As it turns out, the crux of the invention was head-slappingly simple: though a patent-pending idea Smith calls "get out of the way control, " the unit measures the load on each joint as its operator moves about, and figures out the direction it needs to move in 3-D space to literally move out of the way.
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In 2006, the first year of the plan, the country's reduction in energy intensity, which measures energy consumption per unit of economic output, was a mere 1.23%.
Two of the three workers inside the plant received more than the lethal dose of seven sieverts (a sievert is the unit that measures the intensity of radiation's impact on the body).
Underlying productivity trends appear generally favorable, despite the recent slowing in some measures, and the markup of prices over unit labor costs is high by historical standards, so such an outcome is certainly possible.
As a result, the firm has taken measures to try to turn around the fortunes of the unit, including cancelling services on loss-making routes and streamlining some of its maintenance operations and cutting jobs.
It also reduced the opening hours of the minor injuries unit at Malton as part of cost-cutting measures last December.
The unit has had to be content instead with putting measures in place to make life as difficult as possible for would-be fixers.
Warwickshire's pupil reintegration unit taught 146 excluded pupils in 2010 but has been placed in special measures by Ofsted following an inspection in June.
And to fund such measures, as well as to track terrorist finances, the delegates resolved to set up a special unit at the Asian Development Bank.
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Others argue that new institutions such as the Social Exclusion Unit and new policies such as the New Deals for young people and communities are significant measures to tackle the causes of crime and are ones which would not have been promoted by the Conservatives.
One of the most controversial measures to have come before Holyrood, the SNP's plan to set a minimum price per unit of alcohol was defeated in the last parliament after opposition parties refused to back it over concerns it was illegal and would punish responsible drinkers.
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