He likes the "spontaneity and variety, reacting to the rhythms of the street, with its long lulls and sudden convulsions".
The climates they create are systems in punctuated equilibrium, with sudden convulsions and periodicities we only dimly understand.
"Then someone would light a candle and its little flicker would show a strange human mass spread over the floor, sluggish and aching, rising in sudden convulsions, collapsing again".
Mr. Kennedy's sudden convulsions near the end of the luncheon, held in the Statuary Hall of the Capitol, alarmed his colleagues and many who followed the news on television.
The effects are sudden convulsions and unconsciousness, during which victims can lose their regulator and drown.
These effects include cardiac arrest, progressive paralysis, and sudden convulsions followed by death in crustaceans, which are known bloodworm prey (Fauchald and Jumars 1979).
Concentrations >1000 ppm can cause sudden collapse, convulsions, and death from respiratory paralysis.
The same variable clinical signs have also been observed in foxes after infection with rabies viruses: experimentally infected foxes first exhibit loss of appetite, hyperactivity, tremor, hypersensitivity, and sudden aggressiveness, convulsions and paralysis are common late signs [ 37, 38].
Hypoglycemia, a possible adverse event occurring during insulin treatment, was defined as a decrease in blood glucose concentration to values below 2.2 mmol/l, and was suspected in cases where the patient suffered sudden perspiration, convulsions, and change in heart rate or blood pressure.
Seizures can be experienced as convulsions; sudden, involuntary contractions of muscles; or varying degrees of changes in an individual's mental state.
The second, a 69-year-old previously healthy man, developed sudden fever and convulsions (Table 4, patient 17) rapidly progressing to coma complicated by acute renal failure and pneumonia.
