Taking place from October 23 to November 1, 2002, in New Delhi COP 8 adopted the Delhi Ministerial Declaration that, amongst others, called for efforts by developed countries to transfer technology and minimize the impact of climate change on developing countries.

Generally speaking, the adaptive process involves the use of a cost function, which is a criterion for optimum performance of the filter, to feed an algorithm, which determines how to modify filter transfer function to minimize the cost on the next iteration.

Type 304 stainless steel is medical grade, with a low level of porosity that tends to minimize the ability of cooking products to penetrate the surface and cause sticking and flavour transfer – important performance metrics for commercial applications.

Distichiasis ( commonly known as “ double eyelash ”) and Persistent Hyperplastic Primary Vitreous ( or PHPV )— a condition whereby the blood supply to the ocular lens fails to regress and fibrovascular tissue forms causing hazy vision — both of which are checked by way of an ocular examination throughout the life of a breeding stud or brood-bitch to minimize the transfer and spread of these conditions.

The surfactant must enable a fast rate of polymerization, minimize coagulum or fouling in the reactor and other process equipment, prevent an unacceptably high viscosity during polymerization ( which leads to poor heat transfer ), and maintain or even improve properties in the final product such as tensile strength, gloss, and water absorption.

In electronics, impedance matching is the practice of designing the input impedance of an electrical load ( or the output impedance of its corresponding signal source ) to maximize the power transfer or minimize reflections from the load.

In such applications, delivering a high voltage ( to minimize signal degradation during transmission or to consume less power by reducing currents ) is often more important than maximum power transfer.

Similarly, it is usually desirable to minimize the number of heat transfer stages in order to maximize the temperature difference at each stage.

; Differential data compression: A way to further minimize network traffic is to transfer only the binary data that has changed from one day to the next, similar to the open source file transfer service Rsync.

A high luminometer number ( brightness of flame index ) is required to minimize transfer of heat to the burner parts.

This preferential binding in 3 acts to minimize the steric interactions between the ketone ( the large R < sub > L </ sub > substituent directed away ) and the R ’ group of the catalyst, and aligns the carbonyl and the coordinated borane for a favorable, face-selective hydride transfer through a six-membered transition state 4.

Now, instead of taking their live action footage to a real location, filmmakers would shoot the live action as before with the cut-out cards in place, then rewind the film and transfer it to a camera designed to minimize vibrations.

The powerful countries of North America and Western Europe felt threatened by the NIEO and continuously tried to criticize and minimize it ; according to professor Harry Johnson, the most efficient way to help the poor is to transfer resources from those most able to pay to those most in need.

Fines designated FFFFFg were usually reprocessed to minimize explosive dust hazards.

The sixteen instruments, weighing 118 kg altogether, included magnetometer sensors mounted on an 11 m boom to minimize interference from the spacecraft ; a plasma instrument for detecting low energy charged particles and a plasma wave detector to study waves generated by the particles ; a high energy particle detector ; and a detector of cosmic and Jovian dust.

The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) mandates facilities that generate dust minimize or mitigate the production of dust in their operation.

Even if we able to minimize the effect of instrumental and atmospherical components ( e. g. using a spacecraft ), there are still several astrophysical components contributing to the sky background: these could be sets of point sources like faint asteroids, Galactic stars and far away galaxies, as well as diffuse sources like dust in the Solar System, in the Milky Way, and in the intergalactic space.

As part of an air quality mitigation settlement, LADWP is currently shallow flooding of the salt pan to help minimize alkali dust storms and further adverse health effects.

Although " train " suggests a line of wagons, when the terrain permitted the wagons would often fan out and travel abreast to minimize the amount of dust each wagon encountered.

They are laid a minimum of 24'' '' deep and in some areas four feet down, particularly under roads, to stay clear of all other piping such as water and sewers and to minimize shocks from heavy trucking.

The basic objectives in each instance are to make available supplies of food during the intervals between harvesting or slaughter, to minimize losses resulting from the action of microorganisms and insects, and to make it possible to transport foods from the area of harvest or production to areas of consumption.

Yet this should not minimize our sacred endeavors in this world of ours, where, like faint glimmers of light in the dark, we have emerged for a moment from the nothingness of dark unconsciousness of material existence.

However, the findings of these staff members were criticized, as they were performed mostly by economic entomologists inherited from the United States Department of Agriculture, whom many environmentalists felt were biased towards agribusiness and tended to minimize concerns about human health and wildlife.

The boom was used to remove the MAG from the immediate vicinity of Galileo to minimize magnetic effects from the spacecraft.

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.

High voltage insulators for outdoor use are shaped to maximize the length of the leakage path along the surface from one end to the other, called the creepage length, to minimize these leakage currents.

* 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 ).

It primary goals are to reduce phosphorus inputs to Lake Champlain ; reduce toxic contamination ; minimize the risks to humans from water-related health hazards ; and control the introduction, spread, and impact of non-native nuisance species to preserve the integrity of the Lake Champlain ecosystem.

The government protected its merchants — and kept others out — by trade barriers, regulations, and subsidies to domestic industries in order to maximize exports from and minimize imports to the realm.

In practical situations we would only have samples from and thus, for the above example, we would only minimize.

