During July 2007, The Sunday Star-Times quoted Flynn as saying that New Zealand risked having a less intelligent population and that a " persistent genetic trend which lowered the genetic quality for brain physiology would have some effect eventually ".

The female cones are pendulous, with persistent scales ( unlike true firs ), and are distinctive in having a long tridentine ( three-pointed ) bract that protrudes prominently above each scale ( it resembles the back half of a mouse, with two feet and a tail ).

In the case of Strongyloides, autoinfection may explain the possibility of persistent infections for many years in persons not having been in an endemic area and of hyperinfections in immunodepressed individuals.

** Those having a persistent and reasonable governance ( 剛強直理 ) are called " Martial " ( 武 wǔ ).

Some citron varieties are also distinct, having persistent styles, that do not fall off after fecundation.

However late persistent tradition designates the lindworm as having no limbs, or just front claws ( so that it must slither ) in contrast to wyverns that have only hind-quarters ( and possible claws on the end of its wings ) and in contrast to dragons which have four limbs and may either be winged or wingless.

Bandar-e Anzali has the most humid climate of any city in Iran, having a climate somewhat similar in its heavy autumn and early winter rainfall and persistent high humidity and low sunshine to the Sea of Japan coast of Japan, though it receives much less summer rainfall than that region it remains classified as a humid subtropical climate ( Köppen Cfa ).

From true firs, such as Balsam Fir ), it differs in having pendulous cones, persistent woody leaf-bases, and four-angled needles, arranged all round the shoots.

Some of these have persisted ; for example he saw the red colour form as having more dingo in it than the blue form, and there is a persistent belief that reds are more vicious than blues.

His subsequent persistent investigation of the incident threatened to expose SHADO's existence and Straker considered having him killed, but instead was impressed enough with Foster to offer him a position with SHADO.

She did not share in the Nobel Prize, despite the fact that it was she, having helped build the four-acre radio telescope over two years, who initially recorded and then noticed the anomaly, reviewing 96 feet of paper data per night, and, as she confirmed in the Beautiful Minds programme, had to be persistent in recording and reporting it in the face of scorn from Hewish, who was initially insistent the anomaly was due to interference and man-made.

In January 2007 a persistent rumour circulated on the Internet that Royal and Hollande avoided paying solidarity tax on wealth by having their three properties owned by a private real estate company.

After a persistent seven-year siege, he was able to forcefully incorporate it into his vast empire in 1473, but only after having starved its citizens into surrender.

In his later years, Murphy ( a smoker ) began having trouble calling games due to persistent throat inflammation.

The Arm & Hammer brand was in use some 31 years before Hammer was born, so Hammer's purchase of stock in the company appears to have been either an attempt to get the company to take " his " name off its baking soda or an odd attempt by Hammer to make the persistent claim true rather than having to constantly explain the lack of relation.

Distractions took the form of his own dissatisfaction with the job ( walked off after expressing it ), an ardent fan who kisses him and dares him to chase after her for more ( he pauses for a moment then runs off after her ), a persistent busker constantly getting in the frame ( chases after him having smashed his guitar and threatening to do worse ) and his kidnapping right in front of the interviewee by a van of hoodlums.

Following the 1979 general election and another change of government, Sally Oppenheim, described by the last director of the Metrication Board, Jim Humble, as having " been almost the lone but persistent critic of the metric programme " was appointed Minister of State for Consumer Affairs.

John C. Turmel is, according to the Guinness Book of Records, the most persistent perennial candidate, having run 77 and lost in 76 elections ( the other being a by-election that was cancelled by a general election call ).

DUT experienced consistent growth of over half a century, and having gone through the persistent efforts of several generations, DUT has developed into a comprehensive university with a primary emphasis still on science and technology.

In the last decade of the nineteenth century the reactionaries, having failed in every attempt to overthrow the republic, had recourse to anti-Semitism, by means of which they maintained a persistent agitation for over ten years.

* " The paranoid parent " ( a parent having persistent and irrational fear accompanied by anger and false accusations that their child is up to no good or others are plotting harm )

Ludwig Ott argues that a high moral, human certainty of having sanctifying grace is possible, on the grounds that one is not conscious of an unforgiven grave sin, but by no means faith which is believing with divine certainty and that with some probability one can locate positive signs of predestination, which does not mean that their lack be a sign of reprobation: He lists persistent action of the virtues recommended in the Eight Beatitudes, frequent Communion, active charity, love for Christ and the Church and devotion to the Blessed Virgin.

Berasategui retired from the professional tour in May 2001, having had persistent wrist injuries since his match with Hernán Gumy at the Bologna tournament in June 1998.

# Continuation of the behavior despite knowledge of having a persistent or recurrent social, academic, financial, psychological, or physical problem that is caused or exacerbated by the behavior.

“ Baby Signs ” was developed by Dr. Linda Acredolo and Dr. Susan Goodwyn in the early 1980s, and has become a persistent trend in child development.

Little else is known about his childhood, although there is a persistent tradition that he was educated by his maternal great-grandfather Jean de St. Rémy — a tradition which is somewhat undermined by the fact that the latter disappears from the historical record after 1504, when the child was only one year old.

One persistent pre-19th century superstition is that, if a pregnant woman is scared by someone or something, the child would be born with the quality of the source.

Saj ’ s persistent work to tackle child labour and ensure that it is recognised as an international trade issue, underlines his passion for those causes which interlink trade and human rights.

In DSM-IV-TR the inhibited form is described as persistent failure to initiate or respond in a developmentally appropriate fashion to most social interactions, as manifest by excessively inhibited, hypervigilant, or highly ambivalent and contradictory responses ( e. g., the child may respond to caregivers with a mixture of approach, avoidance, and resistance to comforting or may exhibit " frozen watchfulness ", hypervigilance while keeping an impassive and still demeanour ).

