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  • Saw films notoriously have terrible legs, with the series averaging a horrible 2. 27x weekend-to-final gross-multiplier (Saw IV, Saw V, and Saw VI all did over 50% of their business over opening weekend), 3D films seem to have a way of stemming the blood-flow of even the most frontloaded franchises, mainly by keeping their premium venues longer.

    Scott Mendelson: Weekend Box Office (10/31/10): Saw 7 3D rules over one last Halloween weekend. Scott Mendelson 2010

  • He starts taking the baby's measurements: blood-flow, brain size, limbs, etc.

    Charlie Condou: The three of us 2011

  • Some babies with tricuspid atresia are too “pink” or have too much blood-flow to the lungs, and will require an operation called “pulmonary artery banding” to narrow the pulmonary artery and regulate blood flow to the lungs.

    Tricuspid Atresia 2010

  • Saw films notoriously have terrible legs, with the series averaging a horrible 2. 27x weekend-to-final gross-multiplier (Saw IV, Saw V, and Saw VI all did over 50% of their business over opening weekend), 3D films seem to have a way of stemming the blood-flow of even the most frontloaded franchises, mainly by keeping their premium venues longer.

    Scott Mendelson: Weekend Box Office (10/31/10): Saw 7 3D rules over one last Halloween weekend. Scott Mendelson 2010

  • No snagging, or you'll get nicked and instant blood-flow.

    Jesse Jacobs: Just for Men: Slow Tea and Slow Shaving in 10 Steps Jesse Jacobs 2011

  • The purpose is to ensure that blood-flow is controlled enough to prevent damage to the heart and lungs, and that enough blood is reaching the lungs to keep the child alive until the second operation.

    Single Ventricle Heart Defects 2010

  • Because EEG directly measures neuron electrical activity instead of the blood-flow response to this activity, it affords scientists more precise timing information about a neural event than fMRI does.

    Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010

  • However, the blood-flow response to a neuron firing takes around two seconds to get going, and around eighteen seconds to finish.

    Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010

  • Because EEG directly measures neuron electrical activity instead of the blood-flow response to this activity, it affords scientists more precise timing information about a neural event than fMRI does.

    Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010

  • However, the blood-flow response to a neuron firing takes around two seconds to get going, and around eighteen seconds to finish.

    Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010

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