Today, innovators in fields like energy, manufacturing, robotics, biotech and medical devices often find it extremely difficult to secure the sustained funding, space, equipment, expertise and networks to fully develop their technologies; this struggle itself can needlessly prolong the development process, stretching it to a decade or more.
But rather than prolonging the development of myelin into mid-adulthood as humans do, chimps stop producing myelin when they hit sexual maturity at about 12 years old.
Many auditory skills continue to develop beyond infancy and even into adolescence, but the factors underlying this prolonged development remain poorly understood.
For example, a novel stress during a particular stage of animal development will tend to prolong this stage.
Although the development process is prolonged, thoroughness in development and testing provides confidence in the data produced by the measure, and increases the value of the data for use in service evaluation and research.
The differences in pubertal development were partly, but not entirely, explained by higher BMI among white British and British-Bangladeshi girls versus Bangladeshi girls, suggesting that nutritional and other environmental factors associated with the UK growth environment are associated with early, but prolonged, pubertal development.
Life history and morphological features characteristic of this clade include a relatively enlarged cerebral cortex, prolonged intrauterine fetal development followed postnatally by prolonged dependency of the young on nurturing adults, and longer lifespan.
Large, complex organisms with sophisticated behaviors require prolonged periods of development, so large animals develop slower.
Why, Joe, are you prolonging this?
Dollar instability is prolonging this crisis.
During ovarian stimulation, the coagulation and fibrinolytic systems are activated; this activation appears to be exaggerated and prolonged with the development of OHSS.
