Shortly before or after the Dress Act restricting kilt wearing was repealed in 1782, Highland aristocrats set up Highland Societies in Edinburgh and other centres including London and Aberdeen, landowners ' clubs with aims including " Improvements " ( which others would later call the Highland Clearances ).

* Improvements in Education ( London, 1803 ; New York, 1807 )

He retired from practise in 1845, after which Robert Peel made him a member of the Commission for London Improvements.

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 include new roof and glass atrium, covering the tracks platforms and railway tracks, new staircases, additional vertical access points, and general visual improvements of the platforms and concourses.

* San Antonio River Improvements Projects — Website run by the San Antonio River Authority covering current and future projects along the River Walk

Improvements to the COTAC APX M-508 fire control system included the installation of a laser rangefinder and a low-light TV ( LLTV ).

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 in vehicle safety.

Improvements continue with bus shelters being erected on various main roads, and improved traffic safety features.

The only craft in military service thereafter were four Zodiac Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats in São Tomé harbour and one in Príncipe. Improvements to naval capabilities are considered vital to increase security in the exclusive economic zone ( EEZ ) to protect oil concerns and to stem the rise of coastal trafficking operations in the Gulf of Guinea area.

* Improvements to the security of elements of the naval forces.

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 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 may be added to the cost basis of an asset.

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 to the drainage channels brought the cost up to £ 839, 000, although 70 % of this was provided by grants.

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 were carried out to the existing facilities, with a runway extension and additional ramp space provided.

# Improvements in alcoholic beverage labeling, including strengthening and expanding the current mandated warning label and providing additional consumer on alcoholic beverage containers, such as ingredients, alcohol content, calories, information about standard units of service, and a toll-free telephone number for consumer questions about alcohol.

It transpired that the club's main asset, its Holker Street ground, had been sold for £ 410, 000 to Northern Improvements, a company Vaughn had an interest in.

Improvements to the Oxley and Pacific Highway has seen steady improvements in travel times between Sydney and the mid-north coast region from 6 hours to just 4 hours ( from Wahroonga to the Oxley Highway interchange );

" Old Jamaica " station at what is now 153rd St ( 0. 4 mile east of the present station ) was razed in 1912 with the grade elimination project, the " Jamaica Improvements "; Jamaica – Beaver Street Station was razed with the grade elimination in 1913.

Improvements, described below, were made in 4. 3BSD-Reno and subsequently released to the public as “ Networking Release 2 ” and later 4. 4BSD-Lite.

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

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 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.

* Improvements.