Instead, they expected his report to suggest many small improvements to boost existing capacity.
But some of the early data suggest this approach may yield only small improvements in cardiac function.
Although there have been some small improvements, Canadian business leaders express disappointment with the slow pace of progress.
For econ geeks, the hard part is capturing all these small improvements across the economy, especially among service businesses.
Amplify these small improvements across thousands of providers, hospitals and other health-care organizations, and we will accrue impressive gains.
This Schumpeter appears to be urging not small improvements within the comfort zone of "sustainability" but wild, flared-nostril, rutting-boar destruction.
The researchers said it appeared that what small improvements in behaviour the programme had notched up, were not transferred to the home setting.
With OS X, Apple has a base of stable, Unix-based code, making it easy for Apple to plop down small improvements on a regular basis.
Kirk became very rich making small improvements to old drug classes.
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The company notes some small improvements in housing, including a single-family delinquency rate that has fallen to 3.8% from 3.96% in the second quarter this year.
For years they have invested huge sums to license drugs from rivals, make small improvements in old drugs and clinch broader marketing claims for already-existing products.
All of these small improvements on old drugs point to the big problem with Glaxo right now: Its pipeline, as far as anyone can tell, is paltry.
Small trials on selected groups of children with disorders such as dyslexia and ADHD have shown mixed results, with small improvements seen in some participants but not others.
With such a massive economic relationship, even small improvements can increase trade by tens of billions of dollars and support hundreds of thousands of additional jobs on both sides of the ocean.
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Through the rest of 2013 and well into next year, the company is likely to look as it does this quarter, with small improvements in unit shipments and gross margin over each quarter until the company begins delivering its Model X crossover late in 2014.
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Small process improvements are considered through the relevant line management, not by a corporate group.
The performance of these vehicles, which is often astounding given their size and weight, owes a lot to small engineering improvements made, in many cases, for other reasons.
Lifetime employment once made sense, says Mr Murayama, because the company's strength lay in production engineering, and the ability to innovate through small engineering improvements requires a good deal of experience.
But forget all the techie acronyms--the point is that the guys building PBXs and ACDs were adding new features to their existing equipment, yet only able to make small incremental improvements based on what their customers were telling them.
The two bills just introduced to the Senate make some small but welcome improvements to reducing the protectionism of our immigration system.
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Like the many small, incremental improvements that, when added together, result in Moore's law, the two sides' respective contributions do not in themselves constitute a true technological revolution.
Social media opens up new pathways of communication between a business and its customer base and provides a forum for co-operation and co-creation - one that can produce both small, iterative improvements and large breakthrough innovations.
He said that KEHC had offered to return the recreation ground to the authority at no cost, and to make a small contribution towards environmental improvements.
Academics say the decision is economically illogical because small-scale safety improvements offer best value for money on the sort of financial analysis demanded by the Treasury.
Social innovation brings to the surface thousands of small but important product improvements as well as disruptive innovations that can bring meaningful change the business or an entire industry.
It can result in big improvements and small ones.
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These devices use a microcurrent to gently push a drug into the patients skin for faster healing or cosmetic improvements, making a small, thin and flexible battery a necessity.
But these small changes resulted in some really significant improvements.
Comparing footage from the first Dark Souls to Dark Souls 2, you can really see where the improvements have gone mostly into the small details.
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