Evidently the Patent Office thought so, at least when Severinsky, now a U.S. citizen, presented it as the ideal balance between performance and cost.
Nearly three quarters of both groups cited trust as the most important characteristic of a financial adviser, but the big discrepancies were in performance and cost-per-service.
Customers are either dealing with the very complex physics of 20-nanometer design or they are squeezing the last bit of performance and cost from designs at mature, high-value nodes.
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Using advanced computational techniques capable of analyzing streaming data from sensors across the grid in near real-time enable more dynamic monitoring of the entire power system across large geographic areas, and offers the potential to reach even higher levels of performance and cost-effectiveness through improved situational awareness.
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That has included lobbying against disclosing after-tax fund performance and the cost in dollars of owning funds, as well as how fund firms vote proxies.
While the prolonged bull market may have distracted funds from focusing on fees, diminishing performance and heightened cost concerns suggest that now is the time to revisit the issue.
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"Boeing didn't manage to beat Northrop Grumman in a single measure of merit, " she said on Monday, explaining that Boeing's poor past performance and dubious cost estimates hurt its chances of beating its rivals.
Many Kenyans would rather forgo air conditioning, leather seats and automatic windows for all-terrain performance, reliability and cost, according to a survey Jackson ran of 1, 500 potential car buyers in Kenya.
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Each of Iridium's 66 satellites has its own phone-switching system, boosting coverage and performance at a cost of complexity and weight.
Each company has been allocated similar areas of the city to service, and their cost and performance will be compared with that of the public sector.
Such things can be immensely effective in rewarding good performance, and generally cost a lot less than a pay rise.
The public cloud providers are a juggernaut, competing with each other to offer never-ending increases in performance and decreases in cost.
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It is committed to providing high-performance, scalable and cost-effective solutions to a variety of business models through its state-of-the-art streaming technology.
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The new mega-rocket, called the Space Launch System, passed a series of reviews that laid out the technical, performance, cost and schedule requirements for the heavy-lift booster.
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Terayon, six years old and public since last August, aims to win a slice by designing circuitry and systems nifty enough to give it an edge in cost and performance.
Fundamental advances in LED semiconductor technology, optics, and lighting system design now enable LED lights to break century old cost and performance barriers that have prevented consumers from realizing the savings businesses and municipalities already enjoy.
As the Breakthrough Institute has consistently argued, taking clean energy alternatives to scale and building globally competitive clean energy industries will ultimately depend on such improvements in cost and performance.
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These high-end customers have plenty of money and care more about performance and features than low cost.
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The Magellan team sought to measure the returns for cloud computing versus existing on-premises systems from performance, usability, and cost standpoints.
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And with our newest Xi3 Modular Computers, we're now ready to enter a new era as we expand into the realms of performance computing and low-cost entry-level computing.
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"DFID needs to do more and to take a tougher, clearer stance on the importance of cost and service performance information, and in particular indicators of education delivery and attainment if it is to make sure its contributions achieve the maximum good effect, " he said.
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Consequently, they carry a high risk of performance failure, cost increases and schedule delays.
And increasingly, Hyper Giant strategies are coalescing around similar infrastructure investments as the giants compete on content, capacity (bandwidth, storage, compute), cost and performance.
Digital storage hardware and software will play an important role in providing the level of services and performance that consumers are expecting while controlling both the cost and energy use of the required data centers.
That a heavyweight like Cargill Dow is convinced it can beat conventional plastics on cost and performance alone may be the best reason to think that biopolymers are about to burst out of their mouldy, green niche.
As databases in general become more strategically vital, and as cloud technology becomes essential within advanced IT architectures, Oracle is betting that the combination of speed and cost-performance offered by its increasingly popular Exadata engineered systems will allow the company to stay well ahead of other alternatives.
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Additional benefits of a virtualized rack workstation include the ability to centralize, secure and manage data, leverage worldwide talent pool, share resources for improved cost effectiveness and run performance critical applications that require the host system and data to be in close proximity.
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Below is a three month price history chart comparing the stock performance of KSS, versus WMT and COST.
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Cost information and performance information are virtually impossible for an individual to get.
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