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).
The media agenda is when the media promotes issues that they feel are important and choose to publicize the most, the policy agenda deals with issues that the government thinks is important (Schneider, Gruman, Coutts, 2012).nformation that we (in this case voters) are able to be exposed to can influence us. The idea here is the availability heuristic, which states that we will make decisions off of the more salient things we can remember (Tversky & Kahneman, 1974).