Sentences with phrase «offered improvements to system»

Kit Kat and Marshmallow offered improvements to system efficiency, more OS features like a built - in flashlight, and an improved battery saver.

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Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Being economists, we recently had the opportunity to serve on a presidential panel to examine the issues involved and offer advice on improvements of Chile's retirement system.

I don't know how familiar you are with high end audio products, but there's a whole class of extremely pricey products that purport to offer substantial improvements to the sound in your audio system.

Despite promises otherwise, in 2012, the governor agreed to an awful redistricting plan that gave incumbents even more protection and which left New Yorkers with the only option of keeping a lousy system in place or approving a new system that offers virtually no improvements for years to come.

Bundorf said the study illustrates the need for improvement in both health - care systems; for example, physicians could be offered incentives to select the best drug for the condition and save money.

Simply put, these long slow runs offer MANY of the benefits of high intensity work (improvements to the circulatory system, improved lung capacity, increased ability to use lipids as fuel, and most importantly RUNNING FORM ECONOMY) without being nearly as stressful to the nervous system or muscles (particularly the type II fibers).

New York, NY About Blog This is a place for parents, teachers, students — and anyone who has a stake in the improvement of our public school system — to offer ideas, share experiences and advice, and weigh in on policies and educational politics.

These new systems will offer significant improvements directly responsive to the wishes of teachers and other practitioners: they will offer better assessment of critical thinking, through writing and real - world problem solving, and offer more accurate and rapid scoring.

Simple improvements to the efficiency of installed systems can offer considerable energy and CO2 savings.

We offer guidance and expertise to help literacy leaders conduct structured reading and writing observations, train staff members in effective intervention strategies and grouping, create multi-tiered systems of support, and use data to engage in self - inquiry and improvement.

The Senate wants to require local school districts to come up with improvement plans for schools that receive Ds or Fs under the state's new school grading system — but they offer no funds in order to help local schools implement the plans.

The Professional Learning Community at Work (PLC) model offers a systems approach to school improvement.

«Improvement science offers a way to learn from practice to inform better policies on linking professional learning systems to the implementation of high - quality curricula.»

The authors discuss the limitations of using a single composite accountability index, advance principles and a conceptual framework to drive next generation accountability, describe potential indicators of what they call an «Educational Quality and Improvement Profile,» and offer recommendations to guide the design and implementation of these new accountability systems.

Each year CEC partners with Anne Conzemius and SMART Learning Systems to offer districts an opportunity to participate in a research - based school improvement process.

In addition to the cool title and the big bucks Adamowski has been given «super powers» to manage the school system, oversee the school budget, develop and implement an improvement plan and «offer incentives for new, highly trained educators to work in Windham.»

Sign up here to take advantage of their special free trial offer for March and learn how Forefront can help inform all levels of your system to help you sustain long - term improvements.

The carrot that lawmakers were reaching for was hundreds of millions of dollars in federal stimulus funding Obama is offering as part of Race to the Top in exchange for improvements in the educational system.

With its new more powerful system, GM expects to see about a 20 percent improvement in fuel economy; the system previously offered on the Malibu offered a 12 percent increase in fuel economy.

Another improvement regards the «2 cabin sound» feature of the sound system which offers more exclusivity than before thanks to independent control for the front and rear passenger compartments.

Through aerodynamic improvements to the next generation HFP body kit, super-light alloy wheels with aerodynamic covers, a lighter HFP exhaust system and an upgraded HFP suspension kit, this concept offers the possibility of improving both fuel economy and performance.

It has a regenerative braking system that gives more power to stop the vehicle in emergency situations, and is a major improvement among hybrids; nine airbags offer protection for everyone in the vehicle; it has excellent traction control & anti-lock brakes.

Improvements to equipment - especially the standard infotainment system - have massaged the value proposition and the 1.6 - litre diesel engine offers low running costs.

The new system offers a 10 - percent improvement in warm - up time compared to the previous system and now features a refrigerant with a much lower GWP (Global Warming Potential).

After all, we've been through each OS version already thanks to the numerous BlackBerry 10 devices on the market now such as the BlackBerry Z10, BlackBerry Q5, BlackBerry Q10, BlackBerry Z30, BlackBerry Z3 and finally, the BlackBerry Passport and you can see how BlackBerry 10 has grown with improvements to the BlackBerry Hub, device settings and options, system notifications, the browser and even app selection by partnering with Amazon to offer Android apps through BlackBerry 10 by simply looking back at those devices.

But I want to make this affordable to everyone, and while raising your score is much more valuable than $ 100, not everyone can afford that right now, so I am offering The Fastest, Legal Credit Improvement System for just $ 29.95.

The new interface is certainly an improvement over the original offering, but if you find yourself interested in seeing how the old game dealt with the inventory system and navigation you can simply press the touchpad (select button on Vita) and the game reverts back to the classic game interface.

Check back shortly for the next installment in the series where we will discuss how accessible the title is to new and seasoned FPS players, what improvements or changes we would like to make to the burn cards, how well we feel the matchmaking system works, and how successful the game was in differentiating itself from the current FPS genre offerings.

Continuing the publisher's commitment to offer new generations of gamers the opportunity to experience hidden gems from the past, the year's Marvelous offerings are set to kick off on Windows PC on April 25, 2018 with the cult - favorite action adventure title Bullet Witch, previously an exclusive on Xbox 360 ® games and entertainment system from Microsoft, now featuring visual and gameplay improvements to bring it in line with modern gaming standards.

