While bacteria do most of the work, incorporating plants improves the efficiency of the system.
He maintained that costs would come down by improving the quality of care and the overall efficiency of the system.
And maybe the most important thing for us was to change our employees' mentality so that they stopped being afraid of electronics and saw the efficiency of the system.
However, due to the huge amount of cases before the courts, there exists a heavy case backlog, which adversely affects the efficiency of the court system and the judiciary as a whole.
In market theory the "selfishness" of the economic agent - in this case the GP practice - drives the efficiency of the system by forcing other economic agents to compete to provide the most efficient service.
The aviation trust fund is made up exclusively of aviation user fees that are required to be used for the improvement of the safety and efficiency of the aviation system.
What it is, is that because we don't use the latest technologies, a lot of times the holding patterns for planes, how many planes can land safely at the same time, all those things are -- reduce the efficiency of -- the overall system is reduced because we're not using the best technologies available.
In addition to the higher battery capacity clear improvements have been made to the efficiency of the drive system, resulting in a greater range.
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"We're talking not only about a loss of jobs but, from my perspective, a negative impact to the safety and efficiency of the national airspace system, " he said.
But the efficiency of such a system is proportional to the height of the chimney, notes Mr Michaud, which is limited by practical considerations.
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The company hopes that two other things will act as barriers to entry: the size of its library and the efficiency of its distribution system.
The real benefit here will turn out to be in improving the efficiency of the health care system, reducing waits and endlessly repeated forms.
Dr. ORSZAG: Well, the key to our long-term fiscal future is actually improving the efficiency of the health care system, and I think there's a lot that can be done there to bring - to bend the curve on health care costs.
Over the last 30 years, there have been amazing advances in our abilities to combat human disease and equally impressive innovation within information technology that has changed the way we live, yet there has been staggeringly little application of innovation to the efficiency of our healthcare system.
Energy Secretary Ed Davey should ramp up the efficiency of our energy system and invest in home-grown renewable energy to boost the economy and reduce consumers' exposure to rocketing gas prices.
Hence the need for more research comparing the efficiency of America's justice system with less severe European ones.
Sebelius said that all proposals include provisions to decrease fraud and improve efficiency of the current system.
Overall efficiency of the system is extremely low currently, thanks to a low concentration of those photon-catching structures, but individually they capture about 40 percent of the light's energy, meaning a higher concentration could make for very hearty soup indeed.
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Managers tout the Chery Production System, or CPS, which is modeled after the vaunted Toyota Production System, but the factory lacks the clockwork efficiency of a Toyota plant.
Now the company has invested in increasing efficiency, decreasing the footprint and increasing the scale of the Watson system.
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The fact is, there is simply no replacement for the efficiency, safety, and expansiveness of our pipeline system.
The fact is that Help Hospitalized Veterans (HHV) and the Coalition to Salute America's Heroes (CSAH) satisfy the minimum acceptable fundraising efficiency percentages of FORBES' own charity-rating system (70%) and the Better Business Bureau's (65%).
With paper-based systems you cannot have the types of efficiency we associate with Deming or the total production system.
General secretary of the University and College Union Sally Hunt said the higher education system was already creaking under the pressure of government efficiency savings and the planned cuts would be a devastating blow.
The meeting will address the vision, strategy and analytical framework for growth and efficiency of green initiatives and the international agenda around the following initiatives: Power system transformation, energy efficiency in industry, global water demand issues, bio-refining, trade, aviation and financing.
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The system of homogenised best practices stimulated efficiency but it also blocked deviations from the standard, consequently limiting the discovery of new innovations.
But that leaves another 28m-odd waiting to register, out of a population probably twice that size, most of it in places without the relative efficiency of Kinshasa for running a high-tech electoral system.
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Within the school system there is plenty of scope for efficiency gains, which should make it possible to improve both the quality and the quantity of education at a fairly modest cost.
Investing in clean energy technology and improving the efficiency of buildings, cars and transportation system will create whole new industries, and as these flourish, there will be new demand for professions and skills of all types, producing new jobs that will drive our economic recovery.
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