The phrase "advantage to reducing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the benefits or positive outcomes associated with the act of reducing something, such as costs, waste, or risks.
Example: "There is a significant advantage to reducing our energy consumption, as it not only lowers costs but also benefits the environment."
Alternatives: "benefit of decreasing" or "gain from minimizing".
In every case there is a greater advantage to reducing the competition on the condition that the competitor does likewise.
"There is an evolutionary advantage to reducing virulence and adapting to your host," Farrar says.
The arrival of predatory mammals thus may have imposed selection on a suite of lizard attributes, with a sudden selective advantage to reducing the production and dissemination of scent cues detectable by such predators, to using retreat sites inaccessible to such predators, and to responding behaviorally to predator cues in ways that enhance lizard survival (e.g., Hoare et al. 2007).
The conclusion of this study was that there was no advantage to reducing the dose of levodopa when switching to CLE. 41 The START-M open 6 week trial assessed the efficacy, safety and tolerability of CLE when PD patients with wearing off switched from CL. Fifty patients were included with a mean age of 66.7 years, mean disease duration of 6.8 years and a mean daily levodopa dose of 540 mg.
The first would be mechanistic barriers to cross BAPS cluster admixture via physical prevention or a gradual increase in genetic incompatibility as there is a selective advantage to reduce recombination and limit loss of advantageous genes.
If corporate insiders are taking advantage of their access to information and sometimes using Rule 10b5-1 plans to benefit from the protection it provides, then the S.E.C. should consider ways to turn the rule's mechanism to its advantage to reduce the potential for any insider trading.
Combining VGI from a non-probability sample with data from a probability sample using the certainty stratum approach or the model-assisted approach are viable alternatives that meet the conditions required for design-based inference and use the VGI data to advantage to reduce standard errors.
World number eight Bingham, who had looked far from his best earlier in the session, duly took full advantage to reduce the deficit to 12-4 and retain a glimmer of hope.
The use of open areas (i.e., less shrub coverage) in close proximity to mesic areas also could be an advantage to reduce predation whereby sage-grouse can visually detect potential predators (Webb et al. 2012).
My personal feeling, which I expressed in my chat with Carter, is that while it may be to the employer's advantage to reduce risk in this way, I still have trouble figuring out why I need to share my fear of traffic jams (see sidebar).
