It is included because voters are supposedly instrumentally rational, which means that the probability that an individual's vote will be decisive decreases as population size increases (Geys, 2006b, pp. 642 643).
The pre-operative detection of patients with chronic alcohol misuse is decisive for decreasing the peri-operative morbidity [ 1].
Hence, the results suggest, that whereas impaired ambulation (without confinement to a wheelchair) is accompanied by striking deteriorations in HRQOL, being bound to a wheelchair does not lead to decisive additional decreases in most HRQOL domains.
"Carrier bags are a highly visible aspect of litter and we are taking decisive action to decrease their number.
Antimicrobial drugs have played a decisive role in decreasing illness and death associated with infectious diseases but selective pressure exerted by antimicrobial drug use also has been the major driving force behind the emergence and spread of drug-resistance traits among pathogenic and commensal bacteria.
As a consequence, also the number of 'new' LTBIs would decrease, a decisive step for eradication of tuberculosis.
In this study, we showed that rSSP4-primed CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells play a decisive immunoregulatory function by decreasing inflammation and increasing survival and parasitemia in immunized and rSSP4-primed CD4+CD25+ T cells-transferred mice.
We argue that the role of the metal structure edges, which increases with decreasing structure size, is decisive.
Decrease in self-esteem plays a decisive role in the association between social phobia and depression.
In the process of collaborative development, multiple perspectives of developers with different backgrounds can decrease the risk of overlooking or omitting decisive features of energy systems.
It is also evident that the decreased enzymatic hydrolyzability of bark is a decisive factor behind the declining ethanol yields, with increasing amounts of bark in both process configurations.
