Treatment of all the sera with sweet clover proteins greatly reduced nonspecific fluorescence, especially when the treated conjugate was diluted to 1: 2 with 0.85% saline.

In all the above procedures, when the intermediate sera were diluted to 1: 10 or 1: 100 with 0.85% saline, the specific and nonspecific fluorescence were not appreciably reduced, whereas, a dilution of the intermediate sera to 1: 500 or diluting the Af to 1: 5 greatly reduced specific fluorescence.

After Af and Af were passed through Dowex-2-chloride twice and treated twice with healthy sweet clover tissue powder, nonspecific staining was greatly reduced but a disturbing amount of such staining was still present.

Thru development, the reactor and its steam turbines had been reduced greatly in size, and also in complexity, allowing a single propeller to be used, the navy said.

After World War II, the British greatly reduced the use of the full stop and other punctuation points after abbreviations in at least semi-formal writing, while the Americans more readily kept such use until more recently, and still maintain it more than Britons.

It was erected by subscription from grateful matadors, as penicillin greatly reduced the number of deaths in the bullring.

The Hamidian Massacre of the 19th Century further greatly reduced numbers.

Having secured his pension, Dürer finally returned home in July 1521, having caught an undetermined illness — perhaps malaria — which afflicted him for the rest of his life, and greatly reduced his rate of work.

* Blank: Ammunition with live primer, greatly reduced propellant charge ( typically black powder ) and no projectile ; used for training, demonstration or ceremonial use.

* 1990s: With the Yamada and Kojima household chain stores appearing throughout the suburban outskirts of Tokyo, the sale of consumer durables at Akihabara was greatly reduced, but the sale of computer goods increased in equal measure.

The discovery of chlorpromazine's psychoactive effects in 1952 led to greatly reduced use of restraint, seclusion, and sedation in the management of agitated patients, and also led to further research that resulted in the development of antidepressants, anxiolytics, and the majority of other drugs now used in the management of psychiatric conditions.

One event that affected ` Abdu ' l-Bahá greatly during his childhood was the imprisonment of his father when ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was eight years old ; the imprisonment led to his family being reduced to poverty and being attacked in the streets by other children.

It is a major brain component in many vertebrates, but is greatly reduced in primates.

The growth in road transport during the 1920s and 1930s greatly reduced revenue for the rail companies.

Bongo populations have been greatly reduced by hunting, poaching and animal trapping, although some bongo refuges exist.

Dogs have molar teeth behind the carnassials for crushing bones, but cats have only a greatly reduced, functionless molar behind the carnassial in the upper jaw.

Some of these sites also market directly to consumers, who can purchase costume jewelry at greatly reduced prices.

Following the general election of 1950, the Labour party experienced a greatly reduced parliamentary majority, a mere five seats compared to the triple-digit majority of five years previous, despite an increase in the popular vote ( possible because of the first-past-the-post voting system ).

A severe regression would have greatly reduced the continental shelf area, which is the most species-rich part of the sea, and therefore could have been enough to cause a marine mass extinction.

This greatly reduced CPU load, and provided better overall system performance.

Multiprogramming greatly reduced wait times when multiple batches were being processed.

As a result of the increase in the value of copper, the United States greatly reduced the amount of copper in each penny.

This is because of a greatly reduced likelihood of errors: for a consensus estimate from multiple measurements to be wrong, the errors would have to be similar for all samples and all methods of measurement, which is extremely unlikely.

This greatly reduced costs over the rival PDP-8 and PDP-8 / I, which consisted of many smaller boards that had to be wired together.

While the amount of winter snowfall varied greatly, the Ancient Pueblo depended on the snow for most of their water.

The amount of time required to learn to play or master a game varies greatly from game to game.

Class-B amplifiers only amplify half of the input wave cycle, thus creating a large amount of distortion, but their efficiency is greatly improved and is much better than class A.

However, many of the minor substances in honey can be affected greatly by heating, changing the flavor, aroma, or other properties, so heating is usually done at the lowest temperature possible for the shortest amount of time.

By using a ferromagnetic core, the inductance is greatly increased for the same amount of copper, multiplying up the Q. Cores however also introduce losses that increase with frequency.

The amount of ionization in the ionosphere varies greatly with the amount of radiation received from the Sun.

Only when the amount of functioning kidney tissue is greatly diminished does one develop chronic kidney disease.

In video compression, only changes that occur from one frame to the next are stored in the data stream, in order to greatly reduce the amount of information that must be stored.

The amount of rainfall varies greatly from one year to another.

The lake, acting as a mirror, greatly increases the amount of sunlight that the grapevines of the region receive.

Minimum wage rates vary greatly across many different jurisdictions, not only in setting a particular amount of money ( e. g. US $ 7. 25 per hour under U. S. Federal law ( or 2. 13 for employees who receive tips, known as the tipped minimum wage ), $ 9. 04 in the U. S. state of Washington, and £ 6. 08 ( for those aged 21 +) in the United Kingdom ), but also in terms of which pay period ( e. g. Russia and China set monthly minimums ) or the scope of coverage.

This functionality allows the user to choose some or all of the various software repositories available for their version of Mandriva Linux and can greatly expand the amount of software that the user can install through the urpmi system.

The amount required to cause a reaction varies greatly from individual to individual, and depends on the degree of inhibition, which in turn depends on dosage and selectivity.

The amount of oil contained in the fruit differs greatly by cultivar ; the pericarp is usually 60 – 70 % oil.

The mouldboard plough greatly reduced the amount of time needed to prepare a field, and as a consequence, allowed a farmer to work a larger area of land.

It also causes sunburn, and has other medical effects such as the production of vitamin D. Ultraviolet light is strongly attenuated by Earth's ozone layer, so that the amount of UV varies greatly with latitude and has been partially responsible for many biological adaptations, including variations in human skin color in different regions of the globe.

Doping a semiconductor with a small amount of impurity atoms greatly increases the number of charge carriers within it.

A trailer's dimensions vary greatly, depending on the amount and type of cargo it was designed to haul.

In recent years the amount of electric equipment used on yachts has increased greatly.

This synchronization system allows entire inter-country networks to operate synchronously, greatly reducing the amount of buffering required between elements in the network.

In either case, the amount of rehearsal required varies greatly depending on the number and complexity of the formations, and the difficulty of the music.

Doping a semiconductor such as silicon with a small amount of impurity atoms, such as phosphorus or boron, greatly increases the number of free electrons or holes within the semiconductor.