Efficiency is important because many diseases depend upon processes within the cell and can only be impeded by drugs that make their way into the cell.

* 300 nm — greatest particle size that can fit through a HEPA ( High Efficiency Particulate Air ) filter ( N100 removes up to 99. 97 % at 0. 3 micrometres, N95 removes up to 95 % at 0. 3 micrometres )

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

Efficiency also approaches 100 % if the source resistance can be made close to zero.

Condensing furnaces can typically deliver heating savings of 20 %- 35 % assuming the old furnace was in the 60 % Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency ( AFUE ) range.

Efficiency and productivity improvement can be considered as whole organization or industry or economy learning processes, as well as for individuals.

Efficiency can be analyzed as the correct use of the challenge through the game, the correct structuring of the objectives or the best adaptation of the control to the actions in the game.

* Efficiency: One vectored I / O read or write can replace many ordinary reads or writes, and thus save on the overhead involved in syscalls

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.

* Shared Configuration and Management Efficiency: Quattor encourages the re-use of configuration information in such a way that it can be distributed and used with little or no modification at different sites, facilitating the distribution of best practices without the need for each site to implement configuration changes.

Efficiency, like resolution, can be expressed in absolute or relative terms.

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

Efficiency can be achieved in two ways: by reducing rework and by shortening project length.

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 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.

Efficiency is not to be confused with the PFC, though many computer hardware reviews conflate them.

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

Efficiency is but one of many vying goals in an economic system, and different notions of efficiency may be complementary or may be at odds.

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.

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.

; Efficiency / Performance: A statistically dominant fraction of machine instructions must be executed without VMM intervention.

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.

* 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 )

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.

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.

Efficiency requires that the bridge be fully utilized, but any toll charged will discourage some crossings.

Efficiency should be increased through voluntary financial incentives, and reducing committee sizes and numbers.

Efficiency would need to be increased and cost decreased to make TPV competitive with fuel cells or internal combustion engines.

Efficiency is gained by utilizing a parry rather than a block.

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.

It was created in 2010 to develop High Efficiency Video Coding, a new generation video coding standard that further reduces ( by 50 %) the data rate required for high quality video coding, as compared to the current ITU-T H. 264 / ISO / IEC 14496-10 standard.

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.

Efficiency is increased by raising the compression ratio.

The corridor was listed as the number-one high-priority corridor by transportation officials in the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act.

# Efficiency in government-lower tax rates meant few tax returns to process by few government workers, cutting the actual size of paper bills to fit into wallets saved expenses in paper and ink.

* Human Behavior and the Efficiency of the Financial System ( 1999 ) by Robert J. Shiller Handbook of Macroeconomics

* Summary of " Efficiency and wellbeing for 80 years " by Tarmo Luoma on site of TEHO magazine.

The Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy section wrote " Filtration should have a Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value ( MERV ) of 13 as determined by ASHRAE 52. 2-1999.

A part to generally monitored hemodynamic values and to fluid responsiveness parameters, an exclusive reference is also provided by PRAM: Cardiac Cycle Efficiency ( CCE ).

Efficiency and development curves typically follow a two-phase process of first bigger steps corresponding to finding things easier, followed by smaller steps of finding things more difficult.

The province of San Luis was voted the best managed in the country by private consultants for the seventh consecutive year, in Tax Efficiency Policy, Social indicators, Infrastructure, Fiscal Solvency and International Trade.

Dover Sherborn High School ranked 3rd in Cost Efficiency and 7th in Academic Performance by Boston Magazine.

Other causes have been attributed to contaminants produced by outgassing of some types of building materials, volatile organic compounds ( VOC ), molds ( see mold health issues ), improper exhaust ventilation of ozone ( byproduct of some office machinery ), light industrial chemicals used within, or lack of adequate fresh-air intake / air filtration ( see Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value ).

* Historic 54. 5 mpg Fuel Efficiency Standards finalized August 2012 by NTSA

Efficiency is the cornerstone of the book Factor Four-Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use by Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Amory and Hunter Lovins ( Rocky Mountain Institute, USA ).

Fall-Infrastructure improvement grants through the federal Transportation and Efficiency Act for the 21st century were authorized by the U. S. Congress.

Efficiency is generally high, because most of the dynamic friction is caused by very slight transitional clutch speed changes.

The Battle Efficiency Ribbon, Navy " E " Ribbon, or ( informally ) the Battle " E " ribbon was established in July 1976 by Secretary of the Navy J. William Middendorf.

* Efficiency Decoration: a defunct decoration formerly awarded by the militaries of the Commonwealth of Nations

Her appointment was amended on 26 February 2010, by the Prime Minister, to the Minister for Climate Change, Energy Efficiency and Water.