Since utilities are in the business of generating and distributing energy and not saving it, most of the energy efficiency work in California has been outsourced to companies that specialize in that type of work.
While bacteria do most of the work, incorporating plants improves the efficiency of the system.
Our new models come from industries that have learned to increase the capabilities and efficiency of the human beings who work for them.
Any technique that improves our understanding of spinal tissue and improves the efficiency of determining whether potential treatments work will go a long way to improving research in this area.
The ideal of humane efficiency, understood as social responsibility, undergirds all of Foster's work.
Using unique alphanumeric identifiers for financial firms would improve OTC derivatives markets, make it easier for regulators to see aggregated risk, and, once systems were changed over, would simplify record keeping, improve operational efficiency for firms and eliminate a lot of reconciliation work, according to a report the BIS issued from the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems and the Technical Committee of IOSCO.
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Briefly, efficiency innovations make current work more efficient, in terms of time, effort or other resources needed.
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On Tuesday, August 9th, the President will travel to Interstate Moving Services in Springfield, Virginia, to announce first-of-their-kind fuel-efficiency standards for work trucks, buses and other heavy-duty vehicles.
"In the near future, we would like to increase the efficiency of the polarizing organic photovoltaics, and eventually we hope to work with electronic manufacturers to integrate our technology into real products", Yang said.
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We will work with governors of both parties to demand more efficiency and accountability from Medicaid.
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The 2014-2018 fuel efficiency standards for trucks are designed to account for the different kind of work done by different kinds of trucks.
Nancy Sutley and her staff are doing yeoman's work behind the scenes to raise the profile of energy efficiency, retrofits, and green buildings broadly, and we are thrilled to award them our 2011 Leadership Award for Organizational Leadership in the Public Sector.
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Within Sony's headquarters and support operations, certain functions have been integrated and organizational structures have been streamlined, while the Company has conducted a thorough review of work content and work-flow process to ensure greater operational efficiency across these operations.
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For its work promoting energy efficiency, TCP has received U.S. Department of Energy awards.
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But the report adds it is "important to track implementation in these projects if we are to confirm that the proposals work and actually improve efficiency and effectiveness and it could be a number of years before a final judgement can be made on this".
Thermal efficiency is how much of the potential heat energy of the fuel used is actually returned as work at the wheels.
With this arrangement, Samsung and Nanosys will work together to create a new generation of cost effective, higher-efficiency products in the fields of solar, LED, memory, semiconductor, and display.
These are private, Medicare-funded groups that work with medical providers and seniors in each state to improve the quality and efficiency of health care.
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Which is a roundabout way of saying that efficiency and innovation in public services has to run from top to bottom to really work.
Union bosses assume that efficiency is just a fancy way of saying that some workers will be canned and the rest made to work harder.
"This research shows that there's still more work to be done with consumer advice, product innovation and take up of energy-efficiency labelling, " he said.
They can -- he can work to do the things that I just talked about, in terms of fuel-efficiency standards or clean energy investments.
In theory, the PPP was meant to harness the efficiency of the private sector and, in return for healthy profits, transfer risks to the firms doing the work.
The firm will remain as a hierarchical bureaucracy, with the managers acting as controllers of individuals, work being coordinated by plans, rules and reports, the key value being efficiency and communications top-down.
That is a recommendation you might expect from a management consultancy, but no less valid for that: part of the recent increase in efficiency in Brazil's car plants, for example, comes from introducing work teams and re-designing production lines.
"Our current system can create some serious work disincentives, particularly at low and high ends of the income distribution, so the potential efficiency gains are pretty clear, " Justin Ross, Professor of Public Finance at Indiana University, told the BBC.
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