Sentence examples for it served to reduce from inspiring English sources

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Darbepoetin did not affect the number of tumour microvessels in our model, but, as it served to reduce tumour hypoxia in chemotherapy-treated tumours, downregulation of hypoxia-inducible vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression and vascular permeability could occur (Shweiki et al, 1992; Dvorak et al, 1999).

It serves to reduce bid-offer spreads and transaction costs for all participants in the financial markets, including institutional and individual clients.

It serves to reduce uncertainty and thus anxiety, and to promote a better understanding of the disease by the patient and her/his family, as well as better compliance with the treatment plan.

Being a linear channel with no bends, it serves to reduce the large transverse beam size delivered from muon-beam capture and bunching before entering more restricted optical structures such as transverse plus longitudinal cooling channels or accelerators.

While this does not always tell a user which configuration should be used for a particular application, it serves to reduce the large number of possible configurations by showing which of those are usually "inferior"; a user only has to consider a configuration from the (potentially) much smaller Pareto set rather than every possible combination.

Aggressive behavior may be motivated by two quite different emotional conditions, opposite in valence: (1) The reactive aggression is elicited to fight off threat and danger, it serves to reduce aversive emotional arousal, such as anger or fear.

However, we feel this is an important distinction as it serves to reduce misclassification bias based on reporting CIRI that may be related to other factors such as picking the skin induced by cocaine psychosis [ 16].

Contrary to phallocentric models of masculinity [ 64], it also confirms previous findings that some men can feel "bloody rapt" (very relieved) [ 65]: 59] about the possibility of sex without penetration as it serves to reduce performance pressure and offers escape from the "rigidity of what it means to be a man" [17: 1605].

It was demonstrated that while the absence of TLR3 signaling resulted in increased peripheral viral load it also served to reduce neural inflammation leading to a decrease in both viral loads and pathology in the brain [26].

Green's relegation from the Premier League with West Ham last season has served to reduce his profile.