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The phrase "and reduce the proportion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing the act of decreasing a certain ratio or percentage of something.
Example: "Our goal is to implement strategies that will improve efficiency and reduce the proportion of waste generated during production."
Alternatives: "and decrease the ratio" or "and lessen the share".
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In addition, rodent-targeted bait boxes containing fipronil have been shown to eliminate ticks on mice and negatively impact the population of questing I. scapularis and reduce the proportion of these ticks infected with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto.
To reach the 2020 targets, the government would need to reduce the proportion of children living in households below 60% median income to a rate of less than 10% (relative child poverty), and reduce the proportion of children living in households below what 60% of median income was in 2010-11 (uprated for inflation), to just 5%.
This scenario may increase average parities, especially for younger women and reduce the proportion of childless women.
More importantly this type of investigation could help the development of new and improved vaccines, e.g. through use of adjuvants targeting pathways identified through genetic studies, that could eventually lead to life-long protection and reduce the proportion of vaccine failures.
Thus, smoking can enhance the availability of the active metabolite and reduce the proportion of prodrug eliminated without activation.
Pallasch and colleagues demonstrated that antagonistic anti-CD200 antibody could promote chronic lymphocytic leukemia cell-induced proliferation of antigen-specific T cells and reduce the proportion of CD4+CD25highFoxP3+ cells [ 38].
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They found that taxing less-healthy foods with low-nutrient density-reduced caloric intake and reduced the proportion of fat while increasing the proportion of protein purchased.
These results showed that the use of biodiesel at high altitude advanced the start of ignition and reduced the proportion of the premixed combustion stage.
Goldman, the most closely watched bank on Wall Street, insisted it was showing "restraint" in its bonus payouts by demanding its 400 partners donate a combined $500m to its charity, Goldman Sachs Gives, and reducing the proportion of revenue allocated to pay from 48% in 2008 to 35.8% in 2009 – the lowest on record.
Extrusion cooking increased the proportion of rapidly digestible starch (RDS), and reduced the proportion of slowly digestible starch (SDS) and resistant starch (RS), and an in vitro digestion profile up to 8 h demonstrated major differences in the rate and extent of digestion of the raw carbohydrate sources, while the digestion profiles of the extruded products were almost identical.
Those goals include cutting extreme poverty -- listed then as the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day -- by half, ensuring universal primary-school education for all children, halting the AIDS pandemic and reducing the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by half, all by 2015.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.
Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com