Furthermore, all new federal buildings must now be constructed with truck-resistant barriers and with deep setbacks from surrounding streets to minimize their vulnerability to truck bombs.

Correct scientific technique emphasizes careful recording of observations, separating experimental observations from the conclusions drawn from them, and techniques such as blind or double blind experiments, to minimize observational bias.

The goal of this problem is to minimize the cost of reaching a target in a weighted graph where some of the edges are unreliable and may have been removed from the graph.

Costlier turntables made from heavy aluminium castings have greater balanced mass and inertia, helping minimize vibration at the stylus, and maintaining constant speed without wow or flutter, even if the motor exhibits cogging effects.

" Further, the view of oppression of women as a " transhistorical phenomenon " allowed middle-class white women to minimize the benefits of their own race and class privilege and tended to exclude women from history.

A trade bloc is a group of allied countries agreeing to minimize or eliminate tariffs against trade with each other, and possibly to impose protective tariffs on imports from outside the bloc.

So what is the best strategy to minimize your incarceration ( aside from going straight in the first place )?

This minimizes the length of wire needed, and also provides screening to minimize the core's magnetic field from generating electromagnetic interference.

Many cars today now include a silencer to minimize the noise entering the cabin.

Secret ballots are nearly universal in modern democracy, and considered a basic right of citizenship, despite the difficulties that they cause ( for example the inability to trace votes back to the corresponding voters increases the risk of someone stuffing additional fraudulent votes into the system: additional security controls are needed to minimize such risks ).

* 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.

The response of a portion of the Left to such challenge, has been an attempt to silence and misinterpret, to " turn the SI safely into an art movement, and thereby to minimize its role in the political and social movements of the sixties.

To minimize the risk of a coup d ' état, they were divided into different branches, each modeled on its Soviet counterpart.

The Constitution separated government into three branches that check each other to minimize threats to liberty and encourage deliberation of governmental acts.

Before being fed into the steam generator, the condensed steam ( referred to as feedwater ) is sometimes preheated in order to minimize thermal shock.

When the yogin can: ( 1 ) sustain focus on the pratyaya for an extended period of time, and ( 2 ) minimize his or her self-consciousness during the practice, then dhyana transforms into samadhi.

On his third night as a wolf, Oz is nearly killed by werewolf hunter Gib Cain for his pelt, but is saved by Buffy and the Scooby Gang, with whose help he quickly finds a way to minimize the danger posed by the wolf: he locks himself into a cage for the appropriate nights, watched over by the Scoobies in shifts.

To minimize the frequent side effects caused by the pertussis component of the vaccine, the Japanese scientist Yuji Sato developed an acellular pertussis vaccine consisting of purified haemagglutinins ( HAs: filamentous strep throat and leucocytosis-promoting-factor HA ), which are secreted by B. pertussis into the culture medium.

Instead Austria tried to depoliticize Serbia, to minimize violence, and to integrate the country into the Empire.

Isolated in Dublin, with the king desiring to minimize his Irish troops, Ormonde therefore agreed to a " cessation " or ceasefire with the Catholics, which began in September 1643, by which the greater part of Ireland was given up into the hands of the Catholic Confederation ( leaving only districts in the north, the Dublin Pale, round Cork City, and certain smallish garrisons in the possession of Protestant commanders ).

Rear suspension: A station wagon may include reconfigured rear suspension for additional load capacity and to minimize intrusion into the cargo volume, ( e. g., worldwide versions of the first generation Ford Focus ).

Instead of translating directly into machine code, modern compilers translate to a machine independent intermediate code in order to enhance portability of the compiler and minimize design efforts.

Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems replicate the natural systems that clean water in wildlife and implement them in a city ’ s drainage system so as to minimize contaminated water and unnatural rates of runoff into the environment.

The college says it is looking into implementing the practices and ideology of xeriscaping and sustainable landscape architecture to minimize water use on campus grounds.

Coaches try to get everyone into the game ( while constrained by normal substitution rules ), with the players not exerting themselves as they would in a regular season game ( to minimize the risk of injury.

Similarly, Leave No Trace directs people to minimize site alterations, such as digging tent trenches, hammering nails into trees, permanently clearing an area of rocks or twigs.

In these methods, the nodes of the graph are arranged into horizontal layers using methods such as the Coffman – Graham algorithm, in such a way that most edges go downwards from one layer to the next ; after this step, the nodes within each layer are arranged in order to minimize crossings.

They are active only at night, and spend the day burrowed into the sand, to minimize water loss.

To minimize the likelihood of a polarized electrolytic being incorrectly inserted into a circuit, polarity is very clearly indicated on the case.

The work was not restricted to the lake ; drainages from other parts of the Seven Lakes were also dammed to minimize the flow into Riñihue Lake.

The regular area contains extensions that have been proven stable enough for everyday use and is broken down into different areas such as " apps ", " net ", " system ", and " uci " (" Universal Compressed ISO "-Extensions in. uci format are mounted as a separate filesystem to minimize RAM usage ).

The second title of the bill was submitted by McKinney, seeking a Comprehensive Environmental Sampling and Toxicity Assessment Plan, or CESTAP, to minimize harm to Gulf Coast residents from the toxic releases into the environment caused by the hurricane.

In 1912, Cruce vetoed a bill to reapportion the state into eight congressional districts designed to minimize Republican voting strength.