The current tax exemption for health insurance benefits could be modified to encourage more cost-effective delivery systems, including forms of managed care that meet quality standards.
The concept of reconciliation ecology, by which the anthropogenic environment may be modified to encourage non-human use and biodiversity preservation without compromising societal utilization, potentially represents an appropriate paradigm for urban conservation given the generally poor opportunities that exist for reserve establishment and ecological restoration in urban areas.
Firefighters in Staffordshire, England, performed a cover version, although the lyrics were modified to encourage the public to regularly test the alarms in their homes.
As a whole, the family's eating behavior should be assessed and if necessary, should be modified to encourage regular meal times and healthy eating habits.
While there are numerous ways in which the built environment can be modified to encourage greater levels of physical activity, one modification that may deliver particular health benefits for surrounding populations is the development of community physical activity facilities, such as leisure centres, pools, and gyms.
Given the large number of responses that were impossible to code for size (i.e., verbs, adjectives, adverbs), the instructions were slightly modified to encourage participants to think of a noun rather than a descriptor such as an adjective.
Tournament sizes and selection pressure were also modified to encourage the algorithm to converge more quickly to higher fitness values.
We hoped that the findings would also provide indications of whether the PLAB test could be modified to increase its effectiveness in encouraging equivalence between international medical graduates and UK graduates.
