There are many domains in which understanding has brought about widespread and quite appropriate reduction in ritual and fear.

On the other hand, in a more favorable vein, general business activity should receive some stimulus from rising Federal spending, and the reduction in business inventories has probably run a good part of its course.

This push to confine the study of mass behaviour to the measurements of parameters involved in differential equations has led sociology perilously close to the reduction of the word `` mass '' to mean a small group in which certain relations between all pairs of individuals in such a group can be studied.

The species Amaranthus palmeri ( Palmer amaranth ) causes the greatest reduction in soybean yields and has the potential to reduce yields by 17-68 % in field experiments.

It has also been speculated that this yield reduction will only worsen with the dramatic climate changes expected in the future.

Stand-alone, file based, multi-track recorders from Sound Devices, This of course results in a reduction in audio quality, but a variety of techniques are used, mainly by exploiting psychoacoustics, to remove the data that has least effect on perceived quality.

* Clozapine also has a risk of inducing agranulocytosis, a potentially dangerous reduction in the number of white blood cells in the body.

Since 1996 estimates, there has been a significant reduction in the total length of unpaved highway in Botswana-between 1996 and 1999 total length of unpaved highway fell from 14, 139 km to 4, 597 km.

Furthermore, in the case of the obese woman, a breast lift ( mastopexy ) procedure, with or without a breast volume reduction, can be part of an upper-body lift and contouring for the woman who has undergone massive body weight loss.

For example, if a graph has 17 valid 3-colorings, the SAT formula produced by the reduction will have 17 satisfying assignments.

Every year there has been a major reduction in economic growth, it is followed by a reduction in the US trade deficit.

A company has less incentive to sell cross owned shares if taxes are high because of the immediate reduction in the value of the assets.

Since then Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson has written extensively on the issue, arguing that size reduction and dropped panels reduce both the potential and freedom of a cartoonist.

This project has also been approved by the Executive Board of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) for reduction of emission of methane gas into the climate and has been registered with a capacity of reducing 108, 686 metric tonnes CO2 equivalent per annum.

When the piston has moved up to the top of its stroke inside the cylinder, and the remaining volume inside the head or combustion chamber has been reduced to 100 cc, then the compression ratio would be proportionally described as 1000: 100, or with fractional reduction, a 10: 1 compression ratio.

It has been noted that this was a key part of the process of the reduction of the Indian economy from sophisticated textile production to a mere supplier of raw materials which occurred under colonial rule, a process described by Nehru and more recent scholars as " de-industrialization.

This service is made available, at no additional cost, to Optimum Broadband subscribers, and is available at over 14, 000 locations across Long Island, NY, parts of NJ and CT. Cablevision has reported a double digit reduction in subscriber churn since launching Optimum Wi-Fi, even as Verizon has rolled out FiOS, a competitive residential broadband service in the Cablevision footprint.

Various introductory texts to critical psychology written in the United Kingdom have tended to focus on discourse, but this has been seen by some proponents of critical psychology as a reduction of human experience to language which is as politically dangerous as the way mainstream psychology reduces experience to the individual mind.

She also underwent breast reduction surgery in 1992, and has said on the subject:

The semi-presidential system has been described by some as " conflictogenic " and " dictatogenic ", as it ensures frictions, and a reduction of pace in government life, should the President and the Prime Minister be from different sides of the political arena.

Antibacterial vaccines have been responsible for a drastic reduction in global bacterial diseases.

A review of the methods used in trials of antipsychotics, despite stating that the overall quality is " rather good ," reported issues with the selection of participants ( including that in schizophrenia trials up to 90 % of people who are generally suitable do not meet the elaborate inclusion and exclusion criteria, and that negative symptoms have not been properly assessed despite companies marketing the newer antipsychotics for these ); issues with the design of trials ( including pharmaceutical company funding of most of them, and inadequate experimental " blinding " so that trial participants could sometimes tell whether they were on placebo or not ); and issues with the assessment of outcomes ( including the use of a minimal reduction in scores to show " response ," lack of assessment of quality of life or recovery, a high rate of discontinuation, selective highlighting of favorable results in the abstracts of publications, and poor reporting of side-effects ).

It was thus no mere translation from the Latin: its Protestant character is made clear by the drastic reduction of the place of saints, compressing what had been the major part into three petitions.

However, several landmarks have been achieved in the fight against it in Latin America, including a reduction by 72 % of the incidence of human infection in children and young adults in the countries of the Southern Cone Initiative, and at least three countries ( Uruguay, in 1997, and Chile, in 1999, and Brazil in 2006 ) have been certified free of vectorial and transfusional transmission.

