A recent report demonstrated that 50 mg of β-carotene every other day prevented cognitive decline in a study of over 4000 physicians at a mean treatment duration of 18 years.

This packet includes the lease duration and any other configuration information that the client might have requested.

In other areas, however, such as agriculture, land tenure, and social organization, Inca rule had a profound effect despite its relatively short duration.

In the United Kingdom and various other European countries, the Master of Engineering is often considered an undergraduate degree of slightly longer duration than the Bachelor of Engineering.

In a Test or other match with five or more days duration, the team batting second can be asked to follow on if 200 or more runs behind.

While tense relates the time of a situation to some other time, commonly the time of speaking, aspect conveys other temporal information, such as duration, completion, or frequency, as it relates to the time of action.

The other factor in situation aspect is duration, which is also a property of a verb phrase.

These factors can also cause hydrocodone and related drugs to have a threshold effect, cause significant lengthening or shortening of the duration of effects in the absence of tolerance, and increase or decrease the de facto conversion ratio between hydrocodone and other drugs like morphine, hydromorphone, and synthetics like levorphanol and methadone.

It has cross-tolerance with other opioids including heroin and morphine, offering very similar effects and a long duration of effect.

Despite Methadone's much longer duration of action compared to either heroin and other shorter-acting agonists, and the need for repeat doses of the antagonist naloxone, it is still used for overdose therapy.

To keep the probability of predetonation low, the duration of the non-optimal assembly period is minimized and fissile and other materials are used which have low spontaneous fission rates.

The treaty is of unlimited duration and open to accession by other States.

The duration and format of storylines and the visual grammar employed by US daytime serials set them apart from soap operas in other countries and from evening soap operas.

Lighting, angle, shot duration, juxtaposition, cultural context, and a wide array of other elements can actively reinforce or undermine a sequence's meaning.

For example, the ability to recall words in order depends on a number of characteristics of these words: fewer words can be recalled when the words have longer spoken duration ; this is known as the word-length effect, or when their speech sounds are similar to each other ; this is called the phonological similarity effect.

In some cases, the grill can also function like a bakery oven by putting a drip pan below the cooking surface rack of a barbecue grill, as well as a baking sheet pan on top, combining two techniques simultaneously, or one right after the other, cooking twice, with a duration slightly longer than grilling.

The other counties retained their Dutch names for the duration.

( 7 ) Together with a painting of the capture of Syracuse, catapults, ballistae and all the other engines of war were carried along, as well as the ornaments of a peace of long duration and of royal opulence, ( 8 ) plate of skilfully wrought silver and bronze, other household furniture, precious garments and many renowned statues by which Syracuse had been distinguished among the foremost cities of Greece.

Its deployment will be limited to six months duration, after which the mission will either be terminated or other forces will replace the Brigade.

In other words, each depression is always a recession, sharing the same starting and ending dates and having the same duration.

There is no other information in the Bible concerning the duration of this activity in Judea.

Jumping can be distinguished from running, galloping, and other gaits where the entire body is temporarily airborne by the relatively long duration of the aerial phase and high angle of initial launch.

In such circumstances the " bottom " or submissive must have consented not to have control over the duration of the scene in advance ; this is often referred to as consensual nonconsent.

In Maine, Mississippi, and Tennessee alimony is awarded in marriages or civil union of 10 to 20 years and the duration is half the length of the marriage barring extenuating circumstances.

For example, in the United States, wetlands are defined as " those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions.

The intensity and duration of stress changes depending on the circumstances and emotional condition of the person suffering from it ( Arnold.

Others, such as the BBC, allowed reuse of spliced tape in certain circumstances as long as it conformed to strict criteria about the number of splices in a given duration.

The American Convention on Human Rights ( Pacto de San José de Costa Rica ), adopted in 1969 but only ratified by Argentina in 1984 immediately after the end of the National Reorganization Process, restricts abuse of the state of emergency by requiring any signatory nation declaring such a state to inform the other signatories of its circumstances and duration, and what rights are affected.

However, in some circumstances, such as the death or immediate resignation of a leader, this is not possible, and an interim leader is appointed by the party for the duration of the leadership campaign.

An interlocking web of plans having varying degrees of specificity, comprehensiveness, and duration was in operation at all times ; any or all of these may have been modified during the continuous process of performance monitoring or as a result of new and unforeseen circumstances.

Occasionally, children were given names that were descriptive of the circumstances under which they were born, " Nduku " ( girl ) and " Mutuku " ( boy ) meaning born at night ," Kioko " ( boy ) born in the morning, " Mumbua / Syombua " ( girl ) and " Wambua " ( boy ) for the time of rain, " Wayua " ( girl ) for the time of famine, " Makau " ( boy ) for the time of war, " Musyoka / Kasyuko / Musyoki " ( boy ) and " Kasyoka / Kasyoki " ( girl ) as a re-incarnation of a dead family member, " Mutua " ( boy ) and " Mutuo / Mwikali " ( girl ) as indicative of the long duration the parents had waited for this child, or a lengthy period of gestation.

