In 2004, after anticipation that has rarely been seen since, Half Life 2's protracted development – with its secrecy and sudden delay due to a highly publicised code leak before release – felt like an eternity.
Working on the new drama rekindled his interest in television after a period of disillusionment with the medium following the protracted development and early cancellation of his own drama series Kingpin, a sort of Latino Sopranos, which aired in the US in 2003.
First, and consistent with previous observations, Lavenex and Banta Lavenex observed a protracted development in the dentate gyrus (which they propose may persist for the first decade of human life), and an accompanied late development of specific layers located downstream of the dentate gyrus, particularly in the CA3 region.
The evidence for the slow development from gathering and cultivation of wild species to the use of domesticates in the Near East, deriving from a number of Epipalaeolithic and aceramic Neolithic sites with short occupational stratigraphies, cannot explain the reasons for the protracted development of agriculture in the Fertile Crescent.
Given the protracted development of the visual system in the rat (with responses to visual stimuli in V1 still immature at P23 [ 29]), this is a striking demonstration of how rapidly visual information is incorporated into the HD system.
If the game's notoriously difficult and protracted development was spent on perfecting its animations, it was time well spent.
During The Sims's protracted development, the team had debated whether to permit same-sex relationships in the game.
By all accounts, Quantum Break had a bumpy and protracted development.
The reasons underlying this protracted development are not yet fully understood.
Fronto-parietal networks, typically recruited under conditions where this cognitive control is needed, undergo protracted development.
