While the term is sometimes used in sleep literature to describe a disorder demonstrated by polysomnographic evidence of disturbed sleep, insomnia is often defined as a positive response to either of two questions: " Do you experience difficulty sleeping?

Rollin writes that ' Holland's experiments in reader response theory suggest that we all read literature selectively, unconsciously projecting our own fantasies into it '.

There is no randomized study in medical literature that has studied the response with amputation of patients who have failed the above-mentioned therapies and who continue to be miserable.

The decade of the 1980s was in many ways a response to the social realism in 70s literature.

However, in response to Lord, Geoffrey Kirk published The Songs of Homer, questioning Lord's extension of the oral-formulaic nature of Serbian and Croatian literature ( the area from which the theory was first developed ) to Homeric epic.

He did, however, have a distinctive voice of his own, most evident in the sensitive songs and choral works which show an unfailing response to and unity with each poet ’ s words, resulting from his thorough knowledge of English literature.

The event of the Protestant Reformation and the politics that ensued has been cited as the origins of German identity that arose in response to the spread of a common German language and literature.

If the hero does return after the culmination of the quest, he may face false heroes who attempt to pass themselves off as him, or his initial response may be a rejection of that return, as Joseph Campbell describes in his critical analysis of quest literature, The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

The response of Judith Butler, a comparative literature professor at Berkeley, was circulated on the Internet:

Lee showed her feistiness in a 1966 letter to the editor in response to the attempts of a Richmond, Virginia, area school board to ban To Kill a Mockingbird as " immoral literature ":

Their response was a stigmatized or entirely muted presentation of Black female sexuality in African American literature and art.

This found a ready response and led to the publication of thousands of books and pamphlets in Irish, providing the foundation of a new literature in the coming decades.

Another important German reader-response critic was Hans-Robert Jauss, who defined literature as a dialectic process of production and reception ( Rezeption -- the term common in Germany for " response ").

New Critics focused on the text of a work of literature and tried to exclude the reader's response, the author's intention, historical and cultural contexts, and moralistic bias from their analysis.

In the literature, hypoxia has been demonstrated to be associated with a worse prognosis, making it a determinant of cancer progression and therapeutic response.

: World Climate Report, a concise, hard-hitting and scientifically correct response to the global change reports which gain attention in the literature and popular press.

In response to the NEJM articles and a medical record review showing misuse of vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty, US Medicare contractor Noridian Administrative Services ( NAS ) conducted a literature review and formed a policy regarding reimbursement of the procedures.

In fact, sexual attraction was the most frequent response in a survey conducted among a group of 574 college and high school participants, where the participants were asked what they found most appealing about vampires and vampire literature.

There are fundamentally two schools of thought on how those Daedalic forms, some of which we know of only from the literature ( kolossos, bretas, andrias and xoanon ), became the free-standing sculpture in the round of the 6th century ; namely, that it was a response to the internal development of Greek types and religious needs or a product of foreign influence.

This case, and legislation that followed it were in response to several articles that appeared in the medical literature that defined battered child syndrome and child abuse syndrome.

There are few studies in the medical literature dealing with this subject, however, in one 1989 controlled, double-blinded study of 32 patients, consumption of roughly 6. 5 grams of long chain omega-3 fatty acids in the form of fish oil significantly increased the time to onset or entirely prevented symptoms in response to cold in patients with primary Raynaud's.

In part, that response reads: " Foreign Correspondent sought answers from World Vision representatives on why the organisation's literature creates the impression that donated money goes directly to the sponsor child.

Aadhunikotharam: Vimarsanavum Vikalanavum, ( 1999 ) is a closely argued response to some Malayalam critics and writers who maintain that Malayalam literature has already entered into its post-modern phase.

Ecogovernmentality began in the mid 1990s with a small body of theorists ( Luke, Darier, and Rutherford ) the literature on ecogovernmentality grew as a response to the perceived lack of Foucauldian analysis of environmentalism and in environmental studies.

Immune changes in response to very brief stressors have been a central theme in the last decade of PNI research, but older literature also provides early illustrations.

Remembering the step-by-step fate of Danzig and the West German misgivings about `` salami '' tactics, it is to be hoped that the dispatch of General Clay to West Berlin as President Kennedy's representative will mark a stiffening of response not only to future indignities and aggressions but also to some that have passed.

The restrained gyro-stabilized platform with reasonable response characteristics operates with an approximate equation of motion, neglecting transient effects, as follows: Af where U is a torque applied about the output axis of the controlling gyro.

This torque causes the entire system to rotate about the **yf axis, since the response to Af.

To be sure, when this is pointed out, a common response among certain churchmen is to fulminate about `` the little flock '' and `` the great crowd '' and to take solace from Paul's castigation of the `` wisdom of the wise '' in the opening chapter of First Corinthians.

" In response to an inquiry about his presidential intentions, Lincoln said, " The taste is in my mouth a little.

A cell initiates intracellular apoptotic signaling in response to a stress, which may bring about cell suicide.

Her response was, " Wait until I'm dead before you make a movie about my life !".

The time between the presentation of a stimulus and an appropriate response can indicate differences between two cognitive processes, and can indicate some things about their nature.

In 1919, the May Fourth Movement began as a response to the terms imposed on China by the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I, but quickly became a protest movement about the domestic situation in China.

By not asking about the horses, Confucius demonstrates that the sage values human beings over property ; readers are led to reflect on whether their response would follow Confucius's and to pursue self-improvement if it would not have.

Partly in response to international pressures, Comorians in the 1990s have become more concerned about the environment.

In response to a question about Iran's treatment of women and homosexuals, he asserted that women are respected in Iran and that " In Iran, we don't have homosexuals like in your country ...

In response to this Etisalat and MTN Group were launched, and by 2009 there were about 18 million mobile phone users in Afghanistan.

move seemingly had a strictly personal political motive – that is, fear and jealousy of his cousin Ptolemy – and thus the expansion was not set about in response to pressing military or economic needs.

In response to concerns about the meaning of CCM, bishops in the ELCA drafted Tucson Resolution, which presented the official ELCA position.

Rocks hotter than about 300 degrees Celsius flow in response to stress ; they do not rupture in earthquakes.

On September 20 President Obama appeared on all major news programs except Fox News, a snub partially in response to remarks about the president by commentators Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity and Fox coverage of Obama's health-care proposal.

The manifest purpose of the tale may primarily be one of mundane instruction regarding forest safety or secondarily a cautionary tale about the dangers of famine to large families, but its latent meaning may evoke a strong emotional response due to the widely understood themes and motifs such as “ The Terrible Mother ”, “ Death ,” and “ Atonement with the Father .”

One of the complaints about these hotlines is the response time, there is often a lag time between a property owner calling about the graffiti and the actual removal of it.

Groucho was the subject of an urban legend about a supposed response to a contestant who had nine children which supposedly brought down the house.

" In his book Graham Crackers, Chapman said that this took place just before Cleese left the show, and he wondered what the woman thought about his disappearance after getting Idle's response.

The spectral response of the SSI ranged from about 0. 4 to 1. 1 micrometres.

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A tough military response was needed to end the insurgency and bring about the establishment of an independent, multi-racial Federation of Malaya in 1957.