Improved friction is provided by lining materials that have a higher coefficient of friction than standard brake pads, while brake fade is reduced through the use of more expensive binding resins with a higher melting point, along with slotted, drilled, or dimpled discs / rotors that reduce the gaseous boundary layer, in addition to providing enhanced heat dissipation.

In general terms, AMPS was very similar to the older " 0G " Improved Mobile Telephone Service, but used considerably more computing power in order to select frequencies, hand off conversations to PSTN lines, and handle billing and call setup.

Improved price discrimination allows a monopolist to gain more profit by charging more to those who want or need the product more or who have a greater ability to pay.

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

Improved sprawl systems, though retaining the car detours, possess cycle paths and footpaths connecting across the arms of the sprawl system, allowing a more direct route while still keeping the cars out of the residential and side streets.

Improved agricultural husbandry has more recently included threshing machines and reaping machines ( the ' combine harvester '), tractor-drawn cultivators and planters, and better varieties ( see Green Revolution and Norin 10 wheat ).

Improved version T13 introduced as T26 with more powerful 4-cylinder flat air-cooled engine and in six-wheeler chassis created capable offroad light utility truck which later evolved in to T72 model which was heavily used by Czechoslovakian army at the time and was also manufactured under license by the French company Lorraine-Dietrich.

* Improved fuel octanes, above about 87 RON, have assisted poppet-valve engines more than the single-sleeve engine's power output.

Improved technology has cut the cost of desalination in half in the past decade, making it more competitive ... Poseidon plans to sell the water for about $ 950 per acre-foot

Improved growth rates show that farmed animals utilize their feed more efficiently through a correlated response ( Gjedrem 1985 ).

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.

Improved training, more education, and higher professional standards are bolstering the skills and confidence of journalists across East Asia, better positioning media organizations to gain positions of influence in their societies.

Improved understanding of emulsion polymerization has relaxed that criterion to include more than one growing chain per particle, however, the growing chains per particle is still considered to be very low.

** PL-11A — Improved PL-11 with increased range, warhead, and more effective seeker.

Improved highways and an increasing willingness among passengers to drive to airports farther away for more convenient flights made many of Southern's routes obsolete.

* Improved procurement power though more accurate data-“ de-risking ” price

Improved transport facilitated further growth and attracted many more affluent middle class inhabitants.

* Improved AppleScript — The scripting interface now allows scripting access to many more system components, such as the Printer Center, and Terminal, thus improving the customizability of the interface.

Although this variant matched the original Improved Kiloton Weapon concept with an added NDB function, and was identified as the A model, it was not the first to be deployed due to the more pressing needs for the B models.

Improved audio quality and graphics, sub-quests from various gods, more races and build options as well as two large single-player campaigns made most of the large fanbase of Age of Wonders happy migrating to Age of Wonders 2: The Wizard's Throne ; this was aided by the involvement of members of the HeavenGames community in suggestions, testing and development of the game.

A derivative of the Improved Crystal satellites, EIS replaced Misty, and was intended to provide more coverage and dwell time than previous reconnaissance satellites ; like Misty, it has stealth capabilities.

Improved dimensions of kitchens, bathrooms and gardens for working-class houses might also be seen as a response to a more equal valuation of women as competent industrial workers and a political force.

Improved and increased user involvement: Prototyping requires user involvement and allows them to see and interact with a prototype allowing them to provide better and more complete feedback and specifications.

Some examples of successful metabolic engineering are the following: ( i ) Identification of constraints to lysine production in corynebacterium glutamicum and insertion of new genes to relieve these constraints to improve production ( ii ) Engineering of a new fatty acid biosynthesis pathway, called reversed beta oxidation pathway, that is more efficient than the native pathway in producing fatty acids and alcohols which can potentially be catalytically converted to chemicals and fuels ( iii ) Improved production of DAHP ( 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate ), an aromatic metabolite produced by E. coli that is an intermediate in the production of aromatic amino acids.

