Specially designed tools such as pliers are now widely available for production line workers to minimise the risks of repetitive strain injuries.

The intention of such a tactic was still to minimise the size of target offered to the torpedoes, but at the same time be able to aggressively engage the firer.

Some platform types, such as submarines, minimise their susceptibility and may to some extent compromise in the other areas.

# the establishment of an obligation, if the level of harm may be high, for action to prevent or minimise such harm even when the absence of scientific certainty makes it difficult to predict the likelihood of harm occurring, or the level of harm should it occur.

Orthotic devices such as ankle-foot orthoses ( AFOs ) are often prescribed to minimise gait irregularities.

Trends in conservation have altered and, in contrast to the prevailing post-war approach to conservation, recent work at castles such as Wigmore, acquired by English Heritage in 1995, have attempted to minimise the degree of intervention to the site.

Attempts were made to minimise end-to-end journey times for a small number of powerful lightweight trains that could be marketed as glamorous premium crack expresses, especially between London and Glasgow, such as the 1937-39 Coronation Scot, hauled by streamlined Princess Coronation Class locomotives, which made the journey in 6 hours 30 minutes, making it competitive with the rival East Coast Flying Scotsman.

Those with low N-Ach may choose very easy tasks, in order to minimise risk of failure, or highly difficult tasks, such that a failure would not be embarrassing.

For example, full-frame 35 mm cameras, such as the Minox 35 and the Olympus XA, were made as small as earlier half-frame subminiature cameras such as the Olympus Pen, using moderate wide-angle fixed lenses to minimise lens barrel depth.

One common approach to minimise this is to curve the wings into an " egg-beater " shape ( this is called a " troposkein " shape, derived from the Greek for " the shape of a spun rope ") such that they are self supporting and do not require such heavy supports and mountings.

As the world undergoes increasingly extreme and erratic weather, a variety of international bodies, especially the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which has been particularly hard-hit by tropical storms, have proposed projects to use their vast computing resources to attempt to intervene, utilising chaotic effects to their advantage, in global weather patterns with such precision as to minimise weather-related destruction while also minimising the scale of the efforts necessary to do so.

As such, signalling control points are provided with names or identifiers that minimise the likelihood of confusion during communications.

The design of this new model included innovative features to help minimise export costs, such as a symmetrical centre console that houses a flush-fitting hand brake lever to facilitate its conversion to left-hand drive.

Taguchi argued that such losses would inevitably find their way back to the originating corporation ( in an effect similar to the tragedy of the commons ), and that by working to minimise them, manufacturers would enhance brand reputation, win markets and generate profits.

Essentially, it is the practice of anticipating all possible ways that an end-user could misuse a device, and designing the device so as to make such misuse impossible, or to minimise the negative consequences.

The sustainability challenge in the management of tailings and waste rock is to dispose of material, such that it is inert or, if not, stable and contained, to minimise water and energy inputs and the surface footprint of wastes and to move toward finding alternate uses.

It is therefore more economically viable to plan such track occupations for periods of reduced usage ( e. g. ' off-peak ', overnight or holiday times ) to minimise the impact on normal services and revenue.

However, for an SSTO craft, such heavy materials are unusable, and maximum thrust is necessary for orbital insertion at the earliest time to minimise gravity losses.

Motorcyclists bought up surplus military bikes and removed all the unnecessary parts such as windshields and saddlebags to minimise weight.

Shared space is an urban design approach which seeks to minimise demarcations between vehicle traffic and pedestrians, often by removing features such as curbs, road surface markings, traffic signs and regulations.

Attribute clash on the ZX Spectrum was caused by its idiosyncratic display memory layout, designed in such a way as to minimise memory use of the frame buffer, and optimise for text display instead of graphics.

: Aircraft where the engine is carried by, or very close to, the pilot ( such as paramotors, powered parachutes, autogyros, and flexwing trikes ) place the engine behind the pilot to minimise the danger to the pilot's arms and legs.

Balfour maintained his programme of retaliatory tariffs and attempted to minimise the obvious differences between Chamberlain and himself.

Charles Clarke, a former UK home secretary and the first senior " Blairite " to attack UK Prime Minister Brown openly and in print, stated " We should discard the techniques of ' triangulation ' and ' dividing lines ' with the Conservatives, which lead to the not entirely unjustified charge that we simply follow proposals from the Conservatives or the right-wing media, to minimise differences and remove lines of attack against us.

However, as the Puritans began demanding that the English Church abandon its traditional liturgical emphases, episcopal structures, parish ornaments and the like, the " High Church " position came to be distinguished increasingly from that of the Latitudinarians, who sought to minimise the differences between Anglicanism and Reformed Christianity, and to make the church as inclusive as possible by opening its doors as widely as possible to admit other Christian viewpoints.

