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Plus, if your supervisors see you using your extra time to improve your capacity or abilities as a worker, they're going to reward you.

The new Ford class carriers will feature an improved nuclear reactor with three times the power - generation capacity as the Nimitz class.

As networks improve (many companies are now upgrading from 3G networks to higher - capacity 4G or LTE networks), more people will use data - sucking smartphones, and profits should rise accordingly.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

As shown on these pages, Sweetgreen has already worked with some of its suppliers to increase their capacities or improve the efficiency of their operations.

As the organization improves and increases its own capacity, Fraser says it can effectively work with these large retailers and in fact has rescued nearly 1 billion pounds of food that it can distribute to its food banks.

In particular, the Board of Trade would like to see focus expanded to include other projects necessary to the growth of our region, such as the replacement of the George Massey Tunnel, improved port and rail capacity across the region, and a six - lane replacement for the aging Pattullo Bridge in cooperation with TransLink.

And as Neil says in the final paragraph, the income generating capacity of the portfolio has not been affected by the recent portfolio activity — in fact, the prospects for dividend growth have improved.

Higher than expected iPhone 7 Plus demand outstripped supply, which should be alleviated through the fourth quarter, helped by new features such as water resistance, faster processing, improved optics, and larger storage capacities.

As FinTech companies disrupt the financial services industry with marketplace lending and blockchain - based supply chains, wholesale banks are meeting the challenge by reprioritizing IT spending and improving their innovation capacity.

It could be that commercial broadcast systems yield improved revenue bases as channel capacity increases.

At the same time, it posits a positive duty upon us to conduct animal husbandry properly, meeting standards of care that have improved as we have learned more about the nature and capacities of animals.

A new generation of laser coders has been developed by Markem - Imaje that can deliver up to 50 % increases in output rates on beverage production lines and as much as a 300 % increase in character printing capacity, improving traceability and making it easier to add promotional codes for instance.

«But it has led to under - investment in new and improved procession technologies as processors have competed primarily on the price paid to farmers to secure milk to improve throughput to underutilised processing capacity.»

Improving water infiltration and retention capacity through high levels of organic matter and permanent soil cover, such as cover crops or mulch, which substantially reduce the amount of water needed for irrigation.

The environmental importance of organic matter content is its capacity to limit physical damage and to improve nutrient availability as well as biological activity.

Generally, organic soil management techniques such as organic fertilization, mulching and cover cropping improve soil structure and therefore increase the soil's water infiltration and retention capacity, substantially reducing the risk of erosion.

To remain competitive and also meet consumers» broadening preferences, large and small processors are adopting continuous systems of various capacities that can provide higher productivity and dramatically increased yields as well as improved food safety and quality.

If athletes want to improve their skills as a player, they need to improve their athletic capacity, and becoming the best soccer player possible requires that they improve upon these three qualities in the offseason:

This follows a report from the Daily Mirror that Wenger's preferred choice to succeed him in the Arsenal hot seat would be former midfielder and club captain, as he believes it would improve his chances of staying on at the club in some capacity.

• Weeks 13 - 16, medium - to - high intensity — Goal: Enhance the ability to more rapidly express their current level of strength, develop reactive rebound type strength and improve the capacity to use their tendons as movement generators.

the Swedish government has linked the taking of such leave as improving skills and capacities that can then be transferred into the workplace: better interpersonal and communication skills and multi-tasking capacities, as well as their becoming «whole human beings»;

Population Health Improvement Partners (formerly known as the Center for Public Health Quality) helps health - focused organizations and coalitions build organizational and community capacity to improve and sustain population health.

The results reinforce the sustainability of our business model and the capacity to deliver superior long - term return to shareholders, as the economic and business environment improve.»

He also responded to questions from the audience by detailing the steps being taken to improve the investment climate and enhance the local capacity by improving education, as well as enforcing local content requirements for new investments.

The provisions on local content and local participation in petroleum activities as well as a Local Content Fund will lead to job creation and the building of indigenous capacity, which will enable Government achieve its objective of ensuring that the nation's petroleum resources are harnessed for the benefit of all Ghanaians and thus ultimately improve the standard of living of the ordinary citizen.

Some of the objectives of the training as highlighted by the organizers include; to enlighten participants on the legal framework for international human right laws and humanitarian principles, to improve the capacity of law enforcement agents in identification, protection issues in Nigerian human right context, to build the capacity of participants to appreciate their roles in protecting the rights of the civilians.

According to Prof. Yankah, the implementation of Free SHS which runs parallel with Free Vocational and Technical education system is aimed at improving the human resources capacity, promote innovation and create new job opportunities as well as generate income and sustain the development.

