Dominant is the utilitarian ethics perspective: maximize technology's positive contributions and minimize negative consequences.
Individual VCT facilitates access to care, treatment, and support group services, but fails to address mutual disclosure, information on serodiscordance, and counseling support to minimize negative consequences within the couple.
Our projections provide practical evidence that may be used by health and transport policy makers to optimize the benefits of transport bicycling while minimizing negative consequences in a cost-effective manner.
Now, he said, his aim is to "minimize the negative consequences" for Russia.
Rather than try to eliminate drug abuse, Portugal's approach, commonly known as "harm reduction," attempts to minimize the negative consequences for society.
Through her research Monin seeks ways to minimize the negative consequences of caregiving and improve the quality of life and health of caregivers and their partners.
Mr. Lavrov said that with the agreement, Russia had minimized the negative consequences of enlargement, signaling a shift, at least diplomatically, in Russia's attitude toward an expanding Europe.
It was a carefully orchestrated revelation, designed to try to maximize acceptance and minimize any negative consequences from, say, the Christian ministers whom Mr. Obama mollified by phone.
In 2011, a group of them filed a complaint that the IFC had not enforced the environmental safeguards that it had placed on the power company to minimize unintended negative consequences of the project.
When choosing to evade, they almost always take steps to minimize the negative consequences, either by justifying the evasion or by obscuring it.
