; Efficiency of blue OLEDs: Improvements to the efficiency and lifetime of blue OLEDs is vital to the success of OLEDs as replacements for LCD technology.

Improvements in design and machining technology has allowed for major advancements in compressor efficiency, as well as bearing and seal design.

Improvements in powerloom efficiency meant that weaving, which had been the primary source of wealth and income for handloom weavers, began to transfer from the cottage to the factory.

Improvements to turbines and generators are also designed to improve efficiency and reliability.

Improvements in technique and efficiency help any level of swimmer, beginner or elite.

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 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 can be expected when several new submarine fibre optic cables reach the region in 2010 and 2011.

Improvements that organizations can make include adequately planning their structure and allocating adequate resources, providing training, creating forums for discussion, setting measurable targets and working according to the philosophy of continuous improvement ( Burden, 2010 ).

Improvements in these areas can be measured by a number of tests, including qualitative questionnaires like Beck ’ s Depression Inventory, State and Trait Anxiety Inventory, and Relationship Change Scale.

Improvements in target discrimination not only allows for 5 to 8 times longer head-on firing range than the AIM9, it can also engage targets behind the launching aircraft, the latter made possible by the extreme close-in agility allowing turns of 60 g at a rate of 60 °/ s.

Improvements in DNA sequencing technology has meant that the cost of sequencing a new genome sequence has steadily fallen ( in terms of cost per base pair ) and newer technology has also meant that genomes can be sequenced far more quickly.

Improvements in the azimuth bearing material and design can minimize the problem, but not eliminate it.

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 can be achieved by:

Edinburgh College of Art can trace its history back to 1760, when the Trustees Drawing Academy of Edinburgh was established by the Board of Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland.

Improvements can be the introduction of agencies (‘ job centres ’), lower rates of unionisation, and increasing the mobility of labour.

Improvements can be made to enhance the " user friendliness " of a course by creating and managing folders.

Improvements are ongoing, some of them significant ( such as the addition of an 800-vehicle underground parking structure ), to ensure that the building can continue to function effectively.

Improvements in picture brightness and contrast can thus be obtained.

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 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 the way joints in the wetsuit were made by gluing, taping and blindstitching, helped the suit to remain waterproof and reduce flushing, the replacement of water trapped between suit and body by cold water from the outside.

Improvements in modern hard drives such as RAM cache, faster platter rotation speed, command queuing ( SCSI TCQ / SATA NCQ ), and greater data density reduce the negative impact of fragmentation on system performance to some degree, though increases in commonly used data quantities offset those benefits.

Improvements to sewage treatment plants in Meadville, Cambridge Springs, and Saegertown have helped reduce the amount of chlorine and other chemicals entering the stream.

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

Improvements in electronics allowed the GPS system to effectively take several fixes at once, greatly reducing the complexity of deducing a position.

Improvements over the existing AT & T a. out format included arbitrary sections, explicit processor declarations, and explicit address linkage.

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

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

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

** 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.

* Improvements.