This railway connection caused transportation and commerce with Chicago to significantly improve. The addition of new railroad lines to Muscatine and Iowa City, and the acquiring of other lines by the Rock Island Railroad, caused Davenport to became a commercial railroad hub.

In connection with capital campaigns to expand the campus, the Institute has also extensively renovated existing buildings to improve their energy efficiency.

He saw the duty of economics was to improve material conditions, but such improvement would occur, Marshall believed, only in connection with social and political forces.

The works would be combined with road and waterway infrastructure to stimulate the economy of the province of Zeeland and improve the connection between the port of Rotterdam and Antwerp.

Steadily increasing complexity of the artificial connection to the retina, optic nerve or related brain areas advances, combined with ongoing advances in computer science, is expected to dramatically improve the performance of this technology.

The output tubes are often arranged in a class AB push-pull connection to improve efficiency ; this requires another triode or dual triode to split the phase of the signal.

A connection between wellness and physical health, as well as mental health, has been found ; consequently, helping to improve the physical and mental health of clients can lead to a general increase in wellness.

Goods services from Liverpool Street continued to pass through Shoreditch until April 1966, following which the track connection was severed in order to improve access to Liverpool Street for other trains.

The station concourse on the eastern side of the station ( located above the platforms ) was extensively redeveloped in 2003 in connection with the construction of the Shinkansen platforms and also to improve access to the new commercial development " Shinagawa Intercity ".

In 1929 it was one of the stations mooted for closure in connection with the extension of the Piccadilly line: the elimination of less-busy stations in the central area would improve both reliability and journey times for long-distance commuters.

However, its spoofing ability made the TrailBlazer modems extremely popular in the Unix world, as it could dramatically improve UUCP throughput, even at low connection speeds on very noisy lines.

While NVC is ostensibly taught as a process of communication designed to improve compassionate connection to others, it has also been interpreted as a spiritual practice, a set of values, a parenting technique, an educational method and a worldview.

: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that for the purpose of establishing in the National Capital area a park for the performing arts and related educational programs, and for recreation use in connection therewith, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to establish, develop, improve, operate, and maintain the Wolf Trap Farm Park in Fairfax County, Virginia.

In addition bodywork techniques aim to assess or improve posture, promote awareness of the " mind-body connection ", or to manipulate a putative " energy field " surrounding the human body and affecting health.

In his resignation request, Tsugba's explanation was that " serious problems have arisen in connection with lawmaking, the professional qualifications of personnel at all levels of administration, from the highest to the lowest, with their accountability and the need to improve management and increase strict control and institute an uncompromising fight against crime.

In a strategy to improve the television ratings, celebrities are often chosen to host the show, like Rosie O ' Donnell, some with little or no connection to the theatre.

This connection, it is hoped, will grow and improve the facilies that are made available to the young, and that in turn will bring the community closer together, as the Parish grows, with new housing developments, and increased nearby industry.

The construction, meant to improve Iguape's economic conditions, did not account for the fact that the voluminous waters of the river, now with access to a shorter connection to the sea, were flooding away the sandy banks of the river, invading the areas close to the river and threatening the whole region.

A horizontal wall seal was added to improve the low frequency horn's connection to the wall.

In 1865, the estuary was first crossed by a steel swing bridge, located at Panmure, to improve connection between Auckland and Howick. The location is 20m to the left of the left hand ( Panmure ) bridge shown in the photo.

To improve the connection to that territory, he improved the road across the Semmering, and he also erected a hospital in Spital am Semmering in 1160 and completed the colonization of the area around the Traisen and Gölsen rivers.

In recent years, many changes were implemented in connection with its promotional and marketing vision, in an alleged attempt to improve public visibility and make the sport comply to the demands of sponsors and media organizations.

* Southern Governors ' Association-( SGA ) uses the power of connection, collaboration and communications in a bipartisan manner to solve regional problems, improve quality of life and secure an economically vibrant and prosperous American South

One of the major aims of a United Nations Sudano-Sahelian Office ( UNSO ) project ( 1986-1990 ) was to improve the connection of the Niger with Lake Faguibine and to cut some of the meanders of the Kondi channel.

An enthusiastic audience confirmed the `` live '' character of the hour, and provided the interaction between musician and hearer which almost always seems to improve the quality of performance.

This field seeks to close the gap between engineering and medicine: It combines the design and problem solving skills of engineering with medical and biological sciences to improve healthcare diagnosis, monitoring and therapy.

