This is a precision type ball, characterized by 1516 tiny dimples that reduce air resistance, as well as friction on the floor.

Many of these balls now are made with aerodynamic technology, where the ball has over a thousand small dimples in it that reduce air resistance.

In addition, factors such as wind resistance reduce overall system efficiency.

The authors suggest that morphine administration in the acute post-injury period may reduce resistance to infection and may impair the healing of the wound.

Among the 52 security improvements were physical barriers, closed-circuit television monitoring, site planning and access, hardening of building exteriors to increase blast resistance, glazing systems to reduce flying glass shards and fatalities, and structural engineering design to prevent progressive collapse.

Successive attempts to reduce the size of the PNGDF in response to the country's economic problems have provoked fierce resistance ; with the army mutinying in March 2001.

( Many shotguns and small arms have chrome-lined barrels to reduce wear and enhance corrosion resistance.

Silver is used to make solder and brazing alloys, and as a thin layer on bearing surfaces can provide a significant increase in galling resistance and reduce wear under heavy load, particularly against steel.

In order to be more hydrodynamic, people can increase the power of the strokes, or reduce water resistance, although increasing power to overcome resistance needs to increase by a factor of three to achieve the same effect as reducing resistance.

Efficient swimming by reducing water resistance involves having a horizontal water position, rolling the body in order to reduce the breadth of the body in the water and extending the arms as far as possible in order to reduce wave resistance.

The frames are often more streamlined to reduce air resistance.

Chemical sealants are often used on tiles to improve durability and appearance, increase stain resistance, reduce efflorescence, and increase or reduce surface smoothness.

Experiments have documented that olivine at high pressures ( e. g., 12 GPa, the pressure at depths of about 360 kilometers ) can contain at least as much as about 8900 parts per million ( weight ) of water, and that such water contents drastically reduce the resistance of olivine to solid flow ; moreover, because olivine is so abundant, more water may be dissolved in olivine of the mantle than contained in Earth's oceans.

Flight archers may use razor blades for fletching, in order to reduce air resistance.

The bridge across the Euphrates is of particular interest, in that it was supported on asphalt covered brick piers that were streamlined to reduce the upstream resistance to flow, and the downstream turbulence that would otherwise undermine the foundations.

Resistant starch from high amylose corn has been shown to reduce insulin resistance in healthy individuals, and in individuals with type 2 diabetes.

His temple was built as a cylinder in order to reduce the air resistance, and was sometimes portrayed with two protruding masks through which the wind blew.

The central electrode is connected to the terminal through an internal wire and commonly a ceramic series resistance to reduce emission of RF noise from the sparking.

The fact is that removing and leaving out a thermostat from any water cooled vehicle, will greatly increase the fuel consumption, reduce power and contribute to spark plug fouling due to an accumulation of excessive carbon deposits on the insulators.

Another effect is that people would like altruism to be due to a personality characteristic rather than due to overt reputational concerns and simply pointing out that there are reputational benefits of an action may actually reduce them.

A 1500 byte ( 12000-bit ) full-size Ethernet frame takes only 1. 2 µs to transmit on a 10 Gbit / s network, reducing the need for small cells to reduce jitter due to contention.

Out-of-order execution somewhat rearranges the order in which instructions are executed to reduce delays due to data dependencies.

While relations between the islands have had difficulties, mainly due the huge exodus of illegal immigrants from the Dominican Republic due to the nation's history of economic woes, the islands still, with the assistance of the United States Coast Guard and the Dominican Navy have worked hard to reduce the number of Dominicans crossing the Mona Passage in recent years.

It was created for use in coal mines, to reduce the danger of explosions due to the presence of methane and other flammable gases, called firedamp or minedamp.

Microsoft has attempted to reduce system instability due to poorly written device drivers by creating a new framework for driver development, called Windows Driver Foundation ( WDF ).

Breathing nitrox is not thought to reduce the effects of narcosis, as oxygen seems to have equally narcotic properties under pressure as nitrogen ; thus one should not expect a reduction in narcotic effects due only to the use of nitrox.

There was, however, some suggestion that post dive fatigue is due to sub-clinical decompression sickness ( DCS ) ( i. e. micro bubbles in the blood insufficient to cause symptoms of DCS ); the fact that the study mentioned was conducted in a dry chamber with an ideal decompression profile may have been sufficient to reduce sub-clinical DCS and prevent fatigue in both nitrox and air divers.

The Fennomans in particular aimed to include the common people in a non-political role in order to reduce unrest due to social problems.

Electrophoresis is performed in buffer solutions to reduce pH changes due to the electric field, which is important because the charge of DNA and RNA depends on pH, but running for too long can exhaust the buffering capacity of the solution.

Unlike similar-size civilian cargo and tow trucks, which typically have dual rear wheels to reduce sway, the HMMWV has single rear wheels due to its independent rear suspension coupled with the body design.

Earlier in the 1970s, Conservative prime minister Edward Heath ( elected in 1970 ) had attempted to reduce trade union powers due to the rising level of strikes across the country.

