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Feasibility and Efficiency Study of Leukemic Cell Mobilization With Plerixafor Injection.

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But Sheng Lu, assistant professor of fashion and apparel studies at the University of Delaware, said «made in China» products were not losing their price competitiveness because of the overall supply chain efficiency.

McDonald authorized an efficiency study that assessed every act and function performed by every employee and then reduced the number of «business processes» needed to run the company to 88.

According to a recent study at MIT, humans stated that they would be inclined to have a robot boss over a human boss since the robots improve the efficiency of the team and lead to better overall productivity.

«We are very pleased that the Supreme Court denied defendants» petition, leaving firmly in place the Second Circuit's precedential rulings regarding the necessity of utilizing event studies to prove market efficiency as well as the burden of proof required to rebut the presumption of reliance, both of which were highly favorable to investors,» the shareholders» attorney Jeremy A. Lieberman of Pomerantz LLP told Law360 on Monday.

While industry partners have come together to fund various studies with regard to sustainability and water efficiency, one of the most promising programs currently in the works is in the Peanut Genome Initiative.

One 2011 study in the Journal of Consumer Research (full text, PDF) concluded that, even though the researchers started the study with the assertion that mess was an averse condition that would lead to lower efficiency, their experimentation actually showed that in some people, some clutter actually made them more efficient, helped them make decisions, and made them feel more creative.

The survey covers relevant studies of market efficiency, predictability, behavioral influences, diversification benefits, volatility drivers, macroeconomic influences and relationships with other assets.

But with time, with great practice and study, and a nice chunk of that 10,000 hours, you will become an expert in infographics, giveaways, content development, or whatever efficiency you choose to develop.

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) of 2014, reported that «Brazil's level of early - stage entrepreneurial activity (TEA — 17.2 %) puts it 10th of the 31 efficiency - driven economies studied in GEM 2014.

Ukwazi is working on a project feasibility study for a local iron - ore project, where, for example, the company recommended that the client change the location of the processing plant to save significant capital and operational costs while greatly improving efficiency.

We study a prototypical model of a Parliament with two Parties or two Political Coalitions and we show how the introduction of a variable percentage of randomly selected independent legislators can increase the global efficiency of a Legislature, in terms of both number of laws passed and average social welfare obtained.

But studying the humanities asks for the opposite of efficiency and speed.

The kitchen redesign is based on time - motion studies and increased employee efficiency, which resulted in a reduction of the kitchen space of nearly 900 square feet.

Another more recent study assessed the efficiency of collagen peptides in a randomized, double blind, controlled multicenter trial, in which 250 subjects with primary osteoarthritis of the knee were given 10g of collagen peptides daily.

What was also very interesting about the study was that increased mitochondrial efficiency of the cell (needing less oxygen), apparently is owed to the lower levels of proteins... proteins that normally make the mitochondria «leaky» and inefficient.

However, this study has also shown that there are many advantages to organic strawberry production in terms of increased yields, energy efficiency and economic returns.

This would seem to indicate that they were getting greater elastic return from the tendons in their lower legs, which could contribute to the high running economy, or efficiency in using oxygen, observed in several studies of Kenyan runners.

After I initially wrote this post, a reader studying for her lactation consultancy exams wrote in to tell me that the production efficiency (or the amount of energy needed to make milk) is 80 % of the energy produced.

One study on the «Influence of Swaddling on Sleep and Arousal Characteristics of Healthy Infants» determined swaddling increased sleep efficiency and non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep.

Building off of previous research, the results of this studying are showing that wool sleeping apparel and bedding increases total sleep time, promotes sleep onset and improves sleep efficiency.

In order to assess the efficiency and safety of domperidone, researchers Catherine Paul et al. analyzed both the limited studies available on maternal and infant exposure to the stimulant as well as larger studies focused on its use in gastrointestinal disorder treatment.

As mentioned already the «Centre for policy studies» has said that the NHSLA has liabilities of some # 16.8 billion, reducing this figure would make huge inroads to the efficiency saving the NHS has to make without compromising patient safety and staff numbers It would be wise for those within the NHS and from the «Centre for policy studies» to look to their own as for the reason why patients look to the law for recompense, before we say that the compensation culture is «ingrained in the national psyche as a warped form of normal behaviour».

This paper (check ANNEX) places United States on 37th position in terms of medical systems «efficiency» (I can not tell the date when this study was made).

