Others, such as long-lasting love or simmering resentment, are protracted, lasting hours, months, or even years (in which case they can become a durable feature of an individual's personality).
Recent trials have demonstrated that moderate hypothermia, started within 6 hours after birth and protracted for 72 hours, can significantly improve survival and reduce neurologic impairment in neonates with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.
In 2005, thirty years after she first staged "Thomas Lips" in an Austrian gallery (Thomas Lips was a Swiss lover whose androgyny had fascinated her), she revived the performance, protracted from two hours to seven, in the Guggenheim rotunda, as part of a show called "Seven Easy Pieces".
Garbi puts the protracted Japanese working hours down to the fact that researchers are generally engaged in a lot of nonresearch duties.
We showed that, while CPAP treatment in acidotic ACPE patients did actually bring 50% of patients to a pH value above 7.35 within 3 (2.5 to 6) hours, the treatment nevertheless had to be protracted for at least 6 hours before the mean pH crossed the threshold of 7.35.
As fasting becomes protracted for more than several hours, glycogen stores become depleted, and the low levels of circulating insulin allow increased fatty acid release from adipocytes.
In most types of acute brain injury there is a significant and protracted inflammatory response in the hours following the acute event, whether this is ischemic, traumatic, or a combination of both.
Triage systems and initial investigation in A&E to determine a differential diagnosis and whether admission was warranted, might be followed by further observations within a short stay assessment facility (AAU) for up to 48 hours; which could be further protracted because of shortage of acute ward beds.
Hence, small clutch (and litter) size, high incidence of cooperative breeding, helping in the nest, nomadism and 48-hour intervals in egg laying, protracted molt, extended parental care, long breeding seasons, and increased longevity are among the biological characteristics of Australian birds and mammals that have been attributed to environmental conditions [19] [21], [23], [39] [42].
The complete "Man and Superman" has four acts and can run more than five hours, given its characters' tendency toward protracted discussions about class, religion, the sexes and other topics (leavened, fortunately, by volleys of wit).
In Transformers, the director and the frame have protracted and meaningful relations, and it is over two hours before Mr Bay as it were pulls on his trousers and promises to call the frame some time next week.
