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 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 canal making in the 18th century led to these sections being replaced by clay-banked canals.

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.

The Highway 522 Corridor Improvements plan created by the Washington State Department of Transportation seeks to address these issues.

The most popular of these mods is the Victoria Improvements Project commonly referred to as VIP.

' Improvements ' in this context are defined in part as introducing pedestrian crossings to replace underpasses, and it is important to note that not everyone considers these modifications to be improvements.

Improvements were also made in areas such as housing, education and medical care.

Improvements in plumbing have greatly reduced the incidence of bites and fatalities in areas where outdoor privies have been replaced by flush toilets.

Improvements include upgrades to the restaurant and store concessions program, taxi service, on-site parking, customer service areas, and the attraction of additional flights to new destinations with the airport's new air service development program ( begun in 2007 ).

Improvements to pupils ’ cloakroom areas were made during the 2004 – 2005 school year.

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 efficiency can reduce resource intensiveness, reducing the T multiplier.

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.

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

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.

Section 8 of the Act refers to the prohibition of one person of serving as director of two or more corporations if the certain threshold values are met, which are required to be set by regulation of the Federal Trade Commission, revised annually based on the change in gross national product, pursuant to the Hart – Scott – Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act.

Improvements may be added to the cost basis of an asset.

Improvements in quality and economy, and the invention of the flying erase-head, allowed new video and audio material to be recorded over the material already recorded on an existing magnetic tape and was introduced into the linear editing technique.

Improvements will also be made to walkways and cycle paths along this route.

The NTSB added a safety recommendation to the FAA on its " List of Most Wanted Safety Improvements " in May 1999 suggesting a requirement for children under 2 to be safely restrained, which was removed in November 2006.

Improvements were made by laying timber planks so that wheeled containers could be dragged along by manpower.

Improvements were seen on diabetic peripheral neuropathy, nephropathy and other decrements associated with long-term complications of type I diabetes .< ref name =" pmid10784221 "> So far, dosing with C-peptide has shown to be safe and there were no effects of C-peptide demonstrated in healthy subjects ( who make their own C-peptide ).

Improvements to Kauffman Stadium were finished in time for MLB Opening Day 2009, and Arrowhead Stadium will be completed in time for NFL Opening Day 2010.

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 which made the dip circle a practical aid for polar navigation were made by Robert Were Fox FRS, who developed in the 1830s the first dip circle that could be used on board a moving ship.

Improvements will have to be made but are expected to be completed in time.

Improvements in the ability to train horses soon allowed them to be used to pull chariots, possibly as early as 2100 BC, and their greater speed and power made chariots even more efficient.

Improvements in spring 1944 led to newer SN-2 versions with lower minimum range, which allowed the older UHF radar system to be removed entirely.

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 the road have allowed the entire Baltimore Beltway to be signed as I-695, even though all of I-695 between the junction of I-95 northeast of Baltimore and I-97 is officially considered MD 695 by the MDSHA.