"In education," Mr. Cusumano adds, "'free' in the long run may actually reduce variety and opportunities for learning as well as lessen our stocks of knowledge".
In a military environment, superior intelligence offers battlefield commanders greater control because this necessarily reduces variety (i.e., uncertainty).
He reduced variety latifolia to synonymy with variety sphaerocarpa, but conceded the species needed further review.
33 Some groups were smaller than intended, with fewer women than arranged able to attend, which may have reduced variety of input, but not depth of discussions.
Although the degree of focus seemed less important in predicting higher efficiencies or timeliness, a higher degree of focus indicates reduced variety.
A 1963 report in The Times blamed the law for reducing the variety of bowling styles: "the change has led to a steady increase in the amount of seam and off-spin bowling.
The Model Penal Code has attempted to clarify the concept by reducing the variety of mental states to four.
The mayor's plan, says the letter, will also price out households on middle incomes, "reducing the variety within Westminster's housing stock and furthermore negatively impacting on Westminster's economic stability and competitiveness within central London".
It involves clearing the land of the ubiquitous reeds that thrive beyond the salt marshes and are considered invasive, pushing out other vegetation and greatly reducing the variety of wildlife.
On Tuesday, company Oxitec said tests that began in April 2015 have shown that releasing genetically modified sterile male mosquitoes succeeded in reducing a variety of disease-transmitting mosquito larvae by 82% by year's end.
Control over a system is, simply put, a means of reducing the variety that the operating environment imposes.
