But the Supreme Court left open whether insurance companies could be punished under a federal pension and health care law for failing to disclose to consumers that they used such incentives and other business methods that affected patient care.
Unlike contemporary physical methods that affect all tissue components, PEF is an intervention at the cellular level, which precisely targets cell membranes through electroporation without affecting the extracellular matrix architecture14.
Control of pests is achieved through practices that prevent harm to the plant and methods that affect the plant's ability to resist or tolerate intrusion by the pathogen.
The changes in technology, such as the use of pesticides, irradiation, additives, genetic engineering, and organic growing methods that affect food are discussed.
Vaginal ring delivery of selective progesterone receptor modulators (SPRMs) is under development to address the limitations of current hormonal methods that affect use and effectiveness.
It seemed that such a broad goal on a national scale could be accomplished only by using a suite of pest-control methods, which might include systematic hunting and trapping, baiting with poisons, and species-specific genetic methods that affected an animal's reproductive rate or development path.
However, several critical issues arise with the application of FBP methods that affect the quality of reconstructed images.
In addition to risk assessment, philosophers have begun thinking about a variety of research programs and methods that affect human wellbeing.
On the TIMIT task, we provide a detailed account of the factors in the proposed template matching methods that affect the rescoring performance, including local distances, number of GMMs employed for frame labeling, template selection, compression methods and their interactions with the local distances, and the percentage of selected template representatives.
Mountain soils are particularly susceptible to climate change, deforestation, unsustainable farming practices and resource extraction methods that affect their fertility and trigger land degradation, desertification and disasters such as floods and landslides.
