The persistent element refers to the game engine maintaining character activity after the player has logged off — supporting an unbroken simulation.
Most often, persistent pain refers to conditions where the pain lacks an obvious biological value and is beyond normal tissue healing (Harstall & Ospina, 2003).
Observations included record-breaking wind speeds of 229 m/s (824 km/h) and a persistent thunderstorm referred to as "Fourth of July fireworks".
Such a population is likely to differ considerably from individuals with persistent cough referred for specialist evaluation.
Patients with persistent cough referred to a specialist cough clinic appear to have higher levels of emotional distress than would be expected in a healthy population.
Of the 55 early arthritis patients 31 subsequently developed persistent inflammatory arthritis (referred to as 'early persistent arthritis (all)').
For example, in the obsessive-compulsive condition, which refers to persistent unwelcome ideas or recurrent irresistible urges to perform certain acts, such as incessant hand washing, the defense maneuvers are called isolation and displacement.
If long-term plasticity refers to persistent modifications in synaptic efficacy, short-term plasticity reflects the reversible modulation of synaptic strength in response to varying presynaptic stimuli.
While tiredness is transient, fatigue refers to persistent exhaustion and lack of energy that is not easily relieved by rest or sleep [ 8].
The measure contains five subscales, three of these relate to emotional control or dysregulation (emotional avoidance, suppression, unregulated emotion, one subscale (impoverished emotional experience) shares some properties with the alexithymia construct 32 and the last subscale (signs of unprocessed emotion) refers to persistent and intrusive emotional phenomena.
Persistent organic pollutants refer to a large group of organic compounds that are highly lipophilic and persistent to degradation (2– 4).
