Sentences with phrase «efficiency losses of»

Of course, you still give up some expected return, that's the opportunity cost of lower risk, but at least you avoid the efficiency loss of the money market fund.

Not exact matches

Gore believes that «the cost savings from large plants is canceled out by the loss of efficiency and productivity that comes from employees not knowing each other well.»

The combined ratio, loss and LAE ratio, and underwriting expense ratio are used as indicators of the Company's underwriting discipline, efficiency in acquiring and servicing its business and overall underwriting profitability.

Azevedo said four out of five job losses in industrialised countries were not due to competition from cheap imports but to automation and efficiency campaigns that allowed firms to cut their workforce.

But in May, the company said its manufacturing efficiency was suffering as result of the massive employee cuts, contributing to a US$ 17.6 - million operating loss in the first quarter.

The ranking was based on five factors: Tier 1 capital compared with risk - weighted assets; nonperforming assets against total assets; loan - loss reserves to nonperforming assets; deposits to funding; and efficiency, a measure of costs to revenue.

The litigation cost of $ 1 billion contributed to an operating loss of $ 1.3 billion in the third quarter and increased the efficiency ratio to a worse - than - expected 65.5 percent.

Controlling lead leakage and lead loss is an important step to ensure the efficiency of the sales pipeline.

When (not if, but when) complexity no longer results in a loss of efficiency on the human side, tax administrations could see large gains from re-regulation in some cases.

The clocks at that time didn't improve the efficiency of the staff during their time at the workplace; a shop assistant kept at work by the loss of wages if they clock out early might still have been leaning on a counter with nothing to do in an empty showroom.

300cubits, the team behind the upcoming ICO says that the shipping industry is «crippled by a lack of trust» and it plans to «bring discipline and efficiency» and address the significant financial losses associated with...

The real claim of neoliberal economists is that a market economy can reduce unemployment without loss of efficiency when it is growing fast enough.

KetoDiet combines the health benefits of the paleo and primal diets with the weight loss efficiency of the ketogenic diet.

Investing in efficient, low - cost and sustainable processing technologies, adequate storage and packaging solutions, road infrastructure and market linkages as well as providing training and education to chain actors, including consumers, are among the tried and proven interventions which increase the efficiency of the chain and therefore lead to a reduction in food loss and waste.

• 30 - 50 % increase in shelf life • Eliminate risk of product recalls • Little to no yield loss • Energy efficiency

UK dairy company First Milk announced today that after a review, changes are being made to improve the productivity and efficiency of its Lake District and Haverfordwest creameries with the loss of around 30 jobs.

The theme of this year's exhibition and technical program — resource efficiency — will be showcased through topics such as optimizing production processes, reducing energy and water consumption, and minimizing food loss through ingredient, process and package technology.

The focus has been on continuously improving efficiency, yield and quality of the steam peeling process, while reducing peel loss.

In fact, almost all of IFAD's investments in value chain development contribute to food loss reduction by improving the overall efficiency of food supply chains.

Coquelin's ball - winning efficiency is going to be a massive loss and we don't have anyone close to it in the squad, but there's only a handful of players in the league who can claim anywhere close to that... Monreal showcased his adaptability last season when he played at CB.

In a press release, they say that investing in energy efficiency and by completing ongoing projects the state should be able to provide enough energy to make up for the loss of the nuclear power plant.

An independent academic, Prof Colin Talbot, of Manchester Business School, claimed today the impact of the Tory efficiency savings could lead to a loss of 100,000 public and private sector jobs.

At a time when painful measures in October's Strategic Defence and Security Reviewv - such as scrapping the Harrier fleet, along with service personnel and civilian job losses and other efficiency gains - are reported to fall # 1 billion short of the MOD's # 8 billion budget reduction target, a public row over savings already assumed would be bad news for the department.

That's a significant loss of efficiency.»

«If you improve the efficiency of postharvest handling, you reduce waste and losses and that improves sustainability,» Brecht said.

