Next, we performed hierarchical regressions using SPSS for the purpose of hypothesis testing, in which independent variables were mean-centered to reduce multicollinearity (Cohen, Cohen, West, & Aiken, 2003).
Continuous predictors were mean-centered to reduce multicollinearity and to ease interpretation of interaction terms.
The company had already cut 1,800 jobs as of March and closed four factories and four distribution centers to reduce overcapacity.
The move by the commission, which has been accused of favoring Mr. Karzai, ran counter to the advice of the United Nations and election observers who had called for fewer polling centers, to reduce the possibility of fraud.
PepsiCo, meanwhile, has become the nation's biggest buyer of renewable energy credits, a financial instrument that stimulates the development of renewable energy sources, and its subsidiaries are retrofitting plants and distribution centers to reduce energy.
In recent years, electric companies have been required to build entire duplicate control centers, at least 10 miles from the primary center, to reduce the possibility of a catastrophe that would knock down sections of the grid for months.
However, according to the architecture firm Kolker, Kolker, Epstein Architects, part of the initial planning team, Mr. Gehry resigned after rejecting a request by the center to reduce the scope of the plan, the cost of which has been estimated at $250 million.
He suggested locations three blocks from town centers to reduce overhead and accommodate parking space.
They've built out dozens of parcel-sorting centers to reduce the fees they pay to existing small parcel carriers.
One-night average fringe is used to determine the airglow fringe center to reduce the noise due to low-intensity airglow.
