Efficiency is gained in that the opponent has less time to react to the nullification of their attack while having to worry about defending an incoming attack.

Hoover, a trained engineer, believed strongly in the Efficiency Movement, which held that the government and the economy were riddled with inefficiency and waste, and could be improved by experts who could identify the problems and solve them.

Efficiency of atomic orbital interactions is determined from the overlap ( a measure of how well two orbitals constructively interact with one another ) between two atomic orbitals, which is significant if the atomic orbitals are close in energy.

 He made another major contribution to the field in his 1979 paper, joint with his student Robert A. Reckhow, " The Relative Efficiency of Propositional Proof Systems ", in which they formalized the notions of p-simulation and efficient propositional proof system, which started an area now called propositional proof complexity.

Israel Kirzner states that: " Efficiency for a social system means the efficiency with which it permits its individual members to achieve their individual goals ".

Balfour Education Bill was intended to promote National Efficiency, a cause which Chamberlain thought worthy.

( so called High Efficiency ) version, which fit in the Jaguar XJ12 and Jaguar XJS models and used a stratified charge design called the ' May Fireball ' in order to reduce the engine's very heavy fuel consumption.

In Efficiency Wage Models of the Labor Market, Akerlof and coauthor Janet Yellen ( his wife ) propose rationales for the efficiency wage hypothesis in which employers pay above the market-clearing wage, in contradiction to the conclusions of neoclassical economics.

Thus, the grid had become the main driver of remote customers ’ power costs and power quality problems, which became more acute as digital equipment required extremely reliable electricity., Efficiency gains no longer come from increasing generating capacity, but from smaller units located closer to sites of demand.,

Efficiency in general describes the extent to which time or effort is well used for the intended task or purpose.

* Efficiency, the extent to which time or effort is well used for the intended task or purpose

All versions have a standard fit " Gear Efficiency Indicator " which graphically states what gear to be in and when to change up and down to optimise economy.

Thus it is a chapter in a larger narrative that includes many ideas and fields, from the folk wisdom of thrift to a profusion of applied-science successors, including time and motion study, the Efficiency Movement ( which was the broader cultural echo of scientific management's impact on business managers specifically ), Fordism, operations management, operations research, industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, logistics, business process management, business process reengineering, lean manufacturing, and Six Sigma.

Skinner was instrumental in developing President Bush's National Transportation Policy and the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act ( ISTEA ), which served as the catalyst for the whole ITS industry.

* Energy Efficiency Ratio ( EER ), which is the ratio of an air conditioner's cooling capacity in BTU and its input power in watt-hours.

Efficiency wages are therefore a market failure explanation of unemployment – in contrast to theories which emphasize government intervention ( such as minimum wages ).

** South African Efficiency Decoration, which form part of the South African honours system

The listing of periodicals under permanent banning orders as of 2007 includes many publications which have ceased to be published, as well as ones which are now sold freely without any realistic chance of prosecution, such as Health and Efficiency and The Weekly News.

Efficiency was further improved by the development of a multi-stage injector which was powered not by live steam from the boiler but by exhaust steam from the cylinders, thereby making use of the residual energy in the exhaust steam which would otherwise have gone to waste.

Efficiency was one of Chapelon's primary concerns in design ; some of his locomotives exceeded 12 % efficiency, which for a steam locomotive was exceptional.

A theory of Design Efficiency leading to Design Effectiveness is presented, which means that once a product is designed to be used in perpetuity, it can be fitted out with robust features, strong materials and special conveniences that could not be afforded in a product designed to be discarded after a single use.

* " Efficiency and energy comes from emotion, not from intellectual knowledge, which can only direct that emotional energy.

Efficiency should not be confused with effectiveness: a system that wastes most of its input power but produces exactly what it is meant to is effective but not efficient.

* The South Central Railway has bagged the prestigious Govind Vallabh Pant Efficiency Shield ( jointly with Western Railway ) from the railway ministry in recognition of its overall best performance among all the 17 zones of Indian Railways for the year 2011-12.

On 15 June 2010, it moved, along with its parent agency the Office of Government Commerce, to become part of the Efficiency and Reform Group within Cabinet Office.

* Efficiency in Private Organisation ( A Study of Southern Roadways )-This book studies the good management practices that prevailed in the 1950s and 60s at TV Sundaram Iyengar and Sons, a private sector business house established in 1911 and diversified into logistics, manufacturing and other lines of business, with its base in Chennai, South India.

In November 1911 the Cleveland Commission on Economy and Efficiency, chaired by Frederick A. Cleveland, President William Howard Taft's chief economic adviser, released a report that called for the dissolution of the RCS and its responsibilities distributed to other agencies in the Federal government.

Gas Efficiency: Although the Autococker operates at lower pressures than many of its contemporaries, such as the Kingman Spyder and Automag, the forces and pressures at play in the firing and recocking mechanisms must be balanced for the greatest effectiveness at the desired shot velocity, something that does not have to be done ( at least to this degree ) in any other marker.

The purpose of the Older Boys ’ Parliament ( OBP ) in its early years was to recommend changes and additions to the " Canadian Standards Efficiency Training " ( CSET ) programme ( see History, below ) and to promote Christian boys life.

With a Proposition for Reorganizing the Royal Regiment of Artillery by a Subdivision into Battalions in each special arm of Garrison, Field, and Horse Artillery, with Suggestions for Promoting its Efficiency.

Technology Growth and Efficiency are regarded as two of the biggest sub-sections of Total Factor Productivity, the former possessing " special " inherent features such as positive externalities and non-rivalness which enhance its position as a driver of economic growth.

This culminated in the Minister setting up the Review into the Governance, Efficiency and Structure and Operation of Australia ’ s Superannuation System, also known as the Cooper Review, after its head Jeremy Cooper.

The efficiency of air conditioners is often rated by the Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio ( SEER ) which is defined by the Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Institute in its standard ARI 210 / 240, Performance Rating of Unitary Air-Conditioning and Air-Source Heat Pump Equipment.

The Efficiency Movement attracted Progressive Republicans like Herbert Hoover with its pro-business, quasi-engineering approach to solving social and economic problems.

Efficiency is the retention of particles in a target ( size ) category.

Efficiency – performing work in least possible time.

Efficiency is improved if more output is generated without changing inputs, or in other words, the amount of " waste " is reduced.

Efficiency in cross-country skiing depends on keeping the skis narrow to reduce drag, and thus requires them to be very long in order to produce the required amount of float.

It was followed by the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991. The local agencies ( Counties and Cities ) in California were assured that an equal or not less amount of monies will still be annually apportioned to the Counties and Cities as they received in 1990-91 under the Federal Highway Act of 1987 under the old Federal Aid Urban ( FAU ) and Federal Aid Secondary Program

Federal law in Canada, under Canada's Energy Efficiency Regulations, requires that the EnerGuide label be placed on all new electrical appliances manufactured in or imported into Canada and that the label indicate the amount of electricity used by that appliance.

* Marginal Efficiency of Investment is a relationship between interest rate and amount of investment that can be profitable at a given time.