The second form of premature thelarche, of which the age of onset is over 2 years of age, tends to be more persistent and with a higher incidence of uterine bleeding for the child.

MODY was originally applied to any child or young adult who had persistent, asymptomatic hyperglycemia without progression to diabetic ketosis or ketoacidosis.

If a child is sickly, either with rickets or suffering from any ailment that prevents the due ossification of the bones, or is improperly fed, the bowed condition may remain persistent.

The Intersex Society of North America was the most influential and persistent, and has advocated postponing genital surgery until a child is old enough to display a clear gender identity and consent to the surgery.

.. the persistent failure to meet a child ’ s basic physical and / or psychological needs, likely to result in the serious impairment of the child ’ s health or development.

* the persistent failure to meet a child ’ s basic physical and / or psychological needs resulting in serious impairment of health and / or development.

Crying and the exhaustion associated with it can trigger serious problems, such as relationship stress, breastfeeding failure, shaken baby syndrome ( also known as abusive head trauma — the leading cause of child abuse fatalities ), postpartum depression ( affecting 10 – 15 % of new mothers and many new dads ), excess visits to the doctor / emergency room ( 1 in 6 children are brought to the doctor / emergency rooms for evaluation of persistent crying ), unnecessary treatment for acid reflux and maternal smoking.

More contentious are those situations in which the patient is unable to make the choice personally, e. g. because in a persistent vegetative state or en ventre sa mere, i. e. a child in gestation.

* Wasting syndrome in the absence of a concurrent illness other than HIV infection that could explain the following findings: a ) persistent weight loss more than 10 % of baseline OR b ) downward crossing of at least two of the following percantile lines on the weight-for-age chart ( e. g., 95th, 75th, 50th, 25th, 5th ) in a child at least 1 year of age OR c ) less than the 5th percentile on weight-for-height chart on two consecutive measurements at least 30 days apart PLUS a ) chronic diarrhea ( i. e., at least two loose stools per day for more than 30 days ) OR b ) documented fever ( for at least 30 days, intermittent or constant )

The planter aristocracy has appeared in literature at least since John Pendleton Kennedy published Swallow-Barn in 1832 and in his genial portrait of Frank Meriwether presiding over his plantation dominion initiated the most persistent tradition of Southern literature.

Some of this trend toward area vocational schools has been related to the problems of persistent labor surplus areas and their desire to attract new industry.

During much of the year the general level of business activity has moved along on a record-high plateau, but there have been persistent signs of slack in the economy.

It has a large, creamy, persistent head ( although head retention may be impaired by alcohol in the stronger versions ).

However, the general definition of a file does not require that its instant size has any real meaning, unless the data within the file happens to correspond to data within a pool of persistent storage.

Vector control use has not been banned, but it has been largely replaced by less persistent alternative insecticides.

Nevertheless, there has been persistent controversy over their health safety, and some national and international agencies have made specific recommendations about exposure.

Lacking a detailed history, the kingdom's fall has been attributed to a persistent drought, overgrazing, deforestation, plague, a shift in trade routes that reduced the importance of the Red Sea — or a combination of these factors.

Such persistent connections reduce request latency perceptibly, because the client does not need to re-negotiate the TCP connection after the first request has been sent.

Libertarian socialism has frequently linked its anti-authoritarian political aspirations with this theoretical differentiation from orthodoxy ... Karl Korsch ... remained a libertarian socialist for a large part of his life and because of the persistent urge towards theoretical openness in his work.

Although memory has traditionally been a persistent theme in philosophy, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries also saw the study of memory emerge as a subject of inquiry within the paradigms of cognitive psychology.

" Moreover, conduct sometimes deemed only a nuisance or other tort has been held a taking of property where the conduct was sufficiently persistent and severe.

The Pixies ' musical style has been described as " an unorthodox marriage of surf music and punk rock, ... characterized by Black's bristling lyrics and hackle-raising caterwaul, Kim Deal's whispered harmonies and waspy basslines, Joey Santiago's fragile guitar, and the persistent flush of David Lovering's drums.

Pollutants that the environment has little or no absorptive capacity are called stock pollutants ( e. g. persistent synthetic chemicals, non-biodegradable plastics, and heavy metals ).

Most recently the term persistent organic pollutant ( POP ) has come to describe a group of chemicals such as PBDEs and PFCs among others.

Since his death in 1981, however, Askin's legacy has been tarnished by persistent unproven allegations that he was involved in organised crime and official corruption.

The ailments may be either purely physical afflictions — such as disease, which may be cured by gifting, flattering, threatening, or wrestling the disease-spirit ( sometimes trying all these, sequentially ), and which may be completed by displaying a supposedly extracted token of the disease-spirit ( displaying this, even if " fraudulent ", is supposed to impress the disease-spirit that it has been, or is in the process of being, defeated, so that it will retreat and stay out of the patient's body ) --, or else mental ( including psychosomatic ) afflictions — such as persistent terror ( on account of a frightening experience ), which may be likewise cured by similar methods.

Since 2004 ( when the RPGA discontinued Virtual Seattle ) Shadowrun Missions ( SRM ) has offered fans a “ living campaign ” that allows for persistent character advancement.

This persistent theme has led many critics to view Peckinpah's films as essentially tragic.

In 2009, Monkseaton High School, in North Tyneside, had 800 pupils aged 13 – 19 starting lessons at 10 a. m. instead of the normal 9 a. m. and has reported that general absence has dropped by 8 % and persistent absenteeism by 27 %.

Unlike many other historic baseball match-ups in which one team remains dominant for most of their history, the Dodgers – Giants rivalry has exhibited a persistent balance in the respective successes of the two teams.