The principal research issues examined here are twofold: (i) the validity of the 'Pollyanna Principle', a concept in linguistic pragmatics adapted from the 'Pollyanna Hypothesis' of psychology, and designed to account for the preference on the part of speakers for avoiding or mitigating negative terms and expressions.
If seasonal ponds are an important resource on the management landscape and a high percentage of upland forest is in a recently cut condition at any given time, than use of harvest buffers around seasonal ponds may be an appropriate approach for mitigating short term alteration of pond plant communities.
"The lack of infrastructure and graft are looming issues, but even if they are mitigated, the terms the Iraqis have been offering are not competitive with alternate uses of funds by international oil companies," Mr. Kelley said.
Mini-projects will continue to be used to mitigate short-term power shortage problems.
While the recently announced Euro area financial assistance for banks and the Euro area summit statement help to mitigate short-term risks, market tensions could intensify further, threatening market access, particularly if policies fail to stem capital outflows or due to further stress elsewhere in the euro area.
There is some evidence that neurocognitive interventions can help mitigate long-term ICU-related neurocognitive deficits.
Sensing the level and distributions of impurities help in the control of building systems and mitigate long term health risks.
The sensitivity study provides the information required to improve the capacity of transmission lines and mitigate long-term risks from the effects of a changing climate.
Even relatively unsafe CO2 storage, for example, the storage capacity is 1% reduction of the CO2 in the air per 1000 years, can help to mitigate medium-term climate change at least [5, 10, 11].
There is, however, sufficient evidence to suggest that drug treatment, physical activity (PA), medical nutrition therapy, and body weight management can mitigate longer-term complications of diabetes [ 2] and thus potentially lessen the impending public health burden.
