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2013 German Grand Prix

The new tyres replaced the steel belts used in the rear wheels with Kevlar in order to lower the operating termperature by up to 10 °C (18 °F) and reduce the likelihood of explosive punctures.

Amenorrhoea

Awareness and intervention can reduce the prevalence and negative health effects in female athletes.

Ansvar insurance

The company gives tangible support to individuals and organisations who work to reduce the harm that alcohol and drugs cause in society, donating a share of profits to organisations involved in alcohol and drug education rehabilitation, such as Adfam, Be Your Best Foundation, Coram, Drugscope and Hope UK.

Automated fare collection system

Illinois Central Railroad (IC) in 1965 for its busy Chicago commuter service (today’s Metra Electric.) Financed entirely from private funds, AFC was expected to reduce operating costs by

Ball bearing

In horology, the company Jean Lassale designed a watch movement that used ball bearings to reduce the thickness of the movement.

Barry Commoner

This is can also be seen in the study of India and contraceptives, in which family planning failed to reduce the birthrate because the people felt that “in order to advance their economic situation”, independent children were a necessity to gain better opportunities.

Battlemind

Battlemind is both the mental orientation developed during a combat zone deployment and a program developed at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) intended to reduce its impact on personal post-deployment issues.

Betamethasone

In a randomized controlled trial Betamethasone was shown to reduce some of the ataxia symptoms associated with Ataxia Telangiectasia (A-T) by 28-31%.

Biocatalysis

Another study demonstrates how racemic nicotine (mixture of S and R-enantiomers 1 in scheme 3) can be deracemized in a one-pot procedure involving a monoamine oxidase isolated from Aspergillus niger which is able to oxidize only the amine S-enantiomer to the imine 2 and involving an ammoniaborane reducing couple which can reduce the imine 2 back to the amine 1.

Chengdu–Chongqing Intercity Railway

It is expected to reduce travel time between Chengdu and Chongqing to 75 minutes, 45 minutes quicker than the current CRH route via Suining.

Chronic fatigue syndrome treatment

Based on evidence from multiple randomized clinical trials (RCTs), a systematic review published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (October 2006) stated that CBT and GET interventions showed promising results, appearing to reduce symptoms and improve function.

Desizing

Amylases are the enzymes that hydrolyses and reduce the molecular weight of amylose and amylopectin molecules in starch, rendering it water soluble enough to be washed off the fabric.

Druzhba pipeline

There have been proposals to extend northern branch of the Druzhba pipeline to the German North Sea port of Wilhelmshaven, which would reduce oil tanker traffic in the Baltic Sea and make it easier to transport Russian oil to the United States.

Earthquake Engineering Research Institute

In February, 2010, the EERI entered a partnership with the Geo- Institute of ASCE, increasing their collaboration to reduce earthquake hazards.

ECMAScript

The HD DVD standard was one place where the ECMAScript Compact Profile was used in favour of full ECMAScript to reduce processing and memory needs on devices.

Electrodeposition

Electroplating, a process that uses electrical current to reduce dissolved metal cations so that they form a coherent metal coating on an electrode

Energy policy of Kazakhstan

Adopted by Prime Minister Serik Akhmetov, this new law would help reduce emissions and help with energy efficient solutions from large companies to small families.

ENVIRON

In the United States, the firm has worked with the Marathon Petroleum Company at its major gulf coast refinery in Garyville, Louisiana, to develop VOC BioTreat™, a patent-pending biotreatment solution to reduce volatile organic compound emissions at oil and chemical refineries.

Fog Creek Software

It featured angled walls to allow programmers a window next to their computer monitor to reduce eye strain.

Gianna Jessen

In December 2005 Jessen travelled to London to support a campaign to reduce the number of abortions under the UK Abortion Act and to speak at a parliamentary meeting at the House of Commons.

Guyandotte River

The Upper Guyandotte Watershed Association (UGWA) is a grassroots, community-based organization working to reduce sources of pollution in order to clean up streams and make the watershed a better place to live.

History of perpetual motion machines

Guido Franch reportedly had a process of transmuting water molecules into high-octane gasoline compounds (named Mota fuel) that would reduce the price of gasoline to 8 cents per gallon.

Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office

Following the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1867 and the "restoration" of direct imperial rule, the leaders of the new Meiji government sought to reduce Japan's vulnerability to Western imperialism by systematically emulating the technological, governing, social, and military practices of the European great powers.

Index-matching material

In fiber optics and telecommunications, an index-matching material may be used in conjunction with pairs of mated connectors or with mechanical splices to reduce signal reflected in the guided mode (known as return loss) (see: Optical fiber connector).

Laminopathy

Nitrogen-containing bisphosphate drugs used in the treatment of osteoporosis reduce farnesyldiphosphate production and thus prelamin A farnesylation.

