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.

In the 1870s water abstraction from the canal near Fobney Lock followed the regulations introduced in the Reading Local Board Waterworks, Sewerage, Drainage and Improvements Act of 1870, and contributed to the silting up of locks and stretches of the canal.

Rep. Sarbanes ( D-MD ) introduced the Telework Improvements Act of 2009 in March 2009.

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 introduced with the Mk 3 included a more powerful version of the engine and a new gunsight and gun stabiliser.

Rep. Sarbanes ( D-MD ) introduced the Telework Improvements Act of 2009 in March 2009.

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 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.

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 combustion chamber design and piston form enabled lighter V8 engines to surpass the V12 in power starting from the 1930s ; only the smaller, H-Series Lincoln V-12 remained after WWII and it was replaced by a V8 in 1949.

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

Improvements used include color alteration, improving transparency by dissolving rutile inclusions, healing of fractures ( cracks ) or even completely filling them.

Improvements to the neighbourhood included the Toulon Opera, the place de la Liberté, the Grand Hôtel, the Gardens of Alexander I, the Chalucet Hospital, the palais de Justice, the train station, and the building now occupied by Galeries Lafayette, among others.

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.

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.

As outlined by the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act, larger companies attempting to merge must first notify the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division prior to consummating a merger.

Improvements on the lower levels were also undertaken, being completed by 1814.

The Village Council is composed of John Mahoney ( Mayor ; Liquor Control Commissioner ), Kenneth " Kent " Oliven, CPA ( Commissioner of Accounts & Finances ; Mayor Pro-Tem ), Nicole Milovich-Walters ( Commissioner of Streets & Public Improvements ; by Village Code also in charge of Recreation ), Dan Polk ( Commissioner of Public Health & Safety ), and G. Darryl Reed ( Commissioner of Building and Public Property ).

Improvements were also made to sanitation ; in the 18th century more people died from gaol fever that by hanging.

Improvements to the choir were made during the 16th and 18th century, and medieval glass which was shattered by a storm of 1608 was meticulously collected and installed in the East Window in 1725.

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 continued, and were funded by making calls on the original shareholders.

The first such scheme was proposed in 1677 by Andrew Yarranton, who published his idea in a work entitled England's Improvements by Sea and Land.

Improvements in textile machinery ( by Kay, Hargreaves and Arkwright ), along with the development of turnpike roads ( 1751 – 1781 ), helped to develop the new cotton industry and to increase the local population.

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 to the shadow mask designs continually narrowed this difference in the two designs, and by the late 1980s the difference in performance, at least theoretically, was eliminated.

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 were also made to the drive wheels, caterpillar tracks and gearbox by 1938.

* English Pleasure Carriages: Their Origin, History, Varieties, Materials, Construction, Defects, Improvements, and Capabilities: With an Analysis of the Construction of Common Roads and Railroads, and the Public Vehicles Used on Them ; Together with Descriptions of New Inventions by William Bridges Adams, 1837.

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 his strength, kicking for goal and positioning during marking contests made him one of the most feared forwards in the competition.

Improvements were also continuously made during, and between, both World Wars.

Improvements in the road and highway systems provided better and more rapid means of transportation during the 1920s and 1930s.

Improvements to the village were not confined to individual buildings: the south side of the Main Street was actually rebuilt during this period, and the market place was thus widened.

Improvements to the park helped to increase visitation during this time.

The bypass was even featured on the front cover of IDOT ( Illinois Department of Transportation )' s Capital Improvements Plan during the Republican George Ryan years but was completely taken off the project list under Democrat Rod Blagojevich's administration.

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 in local infrastructure and facilities during the early part of the 19th century included the construction of a lighthouse at Fanad Head in 1818 in response to the sinking of the frigate Saldanah in Lough Swillly in 1804.

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

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

Improvements were sustained over the long-term, with patients continuing to do well after more than 1. 5 years.

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

Pursuant to the Hart – Scott – Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act, section 7A ( a )( 2 ) requires the Federal Trade Commission to revise those thresholds annually, based on the change in gross national product, in accordance with Section 8 ( a )( 5 ) and take effect 30 days after publication in the Federal Register.

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

Improvements to assist navigation began in 1618, with the construction of sluices and locks.

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 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 cork and winemaking methodology continue to strive to lower the incidence, but the media attention given to cork taint has created a controversy in the winemaking community, with traditional cork growers on one side and the makers of newer synthetic closures and screw caps on the other.

Improvements were also made to the engine range, with slight improvements to both fuel economy and