Despite shortening its regular season by 16 games, the N.B.A. set records for television viewership and traffic on its online properties.
In a health care system, aiming at shorter hospital stay despite shortening in personal resources, a more detailed scale is required to adequately target specific interventions.
Despite the lockout that shortened the current season, the average team is worth $393 million, up 6.5% from last year, thanks to new television deals and the new collective bargaining agreement.
Recent studies have shown that antibiotic therapy for cellulitis in outpatients can safely be shortened, despite residual inflammation.
They did not meet with Malcolm Turnbull despite Shorten's invitation to the prime minister last week.
Dastyari is a significant institutional player in Labor's ranks, despite Shorten's efforts to portray him as a young pup, who needs some training up.
Moreover, circadian period and development time are usually positively correlated, with short period individuals developing faster than those with long period (Kyriacou et al., 1990; Yadav and Sharma, 2013; Miyatake, 1997), therefore, the lack of change in the mean development time of the selected populations (Fig. 1b) despite shortening of period (Kannan et al., 2012) is counterintuitive.
They failed to predict Galloway's landslide victory, despite odds shortening from 33-1 to 5-1 as polling day approached.
But, given its cult following, even the three-month wait for a reservation at Noma in Copenhagen is unlikely to shorten despite more than 60 diners falling ill due to a vomiting and diarrhoea bug after eating there.
