Packet switching is used to optimize the use of the channel capacity available in digital telecommunication networks such as computer networks, to minimize the transmission latency ( the time it takes for data to pass across the network ), and to increase robustness of communication.

In this way, JACK acts as a virtual audio patch bay, and it can be configured to use a computer's resources in real time, with dedicated memory, and with various options that minimize the DAW's latency.

An exception is the Fully Buffered DIMM which, despite being carefully designed to minimize the effect, has been criticized for its higher latency.

One of the biggest challenges the blade PC vendors have experienced is how to minimize the impact of latency and deliver an end user experience comparable to that offered by a traditional PC, and there has been a number of new entrants in this sub-category of the blade PC in 2007.

The convention also offers decision-makers guidance based on the precautionary principle that where there is a threat of significant reduction or loss of biological diversity, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to avoid or minimize such a threat.

Generally accepted rules are to not endanger others, to minimize the impact on nature, to respect private property, and to avoid public alarm.

Tactically, the guerrilla army would avoid any confrontation with large units of enemy troops, but seek and eliminate small groups of soldiers to minimize losses and exhaust the opposing force.

* Using solar energy and in-situ resource utilization to avoid or minimize the expensive task of shipping components and fuel up from the Earth's surface, against the Earth's gravity ( see " Using non-terrestrial resources ", below ).

Mining companies in most countries are required to follow stringent environmental and rehabilitation codes in order to minimize environmental impact and avoid impacts on human health.

The idea is to minimize investing fees and to avoid the adverse consequences of failing to correctly anticipate the future.

Abrasive supports avoid or minimize the need to apply further fixative in this way.

In order to minimize personal clashes and avoid factionalism there was a convention of procedure which mandated that strong criticisms be circulated beforehand to avoid conflict during actual meetings.

The purpose of the mitigation plan is to describe how this particular risk will be handled – what, when, by whom and how will it be done to avoid it or minimize consequences if it becomes a liability.

# Lubrication: ( for intercourse or used daily to minimize irritation ) If you have problems with yeast, or are worried you will, avoid lubricants with glycerine in them, which acts like a sugar and will only add to your problems.

Quality control emphasizes testing of products to uncover defects and reporting to management who make the decision to allow or deny product release, whereas quality assurance attempts to improve and stabilize production ( and associated processes ) to avoid, or at least minimize, issues which led to the defect ( s ) in the first place.

* Article 10. 6 and 11. 8, which states " Lack of scientific certainty due to insufficient relevant scientific information and knowledge regarding the extent of the potential adverse effects of an LMO on biodiversity, taking into account risks to human health, shall not prevent a Party of import from taking a decision, as appropriate, with regard to the import of the LMO in question, in order to avoid or minimize such potential adverse effects.

shall not prevent the Party of import, in order to avoid or minimize such potential adverse effects, from taking a decision, as appropriate, with regard to the import of the living modified organism in question.

Four-mallet vibists usually play scalar linear passages much the same as two-mallet players, using one mallet from each hand ( outside right and inside left for Burton grip ), except four-mallet players tend to make more use of double strokes, not only to avoid crossing hands but also to minimize motion between the two bar rows.

One role of an archaeologist is to avoid false information and minimize the loss of information.

Load balancing is a computer networking methodology to distribute workload across multiple computers or a computer cluster, network links, central processing units, disk drives, or other resources, to achieve optimal resource utilization, maximize throughput, minimize response time, and avoid overload.

They use sophisticated load balancing to shift traffic from one path to another to avoid network congestion on any particular link, and sometimes to minimize the cost of transit across external networks or improve network reliability.

One of the most important parts of numerical analysis is to avoid or minimize loss of significance in calculations.

* North Avenue Bridge over the Chicago River in Chicago, Illinois, U. S. A. utilizes cable-stayed elements to avoid the full-size abutments required for a pure suspension bridge, while providing additional support with a suspension cable to minimize the height of the bridge's support towers.

The representation of primitive scene data was optimized to minimize the amount of data stored so as to avoid completely duplicating it on a thread-by-thread basis.

Nocturnal migrants minimize predation, avoid overheating, and feed during the day.

Programs written for a pipelined processor deliberately avoid branching to minimize possible loss of speed.

The core gameplay elements of the modern stealth game are to avoid combat, minimize noise, and strike enemies from the shadows.

There were major cutbacks in the early 1990s, but they were distributed to minimize the harm to the vast majority of voters.

