The auditors say the European Commission, which allocates EU budget funds, should ensure that such projects undergo a thorough needs assessment first, and that proper monitoring for cost-effectiveness is done.
We welcomed the United States announcement of the Innovation in Science through Partners and Regional Engagement (INSPIRE) initiative, which will foster cooperation between U.S. and ASEAN scientists in such areas as pandemic flu monitoring and prevention, development of low-cost vaccines, drug treatment monitoring, health innovation, and disease research.
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" Compared with fracking's money-making potential, he says, "monitoring these wells doesn't cost a lot of money.
Run by the University of North Carolina, Charlotte (UNCC), SWIFT seeks to combine the use of low-cost real-time energy monitoring technology and an administrative model incorporating university research.
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New software and sensors permit energy monitoring and control unprecedented in capability, or cost.
Lehman's Nwokobia says these simple monitoring functions alone have already paid for the cost of deployment.
University of Oxford researchers looked at the cost-effectiveness of self-monitoring in type 2 diabetes on top of usual care, using results from a trial of 450 patients published last year.
But in testimony before a congressional committee on Thursday, administration officials said little that eased concerns about the effectiveness, the cost or the intrusiveness of the monitoring program they are building.
And with other airlines closely monitoring the mechanics' strike, a round of badly needed cost savings across the industry could be at hand.
It may also offer a free credit monitoring service to help check your account and pay for the initial cost of a security freeze.
Many utilities lack the depth of data needed to implement more cost-effective asset-management systems like condition-based monitoring and maintenance methods, which utilities in Europe and Asia are adopting to enhance the efficient use of capital and reduce operations and maintenance costs.
Because the technique uses off-the-shelf wireless transceivers similar to those used in home computer networks, "the cost of this system will be cheaper than existing methods of monitoring breathing, " says Neal Patwari, senior author of a study of the new method and an assistant professor of electrical engineering.
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Rogers calls these Save-A-Watts and wants Duke to get a return on monitoring equipment and controls in its customers' premises calculated not from the capital cost of that gear but from the capital it would otherwise have spent to add generating plants.
The people who run trade operations are monitoring technical operations and trade operations like are orders getting filled faster at better cost on NYSE than Direct Edge.
But he raises the issue of self-monitoring in an interesting context that not a lot of people think about too deeply: the literal financial cost, as opposed to what Google considers the moral cost.
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On Thursday, Mr Bush said he would keep America's system of licensing and monitoring steel imports and he promised to act promptly against any country judged to be selling its steel below cost in American markets.
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