People with a sleep efficiency of less than 92 percent had a 5.5-times greater risk of developing a cold than those with a 98 percent or more sleep efficiency.
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The Ford Focus Electric has received a 110 MPG equivalent fuel efficiency rating in the city and a combined fuel efficiency of 105 MPGe, 6 MPGe more than the all-electric Nissan Leaf.
Being able to do this from a cost efficiency and power perspective is a big part of everything.
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Employing a tightknit band of road veterans, including three friends he has known since grade school, Mr. Chesney's touring staff works with a military efficiency that comes from wrapping a stadium tour every August and putting the next one on sale by December.
Similar to geologists evaluating how to produce a reservoir, the efficiency engineers use this comprehensive data to calibrate simulation models that predict the financial impact of a range of efficiency measures over the building life.
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SunPower boasts the highest efficiency among all players in the solar industry and has developed a Gen 3 cell technology, which has a conversion efficiency greater than 23%.
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Bob Brodersen of the University of California, in Berkeley, has calculated that moving an application from a general-purpose software implementation to a specialised chip can improve efficiency by a factor of 10, 000 (the efficiency metric being millions of calculations per milliwatt of power consumed).
It has gone further in a government efficiency drive begun in 2004, according to the Institute for Government, a research body.
This is at a time when efficiency has become a business fixation.
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According to Mitsubishi the ADM vessels will also feature a high-efficiency hull and a newly designed bow shape that will reduce wave-making resistances.
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But beyond that, though, there is a serious efficiency problem in datacenters pretty much everywhere.
In addition, the system has recorded high standards with a computing efficiency ratio of 93.0%.
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He lives on Social Security in a Cambridge efficiency apartment that is about four times larger than his cell.
They have a fuel efficiency of 45% for AC, but up to 54% if DC is the needed output.
Gelb is notorious among colleagues for his work habits, which involve pre-dawn e-mail sessions and a ruthless efficiency with time.
Last September the EU adopted a new Energy Efficiency Directive, in a drive to reach the 20% savings goal.
Smith moved his company to Memphis, Tennessee and hatched the superhub concept that would give his company a huge efficiency advantage.
Everyone agreed that he brought a soldierly efficiency to the event, in which he had to walk backwards before the queen without tripping.
But instead the essays all too often simply describe first one war, then the second, or list the comparisons and differences with a wooden efficiency.
As well as job cuts, Flybe said it would be seeking to cut costs with suppliers, start a fuel efficiency programme and introduce more automated check-ins.
Higher as in 1, 200 degrees Celsius, which would heat air hot enough to run a high efficiency turbine like those used in fossil fuel power plants.
Just as we have found new oil and gas in the ground, our ability to squeeze more GDP out of a BTU through efficiency is also undergoing a radical transformation.
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The inability of the market mechanism to achieve a higher efficiency value is due, in part, to the incentive U-Type bidders have to strategically reduce their demands for the second block of spectrum.
Tentative at the beginning, the Italians developed a steady efficiency two-thirds of the way through the first half and bullied the Irish until late in the second, when the Azzurri sagged back on defense to protect their lead.
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That along with a high-efficiency cooling system resulted in a 34% energy savings compared to a typical building.
Its cost-income ratio, a standard measure of efficiency, is a flabby 83%.
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