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Convinced that transboundary air pollution can cause significant harm to natural resources of vital environmental, cultural and economic importan The United States-Canada Air Quality Agreement initially prioritized the reduction of acid rain within each country.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=April 29, ...

...0954 |isbn=978-1-59593-653-0|s2cid=8909161 }}</ref> (this can be proved by reduction from the problem of [[3-dimensional matching]] in a [[hypergraph]]). ...r gives a kidney. If a donor defects, it breaks the chain, but it does not harm patients whose donor already gave a kidney, so it does not break individual ...

...n a widespread reduction in wages, which might need to be severe enough to harm [[consumer confidence]]<ref>p. 267</ref> which would itself increase unempl ...

...d war.<ref name=":1" /> States understood how much they had the ability to harm, and thus improve, based on the other states around the globe. The [[Multip ...=Paul|last2=Dollar|first2=David|date=2002|title=Aid allocation and poverty reduction|url=https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:546175a4-44ee-49cb-b821-c59b1cd4d579| ...

...ed with living cells. The sponges absorb the toxins, so they can no longer harm the cells, and the toxins are taken to the liver and broken down.<ref name= === Brain injury reduction === ...

...[[threat (security)|threats]].<ref><blockquote>potential source of danger, harm, or other undesirable outcome ...ynonym for the much older word "[[hazard]]", meaning a potential source of harm. This definition comes from Blount's "Glossographia" (1661)<ref>{{Cite book ...

...ondorcet methods give 100% accuracy for this problem. (And notice that the reduction in accuracy as ''x'' increases is not seen when there are only 3 candidates ! [[Later-no-harm criterion]] ...

...hardness exists even with approval ballots and cost-based satisfaction, by reduction from the [[subset sum problem]]. ...s NP-hard to find a PJR allocation even for a single voter (using the same reduction from knapsack). Moreover, checking whether a given budget-allocation satisf ...

...f voters who have higher preferences in a less popular topic can lead to a reduction of aggregate [[welfare spending|welfare]]. In addition, the complicating st ...re, Weyl concluded that this majority rule system will always cause social harm.<ref name=":02" /> He also believed another reason is that the majority rul ...

...55% reduction target using 1990 as baseline represents in 2019 terms a 40% reduction target, which can be calculated using this equation: .../EGR20.pdf|title=UNEP: Emissions Gap Report 2020}}</ref> This 57% emission reduction target at 2030 represents average global reductions, while advanced economi ...

...to one of the five types.<ref name="sellars60"/> A simple example of Stoic reduction is reported by [[Sextus Empiricus]]:<ref name="ierodiakonou521">{{Harvnb|Ie ...="ierodiakonou526"/> The response of Chrysippus however was: "That doesn't harm me, for like a skilled driver I shall restrain my horses before I reach the ...

...ffee production for one cup<ref name="waterfootprintorg" /> might be of no harm to water resources if its cultivation occurs mainly in humid areas, but cou ...emissions, which are globally identical, to account for the environmental harm. The difference is due to the somewhat more complex nature of water; while ...

...ity implies that every consumed additional unit of a commodity causes more harm than good, leading to a decrease in overall utility. In contrast, positive ...tisfaction or utility than the subsequent units, and there is a continuing reduction in satisfaction or utility for greater amounts. As consumption increases, t ...

...he did note that an increased division of labor could at some point cause harm to those whose jobs became narrower and narrower as the division of labor e ...ties. Marx also expanded greatly on the notion that laborers could come to harm as capitalism became more productive. Additionally, Marx noted in ''Theorie ...

...f name=":4">{{cite journal |last=Pollack |first=J. B. |year=1989 |title=No Harm Intended: A Review of the Perceptrons expanded edition |journal=[[Journal o Proof sketch: By [[Reduction (complexity)|reducing]] the parity function to the connectness function, us ...

...Safety, Damage and Recovery. Safety describes the prevention of potential harm for people after an event. Damage describes the estimated repair required d ...ections for future research|journal=International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction|volume=25|pages=173–189|doi=10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.09.018|issn=2212-4209|doi- ...

...mbient pressure on the chest and breathing gas supply pressure can cause a reduction in compliance of the soft lung tissues leading to increased [[work of breat ...ajor limitation to swimming or diving in cold water.<ref name=sterba/> The reduction in finger dexterity due to pain or numbness decreases general safety and wo ...

...cancer caused by radiation with increasing age, but the magnitude of this reduction above the age of 30 is uncertain.<ref name=122-123 /> ...The aluminium walls of the ISS, for example, are believed to produce a net reduction in radiation exposure. In interplanetary space, however, it is believed tha ...

...cular [[metric (mathematics)|metric]] chosen and provides [[dimensionality reduction]] and robustness to noise. Beyond this, it inherits [[functor]]iality, a f ...y setting was described by Barannikov<ref name="Barannikov 1994"/> through reduction to the canonical form by upper-triangular matrices. The algorithm for persi ...

...in water at room temperature, there are no lasting effects that may cause harm. ...ctrochemistry: rapid synthesis of colloidal metal particles by microplasma reduction of aqueous cations| journal=Applied Physics Letters|date=29 September 2008 ...