Sentence examples for to reduce confidence from inspiring English sources

All factors that conspire to reduce confidence in the sector and hence investment flowing to the planned expansion of coal in China.

In fact, in line with probability theory, the width of the 95% confidence intervals declines with sample size to the half power (Figure 3b), indicating that to reduce confidence intervals by half, the sample size needs to be increased fourfold.

(iii) We explored whether the topologies as inferred from the different data sets are in statistically significant conflict with the phylogenetic framework inferred from the concatenated data which would tend to reduce confidence in the latter [ 59, 60].

Likewise, the impact on victims is equally as varied, ranging from financial loss to reduced confidence.

In an interview, Professor Kumar speculated that this could be traced to reduced confidence about the stock market, which in turn causes investors to shun a buy-and-hold approach.

This perception leads, in turn, to reduced confidence in the NHS, which, coupled with the added stress caused by potentially avoidable additional hospital visits and extended hospitalisation, may affect patients' willingness to undergo further treatment (Fortner et al, 2002).

Such comparisons will be essential to improve, or reduce confidence in functional annotation of genomes based on phylogenetic homology, or similarity otherwise defined.

Such single feature polymorphisms (SFPs; [ 36, 37]) provide a high density set of probes for interrogating polymorphisms, however, albeit at reduced confidence relative to the 4- and 40-probe designs, as they are based on a single probe for a single allele, and not necessarily centered on the SNP (lower vertical bars on chromosomes in Figure 2).

Negative attitudes will reduce confidence and commitment to improving yourself.

Decaying attribution models will reduce confidence in ROI, making ad programs — and any marketing campaigns — harder to quantify with confidence and harder to justify concretely.

Others contend that a testing ban would reduce confidence in the country's current nuclear arsenal.