Concrete reduces the risk of structural collapse and is an effective fire shield, providing safe means of escape for occupants and protection for fire fighters.

From another perspective, the farmer and the miller both reduce a risk and acquire a risk when they sign the futures contract: the farmer reduces the risk that the price of wheat will fall below the price specified in the contract and acquires the risk that the price of wheat will rise above the price specified in the contract ( thereby losing additional income that he could have earned ).

The miller, on the other hand, acquires the risk that the price of wheat will fall below the price specified in the contract ( thereby paying more in the future than he otherwise would have ) and reduces the risk that the price of wheat will rise above the price specified in the contract.

Reducing the proportion of nitrogen by increasing the proportion of oxygen reduces the risk of decompression sickness for the same dive profile, or allows extended dive times without increasing the need for decompression stops for the same risk.

The risk of stimulating the immune system in a way that reduces gene therapy effectiveness is always a possibility.

Some kinds of changes are a part of the everyday routine of information processing and adhere to a predefined procedure, which reduces the overall level of risk to the processing environment.

A properly designed and underwritten Protected Self-Insurance Program reduces and stabilizes the cost of insurance and provides valuable risk management information.

This reduces the risk of wasting the Court's time.

It also reduces the risk of underwater collision.

Though early birth puts the tiny newborn marsupial at a greater environmental risk, it significantly reduces the dangers associated with long pregnancies, as there is no need to carry a large fetus to full-term in bad seasons.

And while it reduces the risk of breast cancer it increases the risk of blood clots and strokes.

This reduces the risk of interruption by a competing male.

Clinical trials have shown that consumption of fish oil reduces the number of swollen joints for people with rheumatoid arthritis, provides a beneficial anti-inflammatory effect, and provides a protective effect for occlusive cardiovascular disease, for which people with RA are at risk.

A lower proportion of oxygen reduces the risk of oxygen toxicity on deep dives.

This grouping strategy reduces predation risk because larger groups decrease each individual ’ s chance of being hunted, and predators are more easily seen in open areas.

This reduces the risk of an unplanned release of radioactives.

It has found the missile effective in urban areas, as the relatively small warhead reduces the risk of civilian casualties.

Low ( as opposed to zero or negative ) inflation reduces the severity of economic recessions by enabling the labor market to adjust more quickly in a downturn, and reduces the risk that a liquidity trap prevents monetary policy from stabilizing the economy.

This significantly reduces the chance of theft, because of the added difficulty in arranging such a conspiracy and the likely need to split the proceeds between the two employees, which reduces the payoff for each.

The phrase was originally used to dismiss the claim that reducing the number of hours employees are allowed to work in a day inevitably reduces unemployment.

The use of credit cards has another advantage-the machines do not have to be emptied of coins as often, and the costs of counting coin and possible pilfering by employees who empty the parking meters also reduces their overall costs.

Voluntary Benefits is the name given to a collection of benefits that employees choose to opt-in for and pay for personally, although, as with flex plans, many employers make use of salary sacrifice schemes where the employee reduces their salary in exchange for the employer paying for the perq.

It also reduces the chances of stealing the ball from the attackers and attempting a quick counterstrike across open field.

Increases gains, improves feed efficiency, and reduces losses from bacterial infections listed under `` How To Feed '' section.

Vehicle emissions control reduces emissions of nitrogen oxides from motor vehicles.

That this day coincides with Christian Sabbath is not a bar to the state's secular goals ; it neither reduces its effectiveness for secular purposes nor prevents adherents of other religions from observing their own holy days.

Treating biodegradable waste before it enters a landfill reduces global warming from fugitive methane ; untreated waste breaks down anaerobically in a landfill, producing landfill gas that contains methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

The radius itself reduces the stress in these critical areas, but since the radius in most cases are rolled, this also leaves some compressive residual stress in the surface, which prevents cracks from forming.

Carefully accounting for the procedure used to remove the foregrounds from the full sky map further reduces the significance of the alignment by ~ 5 %.

The biological thinning mechanism is not entirely known, but there is strong evidence that p, p '- DDE inhibits calcium ATPase in the membrane of the shell gland and reduces the transport of calcium carbonate from blood into the eggshell gland.

Scientist from Zurich studies show that the hormone oxytocin related to stress and sex reduces activity in your brain fear center

Although the theory of special relativity forbids objects to have a relative velocity greater than light speed, and general relativity reduces to special relativity in a local sense ( in small regions of spacetime where curvature is negligible ), general relativity does allow the space between distant objects to expand in such a way that they have a " recession velocity " which exceeds the speed of light, and it is thought that galaxies which are at a distance of more than about 14 billion light-years from us today have a recession velocity which is faster than light.

* Out of focus light from points outside the focal plane reduces image clarity.

This eliminates double reflections ( a weak reflection from the surface of the glass, and a stronger one from the reflecting metal ) and reduces absorption of light by the mirror.

If the distance from the fulcrum to the input force is less than from the fulcrum to the output force, then the lever reduces the input force.

Double marginalization occurs when both the upstream and downstream firms have monopoly power and each firm reduces output from the competitive level to the monopoly level, creating two deadweight losses.

Archimedes ' cattle problem ; its solution ( absent from the manuscript ) requires solving an indeterminate quadratic equation ( which reduces to what would later be misnamed Pell's equation ).

In many cases, the stripping away of the gas from which the cluster formed by the radiation pressure of the hot young stars reduces the cluster mass enough to allow rapid dispersal.

* " Potting " guitar pickups, which reduces microphonic feedback caused from the subtle movements of the pole pieces

The physical separation of RuBisCO from the oxygen-generating light reactions reduces photorespiration and increases fixation and, thus, photosynthetic capacity of the leaf.

The lack of the acid in the stomach will aid in the healing of duodenal ulcers, and reduces the pain from indigestion and heartburn, which can be exacerbated by stomach acid.

In McGowan v. Maryland ( 1961 ), the Supreme Court of the United States held that contemporary Maryland blue laws ( typically, Sunday rest laws ) were intended to promote the secular values of " health, safety, recreation, and general well-being " through a common day of rest, and that this day coinciding with majority Christian Sabbath neither reduces its effectiveness for secular purposes nor prevents adherents of other religions from observing their own holy days.

Ranking items by relevance ( from highest to lowest ) reduces the time required to find the desired information.

* Open circuit demand scuba exhausts exhaled air to the environment, and requires each breath to be delivered to the diver on demand by a diving regulator, which reduces the pressure from the storage cylinder and supplies it through the demand valve when the diver reduces the pressure in the demand valve slightly during inhalation.