Various international treaties attempt to reduce pollution caused by environmental threats such as oil spills, marine debris, and the incineration of toxic wastes at sea.

1904 saw an attempt to reduce the already wordy slew of rules governing stolen bases, with the stolen base now credited when "... the advances a base unaided by a base hit, a put out, ( or ) a fielding or batter error.

In an attempt to address this, the Government entered into the Narcotics Agreement of 1984 and the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty of 1986 with the United States, in order to reduce the use of their facilities associated with these activities.

Such legal reserve requirements were introduced in the 19th century as an attempt to reduce the risk of banks overextending themselves and suffering from bank runs, as this could lead to knock-on effects on other overextended banks.

An introduction to Jamaica was made in 1844 in an attempt to reduce the rat population.

It was modified in the 1980s in an attempt to reduce the problems of lack of social and academic continuity.

: I regret that reviewers have in some cases been inclined to treat the chapters on Machines as an attempt to reduce Mr. Darwin's theory to an absurdity.

The most common HDLs are VHDL and Verilog, although in an attempt to reduce the complexity of designing in HDLs, which have been compared to the equivalent of assembly languages, there are moves to raise the abstraction level through the introduction of alternative languages.

After more than a century of strained relations and intercepted fighting Greece and Turkey agreed under the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 to a population exchange as an attempt to reduce tensions between the two countries in the future.

Agricola's dialogue Bermannus, sive de re metallica dialogus or a dialogue on metallurgy, ( 1530 ) the first attempt to reduce to scientific order the knowledge won by practical work, brought Agricola into notice ; it contained an approving letter from Erasmus at the beginning of the book.

Partly in response to a public relation move to acknowledge global warming and attempt to reduce their carbon emissions ( see Business action on climate change ).

Because of the lack of subsidies and a need to reduce expenditures, many social programs in Hungary had to be cut in an attempt to lower spending.

He brought down a mini-budget in an attempt to slow consumption, control inflation and reduce the deficit, but it triggered the worst credit squeeze since 1945 — the economy was driven into recession, the stock market slumped, private investment, housing activity and motor vehicle sales fell, unemployment rose to almost 2 percent ( the highest rate since the Depression ) and several major companies collapsed.

Investable indices are an attempt to reduce these problems by ensuring that the return of the index is available to shareholders.

In 1909 Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow and Treasury Secretary Reinhold von Sydow attempted to pass a new budget boosting taxes in an attempt to reduce the deficit.

In addition to Barrow ’ s original method, both non-aqueous-employing organic solvents-and vaporous-the Library of Congress ’ DEZ ( diethyl zinc ) treatment-methods of achieving the same results have been researched in an attempt to reduce time, labor, and cost requirements.

" Any attempt to organize the group ... under a single authority would eliminate their independent initiatives, and thus reduce their joint effectiveness to that of the single person directing them from the centre.

The reductionistic attempt to reduce higher level realities into lower level realities generates what Polanyi describes as a moral inversion, in which the higher is rejected in favour of the lower.

Firms often collude in an attempt to stabilize unstable markets, so as to reduce the risks inherent in these markets for investment and product development.

However, some features included in other languages in an attempt to reduce bugs ( e. g. enumerations and programmer-defined ranges on integers ), were omitted.

Unlike Structuralists, however, the Post-structuralists questioned the division between relation and component and, correspondingly, did not attempt to reduce the subjects of their study to an essential set of relations that could be portrayed with abstract, functional schemes or mathematical symbols ( as in Claude Lévi-Strauss's algebraic formulation of mythological transformation in " The Structural Study of Myth ").

There are three types of lighting in this scene which have been specifically chosen and placed by the artist in an attempt to create realistic lighting: spot lighting with shadows ( placed outside the window to create the light shining on the floor ), ambient lighting ( without which any part of the room not lit directly by a light source would be totally dark ), and omnidirectional lighting without shadows ( to reduce the flatness of the ambient lighting ).

There is little risk that the village committee will attempt to impose a bad contract on the farmers, since this would reduce the amount of money the village committee receives.

Some designs for SSTO attempt to use airbreathing jet engines that collect oxidiser and reaction mass from the atmosphere to reduce the take-off weight of the vehicle.

In an attempt to reduce network bandwidth, the server may try to compress high-detail bitmaps on the fly before sending the data to the client, but this adds latency to the client-server communications, and may reduce user interface responsiveness.

It is an aggregate economic view of the human being acting within economies, which is an attempt to capture the social, biological, cultural and psychological complexity as they interact in explicit and / or economic transactions.

The representation of the same fingerprint changes every time the finger is placed on the sensor plate, increasing the complexity of any attempt to match fingerprints, impairing the system performance and consequently, limiting the widespread use of this biometric technology.

He has also described his films as an attempt, however imperfect, to approach the complexity of thought and its mechanism.

Systems that attempt to understand the contents of a document such as a news release beyond simple keyword matching and to judge its suitability for a user are broader and require significant complexity, but they are still somewhat shallow.

Resnais for his part gave a more abstract explanation of the film's purpose: " For me this film is an attempt, still very crude and very primitive, to approach the complexity of thought, of its processes.

Let us assume that H < sub > f </ sub > is in this time complexity class, and we will attempt to reach a contradiction.

" The guide states that " jazz-rock first emerged during the late ' 60s as an attempt to fuse the visceral power of rock with the musical complexity and improvisational fireworks of jazz.

This attempt to explain the evolution of complexity was radically different from that to be found in Darwin's Origin of Species which was published two years later.

The artistic presentations have grown in scale and complexity as successive hosts attempt to provide a ceremony that outlasts its predecessor's in terms of memorability.

The gene networks are only beginning to be understood, and it is a next step for biology to attempt to deduce the functions for each gene " node ", to help understand the behavior of the system in increasing levels of complexity, from gene to signaling pathway, cell or tissue level ( see systems biology ).

" Physicists attempt to reduce the complexity of nature to a single unifying theory, of which the most successful and universal, the quantum theory, has been associated with several Nobel prizes, for example those to Dirac and Heisenberg.

She was one of the first scholars to attempt translations of Abhidhamma texts, known for their complexity and difficult use of technical language.

In a last attempt to salvage the company, Waterbury Watch began to produce higher-end watch models which only created more demand on a workforce unable to keep up with the complexity of the new watches using several hundred parts.

There has even been an attempt to parody the complexity and sometimes-oversold benefits of SOA, in the form of a ' SOA Facts ' site that mimics the ' Chuck Norris Facts ' meme.

In an attempt to find a stable defense against the planet destroying phenomenon known as " cultural fugue " ( a state of terminal runaway of cultural and technological complexity that destroys all life on a world via a singularity ), many human worlds are aligned with one of two broad factions, one generally permissive ( the Sygn ) and one generally conservative ( the Family ) by today's standards.

* Cohen and Manion ( 2000 ) define triangulation as an " attempt to map out, or explain more fully, the richness and complexity of human behavior by studying it from more than one standpoint.

Moreover, it deals with the impossibility of capturing the complexity of life in a work of art, but the value of the attempt.

The real, biological nervous system is highly complex: artificial neural network algorithms attempt to abstract this complexity and focus on what may hypothetically matter most from an information processing point of view.

Comparative biologists attempt to understand the diversity and complexity of life at all levels — from genes, to anatomy, to behavior — and the critical role of organisms in ecosystems.

This suggests that reduction in distal dendrite mass due to the stress hormone elevation may result in an increase in proximal apical dendrite complexity as the proximal apical dendrites attempt to offset the reduced distal apical dendrite signals.