Improvements he implemented at the speedway led to its nickname " The Brickyard ".

Improvements since then have largely been better phosphors, longer life, and more consistent internal discharge, and easier-to-use shapes ( such as compact fluorescent lamps ).

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

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 design since then have allowed them to surpass their initial design goals.

Improvements in diagnosis and local management, as well as targeted therapy, have led to improvements in quality of life and survival for head and neck cancer patients since 1992.

Improvements by Swanage Railway to the track between Norden and Wareham have continued, and together with the permanent ground frame arrangements at Motala have allowed the planning and operation of special railtour services for the first time since 1972.

Improvements in technology gave rise to several minor redesigns since, including a transition from the original light green labels to blue ones.

Improvements in water quality may occur in the near future, since it is the focus of conservation and cleanup efforts by such organizations as the Cannon River Watershed Partnership and The Nature Conservancy.

Improvements to the balance spring are responsible for further large increases in accuracy since that time.

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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 took place in the 1960s which tied in with the development of the Ord Irrigation Scheme, which enabled the introduction of road trains.

Improvements to the Tower of London, especially covering fire safety and security, cost an additional £ 4. 5m, and took three years to complete.

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

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.

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 in the way in which buildings are designed, constructed, maintained, and used

Improvements in submarine communications cables, through the use of fiber-optics, caused some decline in the use of satellites for fixed telephony in the late 20th century, but they still serve remote islands such as Ascension Island, Saint Helena, Diego Garcia, and Easter Island, where no submarine cables are in service.

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 ).

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 in indoor levels of CO are systematically improving from increasing implementation of smoke-free laws.

* Improvements in contraceptive technology are now a major factor.

Improvements are more gradual and movements become more consistent.

Improvements are usually identified through benefits.

Improvements are being made to Union Station, which is the busiest passenger transportation facility in Canada, and is expected to have its current passenger traffic double in the next 10 to 15 years.

Improvements in both the laser system and hohlraum design are expected to improve the energy absorbed by the capsule to about 420 kJ, which, in turn, could generate up to 100-150 MJ of fusion energy.

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

Improvements in visual functions following perceptual learning are achieved without changing the optical characteristics of the presbyopic eye, implying enough retained plasticity in the aging brain to offset the natural biological deterioration of the eyes.

There are eight types of cards in Doomtown: Actions, Dudes, Goods, Events, Deeds, Spells, Improvements, and Jokers.

Improvements have gone beyond that stage, however ; a stained glass dome, marble floor, and grand staircase woodwork, for instance, now seen in the main hall, were not original but are modern innovations.

Improvements in the performance of belief propagation algorithms are also achievable by breaking the replicas symmetry in the distributions of the fields ( messages ).

Improvements to PVA likely to occur in the near future include: 1 ) creating a fixed definition of PVA and scientific standards of quality by which all PVA are judged and 2 ) incorporating recent genetic advances into PVA.

Improvements to Soundex are the basis for many modern phonetic algorithms.

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

There are three species or types of property: Land, Improvements to Land ( immovable man made things ), and Personal ( movable man made things ).

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 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 came quickly and, in their remaining eight races in the East, Seabiscuit and Pollard won several times, including Detroit's Governor's Handicap ( worth $ 5, 600 ) and the Scarsdale Handicap ($ 7, 300 ) at Empire City Race Track in Yonkers, New York.

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.

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He also favored completion of the Lexington and Ohio Railroad, and supported a $ 300, 000 loan from the state Board of Internal Improvements for that purpose.

SEPTA's capital budget for fiscal year 2006 describes on page 54 " R5 Paoli Line Improvements – Amtrak ," a USD $ 80, 594, 000 project coordinated with the Amtrak project.