All these factors led to a fall in the "effective contact number" per infected individual, from over 20 in 1900 to under one today.
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The Iraqi security forces have proven effective in a number of actions.
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The team can always release the player prior to whatever salary number becoming effective.
Measure 37 won 61% of the vote last year, but polls since then have shown that an equal number favour effective land-use controls.
Today one tenth that number can be effective in causing denial of service.
The first round of Lupron therapy is often effective, but a significant number of patients later develop a resistance to the drug.
It suggested that intermediates, which it said had proven effective in helping to maximise the number of students progressing to Scottish Highers, be replaced by a similar option.
Its infrastructure, rule of law, and climate for opportunity have been emphasised in a more effective way than appearing at any number of international Expo events, showing in the process what a fine destination for talent or capital the country is.
Reduction culls need to be substantial and usually need to run over a number of years to be effective.
Effective leaders apply focus to a limited number of highest and best use activities rather than to continually shift gears between multiple initiatives.
Full-body screening and other security measures are more effective in detecting threats from an increasing number of unsophisticated, mentally troubled suspects acting alone, he said.
As IPS technology evolved, and the number of signatures required for effective blocking grew, many IPS solutions incorporated signatures that are based on vulnerabilities instead of exploit.
The big gap between the headline and effective marginal tax rates reflects the large number of allowances given to firms for doing particular activities, such as research and development.
Only a small number of whitening toothpastes are actually effective at removing stains, say researchers.
Certainly a few years is not enough time to tell whether increased choice or small schools or any number of other reforms will be effective.
Even in the unlikely event that pay floors do not reduce employment at all among the poor, they will be effective at reducing poverty only if a large number of poor families contain low-wage workers.
On a more general note, in order to be effective, a good access management practice has a number of characteristics.
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In MS, beta-interferon, the most effective treatment produced so far, holds back the number of attacks but does not prevent eventual disease progression.
The ultimate goal is a global program to facilitate, coordinate and ramp up the efficient, cost effective ocean and atmospheric information collection by a growing number and range of vessels and platforms.
But a growing number of Turkish officials concede that the any effective solution to the country's long-festering Kurdish problem needs first to be addressed at home.
At the other extreme, scavenging spare computer power from personal computers on the internet is proving an increasingly effective approach for problems that can be split into a large number of small, independent parts.
Although UNASUR has served as an effective forum for dialogue and has helped member countries peacefully resolve a number of diplomatic disputes, the group has had less success in building European-style multinational institutions.
"We've done this at a number of schools over the years and it has proved quite effective, " he said.
But a number of new brands dedicated to organic ingredients are making highly effective and luxurious creams, scrubs, perfumes and more.
In its conclusion, the report's authors highlighted a number of areas that they felt could lead to a more effective and efficient decision-making process, adding that precautionary measures did not necessarily "stifle innovation" but could support it.
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The answer to the bandwidth shortage could be cost-effective cell splitting, complementing the existing wide area base stations with a large number of smaller base stations.
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Number one, to make sure that there is a nimble and effective local response, Thad Allen has now assigned deputy incident commanders to each of the individual states, so Florida will have its own deputy incident commander, as Mississippi and Alabama do.
Despite a number of randomized clinical trials suggesting that EMDR is at least as effective as other commonly accepted therapies for traumatic disorders (i.e. such as post-traumatic stress disorder), it still viewed as a bit of a fringe procedure by many in the mental health field.
Successful publishers revised and revised until they arrived at a model that limits both the number of advertisers and ad exposures, increasing their value by being notable and effective.
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