Alaska Airlines came in second with three leafs, scoring well in recycling, building design and carbon efficiency.
In keeping with Toshiba's leadership in power efficiency design, the AL13SE Series uses Supported Enhanced Power Condition State technology to lower RPM idle speed.
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The hybrid design improves fuel efficiency and dramatically cuts emissions.
The company also said it wants to set up a centralised design team to increase efficiency.
In the Middle Ages, European craftsmen refined the design, improving the efficiency and allowing pack animals to do more work with less strain.
Every aspect of the design exudes speed, efficiency and style.
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The design aims to increase efficiency by reducing the amount of energy lost when sunlight is reflected off the solar cell or absorbed into the material before reaching the contact wires.
As each company seeks to be greener than the next, so demand is growing to get buildings certified by the Leadership in Energy Efficiency and Design programme (LEED), America's biggest green rating system, run by the not-for-profit Green Building Council.
As a top environmental official in Massachusetts and Connecticut, she helped design programs to expand energy efficiency and promote renewable energy.
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This is a rising starchitect who actually seems to get sustainability, actually cares about efficiency and green design and context and public space.
And up-and-coming software companies will provide applications that can sit atop the network to manage the information and control for personalization, design, comfort, and efficiency.
The resolution calls on Congress to include legislation that provides incentives for energy efficiency in the design and renovation of schools as it secures funding for new school construction and renovation.
The efficiency of his design is further improved by using the moving piston to drive water through a special steam nozzle, which increases the effectiveness of the heat transfer between the inside and outside of the reactor.
Their tubular design was aimed at optimising the efficiency of the silicon that was being used.
Factor in the Kepler architecture's great efficiency and low thermal design power and the GTX 660 Ti assures gamers of having the most stable, quiet and power-efficient gaming experience possible in its price class.
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The selected Beacon Communities will use health IT resources within their community as a foundation for bringing doctors, hospitals, community health programs, federal programs and patients together to design new ways of improving quality and efficiency to benefit patients and taxpayers.
The inductor-free, single-stage design delivers the industry's highest system efficiency and saves up to 60-percent board space compared to a multi-stage implementation.
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That said, we have a feeling that Snapdragon's Krait architecture and asynchronously clocked cores will again prove that Tegra 3's 4-PLUS-1 design isn't the best solution for battery efficiency -- as many of you might already know.
Intel also reports on increased supplier assessments, renewable power and energy efficiency successes, employee engagement and green building design, among other topics.
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Yes, yes, of course: Efficiency, functionality, ease of use, clarity of design.
Just as DARPA and other humanoid robot developers have drawn on biology for design inspiration, the agency hopes that robotic actuation can approach the efficiency of human and animal actuation where muscles, tendons, and bones cooperate in highly efficient ways.
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Airbus reworked the design, configurations and technology to increase the plane's range and efficiency.
And yet, barring creative professions like graphic design, there's no real productivity boost to be had, no efficiency gained by resorting to a stylus over the finger.
Also, as part of the lifecycle design process, the laptops meet Energy Star 5.0 for high energy efficiency and are rated EPEAT Gold in the U.S. for their environmental attributes.
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In a very uncomfortable way, Sandy points out the dangers of our devotion to economic efficiency: when you engineer your economy to cut out waste, you design with lowest costs in mind, and redundancy is eliminated.
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The Stanford design approach has two striking features in that it sacrifices virtually none of CNTs' energy efficiency and it is also compatible with existing fabrication methods and infrastructure, pushing the technology a significant step toward commercialization.
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But retrofitting an existing design with more steel can be "very expensive and very heavy, " potentially undermining fuel efficiency, he says.
To reiterate, carefully evaluate the goals and the design of such program, to maximize the chances for savings on health premiums and for increased employee efficiency, minimize the risks of discrimination claims, and attract universal participation by all employees.
The design of jet engines has progressed over the decades, but has been stuck for many years in a plateau where efficiency gains have flattened out to only .5% a year.
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