This abstract problem is relevant in many contexts: in VLSI circuit design, for example, one wants to minimize energy used by decreasing the amount of electric signals required between the different components during a distributed computation.

The Maine DOT and Maine Turnpike Authority decided not to sign or publicize I-495 to minimize confusion ; maps of the changes distributed to the public included the remark " existing I-95 becomes a ramp " or just " Falmouth Spur " pointing to the Spur.

Many service providers have Terms of Service that do not allow certain materials to be uploaded or distributed, or the service to be used in a particular way, and may suspend a hosting account, after a few complaints, to minimize the risk of their IP subnet being blocked by anti-spam filters using Internet Protocol ( IP ) based filtering.

Within the fixed frame of these aspirations, they can afford to place a high value on the expressive and people-oriented aspects of occupation and to minimize the instrumental-reward values of power, prestige, and wealth.

If a woman is uncomfortable with her breasts ' asymmetry, she can minimize the difference with a corrective bra or use gel bra inserts.

By attempting to predict which branch ( or path ) a conditional instruction will take, the CPU can minimize the number of times that the entire pipeline must wait until a conditional instruction is completed.

The State becomes involved because governing entities can become convinced that the costs of not criminalizing ( through allowing the harms to continue unabated ) outweigh the costs of criminalizing it ( restricting individual liberty, for example, to minimize harm to others ).

To further minimize mixing of the electrolytes, a salt bridge can be used which consists of an electrolyte saturated gel in an inverted U-tube.

To minimize the risk of demographic or political shifts swinging a district to the opposition, politicians can instead create more packed districts, leading to more comfortable margins in unpacked ones.

The water table can be impacted by the water use and run-off of chemicals from farms, but hydroponics may minimize impact as well as having the advantage that water use and water returns are easier to measure.

Withdrawal symptoms can be managed by a gradual reduction in dosage over a period of weeks, months or years to minimize or prevent withdrawal symptoms.

This way the vaulter can minimize levered weight of the pole.

Harm reduction seeks to minimize the harm that can occur through the use of various drugs, whether legal ( e. g., alcohol and nicotine ), or illegal ( e. g., heroin and cocaine ).

For example, people who inject illicit drugs can minimize harm to both themselves and members of the community through proper injecting technique, using new needles and syringes each time, and proper disposal of all injecting equipment.

Clients can minimize this effect by buffering data for display.

Shorter TTLs can cause heavier loads on an authoritative nameserver, but can be useful when changing the address of critical services like Web servers or MX records, and therefore are often lowered by the DNS administrator prior to a service being moved, in order to minimize disruptions.

It can be stored within the data section of the filesystem ( an internal log ), or on a separate device to minimize disk contention.

* Land use-Carefully planned crop rotation can help to minimize erosion and allow farmers to plant less water-dependent crops in drier years.

With four phases, QPSK can encode two bits per symbol, shown in the diagram with gray coding to minimize the bit error rate ( BER ) — sometimes misperceived as twice the BER of BPSK.

Some such systems are even supplied with a calibrated microphone to measure the subwoofer's in-room response, so the automatic equalizer can correct the combination of subwoofer, subwoofer location, and room response to minimize effects of room modes and improve low frequency performance.

Reports that minimize the impact of psychiatric disorders contribute to copycat suicides whereas reports that mention this factor and provide help-line contact numbers and advice for where sufferers may gain assistance can reduce suicides.

To minimize the percentage of carriers that recombine before reaching the collector – base junction, the transistor's base region must be thin enough that carriers can diffuse across it in much less time than the semiconductor's minority carrier lifetime.

However, much can be done to minimize the symptoms.

This partitioning, an improvement over the continuous slab, was patented in 1924 by Arthur Wesley Hall and William Alexander McVay who wished to minimize damage to the concrete from the effects of tectonic and temperature fluctuations, both of which can crack longer segments.

Deafness is therefore conceptualized from a " personal tragedy " stance, with implicit questions naturally arising such as: " By what criteria and by whom is the impairment construed as an infirmity ; how did the infirmity arise ; what are the risks and benefits of the available treatment, if any ; what can be done to minimize the disabling effects of the infirmity?

Decoy reentry vehicles can be used alongside actual warheads to minimize the chances of the actual warheads being intercepted before they reach their targets.

The advantages of surgery are demonstrated efficacy for pain control, it is more effective for infertility than medicinal intervention, it provides a definitive diagnosis, and surgery can often be performed as a minimally invasive ( laparoscopic ) procedure to reduce morbidity and minimize the risk of post-operative adhesions.