General principles of law have minimized diversity in legal norms.
Under the sway of the Evolutionary Synthesis as it was imported into paleoanthropology in the early 1950s, students of human evolution generally sought to minimize the diversity they perceived in the known record.
To minimize treatment diversity and the inappropriate use of broad-spectrum antimicrobials, prescribers should be aware that a more broad-spectrum empirical treatment does not result in more effective treatment, but does increase the selection of antimicrobial resistance.
The use of job title or crop type to classify employees may also minimize the diversity of risks facing workers within the same job or working the same crops.
Some strains have been maintained to preserve allelic variation, others to intentionally minimize genetic diversity, to facilitate genetic mapping and genome editing, and to control genetic background effects on mutant and other phenotypes (Haffter et al., 1996; Rauch et al., 1997; Trevarrow and Robison, 2004; LaFave et al., 2014).
This strategy, if it works, minimizes the diversity of mental phenomena, and thus potentially offers the prospects of a more unified theory of mind.
In K-means clustering, the NMR spectral data are grouped to minimize within-group diversity but maximize between-groups diversity by Euclidean distance.
When only the latter are plotted to minimize sampling error, diversity is clearly reduced at the two ends of the chromosome, and it is also somewhat suppressed in the center of the chromosome.
Despite these potential effects, infrequent migrations can maintain genetic diversity and as few as one migrant per generation (OMPG) is commonly suggested as sufficient gene flow to minimize losses in genetic diversity.
The major benefit is to maximize external diversity and minimize internal complexity by modular product structures.
