In our study, vaginal cleansing gives the greatest cause for concern because it was the most common IVP and was strongly supported by social norms, and it has potential to remove or dilute microbicide gel in sex acts unprotected by condoms (72% of sex acts in our study: Fig. 1).
The L1-norm log linear regression is able to remove redundant or uninformative features, and to select a small number of features that best explain the fitted quantity [11].
The law did allow the President to remove the director, but the prevailing norm called for this power to be used sparingly.
The first step is to remove the party that fails to uphold our democratic norms.
It's better to save a life while breaking some social norms than let a life slip through your fingers because you didn't want to remove someone's shirt.
When a specific medical practice, viewed candidly, appears to conflict with established moral norms, there is a strong incentive to construe this practice in a way that seems to remove the moral conflict.
Separating the groups helps to remove barriers that exist among group members as a result of social roles or cultural norms that could interfere with the freedom to express their views (60).
Coupled with the threat to remove benefits and to evict the families of rioters from their homes, we are seeing a response that risks becoming excessive and contrary to the norms of justice.
And now the country decided it's time to remove a major barrier to mass adoption: The lack of a large-scale infrastructure with highly standardized norms.
Of course, legal systems sometimes have mechanisms that can be used to remove such inconsistencies (e.g., by ordering different kinds of laws in a hierarchy from customary laws, to established jurisprudence, to ordinary legislation, to constitutional norms, etc.; or via the lex posterior principle, giving priority to the more recent norm in case of conflict).
