What allows a person to hold his or her breath and dive to severe depths is an autonomic process called the mammalian diving reflex, which is activated when the nerves in the face come into contact with water, most effectively with cold water.
Conflict between Keith Olbermann and his bosses at Current TV reached severe depths in the weeks before the Iowa caucuses, according to a new report in Newsweek.
Since narcosis becomes more severe as depth increases, a diver keeping to shallower depths can avoid serious narcosis.
Our results indicate that mortality was not widespread or severe at depths of 6 9 meters.
However, when the normal load exceeded 10 mN, the scratching damage became severe and the depth of the groove increased to 23 nm at 30 mN.
The impact of the Great Recession on state tax revenues has been severe, with the depth and persistence of the decline greater than any other downturn in the post-war period.
However, this imaging approach is often hampered by spherical aberration (SA) that results from the mismatch of refractive indices in the optical path and becomes more severe with increasing depth of target from the brain surface.
In brief, the severity in the colonic sections was evaluated for ulcer size (none = 0, small = 1, large = 2), degree of inflammation (none = 0, mild = 1, moderate = 2, severe = 3), depth of lesion (none = 0, submucosa = 1, muscularis propria = 2, involving serosa = 3), and fibrosis (none = 0, mild = 1, severe = 2).
A quake of that magnitude is capable of causing severe damage, although the depth of this one lessened its impact.
While many states have severe fiscal problems, the depth and unusual persistence of California's budget problems — the state has run deficits for most of the decade — has emptied Sacramento's till.
