A minimally conscious state, unlike a vegetative state, is characterized by some evidence of awareness of self and/or the environment, and patients tend to improve. Diagnosis is clinical. Treatment is mainly supportive. Prognosis for patients with persistent deficits is typically bleak.
agenda (plural agendas) 1  A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to. 2  A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting).
Agenda setting occurs through a cognitive process known as  accessibility .. Accessibility implies that the more frequently and prominently the news media cover an issue, the more instances of that issue become accessible in audience's memories.