Implementing early warning systems for extreme events, focussing on vulnerable areas, could reduce the vulnerability of coastal communities.
Upregulation of endogenous protective signaling in aged neurons through neuron-targeted Cav-1 expression might reduce the vulnerability of the aged brain even in the presence of reduced cerebrovascular volume.
Still, the note said, "there is little progress in structural reforms to reduce the vulnerability of the government's fiscal position".
In other countries, programs of "capture-vaccinate-release" are in place to reduce the vulnerability of individual animals.
This week a commission that Mr. Rumsfeld headed also called for expanded efforts to reduce the vulnerability of America's military, communications and reconnaissance satellites.
Memo to Congress: For the Treasury Department to reduce the vulnerability of corporations to the alternative minimum tax while individuals continue to be eviscerated by it does not pass the smell test.
Antiterrorism, according to the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, is "defensive measures used to reduce the vulnerability of individuals and property to terrorist acts, to include limited response and containment by local military forces".
Beate Andrees, head of the ILO's special action programme to combat forced labour, urged the international community to do more to reduce the vulnerability of those people most at risk.
NEW YORK — The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has described the notion of "adaptation" as those initiatives designed "to reduce the vulnerability of natural and human systems against actual or expected climate change effects".
This is why climate adaptation – action to reduce the vulnerability of ecological, social and economic systems to adverse effects of climate change – is now such a hot topic in the international climate talks.
Responding to the reports, the Pentagon also said that it had no evidence of a spy, but conceded that security was stepped up after a few weeks of the 1999 raids to reduce the "vulnerability" of allied forces.
