks of retardation, asthma, and congenital aortic deformities... It's not uncommon for preemies to undergo a number of surgeries".
Of the 50 states, only Georgia requires proof of retardation beyond a reasonable doubt.
If the judge ruled against the defendant, defense lawyers could raise the issue in the sentencing phase, and a finding of retardation would require a unanimous jury.
It did determine, however, that jurors must be instructed to weigh evidence of retardation as a possible mitigating factor at sentencing.
Any evidence of retardation to show an absence of personal culpability, she wrote, would also be likely to support a finding of a continuing threat to society.
"Jessy didn't show classic signs of retardation: she was coordinated, there were certain tasks she performed efficiently.
But the court did not decide whether Mr. Atkins himself fell within accepted definitions of retardation, and Virginia prosecutors have since been trying to prove that he should not receive the benefit of the decision with his name on it.
"The Arab world was considered a stagnant pond of retardation and tyranny, inhabited by what appeared to be a complacent populace toiling fatalistically under the yoke of their dictators," says Iyad el-Baghdadi, compiler of the canonical Arab Tyrant's Manual.
