persistent state
1Persistent vegetative state — ICD 9 780.03 MeSH D018458 A persistent vegetative state is a disorder of consciousness in which patients with severe brain damage who were in a coma, progress to a state of partial …
2Persistent organic pollutant — State parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are organic compounds that are resistant to environmental degradation through chemical, biological, and photolytic processes …
3persistent vegetative state — noun (medicine) An irreversible condition induced by lack of oxygen, in which the sufferer is still alive, but is incapable of any thought processes and any voluntary physical action (abbrev PVS) • • • Main Entry: ↑persist * * * noun [singular]… …
4persistent vegetative state — persistent vegetative states N COUNT If someone is in a persistent vegetative state, they are unable to think, speak, or move because they have severe brain damage, and their condition is not likely to improve. [MEDICAL] …
5State church of the Roman Empire — Bust of Emperor Constantine at the Capitoline Museums. Constantine established imperial involvement in the Church. The state church of the Roman Empire was a Christian institution organized within the Roman Empire during the …
6Persistent carbene — A stable carbene: isolated 1,3 dimesitylimidazol 2 ylidene in a Schlenk flask (stir bar also present). A persistent carbene (also known as stable carbene or Arduengo carbene) is a type of carbene demonstrating particular stability. The best known …
7Persistent world — A persistent world (PW) is a virtual world that continues to exist even after a user exits the world and that user made changes to its state are, to some extent, permanent. [cite web | url=http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/… …
8Persistent luminescence — Commonly referred as phosphorescence, persistent luminescence is the phenomenon encountered in materials which make them glow in the dark after the end of an excitation with UV or visible light.MechanismThe mechanism underlying this phenomenon is …
9State and Local Affairs — ▪ 1997 Introduction States continued to be at the centre of national debates on public policy during 1996. The U.S. Congress, reacting in part to successful experimentation by a number of states, enacted a historic welfare reform measure… …
10State machine replication — Introduction from Schneider s 1990 survey: : Distributed software is often structured in terms of clients and services. Each service comprises one or more servers and exports operations that clients invoke by making requests. Although using a… …
