First, there were two factors that contributed to a break: changes in personal circumstances (such as change in job, moving further from a collection site, or having children, see Figure 2); and/or changes in Blood Service policy or procedures that reduced the convenience of donation (such as a change in opening hours, mobile collection locations, or acceptance criteria).
However, because gene expansion predictions are susceptible to false-positives owing to pseudogenes and annotation artifacts among other biases, we applied a stringent filter based on percentage of identity (Experimental Procedures) that reduced the number of candidate expansions to 41 (see Supplemental Folder 1 for the complete list).
Some, such as Colorado and Washington, have been national leaders in developing new procedures that reduce the practice, and the administration has borrowed from their example in putting together the president's reforms.
Thus, there are typical laboratory manipulations and procedures that reduce the risk of confounders.
However, bone harvesting potentially causes donor site morbidity which is a major issue for the patients who appreciate procedures that reduce morbidity [38].
Under the experimental conditions, both conventional and strategic sample composition are proposed as efficient procedures that reduce the costs and work involved in the control of allergenic dyes in finished textile products.
Advanced flight guidance technologies, which are currently in use, such as Area Navigation (RNAV) utilizing the Global Positioning System (GPS), offer the potential to reduce the impact of aircraft noise in communities surrounding airports by enabling more flexible approach and departure procedures that reduce noise exposure to the most sensitive areas.
We address two problems associated with preference elicitation: computing a best feasible solution when the user's utilities are imprecisely specified; and developing useful elicitation procedures that reduce utility uncertainty, with minimal user interaction, to a point where (approximately) optimal decisions can be made.
Additionally, union contracts include grievance procedures that reduce management's ability to treat workers arbitrarily -- such as firing someone without just cause.
The study reported here was carried out in strict accordance with the recommendations in the standard operating procedures of the ILRI IACUC and adequate consideration of the 3R's (Replacement of animal with non-animal techniques, Reduction in the number of animals used, and Refinement of techniques and procedures that reduce pain and distress).
These include thinner detector chips and faster readout rates, which will greatly enhance the signal-to-noise ratio at high resolution, improvements in specimen preparation, the use of supports that are less prone to move under electron bombardment, and new image recording procedures that reduce beam-induced movement.
