These range from planting mangroves to increase water catchments in high flood regions to providing low-cost risk transfer methods to farmers in developing countries.
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From the biggest ad agencies in the world to the most cutting-edge digital idea shops and deliverers, digital media has become one of the most cost-effective methods of reaching an audience.
"Vivendi Universal considers this sudden withdrawal to have been motivated by Deutsche Telekom's wish to appropriate the shares of PTC at the lowest possible cost, using methods which Vivendi regards as unlawful, " said a statement on the media group's website.
An environmental cost that the other methods do not have.
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We have medical and information technology, low-cost agriculture, advanced educational methods, and a track record of growth that can help them achieve their version of this dream.
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Over the next decade, the result will be more customized goods and services, delivered at a lower cost and through ever more sustainable methods.
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It allowed the orchestra to digitize up to 2, 000 pages per day per camera, cutting the cost in half compared with other methods that use scanners, she said.
We now have a cost-effective way to apply our methods to other poorly understood species in the Antarctic.
Over and over, chefs told us that ingredients from their local sources are farmed using organic methods, yet organic certification is cost-prohibitive for most of these small farms.
This is the lowest cost and least speculative investment strategy of the four methods.
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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But finding new, newer and cheaper, methods of treatment will of course decrease that cost.
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To address the ballooning cost of care, the government has been experimenting with novel payment methods, such as bundled payments or capitation.
Stoler noted that Stahura applied for and Demand now owns Patent 7539774, which covers methods for obtaining large numbers of web addresses at low cost including near-misses to trademarked names.
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With the help of advanced computer technology used to design fighter planes, he has been able to calculate structure, curvature, material and cost so accurately that forms impossible to create and build through traditional methods can now be brought in on budget and on time.
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An advantage over existing methods is that the new technology is "relatively low-cost" because the polyfluorene is widely used in plastic electronics.
That is far below what some of the cost projections coming out of the Pentagon suggest will be possible, reflecting divergent methods and assumptions used in calculating costs.
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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.
If a firm can deploy the incremental dollar of cash flow at a rate of return greater than its cost of capital, it should pursue acquisitions or internal capital projects, as these methods will be the fastest way to build shareholder value.
An economist welcomes such methods as a way of achieving a stated goal (fewer net emissions) at lowest cost.
But there are a number of alternative methods, various barriers, creams, sponges, IUDs, which do not carry this environmental cost.
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