Low-efficiency silicon solar cells have been decreasing in cost and multijunction cells with close to 30 % conversion efficiency are now commercially available.

The authors of one study claim that illegal insider trading raises the cost of capital for securities issuers, thus decreasing overall economic growth.

In particular, when the list items are arranged in order of decreasing probability, and these probabilities are geometrically distributed, the cost of linear search is only O ( 1 ).

Finally, if long-term average cost is constantly decreasing, the least cost method to provide a good or service is by a single company.

These factors have changed dramatically in recent decades, both with the decreasing cost of computing power and with new mathematical discoveries.

With continued research, decreasing cost, greater availability and wider acceptance of other lipoprotein subclass analysis assay methods, including NMR spectroscopy, research studies have continued to show a stronger correlation between human clinically obvious cardiovascular event and quantitatively measured particle concentrations.

The decreasing cost of display equipment and processors made it practical to provide graphical user interfaces for many operating systems, such as the generic X Window System that is provided with many Unix systems, or other graphical systems such as Microsoft Windows, the RadioShack Color Computer's OS-9 Level II / MultiVue, Commodore's AmigaOS, Apple's Mac OS, or even IBM's OS / 2.

With the decreasing price of digital storage, PACSs provide a growing cost and space advantage over film archives in addition to the instant access to prior images at the same institution.

Solder-less breadboards and the decreasing cost of professionally made PCBs have nearly eliminated this technology.

Because there is very low cost but high benefit to individual drivers in using the roads, the roads become congested, decreasing their usefulness to society.

The engine was capable of running on gasoline, kerosene, or ethanol, although the decreasing cost of gasoline and the later introduction of Prohibition made ethanol an impractical fuel.

In July 2011, the Chairman and CEO of General Motors, Daniel Akerson, stated that while the cost of hydrogen fuel cell cars is decreasing: " The car is still too expensive and probably won't be practical until the 2020-plus period, I don't know.

This reduces project risk, that is, the cost to the engineer, while increasing financial risks, and decreasing profits.

The growing availability and decreasing cost of handheld GPS receivers enables determination of accurate grid references without needing a map, but it is important to know how many digits the GPS displays to avoid reading off just the first six digits.

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Its inventor Sir Henry Bessemer, revolutionized steel manufacture by decreasing its cost, increased the scale and speed of production of this vital raw material, and decreased the labor requirements for steel-making.

* Increasing the cost of drivers licenses in certain undesirable motor vehicle classes ( such as SUVs ), while decreasing costs for more desirable modes of transportation ( such as buses ).

For example, a certain car model has the same body shape and therefore, many of the same model cars can be made at the same time without stop, decreasing manufacturing cost.

The typical long-run average cost curve is U-shaped, by definition reflecting increasing returns to scale where negatively-sloped and decreasing returns to scale where positively sloped.

Likewise, it has diseconomies of scale ( is operating in an upward sloping region of the long-run average cost curve ) if and only if it has decreasing returns to scale, and has neither economies nor diseconomies of scale if it has constant returns to scale.

This is a concern since if the waste is stored, perhaps in deep geological storage, over many years the fission products decay, decreasing the radioactivity of the waste and making the plutonium easier to access.

The reason for this transition is the need to continue the trend of increasing storage densities, with perpendicularly oriented media offering a more stable solution for a decreasing bit size.

With the advent of standardized, highly structured markup languages, such as Extensible Markup Language ( XML ), the decreasing costs of data storage, and faster and cheaper data communication networks, compromises between human-readability and machine-readability are now more common-place than they were in the past.

Folder Redirection allows saving data regardless of storage location and separates user data from profile data decreasing the time required to log on.

This increases the heat capacity of the refrigerant, thus decreasing its temperature below the temperature of the heat sink.

All seven kinds of medications are modestly effective at decreasing the number of attacks in relapsing-remitting MS ( RRMS ) while the capacity of interferons and glatiramer acetate is more controversial.

Useful discharge capacity is a decreasing function of the discharge rate, but up to a rate of around 1 × C ( full discharge in one hour ), it does not differ significantly from the nominal capacity.

Their hypothesis predicts that: ( 1 ) anatomic position of endorphin production should mirror its presumed role in foetal-maternal conflict ; ( 2 ) endorphin levels should co-vary positively with nutrient carrying capacity of maternal blood system ; ( 3 ) postpartum psychological symptoms ( such as postpartum blues, depression, and psychosis ) in humans are side-effects of this mechanism that can be interpreted as endorphin-deprivation symptoms ; ( 4 ) shortly after parturition, placentophagy could play an adaptive role in decreasing the negative side-effects of foetal manipulation ; ( 5 ) later, breast-feeding-induced endorphin excretion of the maternal pituitary saves mother from further deprivation symptoms.

He expected reduced vigor in economic activity and a growth in unhealthy economic phenomena, reflecting capitalism's gradually decreasing capacity to provide for social needs and preparing the ground for socialist revolution in the West.

The increasing external magnetic field (+ H ) causes the magnetic dipoles of the atoms to align, thereby decreasing the material's magnetic entropy and heat capacity.

Thermal contact with the heat sink is then broken so that the system is insulated, and the magnetic field is switched off, increasing the heat capacity of the refrigerant, thus decreasing its temperature below the temperature of the helium heat sink.

As the left ventricle distends, the intraventricular septum bows into the right ventricle, decreasing the capacity of the right ventricle.

Most patients become aware of their decreased capacity to carry out daily routines due to significant changes in mobility, decreasing upper limb function and lung capability.

Similar phosphorylation events occur in DAT and NET, decreasing the cells transport capacity of MAs.

Water temperature increases modify aquatic habitat by increasing biochemical reaction rates and decreasing oxygen saturation capacity of the habitat.

By changing the shape of standard factory cases ( decreasing case taper and / or changing the shoulder geometry ) the wildcatter generally increases the case capacity of the factory parent cartridge case, allowing more propellant to be used to generate higher velocities.

In light of the swiftly decreasing capacity of planet earth to support life, this is an important area.

In that capacity, he has presided over rising enrollments during a time of decreasing or flat budgetary support from Erie County and the State of New York.

Originally, it was changed to a minor degree to accommodate the installation of a sound booth without decreasing the Orchestra seating capacity.

For example, increasing ( or decreasing ) an aircraft's flight performance, range and load carrying capacity by altering its systems, fuselage, wings or engines resulting in a new variant may require re-certification.

However, there is a small and decreasing number of parolees still being supervised that were sentenced before 1984, or court-martialed military service personnel and U. S. probation officers serve as parole officers in that capacity.

However, increased production costs and decreasing ratings caused production company Lorimar -- along with series star Larry Hagman ( J. R. Ewing )-- to ask Katzman to return to the show in his old capacity.

Renovations also included replacing concrete risers and the addition of wheelchair seating decreasing capacity to 50, 000.

The changes are mostly focused on increasing the trains ’ capacity and decreasing the time they must spend stopped in station.

But after some days his capacity was decreasing and so one day he finally died.