The phrase "alleviating a need" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of reducing or satisfying a particular requirement or necessity.
Example: "The new program is focused on alleviating a need for affordable housing in the community."
Alternatives: "addressing a need" or "satisfying a need".
The dams help alleviate a need for natural-gas-fired power plants, which are used in other regions as a backup power source when the wind stops blowing, but which release carbon dioxide that contributes to global warming.
They are of interest with respect to the bioremediation method called phytoremediation, in which plants are used to sequester or modify an environmental contaminant, thereby alleviating an environmental problem without the need for excavating large amounts of soil or rock.
In this algorithm this set of free fluxes is chosen optimally, alleviating the need for an a priori (non-optimal) choice and improving the estimates.
AES also uses drones for inspection of solar panels, alleviating workers of a need to walk vast fields taking precise measurements.
In addition, we also aim at investigating features, which can be computed from pixels located on an irregular grid, thus alleviating the need for an interpolation.
The machine is a standard Intel/AMD 2U server but each one has its own 12-volt battery, ensuring that the servers will maintain power in emergency situations, thereby alleviating the need for a large, nasty UPS.
Sexual antagonism could be resolved with sex-specific expression, thus alleviating the need for a large nonrecombining region (Vicoso et al. 2013).
Use of a percutaneously inserted VAD (Impella™; Abiomed, Aachen, Germany) to decompress the left ventricle has also been reported in this setting [ 46], alleviating the need for a high-risk septostomy or surgical venting.
Moreover, several point-of-care devices allow to measure capillary or venous acid base, potentially alleviating the need for an arterial blood sample and expensive blood gas analysis devices.
Hepatic Tissue Engineering is a step toward alleviating the need for donor organs; yet many challenges must be overcome including scaffold choice, cell source and immunological barriers.
