The system produces reliable power 99.9999 percent of the time, giving it a reliability rating of "six 9s, " according to the bank.
"It's always a balancing act between how much mileage you are going to cover from a reliability issue and from a set-up point of view working with the new car, " he said.
Though Estimize allows anyone off the street to join the platform and share a projection, only those members who successfully pass through a reliability algorithm will see their estimates affect the Estimize Consensus number.
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Cultural influences that permeate an organization and an industry and manifest in actions that can either promote and nurture a high reliability organization with high reliability systems, or actions reflective of complacency, excessive risk-taking, and a loss of situational awareness.
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The Consumers Union of the U.S. subjects each vehicle to more than 50 tests, then makes a prediction about reliability and evaluates for safety before recommending a choice to its members.
The financial sector suffers heavier economic losses during a power outage than nearly any other sector, which makes reliability a critical issues for many firms in New York.
"We didn't have a great run, reliability-wise, which was a first this season, " admitted Webber.
We narrowed the list by considering only candidates that received a better than average reliability rating from Consumer Reports, a top safety rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a score of at least four out of five stars from J.
"The Supreme Court correctly held that a police dog's reliability is determined through a common-sense evaluation of the relevant circumstances, rather than through a rigid set of judge-created requirements, " Bondi said.
Of greater concern though was London Midland, which has had a number of reliability problems.
There is also a question of reliability, getting products produced and shipped on time.
Yet another is that managing one's own network is hardly a guarantee of reliability.
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Keystrokes have a nasty habit of not registering when on carpet or perched on your lap, making a table or desk a necessity for reliability.
Schellnhuber coauthored a paper refuting reliability of Global Climate Models upon which their alarmist 2001 projections were based, concluding that the CO2 greenhouse gas trends were clearly overestimated.
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And not just because it was the first hybrid, but because it is consistently the best in key areas most important of which is fuel economy, of course, with reliability a close second.
"As families prepare to send their kids off to school this fall, they need a laptop with reliability and performance, " said Sam Burd, vice president and general manager of product development for Dell.
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The opposition that the company's 11 proposed coal plants galvanized was a wake-up call: New coal plants will not be welcomed with open arms, even in the face of a looming electric reliability crisis.
Nonetheless, in recent years America has come to resemble much more closely that brightly lit, fume-free city on a hill that policy wonks dream about, where energy is cheap, clean and reliable (if you consider self-sufficiency a proxy for reliability).
If the marginal value that a customer receives for increased reliability is less than the marginal cost required to increase reliability for that customer, then a systemwide relocation of lines would likely lead to wasted resources.
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"We've had a challenging season trying to get reliability sorted but we've had a stronger second half, " Wirth said.
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For its part, the North American Reliability Corporation (NERC), who oversees power market reliability, issued a December report highlighting that gas and power markets need to be more synchronized to effectively enable reliability in light of higher dependence on natural gas generation.
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Proper deployment can provide significant savings, better IT services and a higher level of reliability.
Though the dispute in Ukraine was settled quickly, it highlighted doubts over Russia's reliability as a supplier.
Reliability is a critical consideration at all times in the electric power industry.
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The WarpDrive card helps to ensure high reliability with a management infrastructure offering extensive monitoring, including health, error rate and drive failure.
The AC750, Belkin's entry level AC router, takes advantage of next generation AC Wi-Fi for a new level of reliability and connectivity.
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And in law, that would generally give them a greater indicia of reliability, because they were being done in what we call the regular course of business.
The planes, set to arrive between 2014 and 2018, will provide improved reliability, a 30% increase in fuel efficiency, and a 20% reduction in unit operating costs.
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And Stern said reliability and a local clientele is part of the reason Patek Philippe has not fallen victim to the problems plaguing the single currency euro area.
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