For all experiments with proton energies above 200 MeV a new mini-stack approach was used instead of the stacked-foil technique in order to minimise influences of secondary particles.
This design should minimise the influence of top-down factors such as familiarity, allowing us to focus more on stimulus-driven influences.
To minimise the influence of outliers in the list, the highest score awarded to a player was then deducted to give a final score.
In the absence of incontrovertible scientific data, it will be hard to minimise the influence of lobbying and special pleading from either side of the argument.
Asked whether his death would have a detrimental impact on the investigation the spokeswoman replied: "Our strength resides in our ability to minimise the influence of such a regretful event on our investigation".
While the results might inform diplomacy with autocracies, it should be clear that efforts to minimise the influence of the autocrat, either through diplomatic means or assassination, are rarely going to be antiseptic.
The racial divide in Texas politics is quite stark: there are only two state House seats with a white majority represented by Democrats, a legislator points out, and only three minority seats represented by Republicans.A latter-day Governor Gerry might respond by distributing Hispanic voters across all seats to minimise their influence.
The psychological-warfare unit of America's occupation government in Germany and Austria worked to minimise the influence of tainted composers, such as Richard Strauss, who had unwisely thanked God when Hitler came to power: "Finally, a Reich chancellor who is interested in art!"Sibelius's "Finlandia" was banned, in case it rekindled feelings of Nordic supremacy.
As the "climategate" e-mails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia showed, authors sought to minimise the influence of views they disagreed with while failing to document their arguments as to why that was the right thing to do.
India, clearly, wants to minimise Chinese influence in the neighbourhood.
