Rangers International Football Club Plc's (RIFC) interim financial results were published in March and the shortening of the date will now bring it in line with almost every other football club in Scotland.
One reason for that was a decision to shorten the expiration dates of coupons, Mr. Brown said, to an average of nine weeks, from nine months in the '80s.
The discrepancy in the shortening the heading date between the Jeon et al. study and our study may be due to the different rice cultivars, Nakdong and TNG67, with different Hd1 and Ehd1 genetic background (Figure 4, Additional file 2: Figure S1 and Additional file 3: Figure S2).
However, in the present study, over-expression of OsMADS45 resulted in an increased expression of OsMADS14 and OsMADS18 at early stages, approximately 20 to 40 days ahead of that of TNG67, and shortened the heading date and suppressed vegetative growth (Figure 3A, J and K).
When writing informally, shortened forms of the date are fine.
The chocolate in an Easter egg lasts well over a year, but manufacturers and retailers typically shorten the "best before" date considerably.
We established a hospital-based system of rapid case ascertainment in the source population to shorten the interval from the date of diagnosis to interview to maintain complete (or near complete) case ascertainment in the study area, and to obtain pretreatment biological specimens.
Or, shorten the day or frequency.
(New Presidents used to be sworn in on March 4th. In 1933, the Twentieth Amendment changed the date to January 20th, to shorten the awkward interregnum between election and Inauguration).
In addition, special efforts were made to rapidly ascertain incident cases and shorten the time between diagnosis (corresponding dates for controls) and exposure assessment.
