For small businesses, gaming can be used to drive efficiency, reward employees, and even encourage healthier behavior.
Rockwell Automation (ROK) manufactures tools and controls used to increase efficiency at factories.
By the same token, a Mossad source says that cloak-and-dagger operations still have their uses, even though ultra-modern electronic and biometric skills, used with surprising efficiency (in Israeli eyes) by Dubai's police, make such operations, involving wigged disguises and old-style skulduggery, harder to pull off.
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Natural gas emits 29% less carbon dioxide than oil and 45% less than coal, and it can be used in high-efficiency combined cycle power stations.
Prizes could be used to increase energy efficiency, cost-effectively convert solar energy to electricity, waste reduction efforts, and drive advancements on any number of environmental issues.
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Because some users turn the crank-handle faster and harder than others, a nifty three-stage gearbox and a dynamo based on powerful neodymium-iron-boron magnets is used to ensure that efficiency is largely independent of the torque applied.
Although in the Institute's study only a small proportion of managers think that technologies such as holograms, robots and bio-chips will be used to drive business efficiency in the next 10 years, the overwhelming majority think that virtual business will be commonplace and this will lead to increased virtual contact.
The thermal efficiency of the ICEs used in the Indy cars is over 45%.
But the listed financial efficiency ratios can be used as points of comparison for any nonprofit, no matter how small.
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More people owning tablet computers this year and improved efficiency in the processes used to make such books might help change that soon.
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Higher as in 1, 200 degrees Celsius, which would heat air hot enough to run a high efficiency turbine like those used in fossil fuel power plants.
It's similar to a proposal by the Bush administration, which calls on Congress to drop a requirement that the Energy Department's loans be used for investments in vehicle fuel efficiency.
The energy efficiency tools can be used with a network of assets such as smart meters, smart plugs and building management systems to keep a tab on real-time energy use of corporate assets.
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There is also ample scope to improve the efficiency with which energy is used in the region.
They should assess if tablet computers can be used in the enterprise to boost employee efficiency and productivity.
The best cells operate at about 33 percent efficiency, but the ones used on vehicles are only about 18 percent efficient, he said.
That is because technological gains in fuel efficiency, instead of being used for better mileage -- something that American car buyers seem to actually care little about -- were used for increased size and speed.
The process works at 90 percent efficiency, and it can be used on a variety of plant waste beyond orange peels.
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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.
Their tubular design was aimed at optimising the efficiency of the silicon that was being used.
Along with full-body scanners, modern-day air travellers are already used to other security measures that impede speed and efficiency, such as the removal of shoes, laptops and liquids at security checkpoints.
Historically, we know that is a method of attack that has been used, and really, it comes down to combat efficiency, not fearlessness.
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Individual performance data and job competency modeling provide much of the data used for analytics using this view, along with HR efficiency metrics.
The Galaxy S III offers secure features and capabilities that may be used in a wide range of business situations to improve efficiency and productivity.
The bill also removes the dedicated funding for green infrastructure, water efficiency, and environmentally innovative projects that communities used to implement forward-thinking water management solutions that protect clean water and save them money.
The efficiency is on a comparable level with real plants used for biomass energy.
The efficiency is of a comparable level to real plants used in the biomass energy source.
The practical applications could improve the efficiency of quantum computers, where light is often used to transfer information.
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This concept will also improve overall memory efficiency and bandwidth, especially when small memory granularities are used.
"The Nissan LEAF has an advantage in that braking force is used to re-power the battery, thereby improving its energy efficiency, " said Castignetti.
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