Cycle use in the UK has been increasing in recent years, up about 20% compared with the late 1990s.
Sometimes it may be best for companies to hoard cash at the top of the stock-market cycle and use it in the next trough to buy back shares at a discount.
The quicker production cycle reduces energy use and could ultimately reduce component costs.
"This is magnified by the fact that the use cycle of goods is very short--diapers a few hours and clothes a few months, " he says.
In cyclical sectors like steel, coal, copper, or even aerospace and oil I can model average earning power over a full cycle or even use a discount table on assets in the ground.
To supply the extra juice, utilities turn on inefficient single-cycle gas turbines, which turn 25% of the fuel's energy into electricity, as opposed to 45% for combined-cycle plants that use turbine exhaust to make steam to run a second generator.
If we did start to use the thorium nuclear cycle in reactors one group of beneficiaries would be those who use tantalum, niobium, rare earths and so on.
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"We could get the situation where people have to cycle so they can use it, " Gambarota said.
This would have involved a chain of Stirling units that use a cycle of compression and decompression in a fluid to get to low temperatures.
What I would advise is having different passwords for sites you do financial transactions on (banking, Amazon, eBay, Paypal), have sensitive information on (Facebook), could be embarrassed by if compromised (LinkedIn, Twitter), and then a cycle of passwords you use for every other blog or news site you comment on.
Christopher Snelling, of the Freight Transport Association backed the plans, particularly the increased use of segregated cycle lanes.
To use the Sleep Cycle app, you set the alarm and lay the iPhone face down on your bed.
But here we come full cycle: we can often use the same big data we mined for our initial potential insight to in turn test that insight.
Combined-cycle gas turbines, which use hot exhaust gases from one turbine to generate steam to turn a second one, can transform 6, 800 Btu of gas into a kilowatt-hour of electricity, enough to light one lightbulb for ten hours.
Another is the absence of restrictions on car use, which would greatly improve cycle safety.
Cyclists can now plan their trips, make use of bike lanes, calculate cycle-friendly routes that avoid big hills and customise the map for cycling on smart phones and computers.
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They're easy to use, expanding and contracting as you cycle through the various options.
Only your data throughput speed will change if you use 3GB or more in one billing cycle on a 3G or 4G smartphone or 5GB or more on a 4G LTE smartphone.
Cooder's use of animal characters allows his populist song cycle to frame his social commentary from an outsider's perspective.
Use the past as an incentive to break the cycle of poverty through education, dedication and hard work.
Birds use temperature as a cue for many life-cycle decisions.
They use this information to break into accounts and extend the cycle further.
The use of fiscal policy to fine-tune the business cycle in any more than this passive way went out of fashion around 30 years ago.
We expect smartphones to continue to carry a shorter life cycle than PCs for the years to come based on price, use case, and overall device size.
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The dedicated cycle trails in town are a good idea, but often seem to be an afterthought where cars frequently drive on them, or park and block them, or pedestrians use them instead and defeat the purpose of a dedicated cycle trail.
Greenpeace asks companies to measure and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions throughout the life cycle of their products: supply chain, manufacturing, distribution, customer use, and end-of-life, using a combination of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy policy advocacy.
According to TfL, 80% of people who use the superhighways say they improve safety for cyclists and the Barclays Cycle Superhighway 2 has seen a 28% increase in journeys in the last year.
Of course, new media such as the Internet, social media, and SMS advertising also stand to make huge gains in this cycle as they become entrenched media for political advertising based on their highly effective use by Obama in the 2008 election and subsequent evidence of an ability to engage in effective targeting.
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Science plays an important role in our response to global issues such as climate change, the hydrological cycle, biodiversity loss, natural hazards and human-induced disasters, population growth, land-use change, migration and urbanisation.
UNESCO: UK National Commission for UNESCO :: Environmental Science
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