Sentences with phrase «plant productivity by»

Boosting plant productivity by approximately 7 % year over year via continual process improvement initiatives.

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.»

As you consider your home office space, I recommend adding easy - to - grow office plants like Pothos, Peace Lilies, and Parlor Palms which can help to purify the air, add depth and beauty to your workspace, and which may increase productivity by up to 14 % according to this study.

According to Ryan, from 1997 to 2000 and 2000 to 2006, productivity growth in the electronic and electrical product manufacturing industry fell by 25 % — two — thirds of which is attributable to lower productivity within existing plants.

An Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development report a few years ago concluded that «a key cause of the underlying fall in manufacturing employment everywhere is rapid productivity growth, whether by restructuring inefficient plants or deploying skills, knowledge, technology and new processes to boost efficiency.»

By contrast, most manufacturers operate in a low - growth environment where they must do «a million things a little better» to excel, such as reduce scrap rates and improve plant productivity.

In contrast, important research into improving soil health which has the potential to boost productivity and plant climate resilience with minimal commercial product input, is by comparison poorly supported.

Food farmers will remain profitable by boosting productivity especially though adoption of plant varieties using genetically modified organism technology.

Its goal — to raise enough funds by the end of 2016 to plant 20 million coffee seedlings to replace trees that are declining in productivity due to age and disease, such as coffee leaf rust.

He said the aim of the government is to use the «Planting for Food and Jobs» programme to transform the agricultural sector; and this would be done by increasing productivity of the farm resources centred on small holding activities, to provide job opportunities for the teeming unemployed youth and to provide raw materials for the industrial sector.

By 2100, climate change could also result in the loss of more than half of African bird and mammal species, a 20 - 30 % decline in the productivity of Africa's lakes and significant loss of African plant species.»

«By manipulating photoprotection in plants, it may be possible to improve the efficiency of photosynthesis, and one potential outgrowth of that is higher crop productivity,» said Krishna Niyogi, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Division of Molecular Biophysics and Integrative Bioimaging and a UC Berkeley professor of plant and microbial biology.

«With increasing average temperatures across the globe being predicted to have negative impacts on agricultural productivity, it is important to understand more about how plants regulate their growth,» said Associate Professor Balasubramanian, School of Biological Sciences, which was also echoed by Dr. Carlos Alonso Blanco, who co-lead the investigation at National Center of Biotechnology (CSIC) from Spain.

In climate change scenarios simulated by the model GOTILWA + — within the Consolider - Ingenio project Montes and the research project Med - Forestream — , net primary productivity of Spanish forests (how much carbon dioxide plants take in during photosynthesis minus how much carbon dioxide they release during respiration) will decrease from the second half of this century.

«By controlling the geometry and growth rates of groups of cells, you could then scale this up to control the size and shape of an organ such as a leaf, which is crucial for plant productivity.»

At one project in Nevada, enhanced geothermal methods increased a conventional geothermal plant's productivity by 38 percent.

In many parts of the ocean the productivity of phytoplankton — microscopic plants at the base of the marine food chain — is limited by the availability of dissolved iron.

Plant biologists have bumped up crop productivity by increasing the expression of genes that result in more efficient use of light in photosynthesis, a finding that could be used to help address the world's future food needs.

By increasing the expression of those genes, the scientists saw increases of 14 - 20 percent in the productivity of modified tobacco plants in field experiments.

Wright surmises that plant productivity is limited by energy from the sun and water availability, however the solar energy that transfers through each trophic level is what constrains richness as opposed to the total energy within a geographic area — the productivity hypothesis (Wright, 1983; Hawkins et al., 2003; Jetz, Kreft, Ceballos, and Mutke, 2009).

The restorative power of plants in the classroom doesn't stop there: study after study has shown that attentiveness increases by as much as 70 % when plants are used in a classroom, while productivity and creativity also improve.

Forkel M., Carvalhais N, Rödenbeck C, Keeling R, Heimann M, Thonicke K, Zaehle S, Reichstein M. Enhanced seasonal CO2 exchange caused by amplified plant productivity in northern ecosystems.

Springtime cold air outbreaks (at least two consecutive days during which the daily average surface air temperature is below 95 % of the simulated average wintertime surface air temperature) are projected to continue to occur throughout this century.19 As a result, increased productivity of some crops due to higher temperatures, longer growing seasons, and elevated CO2 concentrations could be offset by increased freeze damage.20 Heat waves during pollination of field crops such as corn and soybean also reduce yields (Figure 18.3).4 Wetter springs may reduce crop yields and profits, 21 especially if growers are forced to switch to late - planted, shorter - season varieties.

And it was recognized those actions were a crap shoot (Where good science and policy goes bad: de-salinization plants in Oz rather than managing episodic flooding, drilling 20,000 ′ below a seafloor 5,000 ′ under a precious biosphere to seek oil that is abundantl available on dry land, for examples), but can anyone name a project of doubt on the scale of this one where unspeakable trillions are to be spent, redistributed, productivity disincentized, where people's lives across the world will be thrown into uncertainty, where this trans - generational mindset will, by design, crush the willful and spirited energy and creativity of human kind until it is finally overthrown democratically or otherwise?

Vegetation biomass, productivity, and the competitive abilities of different plant types are all influenced by climate and atmospheric CO2.

A doubling of CO2 concentrations by end of the century could boost the productivity of plants by about one third, raising crop yields by 20 to 30 percent, according to Idso.

