Decreased solvent usage and fewer processing steps lessen the material and energy costs of manufacturing and increase material efficiency.
With increased prosperity in the 1990s, many of the city's social ills, notably crime, lessened, and material conditions improved.
A low volume contraction of the material lessens the stress generated at the adhesive bond and, consequently, reduces the incidence of microleakage, secondary caries, postoperative sensitivity, enamel fractures, and improves the marginal adaptation of restorations [2 4].
As the development of the railways encouraged people to travel, a demand arose for reading material to lessen the tedium of the long journeys.
Last week, when the interest in the British National Party membership list was most frenetic, Wikileaks's servers were overrun and inaccessible, despite 10 or so mirror sites worldwide replicating the material to lessen the traffic burden.
Such an arrangement helps to balance study load and to lessen the amount of material per session.
Isn't there anyone who feels that some of this garbage-shuffling effort could be put to better use by trying to increase recycling or decrease packaging materials to lessen the sheer tonnage of garbage we produce in the first place?
Shifting to other raw materials would lessen these drawbacks, but an economically feasible way to do that in the U.S. (as opposed to in Brazil) was still around the corner.
The use of fire in old-growth redwood zones reduces dead and decaying material, and lessens the mortality of larger redwoods by eliminating competing vegetation.
Working with communities and developing culturally appropriate materials may lessen taboos and stigma, raise awareness, increase discussion of breast cancer and promote prompt help-seeking for breast symptoms among women with low cancer awareness.
