More recent studies have found no evidence that licensing improves the quality of teachers or mortgage brokers.
In the first place, the time spent by these professions directly improves the quality of our lives.
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Adding model diversity always improves the quality of models, and adding modeler diversity improves the quality of the modeling effort!
In the aggregate, a well-informed, attentive electorate improves the quality of governance.
Increasing the frequency of feedback improves the quality and quantity of performance.
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Experts disagree on whether the presence of all this technology actually improves the quality of a student's education, or if it just distracts them from it.
And compromise brings two wonderful things in its wake: it reduces the quantity of legislation that can grind its way through the legislative mill, and it improves the quality.
Recently, I interviewed Kristine Pearson, founder and CEO of Lifeline Energy, which improves the quality of life of vulnerable populations by providing renewable energy alternatives to those most in need.
The one thing that I am sure Obamacare will pay for is any drug that improves the quality of life of the baby boom generation or that reduces the cost of care by keeping people out of hospitals.
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The BD-F7500's video processor includes a proprietary Samsung algorithm that improves the visual quality of block-based low bit-rate coded images and reduces blocking artifacts.
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These models integrate Yamaha's Compressed Music Enhancer that improves the audio quality of compressed music files and IntelliAlarm, which gently wakes up users gradually with their favorite music.
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The company's S-QLED technology improves on the picture quality and power consumption achieved by recently introduced OLED displays, while significantly reducing cost and improving lifetime well beyond what OLED can achieve.
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The superior telecentric optical design improves image quality throughout the frame by passing on information about subjects to the sensor.
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The dual "TRUE (Three-layer Responsive Ultimate Engine) II" image processing engine dedicated to Foveon X3 direct image sensors improves the processing speed and overall quality of the final image.
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That percentage will surely rise as quality improves and the special chips used in digitals become commodities.
As the volume of data continues to grow, and the technologies used to manage that data advance, the quality of predictions improves dramatically.
In this way, loan quality improves even if the economy doesn't.
In markets where buyers and sellers are free to choose what they want from whomever they want, competition restrains costs, improves quality and gives individuals the widest range of choices.
As the quality of Asian universities improves, many Asian students will prefer to stay at home.
In most cases, it is a cheap trick (or an expensive one, depending on how you look at it) that will eventually backfire, especially as Twitter improves its ability to judge users by the quality of those who follow them.
You will notice how the quality of your life improves, how things start to naturally come your way and while you spiral up in your consciousness, you realize that you create your life every single moment and every moment you decide what quality you want to give your life.
Nokia says the method reduces screen reflections and improves image quality, especially outdoors.
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It makes the glass half full, decreases anxiety and improves quality of life.
"The quality of your problem-solving markedly improves, " says Nolen-Hoeksema.
The literature on hospital competition shows that hospital competition improves quality and lowers costs and lowers patient waiting times.
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Designed for everyday shooting, Canon's expanded VIXIA HF R-series camcorder lineup improves upon numerous features, including image quality, sharing capabilities and the user experience.
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Planning mistakes from the past, such as the Market building on the Green and the Trinity Centre car park, should be redeveloped with high quality contemporary architecture and urban landscaping that contributes to the cityscape, improves connectivity, and conveys civic ambition and pride.
The government has said that no new runway will be built there until air quality improves, although cynics point out that Heathrow's history is one of broken promises, and that greenery has always lost out to growth.
The Corvette also signals a new, more collaborative way of designing cars and trucks that cuts waste and improves quality.
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