* Improved power management and suspend / resume operations: The OEM version of Windows Me supports OS-controlled ACPI S4 sleep state ( hibernation ) and other power management features without manufacturer-supplied drivers.

Improved engine had higher compression ratio than before, and new turbocharger compressor ( 60 mm to 68 mm ), which gave power output of at 6250 rpm, at 3000 rpm.

* The Speex audio compression library uses a procedure named Improved Minima Controlled Recursive Averaging, which uses a smoothed representation of spectral power and then looks at the minima of a smoothed periodogram.

Improved locks were fitted across the range, and a number of other improvements were carried out including new suspension and gearbox mounts, updated interior and trim changes, improved soundproofing and revised steering and suspension settings.

* Improved steering responsiveness and precision

Improved vacuum pump technology in the 1940s enabled the first prototype experiments on SIMS by Herzog and Viehböck in 1949, at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Improved color sensitizers and ongoing improvements in the overall sensitivity of emulsions steadily reduced the once-prohibitive long exposure times required for color, bringing it ever closer to commercial viability.

Improved water supply reduces diarrhea morbidity by twenty-five percent and improvements in drinking water through proper storage in the home and chlorination reduces diarrhea episodes by thirty-nine percent.

* Improved MP3Gain: 60 % faster due to Hyperthreading and SSE2 Support and other improvements

Very few features are targeted for Firefox 17 at this time — there are only two user-facing features: Improved display of location bar results and improvements to the silent update mechanism for users with incompatible add-ons.

This led to the Improved Lunar Ephemeris ( ILE ), which, with some minor successive improvements, was used in the astronomical almanacs from 1960 through 1983 ( ILE j = 0 from 1960 to 1967, ILE j = 1 from 1968 to 1971, ILE j = 2 from 1972 to 1983 ), and was used to bring men to the moon.

Improved versions of the AIM-7 were developed in the 1970s in an attempt to address the weapon's limitations.

Improved designs of mines were created in Imperial Germany, circa 1912, and were copied and manufactured by all major participants in the First World War.

Improved estimates of Venus ' mass and the value of the astronomical unit were made.

Both Granger and Dunleavy were involved in the voting for Most Improved Player, with Dunleavy finishing in the top 10.

Improved varieties were probably first raised by the skilful gardeners of Holland, whose name for the fruit, Kruisbezie, may have been easily corrupted into the present English vernacular word.

These options were discontinued in 1972 with the Improved Scouting Program, and Explorers could use the standard Eagle requirements only through age 18.

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.

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 embalming techniques allowed the viscera to remain in the body ; the traditional jars remained a feature of tombs, but were no longer hollowed out for storage of the organs.

Improved versions of the musket were transported to India by Babur in 1526.

Improved versions were programmed to be able to detect ventricular tachycardia, often a forerunner of ventricular fibrillation.

Improved tracks were added and the No. 19 Wireless replaced the No. 11.

The wheels were Improved Engine Green with red lining.

Improved caplock versions were introduced in 1831 and 1842, as were muzzleloading versions.

Four Block III satellites, commonly called KH-12 or Improved Crystal were launched between November 1992 and October 2001.

Two of their players, Gabriel Mouneke and Carlos Escalera, were selected Most Valuable Player and Most Improved Player respectively.

Improved water control was put in place and deeper open water pools covering were created to improve fish numbers.

Improved versions were submitted by Lindholm ( 2005 ) and Hagedorn ( 2008 ).

Similar procedures were used for United States Army production at Picatinny Arsenal beginning in 1907 and for manufacture of smaller grained Improved Military Rifle ( IMR ) powders after 1914.

P25 standards use the proprietary Improved Multi-Band Excitation ( IMBE ) and Advanced Multi-Band Excitation ( AMBE + 2 ) voice codecs which were designed by Digital Voice Systems, Inc. to encode / decode the analog audio signals.