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

Improvements in computer component technology made it feasible to build terminals that included more powerful communications cards which could operate a single standard communications protocol rather than a very stripped-down protocol which suited only a specific type of terminal.

Improvements in numerical modeling, observations gathered by satellites and Doppler weather radars ( NEXRAD ), and sophisticated weather warning and information processing and communications systems, have collectively led to significantly improved severe weather forecasts and warnings.

Improvements included in the first generation ( through 1830 ) were sluice cuts, small dams and batteaux locks.

But, some of the land encompassing what is now the Coraopolis Heights, Thorn Run valley, and Narrows Run valley were claimed through the process of " Tomahawk Improvements ".

Improvements are usually identified through benefits.

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

Improvements to water quality through Barnsley highlighted the fact that fish populations did not exist below the discharge from the Lundwood sewage treatment works to the east of Barnsley.

The $ 1 billion Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project will add a high-occupancy vehicle lane and associated changes to freeway entrances, exits, and underpasses along a 10-mile stretch through the Sepulveda Pass between I-10 and U. S. 101 / Ventura Boulevard.

Improvements were made in the Ground Forces between 1996 and 1999 ; when the Second Chechen War started, instead of hastily assembled " composite regiments " dispatched with little or no training, whose members had never seen service together, formations were brought up to strength with replacements, put through preparatory training, and then dispatched.

Improvements included the construction of a new railway bridge enabling the Devonport and District Tramway Company to provide efficient service from Devonport, through St Budeaux, to Saltash Passage, linking Plymouth to Cornwall.

Improvements to the N17 route through Knock and Claremorris reduced the amount of traffic on the N83.

* Improvements to passenger information through Metlink signage

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 to playable characters in the game included the ability to move bodies, knock out enemies, handle explosives, and allowing all characters to drive vehicles and use collected weapons ( paving the way for the Driver's expulsion from the series in the next installment ).

Improvements introduced by Adams during 1986 with B News version 2. 11 removed the requirement for moderated groups to use the " mod.

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 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 crampon design ( pioneered by Eckenstein in 1908 ) and ice climbing technique led to use of shorter, lighter ice axes appropriate to steeper ice climbs in the period between the world wars.

Improvements to the line carried out at the time of the transfer to the Oxford & Aylesbury Tramroad, and the use of the MR's better quality rolling stock, reduced the journey time from Brill to Quainton Road to between 32 and 36 minutes.

Improvements were made from time to time, resulting in reductions in losses of metals, but none of the apparatus in use on the Comstock was perfect.

Improvements in canvas tops have rendered the detachable hardtop less common in recent years, in part because the top cannot be stored in the vehicle when not in use, requiring a garage or other storage facility.

Improvements include the use of helium propellant and a multi-disk-collision delivery mechanism.

These were landowners ' clubs with aims including " Improvements " ( the Highland Clearances ) and promoting " the general use of the ancient Highland dress " by obliging members to wear this when attending meetings.

Improvements in hardware have allowed them to be replaced with outline or stroke fonts in cases where arbitrary scaling is desirable, but bitmap fonts are still in common use in embedded systems and other places where speed and simplicity are considered important.

Improvements to solid supports used for peptide synthesis enhance their ability to withstand the repeated use of TFA during the deprotection step of SPPS.

Improvements were made to the engine and the use of a booster increased the payload to in 1960.

Improvements include the use of purer grades of manganese dioxide, better sealing, and purer zinc for the negative electrode.

Improvements were slow over the next two decades, and the only widespread use was in space applications where their power-to-weight ratio was higher than any competing technology.

Arthur Krebs proposed placing the front axle of a car at a positive caster angle in his UK patent of 1896, entitled Improvements in mechanically propelled vehicles, stating it was intended " To ensure stability of direction by means of a special arrangement of fore-carriage, that is to say, to re-establish automatically the parallelism of the two axles of the vehicle when there is no tendency to keep them in any other direction, or after a temporary effort has caused them to diverge from said parallelism.

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 were subsequently made to the draughting on some engines, while others were fitted with hopper ashpans.

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 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.

In Cutler and Miller's, " The Role of Public Health Improvements in Health Advances ", they display evidence of the decline in typhoid fever deaths in Chicago, Baltimore, Cincinnati, and Cleveland after these American cities adopted chlorination, filtration, or a sewage improvement.

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

* 14 February 1876 — Alexander Bell applies for the patent " Improvements in Telegraphy ", for electromagnetic telephones using what is now called amplitude modulation ( oscillating current and voltage ) but which he referred to as " undulating current ".

* Improvements in family allowances, with monthly subsidies for children increased by over 100 % ( 1975 ).

* Improvements in invalidity and old-age pension provision for the unemployed, who ( from 1977 onwards ) were technically insured free of charge under the old-age pension and invalidity scheme.

Improvements followed: on 22 September 1885 Enoch Harris received US patent 326868 for his spanner that permitted both the jaw width and the angle of the handles to be adjusted and locked.

* Improvements in income and work conditions for home workers.

* Improvements in pension provision for women and the self-employed.

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

Improvements were also made in conditions for nursing staff following the publication of a report by the NBPI in 1968 on the pay of nurses.

* Project Modification for Environment Improvements within the Civil Works Program

Improvements include a large stone ramada equipped with picnic tables, restrooms, and water misters for cooling.

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 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 to the Calder to Wakefield took longer, as there were problems with floods filling the workings, difficulty with constructing foundations for an aqueduct which would carry the navigation over the River Calder at Stanley Ferry, and then in transporting the castings for the aqueduct to the site.

Improvements in 2007 included extensive renovation of the main arena, as well as the addition of a stalling barn, a multi-use barn, office space, bovine and equine handling facilities, a research laboratory, a classroom, and a two-bedroom apartment for graduate student housing.

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

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