The duration varies according to the student's course, and other personal circumstances.

In particular, they pointed out that when interpreting the legislation which established legal aid services, Australian courts did not recognise an absolute right to counsel in all circumstances, and thus the State does not need to provide counsel for the duration of the trial.

Dominators, a City of Villains archetype, share the Controllers ' crowd control abilities, but with substantially reduced duration under most circumstances.

with no intention of upgrading to a Ph. D., due to personal circumstances, due to their chosen research project having insufficient scope for a Ph. D or due to desiring to complete a slightly shorter qualification both in length and duration.

Bound by the rules of chivalry, Don Quixote submits to prearranged terms that the vanquished is to obey the will of the conqueror, which in this case, is that Don Quixote is to lay down his arms and cease his acts of chivalry for the period of one year ( a duration in which he may be cured of his madness ).

The decay times of this fluorescence are of the order of nanoseconds, since the duration of the light depends on the lifetime of the excited states of the fluorescent material, in this case anthracene or stilbene.

This inevitably reduced the potential duration of campaigns, as a large portion of any Greek army would need to return to their own professions ( especially in the case of farmers, for example ).

In this case, the contrast appears largely to be conveyed with a difference in the voice onset time of the initial consonant as the configuration of the mouth is the same for and ; however, there is also a possible difference in duration, which visual analysis using high quality video supports.

Indeed, MSK is a particular case of the sub-family of CPM known as continuous-phase frequency-shift keying ( CPFSK ) which is defined by a rectangular frequency pulse ( i. e. a linearly increasing phase pulse ) of one symbol-time duration ( total response signaling ).

In the case of constant power P, the amount of work performed during a period of duration T is given by:

In that case, the California Court of Appeals held " it would be obnoxious to the interests of the state and contrary to public policy and sound morality to allow an employer to discharge an employee, whether the employment be for a designated or unspecified duration, on the ground that the employee declined to commit perjury, an act specifically enjoined by statute.

It was not until the case of Solem v. Helm,, that the Supreme Court held that incarceration, standing alone, could constitute cruel and unusual punishment if it were " disproportionate " in duration to the offense.

In case breath sample analysis is done using isotope ratio mass spectrometry, a 2-point sampling is required with a 20 to 30-minute duration between them.

The association with track length and duration also varies, although longer track tornadoes tend to be stronger .< ref name =" width / length intensity relationship "> In the case of violent tornadoes, only a small portion of the path is of violent intensity, most of the higher intensity from subvortices.

The law mandated use of the term " National Guard " for that force, and the President was given authority, in case of war or national emergency, to mobilize the National Guard for the duration of the emergency.

In any case, the end result was a physical electrical connection between the two subscribers ' telephones for the duration of the call.

The interval between the 50 % points of the final amplitude is usually used to determine or define pulse duration, and this is understood to be the case unless otherwise specified.

In addition the duration of the flow may be considerably shorter or longer than normal, and the flow itself may be significantly heavier or lighter than was previously the case, including sometimes long episodes of spotting.

In any case, the peace turned out to be of short duration.

A grant of spousal support depends on the facts of the case, such as the disparity between the income of the parties, the duration of the marriage, the health of the parties, and the presence of very young children.

This inevitably reduced the potential duration of campaigns, as citizens would need to return to their own professions ( especially in the case of, for example, farmers ).

In the European Union, even if a Member State provides for the possibility of a legal person to be the original rightholder ( such as is possible in the UK ), then the duration of protection is in general the same as the copyright term for a personal copyright: i. e., for a literary or artistic work, 70 years from the death of the human author, or in the case of works of joint authorship, 70 years from the death of the last surviving author.

and remained so for all the duration of Numa's reign, a unique case in Roman history.

The duration of sleep in one case decreased to about 2 – 4 hours per 24 hour period.

In these states, the determination of duration and amount of alimony is left to the discretion of the family court judges who must consider case law in each state.

Eurostars projects are also limited to a maximum duration of three years, with the funded research's market launch occurring within two years of project completion ; or, in the case of biomedical or medical projects, starting clinical trials within two years of project completion.

By using zoom-FFT to record SSEPs at the theoretical limit of spectral resolution ΔF ( where ΔF in Hz is the reciprocal of the recording duration in seconds ) Regan and Regan discovered that the amplitude and phase variability of the SSEP can be sufficiently small that the bandwidth of the SSEP ’ s constituent frequency components can be at the theoretical limit of spectral resolution up to at least a 500 second recording duration ( 0. 002 Hz in this case ).