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.

* CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, a UK wide scheme designed to increase energy efficiency in large energy users

A team of renewable energy developers working for the Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission ( SOPAC ) and funded by the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership ( REEEP ), have hatched a scheme that enables these communities to access renewable energy, such as solar, without raising substantial sums of ready cash.

In the market, new technology and energy efficiency measures become desirable for consumers seeking to decrease transport costs. High Oil Prices Boost Energy Efficiency.

* Energy Efficiency Breakdown of the costs, savings, and energy efficiency of Energy Star appliances

Stearns is member of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Caucus, a bi-partisan forum for discussing and disseminating information about renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.

As part of the EU's SAVE Programme, aimed at promoting energy efficiency and encouraging energy-saving behaviour, the Boiler Efficiency Directive specifies minimum levels of efficiency for boilers fired with liquid or gaseous fuels.

Bureau of Energy Efficiency is an Indian governmental organization created in 2001 responsible for promoting energy efficiency and conservation.

In New Zealand the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority is responsible for promoting energy efficiency and conservation

Efficiency of the battery modules is increased, through a reduction in energy losses.

Efficiency is presently quite low for these cells, so they are targeted especially to portable applications, where energy and power density are more important than efficiency.

* Seasonal energy efficiency ratio ( SEER ), used to define the seasonal efficiency of air conditioners and refrigeration equipment ** Not to be confused with the European Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio ( ESEER )

* External Quantum Efficiency ( EQE ) is the ratio of the number of charge carriers collected by the solar cell to the number of photons of a given energy shining on the solar cell from outside ( incident photons ).

* Internal Quantum Efficiency ( IQE ) is the ratio of the number of charge carriers collected by the solar cell to the number of photons of a given energy that shine on the solar cell from outside and are absorbed by the cell.

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.

In 2009, the Energy Efficiency Global Forum presented him the Energy Efficiency Visionary Awards for his " outstanding contributions to the advancement of energy efficiency ".

* 2006 Hosted President George W. Bush for major energy speech at Building Efficiency headquarters in Milwaukee

Efficiency of energy and waste management is the main selective mechanism for evolution.

* In the United States, a house built to the Passive House standard results in a building that requires space heating energy of 1 BTU per square foot ( 11 kJ / m² ) per heating degree day, compared with about 5 to 15 BTUs per square foot ( 56-170 kJ / m² ) per heating degree day for a similar building built to meet the 2003 Model Energy Efficiency Code.

In February 1988 Robin Ibbs, recruited from ICI in July 1983 to run the Efficiency Unit ( now in No. 10 ), published his report Improving Management in Government: The Next Steps.

Efficiency can suffer from slow response ( thermal lag ) and heat losses at night.

The Navy annually awards the Arleigh Burke Fleet Trophy to " the ship or aircraft squadron from each coast selected for having achieved the greatest improvement in battle efficiency during the calendar year, based upon the Battle Efficiency Competition.

These were the ANITA Mk VIII at the Business Efficiency Exhibition in London, United Kingdom, from 2nd.

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.,

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.

" The Efficiency of Sharecropping: Evidence from the Postbellum South ," Southern Economic Journal, Vol.

In 1998, Fitzsimons ' Energy Efficiency Bill was drawn from the member's ballot.

* 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.

* Sociological theories: Efficiency wages may result from traditions.

Efficiency values for light from a heat source are typically less than two percent.

Allison Brewer was chosen as her successor at a September 2005 leadership convention and Weir resigned her seat from the legislature on October 13, 2005 to accept the appointment to be the first president and CEO of the new New Brunswick crown corporation the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Agency.

In 2011, Tacoma Power received the first-ever Award for Excellence in Energy Efficiency from the Bonneville Power Administration ( BPA ).

While the practices, or technologies, employed in green building are constantly evolving and may differ from region to region, fundamental principles persist from which the method is derived: Siting and Structure Design Efficiency, Energy Efficiency, Water Efficiency, Materials Efficiency, Indoor Environmental Quality Enhancement, Operations and Maintenance Optimization, and Waste and Toxics Reduction.

Taylor was one of the intellectual leaders of the Efficiency Movement and his ideas, broadly conceived, were highly influential in the Progressive Era.

" He was one of the intellectual leaders of the Efficiency Movement and part of his approach laid a further foundation for quality management, including aspects like standardization and adopting improved practices.

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.

 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.

* Efficiency: An attack which reaches its target in the least amount of time, with maximum force.

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.

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.

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 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.