The game will use principles derived from existing programmes used in adults with visual field loss, whereby patients have to search for hard - to - find objects on a computer screen (a «visual search» task), but the game will be modified to make the task more stimulating and fun for children and structured to maximise the efficiency of learning.

Because only a system allows ordinary people to do extraordinary things, and if we don't enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things by way of energy efficiency or clean power and conservation, you'll never ever achieve the scale of change we need, to address the problems of climate change, biodiversity loss, petro - dictatorship etc.,

In the end it turned out that some configurations seem to be more favorable than others, and turbulent transport losses may be reduced by clever optimization of the magnetic field, hence increasing the efficiency of a prospective power plant.

This energy loss limits the maximum efficiency of current solar cells to around 30 %.

«This energy loss puts a limit to the maximum efficiency of solar cells», explains Loi.

Saccharification efficiency is also associated with the loss of specific sugars, and subsequent formation of sugar breakdown products.

It demonstrated good electrochemical properties and underwent 150 charge / discharge cycles without any notable loss of efficiency.

Experiments have been taking place around the world to create various solar cell designs that can lift these limitations on conversion efficiency and reduce the loss of energy.

The paper «Loss of photosynthetic efficiency in the shade.

The most important challenge, Smolke says, was increasing the efficiency of each step so losses wouldn't build up.

«We've seen an increase in luminescence efficiency from one percent to 89 percent, and we think we could get it all the way to 100 percent, which means we could have no voltage loss — but there's still a lot of work to be done.»

Loss of function of TRF2 resulted in decreased β - catenin expression which was reflected in reduced sphere formation efficiency and decreased spheroid size over a period of 7 days.

In the healthy brain, stem cell - like glial progenitors can divide, migrate to an injured site, and become mature oligodendrocytes after myelin loss, but, unfortunately, the efficiency of remyelination declines with age.

Human cells» ability to produce energy declines with age, prompting scientists to suspect that the steady loss of efficiency in the body's energy supply chain is a key driver of the aging process.

We use an empirical approach to characterize the effect of charge - transfer efficiency (CTE) losses in images taken with the Wide - Field Channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).

The lower land - use efficiency of organic systems means that «large - scale conversion to organic would likely require bringing more natural habitats into agricultural production,» with a potentially severe impact on global biodiversity due to the loss of rainforests and other currently wild areas.

Embryonic and fetal losses substantially reduce the efficiency of SCNT and thus present a significant limitation to the widespread application of the technology for animal improvement.

But, what VT1 means as a metabolic marker is the beginning of the loss in our ability to continue utilizing fats as our primary fuel, which is a measure of aerobic efficiency or caloric quality.

Finally, no matter if you are a hardgainer or not, if you make your workout as intense as possible and train properly, hitting the gym twice a week will be enough to stimulate decent growth, while splitting these workouts will inevitably lead to a loss of intensity, and therefore, efficiency.

This is further compounded by elevations in metabolic efficiency (whereby energy expenditure declines beyond that predicted from the change in metabolic mass) and appetite which accompany weight - loss, and may ultimately predispose to weight re - gain.82 Moreover, changes in neural activity within brain regions known to be involved in regulatory, emotional and cognitive control of food intake have also been observed following weight - loss.83

The problem is compounded because there may be a loss of absorption efficiency as we age.

The benefit of 25 whole fruits, vegetables and greens is that your body will absorb and utilize these nutrients efficiently so that your metabolism can run at peak efficiency and burn more calories for weight loss.

Thus, deliberate periods of energy balance during weight loss interventions may attenuate these adaptive responses to energy restriction and thereby increase the efficiency of weight loss (i.e. the amount of weight or fat lost per unit of energy deficit).

While intermittent fasting appears to produce similar effects to continuous energy restriction to reduce body weight, fat mass, fat - free mass and improve glucose homeostasis, and may reduce appetite, it does not appear to attenuate other adaptive responses to energy restriction or improve weight loss efficiency, albeit most of the reviewed publications were not powered to assess these outcomes.

Cardio exercise is a great way to build up the efficiency of your heart and lungs, and to a degree can be useful for fat loss.