In contrast, systems that simply combine structural elements with power and energy devices, such that each set of materials are acting independently, provide no advantages in system efficiency.
But we do need to acknowledge that homophily is a real force in how our networks form, and many people with merits up the wazoo are simply not on the same radar screens as those who operate with more traditional structural and hierarchical power.
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This means technological advances in areas such as structural and functional materials, power conversion, and reliability.
The collapse of Enron and WorldCom revealed serious structural problems: too much power for imperial executives, too few independent directors, too little concern for shareholders' rights.
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Research opportunities include research in the areas of compact energy storage and pulsed power, aerothermal protection systems for flight vehicles, high-strength and dielectric structural materials, and system interfaces between high-power loads and platform power distribution networks.
The second type of reform concentrates on structural reforms, such as devolving power to individual schools or increasing pupils' ability to move from one school to another.
And of course a lot of power is needed to start the structural reform of the economy.
When they combine forces, France and Germany have a great deal of structural (economic, demographic, military) power in the Eurozone and to a slightly lesser extent, in the EU 27.
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And how can we find structural ways to create a system that provides checks and balances to police power?
In power, Mr Monti made some progress early on, including raising the retirement age and structural reforms.
Yet by the same token the established power of the teachers and the principals unions limited what he could do to make major structural reforms in the delivery of educational services.
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"Tepco (Tokyo Electric Power) should continue its efforts to improve the reliability of essential systems, to assess the structural integrity of site facilities and to enhance protection against external hazards, " the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Monday.
For as silicon costs come down then it is the installation and those structural supports that become an ever larger part of the costs of installing, and thus of generating, solar power.
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