Children deserve the right to participate in research designed to improve outcomes and reduce uncertainty about treatments.
If you reduce uncertainty and reduce risk, you almost always reduce the value of your intended outcome.
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Another is an effort to reduce uncertainty around future energy costs, and to gain independence from the power grid.
Second, health plans want to reduce uncertainty around how all the risk-sharing provisions in Obamacare will eventually play out.
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This leads me to try to answer the question of whether the clear outcome of the election will reduce uncertainty.
Unlike Mr Record, who favours secrecy, in their paper Jens Nordvig and Nick Firoozye argue that open contingency planning would reduce uncertainty.
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He also called on the Department of Energy to work with Congress to reduce uncertainty in the licensing process of nuclear power plants.
There are many types of monetary rules under a fiat money regime that could reduce uncertainty, but most rely on some degree of forecasting.
Congress has provided vital funding for research that compares the effectiveness of different treatments, and this should help reduce uncertainty about which treatments are best.
Whether those risks stem from smoking, lead exposure or the increasing use of fossil fuels, scientists will always work to increase knowledge and reduce uncertainty.
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Sometimes is possible to reduce uncertainty but sometimes it is not.
It would reduce uncertainty, they argue, and ease market pressure generally.
Securities, antitrust and employment suits all provide great opportunities for the court to clarify rules of conduct and reduce uncertainty, he said--if the justices avoid the temptation to bend the rules when they might seem unfair.
Over time, by providing a market for these assets that does not now exist, this program will help improve asset values, increase lending capacity by banks, and reduce uncertainty about the scale of losses on bank balance sheets.
"Over time, by providing a market for these assets that does not now exist, this programme will help improve assets values, increase lending capacity by banks, and reduce uncertainty about the scale of losses on bank balance sheets, " US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wrote in the Wall Street Journal before the programme was officially announced.
To develop these algorithms the 60 researchers involved used techniques that include game theory (in which agents have to overcome barriers to collaboration in order to get the best outcome), probabilistic modelling (which is employed to predict missing data and reduce uncertainty) and optimisation techniques (which can provide means of making decisions when communications between agents are limited).
But if government made a priority of doing its best to reduce policy uncertainty, the economy would benefit.
By sharing information with the market, companies reduce investor uncertainty and prevent stock prices from swinging wildly upon unexpected bad news.
To reduce the stress of uncertainty, elder law addresses the financial, medical and legal concerns that accompany aging.
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One IT leader uses uncertainty to reduce his dependency on Microsoft software clients.
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Genetic testing, however, promises substantially to reduce the degree of uncertainty.
At least he would reduce one entitlement and insulate the Wisconsin budget from Washington uncertainty.
Consumers hate uncertainty, so an agreement on ways to reduce long-term federal budget deficits could remove an impediment to growth.
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In Europe, it will hinge on the ability of policymakers to stabilize their currency and reduce labor complexities, since both issues are currently fraught with uncertainty.
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Just as periods of economic uncertainty almost invariably lead to calls for the very trade barriers that reduce economic opportunity, so do downturns always coincide with overdone worry concerning the ability of new labor force entrants to achieve economically in ways that previous entrants once did.
But he insisted the desire for greater flexibility was not the same as having a "looser" relationship and he said uncertainty over the UK's continued membership of the EU would deter foreign investors and reduce the UK's influence, he added.
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