In other cases the muscle itself serves as the incompressible element that must thicken as it shortens or become slender as it elongates, to maintain constant volume.
Also, because theaters take a smaller slice of the box office in a movie's first weeks, putting the hottest movies on five screens with staggered starting hours may turn out to be a poor business strategy, insofar as it shortens a film's life span.
"It would have made access to the Dales for me very difficult as it shortens the journey to the Dales.
Parallel imaging is particularly useful in SSFSE imaging, as it shortens the echo train length [17] and the associated k-space filter thus reducing blurring (Fig. 5).
Speeding becomes especially dangerous during the winter, too, as it shortens the amount of time and distance drivers have to respond to changing conditions.
That makes these kinds of secondary rounds important as it shortens the window for at least some liquidation, which could help employees and investors be a little more patient.
FLIM, which records the fluorescence decay of the donor, reveals FRET as it shortens the decay time constant, τ.
These organisations have an interest in using surrogate outcomes, as it shortens the trial, makes it less costly, and speeds up the implementation of new interventions.
A startling auditory stimulus anticipates the execution of self-generated human actions in the same way as it shortens the latency of task execution in simple reaction time trials.
It is important to consider, however, that iron incorporation serves as a negative contrast (signal cancelation) agent for MRI applications as it shortens the transversal relaxation times of the local protons due to the induced dipole in the iron oxide matrix.
