The punishment would be determined by a separate committee that could decide to increase or lessen it.
A nuclear critic with extensive technical expertise, David Lochbaum of the Union of Concerned Scientists, said moving fuel into casks could increase or lessen risk, depending on how it was done.
Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), for instance, which are simple inherited gene variations, can increase or lessen disease susceptibility following environmental exposures.
(Participant 8) While pain or the perception of it may increase or lessen during pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum vulvar pain also appears to be as variable and individualized as it is at all other stages from pain initiation to childbirth and beyond.
Our observations indicate the potential importance of such combined approaches for increasing tamoxifen efficacy or lessening its side-effects in the clinical setting.
We also investigated possible roles for rumination and distraction in increasing and lessening attentional biases for negative information.
"Engaging in resistance training or, ideally, combining it with aerobic exercise could help older adults lessen abdominal fat while increasing or preserving muscle mass," lead author Rania Mekary, a HSPH nutrition researcher said in a statement.
Social networks are effective at increasing participation — by lessening the level of motivation that participation requires.
At the Newtown school massacre in Connecticut, the judgment, mostly by the professionals, was that the amateurs were lacking: increasing, rather than lessening, the confusion.
Although he says it is too soon to claim that PI exemplifies how increasing democracy and lessening hierarchy in an academic setting can succeed, "so far, all signs are very positive".