As the first part of a 10-year Road Sector Development Program, between 1997 and 2002 the Ethiopian government began a sustained effort to improve its infrastructure of roads.

In December 2009, Namibia's Foreign Minister, Marko Hausiku met with Ethiopian Foreign Affairs Minister Seyoum Mesfin and noted the economic, science, technical and cultural agreements in place between the two countries and expressed a desire to improve the trade relations.

This avoids confusion between past events ( which cannot be changed ), the present ( which one can test but not generally change ) and future events ( which one still has time to change even on a large scale ), which can prevent noticing or taking an action to improve a future outcome.

Throughout the war, repeated attempts were made to improve communications between the many partisan groups operating within Albania.

The goals of the agreement were to improve market access for agricultural products, reduce domestic support of agriculture in the form of price-distorting subsidies and quotas, eliminate over time export subsidies on agricultural products and to harmonize to the extent possible sanitary and phytosanitary measures between member countries.

* Efforts to improve fairness by reducing first-move advantage include the rule of swap, generalizable as " swap -( x, y, z )" and characterizable as a partially compounded and partially iterated version of the pie rule (" one person slices ; the other chooses "): One player places on the board x stones of the first-moving color and a lesser number y stones of the second-moving color (" slicing " in the pie metaphor ); the other player is entitled to choose between a ) playing from the starting position, in which case the selecting player is also entitled to choose which color to play, and b ) placing z ( usually-y ) + 1 ) more stones on the board at locations of that player's choice (" reslicing " in the pie metaphor, with limitations created by the board's existing setup akin to limitations arising from the existing slices in the pie ), in which case the former player is entitled to choose which color side to play.

HTTP is designed to permit intermediate network elements to improve or enable communications between clients and servers.

In a meeting with Indonesian MP Hayono Isman, the Lords stated that they wanted to improve the relationship between the two countries.

Every two months IMU publishes an electronic newsletter, IMU-Net, that aims to improve communication between IMU and the worldwide mathematical community by reporting on decisions and recommendations of the Union, major international mathematical events and developments, and on other topics of general mathematical interest.

After that year, however, the IOC shifted the Winter Olympics to the even years between Summer Games, to help space the planning of the two events two years apart from one another, and improve the financial balance of the IOC, which receives greater income on Olympic years.

The animator can correct the result at any point, shifting keyframes back and forth to improve the timing and dynamics of a movement, or change an ' in between ' into an additional keyframe to further refine the movement.

Mali and Mauritania have cooperated on several development projects, such as the OMVS and a plan to improve roads between Nouakchott and Bamako.

In interior policy, Haidallah sought to improve relations between White Moors and Black Moors, among other things officially decreeing the ban of slavery for the first time in the country's history, but he neither tried nor achieved a radical break with the sectarian and discriminating policies of previous regimes.

In 2005 Moldova and EU established an action plan that sought to improve the collaboration between the two neighboring structures.

Relations between Morocco and Mauritania continued to improve through 1986, reflecting President Taya's pragmatic, if unstated, view that only a Moroccan victory over the Polisario would end the guerrilla war in the Western Sahara.

Mediators use various techniques to open, or improve, dialogue between disputants, aiming to help the parties reach an agreement.

A 1956 agreement with Brazil to improve the transport link between the two countries by building roads and a bridge over the Río Paraná broke Paraguay's traditional dependence on Argentine goodwill for the smooth flow of Paraguayan international trade.

The intent of the truce between the kings was not to allow them to lead the crusade, but rather to improve the likelihood that they would provide assistance.

* Feminist criticism – rooted in the feminist movement, which seeks to improve conditions for women and change existing power relations between men and women.

The movement's goal was to improve the quality of rural life, modernize both rural and urban societies and narrow the income gap between them.

In 1970, the Park Chung Hee government launched the Saemaul undong ( New Community Movement ) as a rural reconstruction and self-help movement to improve economic conditions in the villages, close the wide gap in income between rural and urban areas, and stem urban migration — as well as to build a political base.

Increasing income disparity between the industrial and agricultural sectors became a serious problem by the 1970s and remained a problem, despite government efforts to raise farm income and improve rural living standards.

The Portuguese had been in the area earlier in early 16th centuries ( in search of the legendary priest-king Prester John ), and although a diplomatic mission from Portugal, led by Rodrigo de Lima, had failed to improve relations between the countries, they responded to the Ethiopian pleas for help and sent a military expedition to their fellow Christians.