* Improved cooling: when the engine was running the rotating cylinder block created its own fast-moving cooling airflow, even with the aircraft at rest.

* Improved night cooling rates

Improved wine making technologies and better weather forecasts during the harvest have increased the number of years in which a vintage can be declared.

Improved visibility of the signal head is achieved during the night by using the retro-reflective white border.

In 1972, the Improved Scouting Program increased to 24 the number of merit badges needed to obtain Eagle, while reducing the list of required merit badges to ten, eliminating badges that required swimming and outdoor skills — both of which were later reinstated, and adding the requirement to show leadership during the service project.

In 1786 he returned briefly to England, and it was during that year that Molson picked up the book " Theoretic Hints on an Improved Practice in Brewing " by John Richardson.

Improved relations between China and the United States during the later years of the Cold War rendered the term more or less obsolete, except when it referred to the Korean Peninsula and the divide between allies of the US and allies of the USSR in Southeast Asia.

The locomotive that operated the line for many years, known during operation as an " Improved F ", was donated to the preservation society at Shantytown in Westland and it operates heritage trains today with the nameplate " Kaitangata " in honour of its former home.

* LNWR Improved Precedent Class No 790 Hardwicke, a speed record breaking steam engine during the Race to the North

Ten were built, followed by eleven " Improved Director " ( GCR Class 11F, LNER Class D11 ) locomotives during 1920-1924.

In 2003, his second year in the league, Arenas received the NBA Most Improved Player Award and was named Most Valuable Player of the Rookie-Sophomore game during the NBA All-Star Weekend.

Improved highway access during the early 21st century resulted in a population boom.

Improved coordination may also assist in delivering appropriate firepower or other tangible assets to first responders during domestic attacks and natural disasters worldwide.

* Improved race relations was seen as a national security issue during the Cold War.

Crocker first started racing quarter midgets at the age of 7 in the Custom Quarter Midget Club, based in Thompson, Connecticut, and the Silver City Quarter Midget Club from Meriden, Connecticut and was named the Most Improved Novice during her first year of competition.

Skiles was named the NBA's Most Improved Player at the end of the season, as the Magic heralded the NBA's most improved record that season.

After returning to France and playing for the start of the 1995 – 96 season with Pau-Orthez, he was named the NBA's Most Improved Player for the 1995 – 96 season after averaging 14. 5 points, 9. 6 rebounds, 2. 26 blocks per game while making a league-leading 58. 4 percent of his field goals.

Bobby Simmons and Aaron Brooks are the only former D-League players to win an NBA end of season award ; Simmons won the Most Improved Player Award with the Los Angeles Clippers in 2004 – 05 and Brooks won the Most Improved Player Award with the Houston Rockets in 2009 – 10.

Another successful Turkish player in the NBA is Hidayet Türkoğlu, who was given the NBA's Most Improved Player Award for the 2007 – 2008 season, on April 28, 2008.

Improved late season results, including the safety-clinching win in the derby against Hull F. C.

In his eight seasons with the club, he was voted an NBA All-Star six times, made the All-NBA teams three times, and was voted the NBA Most Improved Player in the 2001 – 02 season.

The 2001 – 02 season proved to be the breakthrough season for O ' Neal as he earned a trio of honors: winning the NBA Most Improved Player Award, being named an NBA All-Star, and making the All-NBA Third Team ( becoming the second Pacer in history to do so after Reggie Miller ).

Arenas is a three-time NBA All-Star, three-time member of the All-NBA Teams, and was voted the NBA Most Improved Player in the 2002 – 03 season.

He realized this promise in his second pro season, averaging a double-double – 11. 7 pts and 10. 2 boards – and finishing second in Most Improved Player voting.

The National Basketball Association's Most Improved Player Award is an annual National Basketball Association ( NBA ) award given since the 1985 – 86 NBA season, to the most improved player of the regular season.

After an injury-plagued first season at Carlisle, the 2007 / 08 season became a different story for Raven, who established himself as Carlisle's first choice right back, and also won the club's Most Improved Player of the Year award.