This may reduce staff productivity due to slower response times and slower mouse-based operator actions, yet it is often seen as an " upgrade ", because the interface style is familiar to unskilled users and is easy for them to use.

In the long run, due to desire to keep costs low, it was advantageous for firms to merge and reduce their transportation costs thus producing and transporting from one location rather than various sites of different companies as in the past.

A resistor is often inserted between the non-inverting input and ground ( so both inputs " see " similar resistances ), reducing the input offset voltage due to different voltage drops due to bias current, and may reduce distortion in some op-amps.

Similarly, some poorly designed earlier trials found that peppermint oil has the ability to reduce colicky abdominal pain due to IBS with an NNT ( number needed to treat ) around 3. 1, but the oil is an irritant to the stomach in the quantity required and therefore needs wrapping for delayed release in the intestine.

Pump efficiencies tend to decline over time due to wear ( e. g. increasing clearances as impellers reduce in size ).

Cros was a poet of meager means, not in a position to pay a machinist to build a working model, and largely content to bequeath his ideas to the public domain free of charge and let others reduce them to practice, but after the earliest reports of Edison's presumably independent invention crossed the Atlantic he had his sealed letter of April 30 opened and read at the December 3, 1877 meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, claiming due scientific credit for priority of conception.

At the time, some believed this lack of growth outside Britain was due to the ‘ Malthusian trap ’ theory ; Thomas Malthus argued before the start of the Industrial Revolution that it was the tendency of a population to expand beyond the limits of resource sustainability, at which point a crisis ( such as famine, war, or epidemic ) would reduce the population to a sustainable size.

) which reduce the problem of " burning " the plants due to excess nitrogen.

Peeling vegetables can also substantially reduce the vitamin C content, especially in the case of potatoes where most vitamin C is in the skin.

The surface in front is as smooth as possible or even employs Dermal denticle | shark like skin, as any turbulence here will reduce the energy of the airflow.

* Litz wire: To reduce skin effect losses, some coils are wound with a special type of radio frequency wire called litz wire.

There is no cure for scleroderma, though there is treatment for some of the symptoms, including drugs that soften the skin and reduce inflammation.

Stranded wire might seem to reduce this effect, since the total surface area of the strands is greater than the surface area of the equivalent solid wire, but ordinary stranded wire does not reduce the skin effect because all the strands are short-circuited together and behave as a single conductor.

However, for many high-frequency applications, proximity effect is more severe than skin effect, and in some limited cases, simple stranded wire can reduce proximity effect.

** Reduction mammoplasty (" breast reduction "): removal of skin and glandular tissue, which is done to reduce back and shoulder pain in women with gigantomastia and / or for psychological benefit men with gynecomastia

More recently it has been noted that bacterial biofilms may impair cutaneous wound healing and reduce topical antibacterial efficiency in healing or treating infected skin wounds.

When the patient enters the operating room, the skin surface to be operated on, called the operating field, is cleaned and prepared by applying an antiseptic such as chlorhexidine gluconate or povidone-iodine to reduce the possibility of infection.

Inner conductors are sometimes silver-plated to smooth the surface and reduce losses due to skin effect.

Recent human clinical studies showed that S-equol provided as a standardized soygerm-based dietary supplement helped reduce menopausal symptoms, bone loss and crow ’ s feet skin wrinkles in menopausal women.

Antiseptics ( from Greek ἀντί: anti, '" against " + σηπτικός: sēptikos, " putrefactive ") are antimicrobial substances that are applied to living tissue / skin to reduce the possibility of infection, sepsis, or putrefaction.

Blackberries are very acidic and contain a high amount of tannin, making them suitable for applying onto rashes and wounds to reduce skin inflammation ; they can also be used to treat acne and reduce stretch marks.

One problems with the stump and socket attachment is that a bad fit will reduce the area of contact between the stump and socket or liner, and increase pockets between stump skin and socket or liner.

Bathing a Himalayan is also recommended by some breeders, to help reduce the amount of oil on the cat's fur and skin.

Research shows that, if widely practiced, hand washing with soap could reduce diarrhea by almost fifty percent and respiratory infections by nearly twenty-five percent Hand washing with soap also reduces the incidence of skin diseases, eye infections like trachoma and intestinal worms, especially ascariasis and trichuriasis.

Driver ’ s gloves feature open knuckles and back for maximum flexibility, ventilation and to reduce stress on the soft, thin, skin tight, leather.

Regulatory bodies have therefore begun to adopt a tiered testing strategy for skin and eye irritation, using alternatives to reduce Draize testing of substances with the most severe effects.

The study went on to conclude that netilmicin might be useful as an alternative to intravenous vancomycin, and suggested that topical applications of hydrogen peroxide may be useful to reduce MRSA on skin and some mucous membranes.

It is often used in Airsoft as a protective garment, as it is thin enough to feel the hit, but thick enough to reduce the impact velocity, thus avoiding breakage of the skin by the pellet.

The grape is naturally high in tannins which can be tamed with limited maceration time but reducing the skin contact can also reduce some of the mulberry, blackberry and damson fruit character that Pinotage can produce.

A lubricant, typically talcum powder, can be used to reduce friction between skin and apparel in the short term.