New programs based on modern learning theories that test individual learning, and teach to mastery of a subject have been proved by the Kentucky Education Reform Act ( KERA ) to be far more effective than group instruction with compromise schedules, or even class-size reduction.

: It is to prevent this reduction of price, and consequently of wages and profit, by restraining that free competition which would most certainly occasion it, that all corporations, and the greater part of corporation laws, have been established.

By the end of 1909, an agreement had been reached providing for a reduction in the debt and the issuance of new 5 percent bonds: the bankers would control the Honduran railroad, and the United States government would guarantee continued Honduran independence and would take control of customer revenue.

The element has been isolated through the reduction of its anhydrous chloride or fluoride with metallic calcium.

Since then, there have been alternating trends towards the abolition or substantial reduction of involuntary commitment, a trend known as " deinstitutionalization.

Ca < sup > 2 +</ sup > influx to the mitochondrial matrix has recently been implicated as a mechanism to regulate respiratory bioenergetics by allowing the electrochemical potential across the membrane to transiently " pulse " from ΔΨ-dominated to pH-dominated, facilitating a reduction of oxidative stress.

After a patient has been on a maintenance programme for a period, they will be offered the opportunity to move over to a Methadone reduction programme.

He found reduction of the number of matrimonial dispensations to be impossible, as the income had been farmed out for years in advance by Pope Leo X.

A significant reduction in winter rainfall has been observed with a greater number of extreme rainfall events in the summer months, such as slow-moving storms on 8 February 1992 which brought of rain, the highest recorded in Perth, and a severe thunderstorm on 22 March 2010, which brought of rain and caused significant damage in the metropolitan area.

Noise reduction can be accomplished either in computer hardware or software.

This can be accomplished through chemical means such as smelting or through electrolytic reduction, as in the case of aluminium.

Overhead reduction is accomplished by allocating flow control and error correction functions to either the user applications or the network nodes that interface with the user.

This reduction of disulfide bonds can be accomplished by treatment with 2-mercaptoethanol, dithiothreitol, or tris ( 2-carboxyethyl ) phosphine.

It accomplished this by offering landowners acreage reduction contracts, by which they agreed not to grow cotton on a portion of their land.

They reduce their tissue density through high fat content, reduction of skeletal weight – accomplished through reductions of size, thickness, and mineral content – and water accumulation makes them slower and less agile than surface fish.

Oxidation and reduction is accomplished by changing the voltage at the active surface of the recording electrode in a process known as " scanning ".

That is, while individual assessments may not be accurate enough for practical purposes, the mean scores of classes, schools, branches of a company, or other groups may well provide useful information because of the reduction of error accomplished by increasing the sample size.

This speed reduction is accomplished by reducing thrust and / or inducing a greater amount of drag using flaps, landing gear or speed brakes.

Before this could be accomplished Chatham's mind became impaired, and Townshend, who was the most determined and influential of his colleagues, swayed the ministry as he liked, pledging himself to find a revenue in America with which to meet the deficiency caused by the reduction in the land tax.

This speed reduction is accomplished by reducing thrust and / or inducing a greater amount of drag using flaps, landing gear or speed brakes.

# A reduction in water use accomplished by implementation of water conservation or water efficiency measures ; or,

This was accomplished by replacing all lighting on the island with LEDs, which resulted in a 70 % reduction in in-house energy consumption.

The weight reduction from the SWT was accomplished by eliminating portions of stringers ( structural stiffeners running the length of the hydrogen tank ), using fewer stiffener rings and by modifying major frames in the hydrogen tank.

The obvious need to mitigate and tame the power of the province of Syria, which had shown itself over and over to be a hotbed of rebellion, was then accomplished in three parts: The aforementioned reorganization of Syria into two political units, the reduction of its territory in favor of Arabia, and the marriage of the emperor to the shrewd Julia Domna.

The overall effect to slow the rate of appearance ( Ra ) of glucose from the meal is accomplished via coordinate slowing down gastric emptying, inhibition of digestive secretion acid, pancreatic enzymes, and bile ejection, and a resulting reduction in food intake.

For example, synthesis of an alcohol is readily accomplished by reduction of an ester with lithium aluminum hydride, but the reaction necessarily produces a voluminous floc of aluminum salts, which have to be separated from the product alcohol and disposed of.

Data reduction is accomplished via sub-band coding with linear prediction and adaptive quantization.

According to recent reports, much of that reduction was already accomplished by January 2008.

Asymmetric reduction of a key bicyclic sulfone intermediate was accomplished with the CBS oxazaborolidine catalyst containing Me as the R ’ group.