Stress majorization gives a very well-behaved ( i. e., monotonically convergent ) and mathematically elegant way to minimise these differences and, hence, find a good layout for the graph.

Manning found it easier to create male characters, and in general her novels tend to minimise differences in gender, writing about people rather than women in particular.

The School considered the shalwar kameez attractive as it was worn by several faith groups and, accordingly, helped to minimise the differences between them.

It is extremely unusual among UK motorways, as it consists of seven lanes with no central reservation, and operates a tidal flow system in an attempt to minimise congestion.

From a maintenance point of view, the most important part of the mechanical clocks was to ensure that they were well oiled to minimise wear on the cams and to replace blown bulbs in the optical pickups from the glass disk recordings.

Interlingua is notable in the sense that unlike most auxiliary languages, that seek to minimise or eliminate any irregular aspects, Interlingua takes a flexible approach.

For parts of buildings it is most common for users to pay also by collateral contract, or by the same contract, a service charge which is normally an express list of services in a lease to minimise disputes over service charges.

The principles of NATM are fundamental to modern day tunnelling, however most city tunnels are built at shallow depth and need not control the release of the in situ stress, seeking instead to minimise settlement.

The Lying Bastard, the landing vessel in which Nessus, Louis Wu, Teela Brown and Speaker-to-Animals crash-land on the Ringworld, is based on a modified # 2 hull, specifically designed with most of the flight equipment and thrusters on the outside, to minimise the number of breaks in the hull, allowing a Slaver stasis field to be fitted to the inside of the ship, protecting the occupants from any danger ( by freezing them in stasis in the event of attack, for example ).

After World War II, the Ministry of Education decided to minimise the number of kanji by choosing the most commonly used kanji, along with simplified kanji ( see Shinjitai ) commonly appearing in contemporary literature, to form the tōyō kanji.

This technology is very rarely used because most racing restricts to one means of forced induction, and rarely on road cars as its benefits lie mostly in the realm of boost curve fine tuning ( quicker boost response ) and allowing for said with the use of a freer flowing turbine / housing spec on the turbo to make it more efficient ( or less inefficient, compared to the tighter housing needed to minimise lag ) at higher rpm.

This was the most common type of plug-in for the original Escape Velocity, but has now been relegated to a lower stature due to the proliferation of complete new scenarios and the universal use of terms which minimise its importance.

In most countries the maximum power permitted on the band is lower than in other allocations to minimise the possibility of interference with non-amateur services, especially in neighbouring countries.

The history textbook controversy centers upon the secondary school history textbook Atarashii Rekishi Kyōkasho (" New History Textbook ") said to minimise the nature of Japanese militarism in the First Sino-Japanese War ( 1894 – 95 ), in annexing Korea in 1910, in the Second Sino-Japanese War ( 1937 – 45 ), and in the Second World War ( 1939 – 45 ).

Many citizens prefer to minimise ethnic divisions, simply calling themselves New Zealanders or Kiwis.

To minimise the effects of this the tiles are made as small as possible, but the matrix elements have a minimal practical thickness of about one inch ( 25 mm ), and the ratio of coverage provided by tiles would become unfavourable, placing a practical limit at a diameter of about four inches ( ten centimetres ).

* Separation ( air traffic control ), rules to minimise the risk of collision between aircraft in flight

However, wishing to minimise the negative impacts of the industry, the Shetland Islands Council ( SIC ), with power granted to it by the UK Parliament in the 1974 Zetland County Council Act ( ZCC Act ), were able to contain all pipeline terminal facilities at the Sullom Voe site, now operated by BP on behalf of a consortium of companies operating in the North Sea and North Atlantic.

More specifically, the S-boxes were changed to minimise the probability of seeing different inputs resulting in the same output ( a hook which Differential cryptanalysis uses ), thus improving LOKI91's immunity to this attack, as detailed by the attacks authors ( Biham and Shamir 1991 ).

Twenty-four crews were briefed on how to drop the bundles of aluminised-paper strips ( treated-paper was used to minimise the weight and maximise the time that the strips would remain in the air, prolonging the effect ), one every minute through the flare chute, using a stopwatch to time them.

1999, 2001 ), they knew how to minimise the risks.

Cabling for extra-low voltage systems, such as in remote-area power systems ( RAPS ), is designed to minimise energy losses while maximising safety.

However, as a precaution moclobemide has been suggested to be taken pre-prandially ( on an empty stomach ), to minimise even further the relatively small ' pressor effect ' moclobemide possesses with regard to tyramine.

Roads ( such as ridgeways ) and rail tracks often follow divides to minimise grades ( gradients ), and to avoid marshes and rivers.