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21 Shorter periods for construction permit authorization would allow earlier commencement of construction activities and could potentially shorten the overall schedule.
At the institutional level, brain death protocols should be designed to shorten brain death stays as much as possible.
The Florida law will "shorten the length between sentencing and execution to 5 years" from the current average of 14.
In order to shorten the time of the surgical procedures we obtained the thinner possible lenticules using as molds the "best fitting" contact lenses for each operative eye.
Peroxisomes shorten chains of very long fatty acids, unsaturated fatty acids and branched fatty acids by β-oxidation [ 60 61 ] . They play critical roles in synthesis of ether phospholipids and cholesterol [ 62 63 ] . Peroxisomal abundance is associated with high membrane demand such as myelination in the central nervous system [ 64 65 ] and peroxisome diseases result in defective myelination [ 66 ] . Because the outer mitochondrial membrane normally tightly wraps around mitochondria, the extension of the outer membrane during vacuolation requires new membranes.