The latest system software update aims to provide a fix to this troublesome issue by not only offering up «General system stability improvements to enhance the user's experience,» but also by «[addressing] an issue in which the remaining battery charge can't be displayed accurately.»

Nintendo did not respond to a request for comment by press time, but last night, rolled out another firmware update that offers «General system stability improvements to enhance the user's experience.»

Delos, BRE and UTS published the results to further the recognition of active green wall systems and the respective health and wellness improvements that may be offered by such systems indoors.

The integration of industry - leading technology systems for process improvement and collaboration makes it possible for law firms to deliver value with speed and ease to their clients through Smart Advisor applications, offering a competitive advantage in customer and legal services.

Significant matters / transactions include: Advised Xstrata South Africa (Proprietary) Limited on its offer to purchase Lonmin plc's entire issued share capital, # 5 billion Advised Telkom SA Limited on its unbundling of a 35 % stake in Vodacom Group (Proprietary) Limited, R35 billion Advised Edgars Consolidated Stores Limited on its acquisition by Bain Capital, R25, 5 billion Advised The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited and FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its Rand Merchant Bank division) on the introduction of BEE equity participation in Sasol Limited and their arranging financing therefore, R25, 4 billion Advised FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its Rand Merchant Bank division) and Nedbank Limited (acting through its Nedbank Capital division) as lenders to Richards Bay Titanium (Proprietary) Limited and Richards Bay Mining (Proprietary) Limited, R19 billion Advised Citibank N.A. on a bridge loan granted to Turquoise Moon Trading 427 (Proprietary) Limited by Citibank N.A. and JP Morgan Chase, R10 billion Advised British American Tobacco plc on its secondary listing on the JSE, R550 billion Advised Pioneer Foods Limited on its listing on the JSE Securities Exchange, R6 billion Advised the South African National Roads Agency Limited in respect of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project involving the construction and upgrade of the Gauteng freeway and the procurement of an open road tolling system, R44 billion Advised Absa Bank Limited (acting though its Absa Capital division), FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its Rand Merchant Bank division) and Vunani Capital (as co-lead arrangers) and the South Africa National Roads Agency Limited (as issuer) on the establishment of its South African Guaranteed Domestic Medium Term Note Programme and the subsequent issue of notes thereunder, R32 billion Advised Shoprite Checkers (Proprietary) Limited on the proposed Brait Private Equity private equity buy - out (this did not proceed), R12 billion Advised Reclamation Holdings (Proprietary) Limited and various shareholders on the acquisition by Capitalworks Private Equity SP GP (Proprietary) Limited and Old Mutual Life Assurance Company South Africa Limited of a 20 % equity stake in Reclamation Holdings (Proprietary) Limited from various shareholders, R511 million Clients include: Multinationals, listed companies, financial institutions, entrepreneurs and Government

Course providers offering paper or electronic certificates for purchase must clearly convey to the student that this purchase is optional, that the only valid course completion certificate is the electronic one that is entered into the department's Driver Improvement Certificate Issuance System, and that paper certificates are not acceptable for any licensing purpose.

Colonial Driving School offers a DMV Certified 8 - hour Driver Improvement Clinic to teach Defensive Driving to students who have been referred to driving school by the DMV or the court system, or individuals who just want to get points taken off their licenses.

According to the developers, Nexus technology offers improvements over existing blockchain systems like Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Indeed, a W / ii U system update can now be downloaded, offering performance enhancements, an option to automatically received recommended software and demos, Internet browser improvements, the ability to play Wii games on the Gamepad, and much more

While Wall Street's distributed ledger technology may offer substantial improvements over their current systems, these permissioned ledgers may not be able to provide the level of openness and regulatory arbitrage offered by Bitcoin.

In addition, the company is debuting Bragi OS 3, which includes live language translation, a new head gesture system, simplified touch interface, and various audio improvements designed to offer better sound.

Small improvements in this system will allow us to do ground - breaking things: micro-target ads to specific consumers, offer nuanced payment systems for royalty, referral and affiliate programs, and eliminating counterfeiting through blockchain's ability to immutably record content and meta data,» notes Cat Song, New Dawn Fund CIO and ExsulCoin co-founder.

The Mate 9 has more than 1,000 different functions that can be tweaked, and Huawei says MLA can offer a 20 % increase in smoothness of performance, a 50 % improvement in system response times and a 20 % boost to the graphics read / write speeds.

Small improvements in this system will allow us to do ground - breaking things: micro-target ads to specific consumers, offer nuanced payment systems for royalty, referral and affiliate programs, and eliminating counterfeiting through blockchain's ability to immutably record content and meta data.

combat system is similar to the first in the series, but offers some improvements to help streamline the game.

Dragon Quest Heroes II's combat system is similar to the first in the series, but offers some improvements to help streamline the game.

New York, NY About Blog This is a place for parents, teachers, students — and anyone who has a stake in the improvement of our public school system — to offer ideas, share experiences and advice, and weigh in on policies and educational politics.

Offers proficiency in administrative tasks in order to engender continuous support and improvement of the existing system.

New York, NY About Blog This is a place for parents, teachers, students — and anyone who has a stake in the improvement of our public school system — to offer ideas, share experiences and advice, and weigh in on policies and educational politics.

Friendship House Preschool is one of 39 sites statewide that has received a star rating from the Quality Rating and Improvement System based on its offerings to help prepare young Oregonians for kindergarten.