In his opening and closing remarks, Peter Van Scoyoc, a Democrat serving his second term on the town board, pointed to his record, and that of the sitting board, on open space preservation, water quality protection efforts, energy efficiency, social services, obtaining grants, and planning for the future through ongoing hamlet studies and creation of a plan that accounts for rising sea level and shoreline erosion.

In a study, The Future Hospital: The Progressive Case for Change, it says that in addition to improving efficiency, one solution could be to reduce the total number of available hospital beds.

These efficiency studies offer a glimpse into Hayes's approach to reforming Ulster County government and achieving cost savings via shared services in a time of what the candidate calls «economic emergency.»

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She said as comptroller, work would begin on day one with an expansive asset management study that would assess the efficiency of all of the city's agencies.

Now we need to study how, in the real world, and in the long - term, the processes of biochemical efficiency and lifespan will change.

Editor's note (01/05/18): This article has been updated to clarify that the study by Stephen Long and others published in Science in 2016 involved improving the efficiency of photosynthesis in tobacco plants.

A promising study published last autumn by ecologists Sarah Greenleaf of the University of California at Davis and Claire Kremen of the University of California at Berkeley found that the presence of wild bees increases the efficiency of sunflower pollination fivefold.

For example, current silicon - based solar cells convert realistically only about 25 percent of sunlight into electricity, so efficiency is an issue, says Calley Eads, a fifth - year doctoral student in the UA's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry who studies some of the properties of these new materials.

«In theory, conventional single - junction solar cells can only achieve an efficiency level of about 34 percent, but in practice they don't achieve that,» said study co-author Paul Braun, a professor of materials science at Illinois.

The objective of this study, supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Ogallala Aquifer Program, is to determine if the brown midrib, or BMR, trait affects water use efficiency, as well as length of maturity and level of irrigation, Xu said.

«The photosynthetic efficiency of global phytoplankton is very low, surprisingly low,» says study coauthor Paul Falkowski, an oceanographic biophysicist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. «It was a complete shock to us.»

«Containers are just now being studied as part of the cloud infrastructure, but our research indicates that how they function in the cloud is critical to developing and distributing future computer systems that maximize efficiency,» said Ali Anwar, lead author on the paper that details the research and a Ph.D. candidate in Virginia Tech's Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering.

A new study challenges a common argument that efficiency must come at the expense of the quality of life

Now, in a first - of - its kind study funded by IBM and the National Science Foundation, Virginia Tech researchers have discovered ways to further improve computing efficiency using management tools for cloud - based light - weight virtual machine replacements called containers — frameworks that allow the microservices that power data retrieval from the ether — to deploy in a more agile manner.

The study contributes new insights into what is known as feed conversion efficiency — that is, the efficiency of the process by which feed is turned into meat — across species, and uses a new analysis to assess this efficiency.

In a study in the current issue of the Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases, researchers treated these stem cells with leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF), which effectively maintained the undifferentiated state of the satellite cells and enhanced their transplantation efficiency.

I soon got a position in a company working on supply chain management models, where we elaborated algorithms and software to study the efficiency of industrial production processes and distribution phases.

«Farmed seafood and livestock stack up differently using alternate feed efficiency measure: Study finds retention of protein and calories in feed similar for major aquaculture and livestock species.»

The project was supported by a USDA NIFA grant, and the study's authors include researchers from the National Program for Genetic Improvement of Feed Efficiency in Beef Cattle, as well as associated graduate students and staff.

Beyond improvements to fuel efficiency and oil spill remediation, there are currently few easy methods to generate a stable vortex in the lab, so the team hopes their discovery of the «blue swirl» can serve as a natural research platform for the future study of vortices and vortex breakdown in fluid mechanics.

This decision is not only based on a current surplus in the country's energy supply, but also on concerns over lack of efficiency in large reservoirs and the environmental impacts of these projects, themes which are central to the study.

A study by McKinsey and Co. last year concluded that a quarter of the carbon reduction required to stabilize global greenhouse gas emissions could come from energy efficiency and conservation.

«The proteins we study are part of the most efficient system ever built, capable of converting the energy from the sun into chemical energy with an unrivaled 60 percent efficiency,» said Yulia Pushkar, a Purdue assistant professor of physics involved in the research.

The bright lights of the big city currently rely on fission, but a new study suggests efficiency and renewables could do the job instead.

Far more money has gone into improving efficiencies in the dairy industry or studying the cholesterol - reducing effects of red wine than into understanding human breast milk.