In 2002, Raiola started all 16 games of the season, winning the Chuck Hughes Most Improved Player award.

A key piece of the Comets dynasty that included four championships from 1997 to 2000, Arcain had her best season in 2001, averaging 18. 5 points per game en route to Most Improved Player and First Team All-WNBA honors.

After the 2010-11 season, Wright finished third in voting for NBA Most Improved Player, behind Lamarcus Aldridge, and Kevin Love.

Pre-OHL, Moreau played OHA-B junior hockey in Orillia, Ontario, for the Orillia Terriers, where he won the coveted Steve Philips Memorial Award for Most Improved Player ( 1990 — 91 season ).

In the 2004 – 05 season he collected the club's " Most Improved Player of the Season " award.

In 1999 she qualified for the season ending WTA Tour Championships reaching the quarterfinals and was named TENNIS Magazines Most Improved Player.

The Women's National Basketball Association's Most Improved Player Award is an annual Women's National Basketball Association ( WNBA ) award given since the 2000 WNBA season, to the most improved player of the regular season.

The rules from the GCR applying to Improved Touring cars mostly involve safety and basic setup.

Examples include the U. S. M901 ITV ( Improved TOW Vehicle ) and the Norwegian NM142, both on an M113 chassis, several Soviet ATGM launchers based on the BRDM reconnaissance car, the British FV438 Swingfire and FV102 Striker and the German Raketenjagdpanzer series built on the chassis of the HS 30 and Marder IFV.

* PDP-11 / 23 +/ MicroPDP-11 / 23 — Improved 11 / 23 with more functions on the ( larger ) processor card.

The system has been tested for use on the Humvee and the Improved TOW Vehicle ( ITV ).

* Improved performance — data is located near the site of greatest demand, and the database systems themselves are parallelized, allowing load on the databases to be balanced among servers.

and Sargand, S. M., " Advanced Processing of Time Domain Reflectometry for Improved Slope Stability Monitoring ", Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Conference on Tailings and Mine Waste, October, 2004.

Later, an employee of Stoddard's American Music, Arthur S. Denny, attempted to market an " Improved Kalliope " in Europe, but it did not catch on.

Improved technology has seen the creation of the first vented discs for use on mountain bikes, similar to those on cars, introduced to help avoid heat fade on fast alpine descents.

Improved remote sensing information, coupled with good knowledge domain on wetlands will facilitate expanded efforts in wetland monitoring and mapping.

* Improved graphics hardware acceleration on Windows.

1984 – Improved version with " kovriki " armour on turret front.

By 1685, Southampton was recognized by the Provincial Council as a township, and the lands within its borders had been allocated to thirteen original purchasers: John Luff, John Martin, Robert Pressmore, Richard Wood, John Jones, Mark Betres, John Swift, Enoch Flowers, Joseph Jones, Thomas Groom, Robert Marsh, Thomas Hould and John Gilbert, whose tracts were delineated on a Map of the Improved Part of the Province of Pennsylvania drafted by Thomas Holme, Penn's Surveyor General.

* Improved passenger facilities including increased lighting, a new canopy on platform 4, and information and security systems

The 1926 Report on Improved Transportation Facilities and 1945-47 Coolidge Commission Report recommended that the East Boston Tunnel line, which had been converted to rapid transit from streetcars in 1924, be extended to Lynn via the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn right-of-way.

Improved with boulders brought from Montevideo beginning in 1789, it became the first paved street in the city ( a section of the original cobblestone pavement is displayed behind the entrance to the Cathedral Station on Diagonal Norte Avenue ).

* Improved Collision Attack on MD4

It is based on what was then called " Leopard 2 Improved " and features increased armour on the turret top and front hull, and improved command, control and fire control systems.

While work continued on Cleo, it was decided to adapt it as a weapon of its own to replace Red Beard, as the " Improved Kiloton Weapon ".

* PhD thesis on Diffusion tractography: Improved analysis of brain connectivity using high angular resolution diffusion imaging