Improved decision-making through alignment of overall risk appetite and business strategy, helping increase the efficiency of capital utilization.
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In theory, such specialisation should increase the efficiency of the venture-capital process, as it does in other industries.
Or they may increase the efficiency of the grid by consuming off-peak load and pushing more kilowatt-hours over the same infrastructure.
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Still more newly discovered microbes that live in oil or natural gas wells might increase the efficiency of existing drilling and mining.
With this aim in mind, the company is constantly working to improve its technology so as to increase the efficiency of power plants.
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No doubt, Israeli engineers and seismologists would be able to increase the efficiency and productivity of existing wells and so increase their output.
Experience in Europe and Asia shows that public authorities can increase the efficiency of goods distribution in cities by getting private firms to share their lorries.
He was placed at Project Look by Social Venture Partners, a Seattle organization started in 1997 that's trying to boost volunteerism and increase the efficiency of nonprofits.
For all its achievements in other areas, Argentina has done less than, say, Brazil to reorder its public finances, especially those of the provinces, and to increase the efficiency of the central-government bureaucracy.
He must increase the efficiency of the fertiliser subsidy, which last year cost 758 billion rupees, or about 1.5% of GDP, by paying it directly to needy farmers instead of lucky fertiliser makers.
One way to increase the efficiency of a high-bypass jet engine is to turn the fan into an open rotor, a bit like returning to propellers, but using two rings of stubby counter-rotating blades.
"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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And after decades in which we have done little to increase the efficiency of cars and trucks, we've raised fuel economy standards to reduce our dependence on foreign oil while helping folks save money at the pump.
It is intended to both increase the efficiency and effectiveness of grant programs by eliminating unnecessary and duplicative requirements and strengthen the oversight of grant dollars by focusing on areas such as eligibility, monitoring of sub-recipients, adequate reporting, and other areas that are potential indices of waste, fraud or abuse.
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Cisco executives said that a shift to cloud computing would help to create better business models for customers and increase the operating efficiency of the network.
So it comes down to this: if half the increase in efficiency demanded by the new CAFE requirements is to come from further improvements in the power-train, then the other half will have to come from reductions in a vehicle's weight.
And it offers free improvements to increase the energy efficiency of your home, if you qualify.
Increase the energy efficiency of notebook computers and data center products 25 times by 2020 from 2010 levels.
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As a result, we have done little to increase the fuel efficiency of America's cars and trucks for decades.
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There are several other prospective employment policies that would increase the economic efficiency of colleges, but have yet to be widely implemented.
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Our new models come from industries that have learned to increase the capabilities and efficiency of the human beings who work for them.
Armed with a better understanding of the constraints, senior executives can get more bang for their buck by identifying targeted productivity-improvement efforts to increase both the efficiency and effectiveness of the interactions between workers.
We should heavily invest in renewable energy sources like wind and solar power, and we must dramatically increase the energy efficiency of our homes and buildings -- which also would lower our electric bills.
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To date, 64 European airports have signed up to the Airport Carbon Accreditation Scheme, a voluntary initiative launched in 2009 that aims to reduce emissions from ground transport, boost the use of renewable energy and increase the energy efficiency of airport terminals.
To stop that from happening, we need to increase conservation, increase energy efficiency, increase the use of alternative and renewable fuels, increase our use of nuclear power, and increase drilling for oil and gas here at home.
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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.
Energy efficiency retrofits present the opportunity to increase energy efficiency, while also creating new businesses and good green jobs.
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We need to beef up and increase efficiency in the way we inspect billing, audit SNFs and prosecute violators.
Various techniques have been adopted in a bid to increase efficiency in the public sector and reduce costs by transferring management control to profit-motivated private firms.
NOte that 23% reduction in fuel consumption is due to the efficiency increase and another 5% reduction is due to the replacement of 5% of the gas by the ethanol (EDIE uses 5% ethanol).
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