This proved to be beneficial for both the employer and the employee, because this improvement in human capital caused employees to become more efficient, which lowered costs for the employer, and skilled employees received a higher wage than employees with just primary educational attainment.

Such secondary realizations were used and described as ' ET ', with an awareness that the time scales based on the atomic clocks were not identical to that defined by the primary ephemeris time standard, but rather, an improvement over it on account of their closer approximation to uniformity.

Toxoplasmosis can be difficult to distinguish from primary central nervous system lymphoma, and as a result, the diagnosis is made by a trial of therapy ( pyrimethamine, sulfadiazine + leucovorin ), followed by a brain biopsy if the drugs produce no effect clinically and no improvement on repeat imaging.

The Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ) holds primary responsibility for financial management standardization and improvement.

Since patient satisfaction metrics are derivative and subjective, they are less useful in primary process improvement.

With respect to quality of life there is limited evidence of improvement when statins are used for primary prevention.

It is associated with other functional gastrointestinal disorder like irritable bowel syndrome and is the primary cause of lack of improvement post treatment with proton pump inhibitors ( PPIs ).

The primary goals of organizational improvement are to increase organizational effectiveness and efficiency to improve the ability of the organization to deliver goods and or services.

The most recent improvement was to runway 2L / 20R, the primary outbound runway under the airport's Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control System.

In the manufacturing sector, the primary role of the COO is routinely one of operations management, meaning that the CEO is responsible for the development, design, operation, and improvement of the systems that create and deliver the firm's products.

Municipalities and towns are units of local self-government which carries out the affairs of local jurisdiction by which the needs of citizens are directly fulfilled, and in particular the affairs related to the organization of localities and housing, area and urban planning, public utilities, child care, social welfare, primary health services, education and elementary schools, culture, physical education and sports, customer protection, protection and improvement of the environment, fire protection and civil defense.

One of his primary focuses during his term was the improvement of mental health care at state-run facilities.

With respect to quality of life there is limited evidence of improvement when statins are used in people without existing cardiovascular disease ( i. e. for primary prevention ).

When such children go to primary school, teachers observe a significant improvement in reading, writing, mathematics, social skills and many other areas.

Autologous fat grafting to the breast is applied to the correction of breast asymmetry, the correction of breast deformities, breast reconstruction ( as adjunct and primary technique ), for the improvement of soft-tissue coverage of breast implants, and for the aesthetic enhancement of the bust.

With faster computation speed being the primary goal of new computer designs and components such as the CPU and memory being expensive, there is a strong imperative to avoid I / O bound states and eliminating them can yield a more economic improvement in performance than upgrading the CPU or memory.

While its primary focus has been agricultural lands, it has made many technical contributions to soil surveying, classification and water quality improvement.

The primary improvement of Mod 1 over Mod 0 is that the former is constructed of aluminum alloy while the latter is built of glass fiber reinforced plastic.

Atheromata continue to be the primary underlying basis for disability and death, despite a trend for gradual improvement since the early 1960s ( adjusted for patient age ).

The 2003 Montana study suggested that CSRS on primary highways may result in either worsening or improvement of crash rates.

Combined analysis of the 2 trials showed an improvement in hyponatremia in both the short term ( primary sodium change in average AUC: 3. 62 +/- 2. 68 and 4. 35 +/- 2. 87 ) and long term with long term maintenance ( primary sodium change in average AUC: 6. 22 +/- 4. 22 and 6. 20 +/- 4. 92 ), at 4 days and 30 days, respectively.

The primary function of the ministry is to set quality standards for food products, supervise commodity markets and food sales, and to undertake land reclamation and land improvement projects.

In 1997, it adopted a constitution, which stipulated that its program was " to hold high the banner of patriotism and socialism, implement the basic line for the primary stage of socialism, safeguard stability in the society, strengthen services to national unity and strive for the promotion of socialist modernisation, establishment and improvement of a market economy, enhancement of political restructuring and socialist spiritual civilisation, emancipation and development of productive forces, consolidation and expansion of the united patriotic front and realisation of the grand goals of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

For some time in the early 1990s, the Mac was a primary client on the rapidly expanding Internet.

* On systems that support one-button mice, context menus are typically opened by pressing and holding the primary mouse button ( this works on the icons in the Dock on Mac OS X ) or by pressing a keyboard / mouse button combination ( e. g. Ctrl-mouse click in Mac OS ).

Her primary fame came as a member of the British / American rock band Fleetwood Mac, though she has also released three solo albums.

* Aqua ( user interface ), the primary theme of Apple Inc .' s Mac OS X user interface

Mac OS had been Apple's primary operating system since 1984, and the family was backward compatible, so OS X supported an emulated version 9 until version 10. 5.

He faced 8th District U. S. Congressman Mac Collins and businessman Herman Cain in the primary.

Although Mac files generally did not use filename extensions, one of StuffIt's primary uses was to allow Mac files to be stored on non-Mac systems where extensions were required.

* The Common Unix Printing System, used on Linux and Mac OS X among other systems, uses < tt > lp </ tt > as the primary program for job assignment.

Aqua is the GUI and primary visual theme of Apple Inc .' s Mac OS X operating system.

Quartz 2D is the primary two-dimensional graphics rendering API for Mac OS X, part of the Core Graphics framework.

In Mac OS 9 and earlier, AFP was the primary protocol for file services.

For Macintosh developers, it was one of the primary tools for building applications for System 7. x and Mac OS 8. x and 9. x.

HFS Plus or HFS + is a file system developed by Apple Inc. to replace their Hierarchical File System ( HFS ) as the primary file system used in Macintosh computers ( or other systems running Mac OS ).

Platinum in CoplandThe default look and feel of the Appearance Manager in the Mac OS 8-9 era is Apple Platinum, which was intended to be the primary GUI for Copland.

Kaleidoscope remained the primary theme platform, even after the Appearance Control Panel offered theme capabilities in Mac OS 8. 5.

MacApp was Apple Computer's primary object oriented application framework for the Mac OS for much of the 1990s.

One of the primary goals behind Colloquy was to create an IRC, SILC and ICB client with Mac OS X visuals.

FirstClass added internet functionality and a scripting method by 2000 but both Lotus and Microsoft had introduced these features earlier and FirstClass lost market share to them The Mac market simultaneously declined through the mid to late 1990s, eroding the product's primary customer base.