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Sterile technique, aseptic post-operative care, antibiotics, and vigilant post-operative monitoring greatly reduce the risk of these complications.
Practice arrows, for instance, can use a blunt tip that spreads the force over a wider area to reduce the risk of injury or limit penetration.
To reduce the risk of injury from a fall, climbers rarely go higher than 3 – 5 meters above the ground.
Central banks usually also have supervisory powers, intended to prevent bank runs and to reduce the risk that commercial banks and other financial institutions engage in reckless or fraudulent behavior.
Such legal reserve requirements were introduced in the 19th century as an attempt to reduce the risk of banks overextending themselves and suffering from bank runs, as this could lead to knock-on effects on other overextended banks.
To reduce the risk of becoming lost, it is necessary to memorise the appearance of key navigational points in the cave as they are passed by the exploring party.
Cycling suffers from a perception that it is unsafe although use of appropriate safety equipment and observance of road rules can reduce risk of serious injury.
Whatever measures have been taken to reduce the privacy risk in census data, new technology in the form of better electronic analysis of data poses increasing challenges to the protection of sensitive individual information.
Once in place, democratic institutions — even partial ones — reduce the likelihood of armed conflict and all but eliminate the risk that it will lead to geno / politicide.
The purpose of door guards ( also known as hinge guards, anti-finger trapping devices, or finger guards ) is to reduce the number of finger trapping accidents in doors, as doors pose a risk to children especially when closing.
Special purpose fire doors are often employed in buildings to reduce the overall risk of fire, particularly by preventing the spread of fire and smoke.
From another perspective, the farmer and the miller both reduce a risk and acquire a risk when they sign the futures contract: the farmer reduces the risk that the price of wheat will fall below the price specified in the contract and acquires the risk that the price of wheat will rise above the price specified in the contract ( thereby losing additional income that he could have earned ).
Applied subjects include market and legal remedies to spread or reduce risk, such as warranties, government-mandated partial insurance, restructuring or bankruptcy law, inspection, and regulation for quality and information disclosure.
Pedestrian bridges were constructed every kilometer, to reduce the risk of accidents.
Nitrox is not a safer gas than compressed air in all respects ; although its use can reduce the risk of decompression sickness, it increases the risk of oxygen toxicity and fire, which are further discussed below.
Research shows that quercetin influences cellular mechanisms in vitro and in animal studies, and there is limited evidence from human population studies that quercetin may reduce the risk of lung cancer.
Ammunition can be chosen to reduce the risk of overpenetration ; see Terminal ballistics, Stopping power, and Hollow point bullet.
Hearing protection such as earplugs ( disposable or reusable ) or ear muffs ( including electronic devices that amplify quiet sounds ) can be used to reduce the risk of hearing damage.
Because eyes are particularly vulnerable to this type of damage, eye protection should be worn to reduce the risk of injury.
Tensions remained high for months, although various confidence-building measures were discussed to reduce the risk of military accidents or conflict in the Aegean, under the auspices of the NATO Secretary General.
Around the late 14th century AD, European powdermakers first began adding liquid during grinding to improve mixing, reduce dust, and with it the risk of explosion.

