To the Editor: Since 1975, federal quarantine regulations (1 ) have restricted nonhuman primate importation to scientific, educational, or exhibition purposes to limit risks for disease introduction (1, 2 ).
Determining the infection status of wildlife is important to reduce the disease risks associated with translocation, to certify infection status for importation/exportation purposes, to limit sources of infection for humans and livestock, and to establish baseline values for future monitoring or surveillance [ 3].
In overturning the law on Constitutional grounds, the judge, Loretta A. Preska of Federal District Court in Manhattan, said that although its purpose -- to limit smoking by minors -- was commendable, the state had failed to seek less-restrictive remedies.
Their purpose was to limit the supply of labour in a profession and to control production.
It uses a new camera technique called Automavision, whose purpose is to limit human control over cinematography.
There is no fear of a recurrence, he said, and holding back would serve no purpose but to limit his natural ability.
But he never returned to the piano for this purpose, preferring to limit himself to shorter pieces in what he confessed was a difficult medium for the 20th-century composer.
Those are areas that border segments of airwaves that are used by cellphone companies, broadcasters and other communications entities; their purpose is to limit interference from transmissions on nearby airwaves.
The key purpose was to limit the power of an overbearing business leader (think Robert Maxwell) who might railroad his board into disastrous decisions.
SDC techniques [14] (e.g., global recoding, supression, top and bottom coding, microaggregation) specify data transformations whose purpose is to limit disclosure risk.
