Keesler AFB and Goodfellow AFB experienced an earlier decline of infection rates due partially to a lower influx of BMTs from Lackland and partially due to lessening participation in enhanced surveillance efforts after the first 3 4 weeks of surveillance.
Those states have effectively lessened voter participation by making it much harder for disenfranchised communities, many of them minorities, to participate in the process.
It is a widely held feeling among South Korean politicians and Olympic officials, as well as some international athletes, that the Games would be safer with North Korea's participation, lessening security concerns and perhaps spurring slow ticket sales.
But particularly in emerging markets with socialist or statist traditions, there is no substitute for government involvement when other governments are supporting their companies.The Department of Commerce has no quarrel with The Economist in so far as it advocates the lessening of government participation in decisions that should be driven by the market.
Social networks are effective at increasing participation — by lessening the level of motivation that participation requires.
Kings themselves confirmed this, for in the 9th century they worried greatly that the oppressions of the poor would lessen the latter's participation in the public obligations of all freemen army service, attendance at court, and road and bridge building and they made laws against such exploitations.
Highly educated mothers may also seek to attenuate the gender division of roles by lessening their daughter's participation in domestic chores.
Because we approach patients during hospital admission, a time when they may feel ill, we made the questionnaire as short as possible to lessen the burden of participation as much as possible.
These findings suggest that patients need to be more involved and receive more information with regards to what information they can expect to receive and when in the care process they will receive it, in order to increase participation and lessen the negative impact of the waiting times.
The significance of this threat is lessened by the observation that participation rates in the ITT sample were comparable to that obtained in the NBCSP.
What was true before Tuesday's vote is still true today: the city's electoral system needs a revamping to take power away from political party bosses, lessen corruption and increase voter participation.
