* Releasing a CPU on the same size die, but with a smaller CPU core, keeps the cost about the same but allows higher levels of integration within one VLSI chip ( additional cache, multiple CPUs, or other components ), improving performance and reducing overall system cost.

The total cost of improving security in federal buildings across the country in response to the bombing reached over $ 600 million.

Several measures of digital technology are improving at exponential rates related to Moore's law, including the size, cost, density and speed of components.

For example, if the pinhole diameter is set to 1 Airy unit then only the first order of the diffraction pattern makes it through the aperture to the detector while the higher orders are blocked, thus improving resolution at the cost of a slight decrease in brightness.

These included greatly increasing access to health care and education for the general population ; increasing adult literacy and protections for those accused of crimes ; improving training for judges, prohibiting human trafficking, disbanding the Haitian military ( which primarily had been used against the Haitian people ), establishing improved human rights and political freedom ; doubling the minimum wage, instituting land reform and assistance to small farmers, providing boat construction training to fishermen, establishing a food distribution network to provide low cost food to the poor at below market prices, building low-cost housing, and attempting to reduce the level of government corruption.

Technology enhanced learning ( TEL ) has the goal to provide socio-technical innovations ( also improving efficiency and cost effectiveness ) for e-learning practices, regarding individuals and organizations, independent of time, place and pace.

National Semiconductor under Amelio emphasized on reduction of cost of sales, improving capacity utilization, scrap reduction and cycle-time reduction.

BPI has been responsible for reducing cost and cycle time by as much as 90 % while improving quality by over 60 %.

If a subsystem is only 50 % reliable, one can concentrate on improving the reliability of that subsystem, design in multiple subsystems in parallel ( 5 in this case would achieve approximately 97 % reliability of that subsystem ), purchase and store spare subsystems for rapid change out, establish repair capability that would get a failed subsystem back in operation in the required amount of time, and / or choose any combination of those approaches to achieve the optimal cost vs. reliability solution.

The same generating plant that fed large industrial loads during the day, could feed commuter railway systems during rush hour and then serve lighting load in the evening, thus improving the system load factor and reducing the cost of electrical energy overall.

Companies must often look beyond the shop-floor to find opportunities for improving overall company cost and performance.

If she used FIFO, the cost of machine D is 12 plus 20 she spent improving it, for a profit of 13.

It focuses on improving quality within cost constraints, or alternatively, reducing costs for a fixed level of quality.

Some suppliers that were previously stronger in the PLC business, such as Rockwell Automation and Siemens, were able to leverage their expertise in manufacturing control hardware to enter the DCS marketplace with cost effective offerings, while the stability / scalability / reliability and functionality of these emerging systems are still improving.

It is charged with improving the quality and availability of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitative services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and cost to society resulting from substance abuse and mental illnesses.

Of course one needs to note that Equity capital has the highest cost in the long run, as a firm needs to demonstrate higher return on investment for its shareholders Firms can also combine the three types of financing, angel / venture, factoring and bank line of credit to further reduce their total cost of funds whilst at the same time improving cash flow.

Value can therefore be increased by either improving the function or reducing the cost.

Toyota was able to greatly reduce leadtime and cost using the TPS, while improving quality.

However, a connection to a local IXP may allow them to transfer data without limit, and without cost, vastly improving the bandwidth between customers of the two adjacent ISPs.

The company faces similar problems in mainland Europe and has recently tried to reinvent itself by improving the quality, and hence the cost, of its clothing in an attempt to rid itself of its low-budget image.

Exploring strategies for improving the cost effectiveness of endangered species management: The Kirtland's Warbler as a case study.

In fact, their use has enabled the automakers to reduce product development cost and time while improving the safety, comfort, and durability of the vehicles they produce.

This reduces the interference between users of the same timeslot using different codes by improving the orthogonality between the codes, therefore increasing system capacity, at the cost of some hardware complexity in achieving uplink synchronization.

and ( C ) to finance, for not more than three years beyond the end of said period, such activities as are required to correlate, coordinate, and round out the results of studies and research undertaken pursuant to this Act: Provided, That funds available in any one year for research and development may, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State to assure that such activities are consistent with the foreign policy objectives of the United States, be expended in cooperation with public or private agencies in foreign countries in the development of processes useful to the program in the United States: And provided further, That every such contract or agreement made with any public or private agency in a foreign country shall contain provisions effective to insure that the results or information developed in connection therewith shall be available without cost to the United States for the use of the United States throughout the world and for the use of the general public within the United States.

Because of its importance, and because the lack of price competition is well recognized, the industry is under considerable public pressure not to raise its price any more than could be justified by cost increases.

The threat of effective anti-trust action, provoked by `` gouging the public '' through price increases not justified by cost increases, and fears of endangering relations with customers, Congress, the general public and the press, all operate to keep price increases in some relation to cost increases.

For the industry of this model, the effect of such public pressures in the past has been to hold the price well below the short-run profit-maximizing price ( given the wage rate and the level of GNP ), and even below the entry-limited price ( but not below average cost ).

However, it is not known to either the union or the public precisely how much of a cost increase is caused by a given change in the basic wage rate, although the companies are presumed to have reliable estimates of this magnitude.

This latter assumption will permit us to center attention on the most controversial aspect of modern public utility cost analysis -- the distinction among costs that are functions of outputs of the same service measured along different dimensions.

Adelaide had also become economically self-sufficient during this period, but at heavy cost: as a result of Gawler's public works the colony was heavily in debt and relied on bail-outs from London to stay afloat.

The cost argument advanced by ACSI and others prevailed in keeping religious institutions from being labeled as " public accommodations ", and thus churches were permitted to remain inaccessible if they choose.

The goal of the company was to sequence the entire human genome and release it into the public domain for non-commercial use in much less time and for much less cost than the public human genome project.

Encyclopedias, public libraries and grammar schools are examples of innovations intended to lower the cost of a classical education.

Proponents of a voucher system are encouraged by private school sector growth as it is their view that private schools are typically more efficient at achieving results at a much lower per pupil cost when compared to public schools.

Some researchers claim that current cost efficient comparisons are not easy to make as public schools leave out major costs when calculating per pupil spending.

They argue that some, if not all, of the cost difference between public and private schools comes from a process known as cream skimming — selecting only those students that belong to a preferred economic, religious, or ethnic group — rather than from differences in administration.

The voucher is ' virtual ' and worth the average cost for a place at a public school.

CBC won the lawsuit as U. S. District Court Judge Mary Ann Medler ruled that statistics are part of the public domain and can be used at no cost by fantasy companies.

The dearth of freemen necessitated a new kind of enlistment ; 8, 000 sturdy youths from amongst the slaves were armed at the public cost, after they had each been asked whether they were willing to serve or no.

Growth came at a high cost in terms of weak and corrupt institutions, severe public indebtedness through mismanagement of the financial sector, the rapid depletion of Indonesia ’ s natural resources, and a culture of favors and corruption in the business elite.

For policies that are complicated, where claims may be complex, the insured may take out a separate insurance policy add on, called loss recovery insurance, which covers the cost of a public adjuster in the case of a claim.

If a government building was damaged, the cost of repair would be met from public funds because, in the long run, this was cheaper than paying insurance premiums.