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standby costs incurred while construction is either stopped or slowed to incorporate changes;
He lingered on it, slowed it down, fastened on blood-spurting bodies as they hurtled through the air--and ended up making it lyrical, aestheticizing it, distancing it.
For example, patients with schizophrenia exhibit difficulties in sensorimotor gating [ 14 ] , smooth pursuit eye-tracking [ 15 ] , set-shifting [ 16 ] , and working memory tasks [ 17 ] . Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) exhibit abnormal performance in sustained attention tasks [ 18 ] and studies on autism reveal slowed covert orienting of visual spatial attention [ 19 ] . Patients with Alzheimer's disease show covert orienting deficits in visual attention tasks [ 20 ] . Interestingly, many of these disorders show familial patterns of inheritance and increased concordance in monozygotic (MZ) vs. dizygotic (DZ) twins suggesting genetic origins [ 21 ] .
First, each of these lines has adapted to growth in a serially diluted, or seasonal, environment of glucose-limited minimal media [ 19 20 21 22 ] . The dynamics of adaptation are well known: after a period of rapid adaptation during the first 1,000 generations, the rate of improvement has subsequently slowed to almost one-thirtieth of the initial rate [ 20 27 ] . Moreover, relatively few mutations generated this early, rapid adaptation [ 19 20 24 ] . Thus, these populations have experienced two types of dynamics: one of rapid adaptation followed by one of much slower improvement.
It seems, Archibold ominously notes, that "the pace of growth has slowed."
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