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Improvements were made in nursing accommodation in order to recruit more nurses and reduce labour shortages which were keeping 60, 000 beds out of use, and efforts were made to reduce the imbalance between an excess of fever and tuberculosis ( TB ) beds and a shortage of maternity beds .” In addition, BCG vaccinations were introduced for the protection of medical students, midwives, nurses, and contacts of patients with TB, while a pension scheme was set up for employees of the newly-established NHS.
Research to address this carbon coking issue at the University of Pennsylvania has shown that the use of copper-based cermet ( heat-resistant materials made of ceramic and metal ) can reduce coking and the loss of performance.
The IMF describes itself as an organization of 188 countries ( as of April 2012 ), working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty .” The organization's stated objectives are to promote international economic cooperation, international trade, employment, and exchange rate stability, including by making financial resources available to member countries to meet balance of payments needs.
The Committee head for selecting the location, New Jersey Democrat David Wilentz, gave the official reason for choosing Chicago as, It is centrally located geographically which will reduce transportation costs and because it has been the site of national conventions for both Parties in the past and is therefore attuned to holding them .” In the end, however, the conversation between Johnson and Daley had been leaked to the press and published in the Chicago Tribune and several other papers.
Other systems employ measures to reduce the amount of trust client nodes must place in the central system such as placing applications in virtual machines.
This should not be interpreted to mean that installing sidewalks would necessarily reduce the likelihood of pedestrian / motor vehicle crashes by 88. 2 percent in all situations.
In 1968, various steps were taken to reduce the severity with which the wage-stop operated, a regressive mechanism which restricted the amount of assistance payable to an unemployed person.
Shorting may act as a canary in a coal mine to stop unsustainable practices earlier and thus reduce damages and forming market bubbles.
The aim of factoring is usually to reduce something to basic building blocks ”, such as numbers to prime numbers, or polynomials to irreducible polynomials.
An extensive public awareness plan is also in place to provide education on the rainforests of the sea and how people can reduce carbon emissions, thereby reducing ocean acidification.
During the campaign for Vice President, Olivier advocated smaller government, We have to reduce the size of the federal government back to the size of its constitutional limits .” He said he would like the government to return U. S. troops from abroad and make the Department of Defense get back to defending us, and not be a Department of Offense that bombs little countries .” I don ’ t believe we should be the world ’ s policeman .” He believes that U. S. foreign policy should be governed by an avoidance of entangling alliances .” The conflicts this country has entered into cause others to look badly upon America.
Digital camera images may also need further processing to reduce the image noise from long exposures, including subtracting a dark frame and a processing called image stacking or " Shift-and-add ".
A study on the use of silver-alloy catheters by the University of Michigan School of Medicine concluded The data supporting the use of silver alloy urinary catheters to reduce urinary catheter-related bacteriuria is reasonably strong .” The study also concluded silver alloy catheters are more effective than standard catheters for reducing bacteriuria in adults in hospital having short-term catheterization, and, although they cost about $ 6 more than standard urinary catheters, they may be worth the extra cost, since catheter-related infection is a common cause of nosocomial infection and bacteremia.
Now we are looking to change the rules for those who are in-work and claiming benefits, so that once they have overcome their barriers and got into work, in time they can reduce their dependency or come off benefits altogether .”
Because Perpetua was called the bride of Christ, omission of her husband may have been intended to reduce any sexual implications ( xviii ).< ref > Brent Shaw, The Passion of Perpetua ,” Past and Present 139, ( May 1993 ), JSTOR 30 < http :// www. jstor. org / stable / 651089 >, 31.
Woofies were not authorized by the GLBA because of a dispute between Senator Phil Gramm and the Clinton Administration over the application of the Community Reinvestment Act to woofies .” In their October 1999 compromise on CRA provisions in the GLBA, the Clinton Administration agreed with Gramm that CRA would not apply to woofies so long as only a company that did not then own any FDIC insured depository institution would be permitted to qualify as a wholesale financial institution .” The Clinton Administration wanted this restriction to prevent existing bank holding companies from disposing of their FDIC insured banks to qualify as woofies ,” which could reduce the deposit base subject to CRA requirements.
If we can reduce the activity of this inflammation indicator, we will be in a better position to control the transformation of normal cells into cancer cells ,” de Mejía added.
Since this scandal, Perle has made several attempts to reduce his alleged involvement in the war efforts stating: Huge mistakes were made, and I want to be very clear on this: They were not made by neoconservatives, who had almost no voice in what happened …”

reduce and disturbances
Small seismographs with low proof masses are placed in a vacuum to reduce disturbances from air currents.
* reduce sleep disturbances
To reduce the effect of these load disturbances, sensors and transmitters collect information about the process variable and its relationship to some desired set point.
Demand response in most cases is targeted at reducing peak demand to reduce the risk of potential disturbances, avoid additional capital cost requirements for additional plant, and avoid use of more expensive and / or less efficient operating plant.

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