Plant biologists have bumped up crop productivity by increasing the expression of genes that result in more efficient use of light in photosynthesis, a finding that could be used to help address the world's future food needs.

With respect to all land plants, for example, satellite - based studies reveal net terrestrial primary productivity has increased by 6 — 13 % since the 1980s.

Double CO2 climate scenarios increase wildfire events by 40 - 50 % in California (Fried et al., 2004), and double fire risk in Cape Fynbos (Midgley et al., 2005), favouring re-sprouting plants in Fynbos (Bond and Midgley, 2003), fire - tolerant shrub dominance in the Mediterranean Basin (Mouillot et al., 2002), and vegetation structural change in California (needle - leaved to broad - leaved trees, trees to grasses) and reducing productivity and carbon sequestration (Lenihan et al., 2003).

The latest Energy Information Administration (EIA) outlook projects 10 GW of new nuclear capacity by 2035, plus another 7 GW of productivity improvements in existing plants.

But it is really better than carbon neutral because some of the carbon fixed by plants, along with other nutrients, is added to the soil, thereby enriching the productivity of the land.

However, dry - spell duration and warming trend effects on vegetation productivity may be at least partly offset by rising atmospheric CO2 effects on plants (Bachelet et al., 2001; Thuiller et al., 2006b), leading to sometimes contrasting projections for deserts that are based on different modelling techniques that either incorporate or ignore CO2 - fertilisation effects.

Simulated heat - wave events increased C4 dominance in a mixed C3 / C4 New Zealand grassland within a single growing season, but reduced productivity by over 60 % where C4 plants were absent (White et al., 2000b).

The energy balance of a given land area is determined primarily by the albedo and ET, associated with plant cover type and productivity (Pielke and Avissar 1990).

Studies have shown that working in an environment with plants can reduce stress and increase productivity by up to 12 %.

Recently implemented TBWS (Team Based work system) on the shop - floor through out the global plants Currently working on increasing the productivity and lowering the costs by introducing smart automation concept in the old plants.

Advised sales force regarding all aspects of printing and filing requirements., 1998 - 2004 RCI GROUP, INC., New York, NY, Customer Service Representative and Print Production Manager, 1996 - 1998 NEW YORK PRINTING AND PUBLISHING COMPANY, New York, NY, Lead Plant Foreman, • Supervised press room staff consisting of 27 union employees., • Negotiated aspects of collective bargaining agreements., • Coordinated daily with plant and operations managers on all production schedules., • Purchased all supplies required to meet project specifications., • Monitored press room personnel to guarantee consistent maintenance of equipment., • Negotiated vendor and supplier contracts., • Developed internal systems and policies to increase productivity, increase profitability, and decrease waste., 1994 - 1996 BOWNE OF NEW YORK, New York, NY, Senior Customer Service Representative, 1987 - 1994 MERRILL CORPORATION, New York, NY, CORPORATE PRINTING COMPANY (acquired by Merrill Corporation in 1993), Senior Customer Service Representative, 1984 - 1987 PANDICK TECHNOLOGIES, New York, NY, Facilities Management Analyst, • Wrote business plan for start - up company that was subsequently sold to Pitney Bowes for $ 100, 000,Plant Foreman, • Supervised press room staff consisting of 27 union employees., • Negotiated aspects of collective bargaining agreements., • Coordinated daily with plant and operations managers on all production schedules., • Purchased all supplies required to meet project specifications., • Monitored press room personnel to guarantee consistent maintenance of equipment., • Negotiated vendor and supplier contracts., • Developed internal systems and policies to increase productivity, increase profitability, and decrease waste., 1994 - 1996 BOWNE OF NEW YORK, New York, NY, Senior Customer Service Representative, 1987 - 1994 MERRILL CORPORATION, New York, NY, CORPORATE PRINTING COMPANY (acquired by Merrill Corporation in 1993), Senior Customer Service Representative, 1984 - 1987 PANDICK TECHNOLOGIES, New York, NY, Facilities Management Analyst, • Wrote business plan for start - up company that was subsequently sold to Pitney Bowes for $ 100, 000,plant and operations managers on all production schedules., • Purchased all supplies required to meet project specifications., • Monitored press room personnel to guarantee consistent maintenance of equipment., • Negotiated vendor and supplier contracts., • Developed internal systems and policies to increase productivity, increase profitability, and decrease waste., 1994 - 1996 BOWNE OF NEW YORK, New York, NY, Senior Customer Service Representative, 1987 - 1994 MERRILL CORPORATION, New York, NY, CORPORATE PRINTING COMPANY (acquired by Merrill Corporation in 1993), Senior Customer Service Representative, 1984 - 1987 PANDICK TECHNOLOGIES, New York, NY, Facilities Management Analyst, • Wrote business plan for start - up company that was subsequently sold to Pitney Bowes for $ 100, 000, 000.

GPU Nuclear Corporation 1991 --[Insert End Date] Three Mile Island Nuclear Station — Operations Analyst - I (Nuclear Plant Operations Analysis) • Conducted audits and studies with GPU Nuclear Operations Analysis Group • Implemented successfully numerous recommendations from completed Policies & Procedures project which resulted in a recurring annual cost reduction of $ 800k • Managed implementations and integrations that improved productivity and cost control by more than 50 % in key areas of the G&A