Leveler

A leveler performs an audio process similar to compression, which is used to reduce the dynamic range of a signal, so that the quietest portion of the signal is loud enough to hear and the loudest portion is not too loud.

Linghu Yu

Linghu Yu plotted with Wang Ling against Sima Yi to enthrone Cao Biao(曹彪) over Cao Fang to reduce the Sima family's influence over the Wei court.

Minimum wage

Three other possible reasons minimum wages do not affect employment were suggested by Alan Blinder: higher wages may reduce turnover, and hence training costs; raising the minimum wage may "render moot" the potential problem of recruiting workers at a higher wage than current workers; and minimum wage workers might represent such a small proportion of a business's cost that the increase is too small to matter.

Neuticles

Miller and Neuticles were featured on an episode of the Penn & Teller show Bullshit! which featured the extremes people will go to in order to pamper and care for their pets, including the implantation of Neuticles, which was shown as an example of some pet owners' desires to reduce what they perceived as stress and/or depression after being neutered.

Nochex

All payments made via Nochex support the 3D Secure XML standard designed to reduce the risk of fraudulent card holder not present transactions, and are PCI compliant.

Old Bethpage Village Restoration

In February 2009, Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi proposed closing all county parks including Old Bethpage in order to reduce the county deficit.

Peat energy in Finland

(Hard coal, which is more harmful, is only used as an emergency back-up source for energy, and not in every year.) According to IEA the Finnish subsidies for peat in 2007-2010 undermined the goal to reduce CO2 emissions and counteracted other environmental policies and The European Union emissions trading scheme.

Prazepam

After short-term therapy, the dose is usually gradually tapered-off to reduce or avoid any withdrawal or rebound effects.

Real Time Media Flow Protocol

RTMFP will reduce the bandwidth costs for direct, live, real‐time communication solutions, such as audio and video chat and multi‐player games.

Red Sticks

Trying to reduce the influence of the Tensaw Creek in present-day southwestern Alabama, the Red Sticks decided to attack the garrison at Fort Mims in the Mississippi Territory (present-day Tensaw, Alabama).

Richard Belluzzo

He was a strong advocate at HP to reduce their investments in HP-UX and PA-RISC in favor of Windows NT and Itanium, as well as getting SGI to cut their investments in IRIX and MIPS.

Risch algorithm

The case of purely algebraic functions was solved and implemented in Reduce by James H. Davenport.

Royce Vardy

In December 2001 he was charged with drink driving, which resulted in his club's major sponsor, the Transport Accident Commission, threatening to reduce it sponsorship of the club.

Sebastián Casanello

Casanello was the only federal judge that attended the ceremony of president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who announced a bill for the Congress to reduce the autonomy of the judiciary.

Security policy of Enrique Peña Nieto

During an interview with PBS NewsHour as president-elect, Peña Nieto said that Mexico – along with Latin America and the United States – should have a debate about drug legalization and the regulation of drug sells in the country, an approach advocated by some Latin American leaders who want to reduce the revenues of the drug trafficking organizations by legalizing marijuana.

Sin by Silence

Power and Control: Domestic Violence in America, a documentary about domestic violence and the community-based Duluth Model to reduce domestic violence

Space Communications and Navigation Program

PRN coding - used to reduce power spectral density for low bit rate signals, and for time transfer.

Standardized service contract

One of its goals is to reduce the need for data transformations as two services interact with each other, which can be achieved if the service contracts use standardized data models e.g. XML schemas if the services have been implemented as web services.

Symbolic integration

It was first implemented in Reduce in the case of purely transcendental functions; the case of purely algebraic functions was solved and implemented in Reduce by James H. Davenport; the general case was solved and implemented in Axiom by Manuel Bronstein.

V-mail

In 1940 the British Minister of Transport, Lieutenant Colonel John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, put forward the idea that airgraphs be used to reduce both the bulk and weight of mail travelling between the Middle East Force (MEF) and the UK.

Victoria Square Shopping Centre

Environmentally, a large section of the roof has been covered in Sedum in a direct attempt to reduce the carbon footprint of Victoria Square.

Voltage and frequency scaling

Dynamic frequency scaling, a technique in computer architecture whereby the frequency of a microprocessor can be automatically adjusted "on the fly," either to conserve power or to reduce the amount of heat generated by the chip

Whitton Bridge Pasture

Such grasses would allow a build up of dead organic matter, which together with the increased growth, would reduce the growth of less vigorous species.

Württemberg T 4

In order to reduce wear and tear on the tyres and brake shoes during descents, the engines were fitted with Riggenbach counterpressure brakes.

Yellowstone Expedition

Another novel feature was a paddlewheel built into the stern to reduce the danger of damage from snags.


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