More consumers are also using high-efficiency washing machines, which clean with relatively little detergent.
Riding on cutting-edge technologies such as flex oDSP, super SD-FEC, and flex modulation format, this field trial achieved a record-breaking transmission distance of 1, 500 km using a super-channel PDM-16QAM-based high spectral efficiency solution, and a second record-breaking transmission distance of 3, 325 km using a super-channel Nyquist PDM-QPSK-based ultra-long-haul solution.
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One of the early papers to come out of the project is a look at how the city of Busan, in South Korea, is using cloud-based city services to improve efficiency, reduce emissions and serve its residents better.
Greenpeace asks companies to measure and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions throughout the life cycle of their products: supply chain, manufacturing, distribution, customer use, and end-of-life, using a combination of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy policy advocacy.
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.
Bonaventure University and co-author of Using Football to Teach Finance, warns that efficiency does not imply perfection.
The Swiss Federal Railways has improved efficiency in recent years too, by using double-decker trains and increasing its trip frequency.
Of course there are plenty of other ways to improve efficiency, including using efficient appliances, weatherizing homes and that time-honored tradition your parents taught you: turning off the lights when you leave the room.
Rattner explained that the new architecture is based on more than a decade's worth of research to invent a family of silicon-based photonic devices, including lasers, modulators and detectors using low-cost silicon to fully integrate photonic devices of unprecedented speed and energy efficiency.
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The 4-Hour Body, Ferriss' treatise on using tracking to lose weight, maximize efficiency and "become superhuman, " shot to the top of the New York Times bestseller list in January.
Consolidation of the activities in Wi-Fi Alliance is intended to bring greater efficiency, ensure closely-harmonized connectivity and application-layer solutions using the technology, and leverage WiGig technology know-how across the range of Wi-Fi technologies.
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Councils' compliance with the best- value rule would also be checked using a beefed-up version of the Audit Commission's annual comparisons of their costs and efficiency.
Love 'em or hate 'em, there's no question that tablets aren't capable of handling the same rigors (with the same efficiency levels) as a full-on laptop, and Intel's using that very point to promote the Ultrabook category as a whole.
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's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) computer keyboards to Nokia 's (nyse: NOK - news - people ) cell phones, and a few smart businesses are already using Bluetooth to increase efficiency and promote a safe workplace.
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