The funds came from money seized from convicted drug dealers and was donated as a way to help the organization improve its technological capacity to track sex offenders and provide important safety information to the public, according to a press release.

Good news for developing countries, whose trade finance will be helped, while the IMF's emergency lending capacity is set to be improved as well.

According to her a significant majority of the core staff are still at post; and as part of efforts to improve on the electoral outcome, the commission has further developed the capacity of the staff of the commission.

«The report did not take into cognisance the significant improvement in the areas of Capacity Building, Training and Re-training of the entire personnel of the Force as provided for by the current Federal Government of Nigeria and other Foreign and Local NGOs which has greatly improved the efficiency and service delivery of the personnel of the Force throughout the country.

Nowhere in the report were references made to either the improved capacity or achievements recorded by the Nigeria Police Force across the country in the recent time, the Force therefore implores all Nigerians and international community to disregard the report as unfounded and misleading.»

Deputy Managing Director, Tempo Pulp & Packaging Limited, Nassos Sidirofagis, a Greece national who runs a manufacturing firm in Nigeria, told newsmen at a recent press briefing on «the CBN policy and impact on the manufacturing sector,» that the policy has begun to yield impressive dividends as local patronage has increased significantly leading to improved production capacity of up to 70 per cent.

Mr Prosper Ahalivor who spoke on behalf of the Head of the Local Government Service (LGS) said it was pertinent to disclose that in its bid to improve institutional and staff capacity, competition, performance and service delivery, the Service had developed and implementing an evaluation / assessment system known as the LGS Performance Management System (PMS).

Challenges highlighted for the year ahead were: Moving forward on piloting flexible sigmoidoscopy bowel screening; a national awareness campaign on bowel cancer; improving diagnostic capacity and productivity; the needs of survivors in different post-treatment phases; providing information to commissioners and providers about patients» experience of care; giving support to tackle issues such as information provision and better communication.

The items presented included sewing machines, embroidery machines, over-lock machines, hand dryers, hairdryers as well as sterilisers aimed at assisting the artisans to expand their businesses and improve their income earning capacity.

Similarly, the Nigerian government had offered slots for staff development courses to Police officers from West African Countries as support and assistance to improve in capacity development and ensure professional service to its individual countries in the sub-region.

He said: «Election Management Bodies in our sub-regions and beyond have deployed technology in one way or another to improve on the processes, administration and outcome of elections, ranging from training and capacity - building for electoral officials, promotion of inclusivity in the electoral process (youths, women, PWDs, IDPs and out - of - country / diaspora voters), the biometric registration of voters, delineation of electoral constituencies, geo - referencing of existing as well as the creation of new polling units, establishment of robust electronic databases, accreditation of voters during elections, actual voting and the speedy and more accurate collation / transmission of results.

How can science diplomacy be used as a foundation for improving capacity, knowledge and networks to detect, predict and mitigate disease threats?

Richmond has worked to improve scientific capacity and collaborations in Africa, South America, and most recently Southeast Asia as a U.S. Science Envoy to the region.

Eating strawberries also improved other parameters such as the general plasma lipid profile, antioxidant biomarkers (such as vitamin C or oxygen radical absorbance capacity), antihemolytic defences and platelet function.

«Bacteria with the same capacities are already used as skin probiotics, potentially improving skin moisture and reducing body odors.

And they found that this capacity to discern different pain points, called spatial acuity, improves as we move towards the center of our bodies.

The authors say that as energy storage density improves — and with their work it is now approaching the capacity of lithium batteries — applications for the new technology include such possibilities as solar pads that collect energy from the sun by day, then store it for heating food, living spaces, clothing or blankets at night.

«I think about chunking as any shortcutting strategy or mnemonic device that would allow an animal, be it human or otherwise, to increase its memory capacity and improve recall,» Delgado said.

One way to improve this current situation is to offer capacity building programs such as mentoring for continuous career development of BMENA early career scientist, especially because many BMENA countries do not offer Ph.D. or postdoc programs.

The eventual goal is to predict how microbial communities will react to environmental conditions such as droughts and to manage these communities to improve the yields, nutritional content or the carbon storing capacity of plants, for example.

GDF11: Higher levels of GDF11 have been shown to improve numerous measures of aging in mice, such as heart function, exercise capacity, and sense of smell.

This investment with the SFI Research Centre IPIC will enable us to combine our expertise and utilise Tyndall's state of the art facilities to develop ground breaking early stage technologies, which will not only have a huge impact on the future architecture design of large data centres, but will also improve the power and computational capacity of new consumer devices and provide robust sensing solutions in the autonomous vehicles and consumer device sectors as well as others.