Sentences with phrase «on reducing the use»

While consumer groups have tried to get the responsible government department to take a lead on reducing the use of pesticides, the Department of Primary Industries and Energy seems quite fatalist.

All this week, we've been focusing on reducing our use of plastics as part of our Oil and Our Lifestyles: A Month of Action.

The research provides less support for the effect of home visiting programs on early health behaviors including prenatal care, breastfeeding, or well - child visits, or on reducing the use of harsh parenting.

The Healthy People Initiative focuses on reducing the use of tobacco, alcohol, and drugs by all citizens, but particularly youth.

Not exact matches

MillerCoors» water - saving effort — focused in Texas, California and Colorado — involves using sensors to release just enough water for irrigation, planting native grass to reduce erosion and runoff and keeping a close eye on leaky machinery in its breweries.

One research project, for example, focuses on using robots to recognize the facial reactions of Parkinson's Disease patients who have lost the ability to convey emotion to others because of reduced muscle activity.

The importer may be able to use a preferential tariff treatment to reduce the tariff on these items (often to zero), as shown in the far right column.

Kelly hopes that in the next 10 years he can inspire enough homeowners and businesses to come on board that 50 percent of America's 40.5 million acres of lawn will be switched to organic care, reducing by half the 3 million tons of synthetic fertilizers and 30,000 tons of pesticides used annually.

Provincial instructors focused on two main areas: document use, aimed at helping workers better understand specialized blueprints, and numeracy, aimed at reducing the measurement errors caused by metric - trained employees working in an imperial - measurement environment.

dPoint Technologies, which ranked 60th on the 2013 PROFIT 500, is the firm that grew out of Dean's desperate search for Plan B. Using specialized membrane technology, the company manufactures modules that reduce the air - quality problems that tend to occur in highly energy - efficient buildings with poor circulation.

U.K. researchers in 2017 tested VR on patients undergoing dental treatments and found its use simulating a coastal scene reduced both experienced and recollected pain compared with no VR.

Blue River says that its devices are capable of reducing by up to 90 percent the chemicals farmers use, and that they are currently operating on 10 percent of the lettuce grown in the U.S.

Yahoo ended up having to give Verizon a $ 350 million discount on their deal, reflecting concerns that people might reduce their use of Yahoo email and other digital services because of the breach, decreasing opportunities to show ads.

To reduce the number of replies you're forced to type out hastily on your phone, use pre-saved «canned responses» to generate generic phrases and answers to frequently - asked questions in a couple of taps.

Any executive action would come on the heels of a series of U.S. moves aimed at stopping or reducing access by Huawei and ZTE to the U.S. economy, including recent restrictions on U.S. suppliers of ZTE set by the Commerce Department, amid allegations the companies could be using their technology to spy on Americans.

And for more recent research that business owners can use to improve their internet marketing, read this article on why better data is leading to reduced cart abandonment for online retailers.

The 56 companies on our 2017 Change the World list, which includes six smaller rising stars, are tackling problems obvious and not - so - obvious — from Accenture, which is using data to reduce E.R. visits, to DSM, a Dutch life sciences company, that is fighting greenhouse gas emissions from a notorious source: cow flatulence.

Panera Bread offered an update on its food policy on Wednesday, saying it has taken big steps toward reducing the use of antibiotics and confinement of animals in its supply chain.

The buyout of NXP will help Qualcomm, which provides chips to Android smartphone makers and Apple, to expand in the fast - growing market for chips used in automobiles and reduce its dependence on a cooling smartphone market.

A sleep study conducted by Dr. Marcel Hungs on patients with chronic back pain using Celliant found the median time patients spent awake after falling asleep was reduced by 18.3 minutes.

On its site, Keurig has also vowed to reduce its other environmental impacts, including greenhouse - gas emissions and water use.

A taxpayer who sells their primary residence must reduce their original cost plus improvements by the amount of depreciation taken on the business use of the home.

The firm paid $ 125 million to Sarepta Therapeutics to get its hands on a «priority review voucher,» which can be used to reduce the Food and Drug Administration's review period for a drug from 10 months to six months, thereby potentially giving the company a crucial first - to - market advantage.

About 26 percent would reduce spending on other things, and 28 percent said they would either borrow from family or friends or use credit cards.

Newer SAGD plants such as Connacher Oil and Gas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey underground.

When the market drops and some of your stocks are worth less than you originally paid, you can sell them and buy a similar (but not identical) fund, and this loss can be used to offset capital gains on other holdings — or even reduce your regular income taxes.

