A large picnic area or camping development is most efficient in shape as a square or rectangle several hundred feet in width in preference to a long narrow area less than one hundred feet wide.

The thermostat is important to get your engine up to operating temperature quickly, and to keep it running at its most efficient temperature through the proper circulation of the coolant.

And trailer makers, those most industrialized and therefore most efficient of homebuilders, say they save hundreds of dollars by always building from the inside out.

But now many of these same builders are finding they can cut their costs more by teaming up with a dealer who has volume enough to afford the most efficient specialized equipment to deliver everything just where it is needed -- drywall inside the house, siding along the sides, trusses on the walls, roofing on the roof, etc..

Even `` America's most efficient builder '', Bob Schmitt of Berea, hopes to cut his labor costs another $2,000 per house as a result of the time-&-motion studies now being completed on his operation by industrial efficiency engineers from the Stanley Works.

Of the two, Porter is justly the better known, for he went far beyond the vital finding of fiction for films to take the first step toward fashioning a language of film, toward making the motion picture the intricate, efficient time machine that it has remained since, even in the most inept hands.

`` They are the most efficient ''.

`` The news of their experiments reaches the farmers who, forgetting that birds are the most efficient natural enemies of insects and rodents, are encouraged to try to get rid of all birds that occasionally peck their grapes or their blueberries '', Buchheister told the delegates.

She was a clever girl, a most efficient secretary.

Since the 1960s, composite airframes and quieter, more efficient engines have become available, and Concorde provided supersonic passenger service for more than two decades, but the most important lasting innovations have taken place in instrumentation and control.

Although such a conversion can be prone to loss, most modern audio systems use this approach as the techniques of digital signal processing are much more powerful and efficient than analog domain signal processing.

The bridge taking the greatest load is by this test the most structurally efficient.

The bicycle is the most efficient human-powered means of transportation in terms of energy a person must expend to travel a given distance.

Since cyclists ' legs are most efficient over a narrow range of pedaling speeds ( cadence ), a variable gear ratio helps a cyclist to maintain an optimum pedalling speed while covering varied terrain.

Some, mainly utility, bicycles use hub gears with between 3 and 14 ratios, but most use the generally more efficient dérailleur system, by which the chain is moved between different cogs called chainrings and sprockets in order to select a ratio.

The most efficient minerals are supergene minerals such as chalcocite, Cu < sub > 2 </ sub > S and covellite, CuS.

In primitive regions today and in all pre-development ( lacking highways or railways ) regions worldwide in times before industrial development and highways, barges were the predominant and most efficient means of inland transportation in many regions of the world.

As a result of the Attlee Government ’ s initiatives in agriculture, there was a 20 % increase in output between 1947 and 1952, while Britain adopted one of the most mechanised and efficient farming industries in the world.

The most efficient composting occurs with a carbon: nitrogen mix of about 30 to 1.

According to Anthony Quinton, classical liberals believe that " an unfettered market " is the most efficient mechanism to satisfy human needs and channel resources to their most productive uses: they " are more suspicious than conservatives of all but the most minimal government.

Theoretically there are several alternatives to the TCA cycle, however the TCA cycle appears to be the most efficient.

The lens is almost spherical, which is most efficient at focusing the minimal light that reaches deep water.

Even the most rational of men, under great stress, may be transported by a new faith and behave like mystics.

For Friedrich Schiller aesthetic appreciation of beauty is the most perfect reconciliation of the sensual and rational parts of human nature.

Among the five-sensed beings, the rational ones ( humans ) are most strongly protected by Jain ahimsa.

A rational function has at most one horizontal asymptote or oblique ( slant ) asymptote, and possibly many vertical asymptotes.

His " Software Tools " series spread the essence of ' C / Unix thinking ' with makeovers for BASIC, FORTRAN, and Pascal-and most notably his ' Ratfor ' ( rational FORTRAN ) was put in the public domain.

As a result, most real numbers have no description ( in the same sense of " most " as ' most real numbers are not rational ').

Sacrificing one's short-term self-interest to maximize one's long-term self-interest is one form of " rational self-interest " which is the idea behind most philosophers ' advocacy of ethical egoism.

The most commonly used fields are the field of real numbers, the field of complex numbers, and the field of rational numbers, but there are also finite fields, fields of functions, various algebraic number fields, p-adic fields, and so forth.

While recognising bureaucracy as the most efficient form of organisation and even indispensable for the modern state, Weber also saw it as a threat to individual freedoms and the ongoing bureaucratisation as leading to a " polar night of icy darkness ", in which increasing rationalisation of human life traps individuals in the aforementioned " iron cage " of bureaucratic, rule-based, rational control.

Perhaps most of philosophy of religion is predicated on natural theology's assumption that the existence of God can be justified or warranted on rational grounds.

The most effective propaganda is often completely truthful, but some propaganda presents facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis, or gives loaded messages in order to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented.

The " rationality " described by rational choice theory is different from the colloquial and most philosophical use of the word.

* Thomas Paine ( 1737 – 1809 ) English / American pamphleteer, most famous for Common Sense ( 1776 ) calling for American independence as the most rational solution

The most important position that united the early deists was their call for " free rational inquiry " into all subjects, especially religion.

The former are those “ manifested by his observed behaviour, including preferences possibly based on erroneous factual beliefs, or on careless logical analysis, or on strong emotions that at the moment greatly hinder rational choice ” whereas the latter are “ the preferences he would have if he had all the relevant factual information, always reasoned with the greatest possible care, and were in a state of mind most conducive to rational choice .” It is the latter that preference utilitarianism tries to satisfy.

During the interval, Antonescu, who viewed the separate peace as " the most rational solution ", was assigned command over a cavalry regiment.

In the end, even the most logical and rational pursuit of science can trace its origins to religion.

The terms " logic " or " logical " are sometimes used as if they were identical with the term " reason " or with the concept of being " rational ", or sometimes logic is seen as the most pure or the defining form of reason.

Concerning the practical implications, according to Velkley, " Rousseau outlines certain programs of rational self-correction, most notably the political legislation of the Contrat Social and the moral education in Émile.

Among the most important were the Journal Œconomique ( 1721 – 1772 ), which promoted agronomy and rational husbandry and the Journal du commerce ( 1759 – 1762 ), which was heavily influenced by the Irishman Richard Cantillon ( 1680 – 1734 ), and two dominated by physiocrats ; the Journal de l ' agriculture, du commerce et des finances ( 1765 – 1774 ) and the Ephémérides du citoyen ( 1767 – 1772 and 1774 – 1776 ).