In Los Angeles, the fire department recently disclosed that a 2010 change in how it measured response performance led to a drop in how often it met the standards, to about 60% from 80%.
One of the biggest features is Project Butter, a deep-diving effort to improve performance and response time.
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Users of the lightweight and slender aluminium devices will benefit from faster performance and response times across multiple applications.
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High performance touch response: Compared to conventional LCDs, IGZO displays have drastically minimized the noise caused during touch input.
Prime Minister and Conservative leader David Cameron said his party would not "change tack" on the economy, immigration or welfare in response to the poor performance.
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The powerful 1GHz Cortex A8 processor with a dedicated graphics engine provides fast response times and enhanced performance for playing video games, or watching movies and videos.
"It is particularly pleasing that, during this period of change, GWAS has been shown as one of the best ambulance trusts in terms of clinical performance and response standards, " he said.
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The bank's persistent failure, especially during 2002, to cut interest rates in response to sluggish economic performance across the euro area (and above all in Germany) has drawn criticism from within Europe as well as from America's Federal Reserve and international institutions.
The trust's performance against two key response targets had fallen by 4% in Norfolk since September.
Wells Fargo faced a mixed response from investors when it revealed its performance figures for the first quarter of 2013 last Friday.
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The monitor also features ultrafast performance with a 5 ms response time, which allows pixels to change colors quickly to avoid streaking, blurring and ghosting in fast-moving scenes and video games.
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Indeed, there are now seven bills going through the legislature that would increase regulation to one degree or another in the industry, mostly in response to shipper outrage at the shambolic rail performance of recent years.
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Low-profile performance tires yield outstanding turn-in response, mid-corner grip, and road feel.
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South West Trains said it had launched a joint 10-point plan with Network Rail to tackle the drop in performance and fall in customer satisfaction in response to the survey.
As Ann releases its Q4 fiscal 2012 earnings on March 8, we expect its strong performance to continue driven by good customer response to its fashion-based apparel, healthy direct-to-consumer growth and balanced pricing strategy.
According to a report of social networking sites in the month of February by web performance monitoring company AlertSite, MySpace's response time clocked in at an average 5.04 seconds, an Internet eternity compared to Facebook (1.67 seconds), LinkedIn (1.96 seconds) and Twitter (1.78 seconds).
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As the late Richard Hackman pointed out, even if interpersonal difficulties occasionally undermine team performance, it does not follow that the best response is to help team members fix their relationships.
Multiple operating modes will allow the driver to tailor various performance parameters to accentuate maximum fuel economy or a sportier response as desired.
Users are now able to realize the full potential and the performance benefits of D-SLR photography including rapid camera response, interchangeable lenses and amazing image quality.
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Fire departments themselves typically decide how to measure and log response times, giving them control over key numbers used to judge their performance.
This comes in response to complaints from educators that No Child Left Behind has demanded better performance from low-income kids, without providing the resources to achieve that goal.
Performance was stopped on the contract on March 11, 2013 in response to a protest filed before the GAO by the unsuccessful offeror, Beechcraft.
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One obvious first response for any airline executives might be: We should certainly improve our on-time performance, and maybe we should offer more compensation.
In 2008, New York's fire department also changed what it was including in response measurements, in a way that some critics say may have created only the appearance of improved performance.
The cylindrical speaker features two high-performance drivers, a built-in bass port and digital signal processing software to extend frequency response on the high end while providing tighter low ends for deeper bass response.
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Although the main performance practice of Iranian traditional music unfolds through improvisation according to the mood of the performer and in response to the audience, musicians spend years learning to master the radif as the set of musical tools for their performances and compositions.
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