It is obvious from the equations above that narrowing the bandwidth decreases the distance resolution and the reduction in the measured frequency points shortens the measurable propagation distance.
Interestingly, whereas other measures of baseline illness severity seemed to increase the time to treatment (namely ventilator use or vasopressor use), APACHE II points shortened the interval between OD and drug administration.
Don't try to remove it or the crepe paper will tear at that point, shortening the strip.
Carpal and tarsal bones are hypoplastic and irregularly shaped; the metacarpal bones are proximally pointed, shortened and thickened.
In addition to their known function of turning the eye, Bates maintained, they also affect its shape, elongating the eyeball to focus at the near-point or shortening it to focus at a distance.
For example, a trial with less than 100 subjects per arm would have high power to establish that early extubation did not negatively impact MRS (assuming the largest acceptable difference in MRS was 0.75 points and early extubation did not increase the mean MRS by more than 0.50 points) and shortened ICU length of stay.
"Over promise, under deliver and take forever to get to the point," Shorten said.
It helped that Shorten showed no inclination to press on the substantive point – Shorten went all meta – observing how terrible it was for the prime minister to have colleagues leaking against him.
As they've aged, both men have taken to shortening points.
A more proactive Federer, conscious of expanding his own comfort zones, shortening points by mixing in the occasional serve and volley, attacking second serves, and using his short-slice backhand and his latest weapon, a drop shot, are the keys to his success in the present and the future.
