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- Vehicles that frequent isolated roads, where roadside assistance may be scarce, are often fitted with "roo bars" to minimise damage caused by collision.
- Secret files released to the National Archives in late 2020 indicated that the UK government had intentionally conducted a campaign to keep Philby's spying confidential "to minimise political embarrassment" and prevent the publication of his memoirs, according to a report by "The Guardian".
- The standard also recommends extended format(s) to be used to perform internal computations at a higher precision than that required for the final result, to minimise round-off errors: the standard only specifies minimum precision and exponent requirements for such formats.
- Their investigations featured in a BBC television programme which showed how each watch ship would have accommodated seven coastguard officers, drawn from other areas to minimise collusion with the locals.
- The lager is hopped with selected oil extracts of Super Pride of Ringwood hops, which like any modern beer, is added after fermentation to minimise losses to the yeast sediment.
- Attempts to minimise stress can occur throughout the culture process.
- A sea anchor is a drag device, not in contact with the seabed, used to minimise drift of a vessel relative to the water.
- The works to provide the new underground supply were mainly undertaken on the highway to minimise the impact on the sensitive moorland landscape, its archaeology, wildlife and livestock.
- Even though most computers compute with 24 or 53 bits of mantissa, this is an important source of rounding error, and approaches such as the Kahan summation algorithm are ways to minimise the errors.
- Units of the Eighth Army advanced up the Liri valley and Fifth Army up the coast to the Hitler defensive line (renamed the Senger Line at Hitler's insistence to minimise the significance if it was penetrated).
- Because of this, thorium is a potentially attractive alternative to uranium in mixed oxide fuels to minimise the generation of transuranics and maximise the destruction of plutonium.
- Long-range sonar uses low frequencies to minimise absorption effects.
- Solar panels have been established on many CBD buildings in an effort to minimise carbon pollution by around 3,000 tonnes a year.
- There are rigorous procedures in place to minimise the risk of accidental overexposure of radiation therapy to patients.
- In densely urbanised areas, railways are sometimes laid in tunnels to minimise the effects on existing properties.
- The IRA also sought to minimise contact between residents and the RUC, because residents might pass on information or be forced to become a police informer.
- Battery technologies are being tested to minimise Madeira's reliance on fossil fuel imports.
- Different lens materials may also be used to minimise chromatic aberration, such as specialised coatings or lenses made from the crystal fluorite.
- In some species, such as Aegean wall lizards, individuals vary in colour, and select rocks which best match their own colour to minimise the risk of being detected by predators.
- Marsupials also give birth at an earlier point in foetal development, relying on lactation to facilitate most of the joey's development; investing in lactation over pregnancy duration can be advantageous in a highly seasonal and unpredictable climate to minimise maternal nutritional requirements (as pregnancy is much more energetically expensive).
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