The company that was responsible for the works, City of Milan Improvements Company of London, eventually experienced financial problems, so that the government of Milan had to take charge.

Improvements since then have largely been better phosphors, longer life, and more consistent internal discharge, and easier-to-use shapes ( such as compact fluorescent lamps ).

Improvements in tubing and vacuum pumps, new filtering techniques, " supercharged " preheaters, and better storage containers have since been developed.

Improvements have been made in manufacturing processes, and many individual details of the instrument continue to receive attention.

Improvements in technology have provided weapons which weigh less, cost less, and can be assembled, loaded, and fired by an illiterate child, adding additional appeal to child soldiers.

Improvements in colour printing technology have reduced this problem and the map has coped with the identification of new lines without great difficulty.

Improvements in neonatology ( specialized medical treatment of newborn babies ) have helped reduce the number of babies who develop cerebral palsy and increased the survival of babies with very low birth weights ( babies which are more likely to have cerebral palsy ).

Improvements in speed, slice count, and image quality have been the major focus primarily for cardiac imaging.

Improvements in life-extending care have somewhat lengthened the survival of children with Tay – Sachs disease, but no current therapy is able to reverse or delay the disease's progress.

Improvements in computer modeling, materials and the application of statistics, probability analysis, and new technologies like horizontal drilling and enhanced oil recovery, have drastically improved the toolbox of the petroleum engineer in recent decades.

Improvements in our understanding of the Viking period have done surprisingly little to falsify Haggard's imagination of its setting, and the book should still hold appeal to any reader interested in the period.

Improvements in compression techniques and disk storage capacity have mitigated these concerns, and the migration to High Definition video and audio has virtually removed this concern completely.

Improvements in statistical methodology related to a completely different branch of science – changes in DNA over time – have sparked a recent renewed interest.

Improvements to the automobile and highways, which coincided with the end of the gas boom, may have also contributed to the decline of the county's smaller communities.

Improvements made to Little Sodus Bay in the early 19th Century, allowed the town to have port facilities.

Improvements in the regional transportation network and the economic growth of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area, and Mount Holly's strategic location between Charlotte and Gastonia, have created conditions for an expanding population in recent years.

Improvements in technology since then have resulted in greater use of the smaller arrays, by sites such as the Côte d ' Azur Observatory in Grasse, France ; and the Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation ( APOLLO ) at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico.

Improvements in automotive engineering have reduced the amount of PM10s produced by road traffic, the proportion representing re-suspension of existing particulates has, as a result, increased.

Improvements in water well drilling technology and submersible pumps combined with the development of drip irrigation and low pressure pivots have made it possible to regularly achieve high crop yields where reliance on rainfall alone previously made this level of success unpredictable.

Improvements in plumbing have greatly reduced the incidence of bites and fatalities in areas where outdoor privies have been replaced by flush toilets.

Improvements in sanitation and maternal care have made mortality less likely for those of reproductive age, making death a less common cause of single parenting.

Improvements to the armor of main battle tanks have reduced the usefulness of HEAT warheads by making man portable HEAT missiles heavier, although many of the world's armies continue to carry man portable HEAT rocket launchers for use against vehicles and bunkers.

Improvements in centrifugal compressors have not been achieved through large discoveries.

Improvements in reliability, resulted in the introduction of a shuttle mechanism with no wear parts, with ' Life Time ' warranty.

Improvements in algorithms lead many modern low cost GPS receivers to achieve better than 10 meter accuracy, which implies a timing accuracy of about 30 ns.

Improvements to Soundex are the basis for many modern phonetic algorithms.

In addition, the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act, the Alien Tort Claims Act, and many state product liability laws create legal rights that often do not exist in other jurisdictions.

Improvements in hardware and system design can be used to significantly reduce the risks of any encryption system being compromised, but many systems once thought secure have been proven vulnerable to sufficiently sophisticated and malicious attackers.

Improvements include enhancements in encoding, digital filtering, scan interpolation, interlaced line scanning, and ghost cancellation.

Improvements to Reeves Stadium and the construction of a campus entrance and pedestrian mall were completed in time for the fall semester in 2009.

Improvements to existing telecommunications infrastructure include the installation of structured cabling in campus buildings and fiber optics as a means of interconnecting them.

Improvements to the campus should be made first to those places that needed the most help.

F. Rahman, Avicenna's Psychology: An English Translation of Kitab al-Najat, Book II, Chapter VI with Historical-philosophical Notes and Textual Improvements on the Cairo Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952.

Improvements in transportation and the sudden evolving of trench warfare, with its siege-like nature during World War I in the 20th century, lengthened the duration of battles to days and weeks.

# Improvements in the drug discovery and approval process.

Improvements to the woodlands, gardens and estate buildings were also being made, assisted by the landscape gardener James Beattie and the painter James Giles.

Improvements were made in nursing accommodation in order to recruit more nurses and reduce labour shortages which were keeping 60, 000 beds out of use, and efforts were made to reduce the imbalance “ between an excess of fever and tuberculosis ( TB ) beds and a shortage of maternity beds .” In addition, BCG vaccinations were introduced for the protection of medical students, midwives, nurses, and contacts of patients with TB, while a pension scheme was set up for employees of the newly-established NHS.

Improvements in infrastructure and the regional economy notwithstanding, the three provinces remain one of the poorer regions of Canada.

Lancaster promoted his system in a piece called Improvements in Education that spread widely throughout the English-speaking world.

Capital budgets are often adjusted annually and should be part of a longer-term Capital Improvements Plan.

Improvements were remarkably consistent across the whole period, in both countries.

Improvements and updates to the HTTP / 1. 1 standard were released under RFC 2616 in June 1999.

Improvements from Hexen and Quake included destructible environments, mounted weapons, and unique level up abilities.

Improvements in machine tools allowed better working of iron and steel and further boosted the industrial growth of Britain.

Improvements were remarkably consistent across the whole period, in both countries.

Improvements in livestock and dairy technology offer significant promise in reducing poverty and malnutrition in the world.

Improvements in public health and education, provision of child care, provision of state-directed social services, and provision of social benefits are deemed by Marxist-Leninists to help to raise labour productivity and advance a society in development towards a communist society.

Since 1990, the NTSB has maintained a Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements, in which it highlights those recommendations that would provide the most significant — and sometimes immediate — benefit to the traveling public.

Improvements in one or more of these yield determinants, and a closure of the yield gap, can be a major boost to food supply and farmer incomes in the developing world.

** Improvements to cooling in exhaust side at cylinder heads, steering rack, power steering pump, soundproofing, front cooling flaps deleted, new style shift knob with integrated leather booth in manual gearbox cars, etc.

Improvements on this followed developments in metallurgy ; steel coulters and shares with softer iron mouldboards to prevent breakage, the chilled plough which is an early example of surface-hardened steel, and eventually the face of the mouldboard grew strong enough to dispense with the coulter.

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