Sentences with phrase «thereby reducing the size»

Covering the cavity holding their gills may help a stock - still cuttlefish in another way too, the researchers suggest: It may stifle water flow in and out of that recess, thereby reducing the size of tiny pressure waves that could alert predators to the creature's presence.

It tricks the cells into ending their lives in a controlled way, thereby reducing the size of the tumor.

This type of loan allows you to spread your payments over a longer period of time, thereby reducing the size of the payments.

You can spread your payments over a longer period of time, thereby reducing the size of each individual payment.

It does that by means of the weather systems moving towards the equator and thereby reducing the size of the equatorial air mass.

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Thereby, we will be able to reduce the size of systems based on terahertz quantum - cascade lasers in the future — an important point for flight missions such as SOFIA,» Wienold emphasizes.

PRISM can recycle used nuclear fuel, reducing repository size, and cutting the duration of its high radiotoxicity down to hundreds (rather than hundreds of thousands) of years, and thereby is in a position to play a key role in enabling a new, sustainable generation of nuclear power.

In 2009, the Justice Policy Institute noted that some states have begun to decrease the size of the prison population — thereby reducing spending — by providing community - based substance - abuse treatment programs, increasing rehabilitation efforts, improving parole mechanisms and services, and decriminalizing nonviolent offenses.105 States that intentionally decreased their prison populations saw crime decrease even faster than national averages.106 Other states should consider such reforms.

An in - wheel motor located near the wheel can reduce the weight of the vehicle, control the drive force of each wheel for improved torque vectoring, and enable the expansion of the size of the cabin space, thereby improving environmental performance, safety, and comfort.

allows the engine size to be reduced without a loss of power, thereby further reducing fuel consumption and emissions

However, with the advent of just in time management techniques, modern manufacturing companies have managed to reduce the size of buffer inventory thereby leading to significant reduction in working capital investment and hence lower current ratios.

If profits are continually generated, eventually there will be a dividend once the company grows to its desired size or the company will buy - back shares and reduce the total amount of stock in circulation thereby increasing the value of each stock remaining investors hold.

By eliminating the possibility for reproduction while leaving the cats «hormonally intact,» this method takes advantage of biological and behavioral characteristics not found in cats subject to traditional spay / neuter surgery, * thereby outperforming TNR in reducing colony size.

The size of the cages in the stray holding section is reduced, thereby permitting fewer dogs to be put in the same cage.

«Sharp rise in temperature will cause forced maturity of grains as a result neither grains will attain their proper size or weight nor will they accumulate optimum levels of starch thereby reducing the grain yield; pollination in banana, another important crop of the Indus delta, will be affected due to early winter and high spring temperatures.

Biological options - Biological options for mitigation of climate change involve one or more of the three strategies: conservation - conserving an existing carbon pool, thereby preventing CO2 emissions to the atmosphere; sequestration — increasing the size of existing carbon pools, thereby extracting CO2 from the atmosphere; substitution - substituting biomass for fossil fuels or energy - intensive products, thereby reducing CO2 emissions.

A few have suggested that thinking about ROI is not helpful to KM since knowledge management done properly should create client work product more efficiently, thereby reducing the number of billable hours required and the size of the bill presented to the client.

• Implemented a system that automatically stamped envelopes and packages according to their weight and size, thereby reducing stamping time by 60 %