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Presumably, increasing reaction temperature has the same effect as shortening the 3' OCP arm.
The left ventricular performance was estimated as the lower end of normal with a normal fractional shortening (42%) (Figure 2).
We have previously shown that removal of furazolidone from thefeed after three weeks results in progressive cardiac dilatationand heart failure [ 18 ] . At the time ofrandomization of the DCM group into three groups i.e., DCM 0 (notreatment), DCM 1 (lower dose carvedilol) or DCM 20 (higherdose carvedilol), fractional shortening was not different betweenthe groups (p > 0.1).
A similar notion surrounds the word till , which many would suggest is a somehow less formal shortening of until , the shortening of which is properly written 'til . As it happens, the original form was till , with until being formed from unto `up to' + till . The citations in the OED , which are rather thin on the ground for early 13th-century (Middle) English, show the two forms to be of virtually contemporaneous origin.
xenobiology bombardment Ovonic TERMINAL AFFIXATIONS (18) xenate system SHORTENING + Africanity gamma decay WORD (8) audiophile heat pollution ambisextrous, channery, adj.