The lawyer for Mr. Godineaux said yesterday that her client was mentally retarded, but she declined to provide the type of specific information about Mr. Godineaux that is used to determine whether a defendant is mentally retarded, including his I.Q.
Most of the states that have laws banning the execution of the mentally retarded, including New York, only require defendants to prove their condition by a "preponderance of the evidence".
The wall above Ms. Assefa's desk at Unicef is covered with pictures of Afghan villagers with enormous goiters, and several cases of mentally and physically retarded people, including a stunted 10-year-old girl whom villagers called diwana, or the mad one, Ms. Assefa said.
As it is the objective of multiple lines of modern experimental gerontology to determine or elucidate the means by which a mutation, diet, drug, or lifestyle intervention engenders retarded aging (including ancillary consequences such as longevity), statistical analyses such as mediation might prove very useful for gerontological research.
Subtle effects accompany CR's ability to retard aging including changes in insulin sensitivity, insulin signaling, neuroendocrine function and stress response.
The straightforward way to calculate the dielectric (optical) response would be to sum all contributions to the electrical polarization of the whole sample, including retarded electrodynamic multipole interactions of neighboring particles and the size, shape, and interparticle distance distributions in the sample.
In this study, observed abnormalities referred to all abnormal toxicological endpoints including retarded development, for example, coagulated eggs, malformation, no extension of tail at 24 hpf, no spontaneous movements within 20 s, no heartbeat, no blood circulation and weak pigmentation, heart sac edema, spine deformation, and hatching rate.
Several factors have retarded sucker conservation including widespread inabilities of field workers to distinguish some species, lack of basic natural history and ecological knowledge of life history, and the misconception that suckers are tolerant of degraded conditions and are of little social or ecological value.
A LIPHlpd1 Knock Out mouse exhibited a complex multifactorial phenotype including retarded hair growth [12].
Disruption of the LIPH gene in the mouse results in various phenotypes including retarded hair growth and postnatal lethality [12].
Similar symptoms were observed in Sitophilus grain weevils deprived of their Sodalis-allied endosymbionts, including retarded larval growth, soft adult body and light cuticle color [48].