You can try to boost your score by reducing the balance on your business credit cards or requesting a credit - line increase to lower the percentage of your available credit in use.

No wonder about half of the small businesses in the United States have already taken steps to reduce the use of office supplies and printing, recent market research by AMI - Partners has found, and many plan to prolong the life of basic computing hardware such as PCs and printers as the recession wears on.

The Liberals are also spending $ 80.5 million over five years starting this year to reduce tobacco use, particularly in Indigenous communities, and raising taxes on cigarettes by $ 1 per carton.

First, as happened in Australia and New Zealand, if ISPs and content providers believe they can reduce costs by peering (i.e. not have to pay transit to exchange traffic) they can use this as a competitive tool to pass on zero - rated content to their customers, as opposed to those ISPs demanding transit payments to deliver traffic, which was particularly common when the countries could be reached only via one company, the incumbent operator.

So, instead of spending excessive amounts of money on bottled water, install a filtration and dispensing system for use by customers and employees to save money, reduce waste, and help the environment.

And on Thursday, Mylan expanded its discount program, offering up to $ 300 off the cost of EpiPen with the use of a special «savings card,» thereby reducing the price for patients paying out - of - pocket by half, the company said.

«This approach, using a video intended for organic as an ad, reduced cost - per - action by 3.6 % and increased return on ad spend by 24 percent.

Those with a higher income who want to pay off their loans as quickly as possible may be able to use a private consolidation loan to reduce the amount of interest paid on certain federal loans.

By using scale, reduced cost and heightened convenience to reach consumers, Amazon is moving «into striking range of every industry on the planet,» Malone said on Thursday.

Macron has also said he wants to phase out France's use of coal power in five years and reduce its reliance on nuclear power to 50 % by 2025.

She finds that the effect of U.S. dollar moves on profits can be more precisely identified when using the industry - specific indexes: dollar appreciations reduce corporate profits, while depreciations stimulate them.

Organizations could, however, use one year's losses on the same unrelated business to reduce taxes on another year's operation of the same unrelated business.

Room and board during school counts; however, if you used any of your student loans to fund personal expenses not related to education, you must reduce your deduction so you aren't deducting interest paid on this portion of your loans.

Some German business groups have begun calling for Europe to use the dispute with the United States to reopen negotiations about a broad trade agreement that would largely eliminate tariffs and reduce regulatory impediments, for example by agreeing on common safety standards for cars.

Flume Health uses concierges to connect employees with the best healthcare at the lowest price based on their benefits plan, reducing healthcare costs by 20 percent to 60 percent.

Rolling back power plant regulations on coal and rolling back coal mining regulations should reduce both the cost to use coal and the cost to mine it.

«We are working closely with the CleanTech Alliance Fund team to build U.S. infrastructure that will reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, expand the use of renewable energy and recycled materials, and improve the efficiency of our economy,» said Scott Brown, Managing Partner of the Fund.

People could charge the batteries when the sun shines brightest and then use them at night to drastically reduce their dependence on their energy company.

Spain could therefore either use the imported German capital to (a) increase domestic investment (which it did in the form of a real estate bubble)(b) binge on consumption and sharply reduce its savings as a function of GDP (which it also did)(c) accept higher unemployment (which it is now forced to do) which forces GDP to fall faster than consumption falls or (d) try to emulate Germany by passing off a trade imbalance at the expense of the rest of the world (which Europe as a whole is trying to do and which will go nowhere in the long run because only one country is even remotely capable of accepting such massive inflows, and it is increasingly unwilling to import the unemployment caused by German and Asian policies).

Likewise, if you run your own business and focus on keeping costs low, margins sufficiently high, and reduce spending in - line, you're probably going to come out ahead of the game by using these downturns to dollar cost average into your portfolio.

If you find yourself using more than that on a regular basis, you should try to reduce your spending or get an additional loan or line of credit to lower your utilization.

As the year progresses, more off lease vehicles will come back driving down the price of used and further reducing residuals on leased vehicles making new leases more expensive.

Lenders reduce their risk because they can use your secured deposit to cover your balance if you default on payments.

In the event that it is determined that we have in the past experienced an ownership change, or if we experience one or more ownership changes as a result of this offering or future transactions in our stock, then we may be limited in our ability to use our net operating loss carryforwards and other tax assets to reduce taxes owed on the net taxable income that we earn.