The cost and time taken to sequencing the whole genome of a bacterium has plummeted.
The time taken for this round-trip of request and acknowledgment determines the network's latency.
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The normal time taken to put in place such arrangements varies from three to six weeks across Scotland.
Data for the last three months of the year put the average time taken per case at 45 weeks.
Time taken up with paperwork is time taken away from direct patient care.
He has accepted that the time taken to clear the mess caused by the computer failure had been "unacceptable".
Nationally, the time taken to process a foreclosure from default notice to bank repossession averaged 414 days in the fourth quarter.
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"It has not really been about changing the nature of what people do, but about cutting the time taken to do it, " he said.
The time taken to complete hand-over plans has fallen from 57 months for bases closed in 1988 to 21 months for those closed in 1995.
One of the underlying causes of the network's bad performance is the time taken to recover from routine failures, such as in signalling or track.
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Today the average time taken to eat lunch - usually in front of the computer - is roughly 15 minutes, according to researchers at the University of Westminster.
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These included reading meters more frequently, texting customers to update them with incidents and burst water mains, and reducing the time taken to carry out improvements and repairs.
Causes among the 1, 300 people questioned were being mis-sold a financial package, dissatisfaction about the amount of time taken up by money matters and confusion over complex information.
It also includes the new HTC Fast Boot that enables people to quickly make a call or check emails by shortening the time taken to complete the power-up sequence.
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The time taken for the waves to complete this journey is recorded, and it is a fairly straightforward calculation to work out the height of the ice above sea level.
Some of the problems facing the social work profession in particular had become clear - too much time taken up with form filling, a shortage of front-line staff and increasing caseloads.
Its half-life the time taken for half the radioactive atoms in a sample to decay is 109 minutes, compared with two minutes for oxygen-15, ten minutes for nitrogen-13 and 20 minutes for carbon-11.
Bravo kept up the momentum in persistent drizzle, and after Murali dropped a top-edge, recorded his fifty with a six, only to depart next ball when another skyer was this time taken.
He added that it was the second time he had been forced to demand an explanation from the Crown Prosecution Service about the length of time taken to bring a case to trial.
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Infosys had warned in January that challenges in terms of the time taken for contracts to close and the reluctance of clients to ramp up projects may dampen the company's growth in the current quarter.
Infosys had warned in January that challenges in terms of the time taken for contracts to close, and the reluctance of clients to expand projects could hurt its results in the January-March period, its fourth fiscal quarter.
For such a particle, it is possible to work out its velocity (from the time taken to pass between the two layers) and its trajectory (from the relative positions of the elements triggered in each sensor layer).
What matters for all-electric vehicles as opposed to hybrids, such as the Chevrolet Volt, due in 2010, which can fall back on a petrol engine when the battery runs out are their limited range and the time taken to recharge their batteries.
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The rate of successful log-ons has stayed high for the IRS, hovering around 97 percent for most of the past week, with the time taken from first click to first page-view hovering at just a little over 2 seconds, according to Lindsay.
Despite the concerns over language, MEPs were broadly supportive of the rules on mutual recognition and called for the time taken to recognise the qualifications of EU professionals such as doctors and engineers applying to work in another member state to be sped up.
Dr Esther McGuinness from the University of Ulster's School of Law also highlighted that the time taken to deal with grievances - up to two years in some cases - could breach people's rights, under the Human Rights Act, to a fair and timely hearing.
All of these money moves may seem relatively unimportant today, but when taken over time and taken together may mean the difference between being able to retire, or working for years longer.
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Too much time is taken up battling red tape and trying to follow meticulous rules, he complains.
Much of Mr Schwartz's time is taken up with working out how Coke should be organised for innovation.
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